Original: He was a poet , visual artist , playwright , novelist , educationist , social reformer , nationalist , business-manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries .
Simplified: Rabindranath Tagore ( 7 May 1861 -- 7 August 1941 ) was a Bengali poet , artist , playwright , novelist , educationist , social reformer , nationalist , business-manager and composer .