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Ghalib – Selected Poems and Letters: Translations from the Asian Classics

Autor Mirza Asadullah Ghalib, Frances Pritchett, Owen T. A. Cornwall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2019
This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib’s poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting intelligence and lively wit
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231182072
ISBN-10: 0231182074
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 151 x 227 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
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Notă biografică

Ghalib (the pen name of Mirza Asadullah Khan) lived from 1797 to 1869. Primarily famous for his Urdu ghazals, he is also known for his letters, which paint a vivid picture of life in nineteenth-century Delhi.

Frances W. Pritchett is professor emerita of modern Indic languages at Columbia University. Her books include Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics (1994), The Romance Tradition in Urdu: Adventures from the Dastan of Amir Hamzah (1991), and Ab-e Hayat: Shaping the Canon of Urdu Poetry (2001), translated, edited, and introduced in association with S. R. Faruqi.

Owen T. A. Cornwall is a lecturer in the Department of Religion and in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ghalib's Life and Times
Part One: Ghazals
Part Two: Ghazal Verses
Part Three: Other Genres
1. Poems
2. Letters
3. Prose
Notes
Appendix 1. Ghalib's Comments on His Own Verses
Appendix 2. Ghalib Concordance, with Standard Divan Numbers
Glossary of Technical Terms and Proper Names
Bibliography
Index
Urdu Text