<P> A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore , Tagore wrote poetry as an eight - year - old . At the age of sixteen , he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ( `` Sun Lion '' ) , which were seized upon by literary authorities as long - lost classics . By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas , published under his real name . As a humanist , universalist internationalist , and ardent anti-nationalist , he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain . As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance , he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings , sketches and doodles , hundreds of texts , and some two thousand songs ; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded , Visva - Bharati University . </P>
<P> A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore , Tagore wrote poetry as an eight - year - old . At the age of sixteen , he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ( `` Sun Lion '' ) , which were seized upon by literary authorities as long - lost classics . By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas , published under his real name . As a humanist , universalist internationalist , and ardent anti-nationalist , he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain . As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance , he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings , sketches and doodles , hundreds of texts , and some two thousand songs ; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded , Visva - Bharati University . </P>
by which pseudonym rabindranath tagore first published his poems
by which pseudonym rabindranath tagore first published his poems
Bhānusiṃha
Bhānusiṃha