Ghalib Selected Poems and Letters 1st Edition by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Frances Pritchett, Owen Cornwall 9780231544009 0231544006

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ISBN 10: 0231544006

ISBN 13: 9780231544009

Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib; Frances W Pritchett; Owen T A. Cornwall 

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. His letters—informal, humorous, and deeply personal—reveal the vigor of his prose style and the warmth of his friendships. These careful translations allow readers with little or no knowledge of Urdu to appreciate the wide range of Ghalib’s poetry, from his gift for extreme simplicity to his taste for unresolvable complexities of structure. Beginning with a critical introduction for nonspecialists and specialists alike, Frances Pritchett and Owen Cornwall present a selection of Ghalib’s works, carefully annotating details of poetic form. Their translation maintains line-for-line accuracy and thereby preserves complex poetic devices that play upon the tension between the two lines of each verse. The book includes whole ghazals, selected individual verses from other ghazals, poems in other genres, and letters. The book also includes a glossary, the Urdu text of the original poetry, and an appendix containing Ghalib’s comments on his own verses.

Table of contents:

Part One: Ghazals

Part Two: Ghazal Verses

Part Three: Other Genres

1. Poems

• Qaṣīdas (Odes)

  • An ode in praise of the Prophet (1821)

  • An ode in praise of a sleek betel nut (1826)

  • An ode in praise of the king (1852)

• Rubāʿīs (Quatrains)

  • A quatrain on childhood and old age (1816)

  • A quatrain on “speaking the difficult” (1821)

  • A quatrain on fireworks and passion (1833)

2. Letters

• To Tafta (1858), about the terrible losses of 1857

• To Mihr (1859), about Ghalib’s appearance

• To Mihr (1860), about the long-ago cruel dancing girl

• To Mihr (1860), about being a sugar fly, not a honey fly

• To Ala’i (1861), about the poet’s life as a captive

3. Prose

• Preface to a Romance (1866)

Appendices and Back Matter

• 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

• Series List

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