Ghalib - Selected Poems and Letters

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.

About the author

Frances Pritchett (PhD, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chicago)is Professor Emerita of South Asian Literature and Modern Indic Languages, MESAAS, Columbia University. She is thew author of Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and its Critics (California, 1994), the translator of Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (Columbia, 2017) and The Romance Tradition in Urdu (Columbia, 1991), and the coeditor of Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (3/e, Columbia, 2014), among other works.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
• Assisted by: Owen T. A. Cornwall (Translation), Cornwall Owen T. A. (Translation), Frances Pritchett (Translation), Frances W. Pritchett (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231182065
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18206-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets