Poems of Ghalib a Selection

POEMS OF GHALIB A Selection (Large Print & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith. Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869} was born in the city of Agra of parents with Turkish aristocratic ancestry. He later lived on state patronage, credit or the generosity of friends. His fame came to him posthumously. He had remarked during his life that although his age had ignored his greatness he would be recognized by later generations. History vindicated his claim. Although he wrote many more ghazals, qit'as and ruba'is in Persian he is more famous for those written in Urdu. Before Ghalib, the Urdu ghazal was primarily an expression of anguished love but Ghalib expressed his philosophy and cynicism. In keeping with the conventions of the ghazal, in most of Ghalib's couplets the 'beloved' could be a beautiful woman, boy, monarch or God or the Spiritual Master as in his many Sufi poems. Here is the largest selection of his Persian & Urdu ghazals, ruba'is, qit'as and other poems in the correct form and meaning in English ever published. Introduction: Poetry, Life & Times and on the Forms of Poetry he used. Selected Bibliography. Large Print 16pt., Large Format, 8" x 10" 367 pages. Paul Smith (b.1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafez, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Rahman Baba, Baba Latif, Iqbal, Seemab, Huma, Nazir and others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies and 12 screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa