Here’s a short extract to complement some of the points Matthew Pritchard makes in his discussion of Tagore’s reception in the West. It’s from a book edited by S. Radhakrishnan and first published in 1961 by the Sahitya Akademi in Delhi to mark the centenary of Tagore’s birth. This piece is by Philippe Stern.
https://tagorecentre.org.uk/The%20Real%20Rabindranath%20Tagore%20and%20his%20Music.pdf
The Tagore Centre UK 