Rabindra Sangeet merges fluidly into Tagore's literature, most of which-poems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alike-were lyricised.
For Bengalis, the songs' appeal, stemming from the combination of emotive strength and beauty described as surpassing even Tagore's poetry, was such that the Modern Review observed that "[t]here is in Bengal no cultured home where Rabindranath's songs are not sung or at least attempted to be sung ..