Call number
763 DAW
Collection
Publication
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967], 502 pages
Description
The unique character of this anthology is matched by its completeness. Specimens of Urdu poetry from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century provide historical perspective, representative selections from 15 poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries give an unusuallyrich harvest from one of the greatest creative periods in this literature. More than 100 poems of Mir and Ghalib, in addition to three of the famous long poems of Nazir are included.
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Language
Original publication date
1967
ISBN
0815604238 / 9780815604235
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