泰戈爾多才多藝，才華超人。既是作品浩繁的文學藝術(shù)大師、學識淵博的哲人、成就卓著的社會活動家，也是銳意革新的教育家。他一生所有的貢獻，不但在印度歷史上具有劃時代的意義，在國際上也產(chǎn)生了巨大影響。那么，如何用英文介紹泰戈爾呢？ ?

? About Tagore ? 關(guān)于泰戈爾 ? 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，周恩來總理回憶時說：“泰戈爾是對世界文學作出卓越貢獻的天才詩人……”他熏陶了一批*最有才華的詩人和作家，其中郭沫若、冰心受到的影響最深。郭沫若是*新詩*人，稱自己文學生涯的“*階段是泰戈爾式的”。冰心是*新文學女性作家*人，她早期的創(chuàng)作受到了泰戈爾的明顯影響，特別是詩集《繁星》和《春水》。她說：“我自己寫《繁星》和《春水》的時候，并不是在寫詩，只是受了泰戈爾的《飛鳥集》的影響，把許多‘零碎的思想’，收集在一個集子里而已。”郭沫若、冰心等人又以他們的作品，影響了一代又一代*讀者。 ?