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Intikhab-e-Kalam (Urdu)

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Pakistan; OUP; 2014Description: 64 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780195478204
DDC classification:
  • 891.43
Summary: This book contains selected ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) who was the defining poet of classical Urdu poetry. His ghazals were celebrated for their utter simplicity and pathos, and his verses exemplifying the ideal suffering lover created a prototype, which all masters of Urdu poetry aspired to, but never achieved. Mir thus became the poets' poet. This slim volume of his selected poetry is designed to make the poets' poet, the people's poet as well.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Urdu Poetry 891.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLL000060
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Urdu Poetry 891.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLL000177
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This book contains selected ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) who was the defining poet of classical Urdu poetry. His ghazals were celebrated for their utter simplicity and pathos, and his verses exemplifying the ideal suffering lover created a prototype, which all masters of Urdu poetry aspired to, but never achieved. Mir thus became the poets' poet. This slim volume of his selected poetry is designed to make the poets' poet, the people's poet as well.

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