Description
Rabindranath is our greatest poet and prose-writer. Son of a Maharshi (a great seer), and himself a seer, he belongs to a family the most gifted in Bengal in the realms of religion, philosophy, literature, and art. There is no department of Bengali literature that he has touched which he has not adorned, elevated, filled with inspiraion, or lighted up by the lustre of his genius. The music of his verse and prose that fills the outer ear is but an echo of the inner harmony of humanity and the universe which exists at the heart of things, and which he has caught and made manifest to us by his writings. Two main influences affected Rabindranath in boyhood, that of his father and that of Vaishnava poetry.
