Author : Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Urdu poetry
ISBN :
A befitting tribute to the poet who once described himself as 'collyrium for men's eyes', freely offering to make their vision cleaner.
Author : Ralph Russel
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9351940985
‘Easily the best Urdu scholar in the West.’ Shamsur Rehman Farouqi ‘Marion Molteno has mined a substantial corpus of Russell’s writings to string together his most valuable insights into the genre of ghazal... to prepare the uninitiated reader for the final feast of Ghalib’s ghazals in English translation. And what a magnificent feast it is!’ M. Asaduddin, Jamia Millia Islamia The second edition of Ralph Russell’s critically acclaimed The Famous Ghalib has been put together according to guidance left by the author/translator before his death in 2008. This book introduces Ghalib to anyone who wants to find out why his poetry has inspired generations of Urdu speakers and many others besides. It explains the form of poetry in which Ghalib wrote, and how he used its symbolism to express his response both to the universal experiences of life and to the times that he himself lived through. With over 200 couplets in Ralph Russell’s translations, alongside the original Urdu – and also transcribed using both English and Hindi scripts, this is a must have for all poetry lovers. The translations are as concise as the original, matching Ghalib’s intensity with words chosen to convey precise meaning; and they do this in English which flows naturally and with unobtrusive poetic metre.
Author : Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0231544006
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.
Author : Kuldip Salil
Publisher : Rajpal & Sons
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788170286929
A Selection of Ghalib's Ghazals in Devnagri and English, along with the English Translations
Author : Pavan K. Varma
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Poets, Persian
ISBN : 9780143064817
A Brilliant Biography Of Nineteenth Century India S Greatest Poet Mirza Mohammad Asadullah Khan Ghalib Began Writing Poetry In Persian At The Age Of Nine And The Pre-Eminent Poet Of The Time, Mir, Predicted A Great Future For The Precocious Genius When He Was Shown His Verse. But Success And Material Rewards Did Not Come To Ghalib Easily For The Times Were Against Him, And He Did Not Suffer Fools Gladly Even If They Occupied Positions Of Importance. Ghalib Was At The Height Of His Powers When Events Took A Turn For The Worse. First Came The Decline Of The Mughal Court, Then The Rise Of The British Empire And, Finally, The Revolt Of 1857. Though Ghalib Lived Through The Upheavals And Purges Of The Revolt, In Which Many Of His Contemporaries And Friends Died And His Beloved Delhi Was Irrevocably Changed, He Was A Broken Man And Longed For Death. When He Died, On 15 February 1869, He Left Behind Some Of The Most Vivid Accounts Of The Events Of The Period Ever Written. In This Illuminating Biography Pavan K. Varma Evocatively Captures The Spirit Of The Man And The Essence Of The Times He Lived In.
Author : Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Publisher : books catalog
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Ghazals, Urdu
ISBN : 9788171675968
Mirza Ghalib is to the Urdu language what William Shakespeare is to the English language. And the most widely read Urdu book in the world is a collection of the Love Sonnets of Ghalib. These sonnets resonate with the voices of maestros through the corridors of history. Ghalib is not just an Asian phenomenon and his sonnets are loved and studied worldwide.
Author :
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438416725
Mirza Asadu'llah Khan Ghalib was the brightest luminary of his time in the South Asian, Muslim literary community. A poet in Urdu and Persian, he was endowed with exquisite imagination, sparkling wit, and a charming presence. Ghalib was a brilliant conversationalist, skilled in the art of human relations. In the last twenty years of his life, the political conditions of northern India caused the death or dispersion of many of his best friends. He satisfied his gregarious urges by writing exquisite letters in Urdu, in a delightfully conversational style. By these means Ghalib kept in touch with his scattered friends. These letters were so novel in style that the first collection was published only a month after the poet's death. In this book, Daud Rahbar provides thoroughly annotated English versions of 170 Urdu letters. These letters exemplify the possibility of elevating human relations to an art form, and Rahbar's translation reproduces the delicate flavor of the original Urdu prose.
Author : Aijaz Ahmad
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1995-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195635676
This imaginative approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib's ghazals.
Author : Mirza Ghalib
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poets, Urdu
ISBN : 9780195692389
Introduced and selected by Ralph Russell, an eminent Urdu scholar, this collection presents a representative selection of the works of Ghalib's , the most famous and popular of the Urdu poets that the Indian subcontinent has produced. This complete Ghalib anthrology comprises poetry and prose translated from both Persian and Urdu, as well as biographical details. The volume provides a context within which modern-day English-speaking readers can read and understand his work.
Author : Gulazāra
Publisher : books catalog
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Screenplay of a television serial on Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, 1797-1869, Urdu and Persian poet; translated from the Urdu original.
