A collection of over one hundred inspirational poems, Gitanjali covers the breadth of life's experiences, from the quite pleasure of observing children at play to man's struggle with his god. Chiefly for this volume, Tagore It was largely these poems that took the Western world by storm and brought him worldwide recognition and he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore's poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.