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Mirza Ghalib: Selected Lyrics and Letters

By: By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Bangalore: Sterling Publisher, 2005Description: 513ISBN:
  • 9788120765788
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.43913 GHA
Summary: About the Book: Mirza Galib Selected Lyrics and Letters "It presents in one compendious volume, 104 ghazals, 7 miscellaneous poems, and 68 letters, which taken together represent, in my view, the best of Ghalib in poetry and prose. The layout of the book follows the pattern of my earlier book of translation of Urdu poetry. Each poem is first given in calligraphic urdu. This is followed, on the opposite page, by its English translation, which, in turn is succeeded by transliteration in the Roman script. The transliteration is meant to help the readers who are not familiar with Urdu in the Persian script. This book adds to the aesthetic
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About the Book: Mirza Galib Selected Lyrics and Letters "It presents in one compendious volume, 104 ghazals, 7 miscellaneous poems, and 68 letters, which taken together represent, in my view, the best of Ghalib in poetry and prose. The layout of the book follows the pattern of my earlier book of translation of Urdu poetry. Each poem is first given in calligraphic urdu. This is followed, on the opposite page, by its English translation, which, in turn is succeeded by transliteration in the Roman script. The transliteration is meant to help the readers who are not familiar with Urdu in the Persian script. This book adds to the aesthetic

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