用英文介绍泰戈尔

泰戈尔多才多艺，才华超人。既是作品浩繁的文学艺术大师、学识渊博的哲人、成就卓著的社会活动家，也是锐意革新的教育家。他一生所有的贡献，不但在印度历史上具有划时代的意义，在国际上也产生了巨大影响。那么，如何用英文介绍泰戈尔呢？

About Tagore

关于泰戈尔

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the west. His “elegant prose and magical poetry” still remain largely unknown outside the confines of Bengal.

A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore was already writing poems since he was eight years old. At age 16, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho (“Sun Lion”) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. Tagore achieved further note when he denounced the British Raj and supported Indian independence. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and contemplation. Tagore was perhaps the only litterateur who penned anthems of two countries-Jana Gana Mana, the Indian national anthem and Amar Shonar Bangla, the Bangladeshi national anthem.

1956年，周恩来总理回忆时说：“泰戈尔是对世界文学作出卓越贡献的天才诗人……”他熏陶了一批中国最有才华的诗人和作家，其中郭沫若、冰心受到的影响最深。郭沫若是中国新诗第一人，称自己文学生涯的“第一阶段是泰戈尔式的”。冰心是中国新文学女性作家第一人，她早期的创作受到了泰戈尔的明显影响，特别是诗集《繁星》和《春水》。她说：“我自己写《繁星》和《春水》的时候，并不是在写诗，只是受了泰戈尔的《飞鸟集》的影响，把许多‘零碎的思想’，收集在一个集子里而已。”郭沫若、冰心等人又以他们的作品，影响了一代又一代中国读者。