Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the
Indian poet
Rabindranath Tagore. The original
Bengali collection of 157 poems was published on August 14, 1910.
The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English
poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original
Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems which were from his drama
Achalayatan and eight other books of poetry — mainly
Gitimalya (17 poems),
Naivedya (15 poems) and
Kheya (11 poems).