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_bMIR
100 _aMir Taqi Mir,
245 _aGhazals : translations of classic urdu poetry
260 _bHarvard University Press,
_c2022
_aCambridge :
300 _axxix, 186 p. ;
_c20 cm
365 _b399.00
_cINR
_d01
490 _aMurty classical library of India ; 21
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _aThe prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals, a poetic form of rhyming couplets, in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian ghazal tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero, prosperity is poverty, and death would be preferable to the indifference of the beloved.
650 _aCouplets
650 _a Persian ghazal
650 _aRomantic
700 _aFaruqi, Shamsur Rahman
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