The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib - Softcover

Thapar, G.D.

 
9788171675760: The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib
Softcover
ISBN 10: 817167576X ISBN 13: 9788171675760
Verlag: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib contains selected poems of Ghalib, translated from Urdu by Robert Bly and Sunil Dutta.Ghalib was a celebrated Urdu and Persian poet. He spent much of his life in Delhi, and bore witness to the British conquest of the city in the year 1857. Ghalib followed the tradition of Hafez and Rumi, but his poetry is unique in a way that they depict his spiritual struggles and the unadorned honesty, with which he writes and speaks to a universal audience. This book has a collection of thirty ghazals, signifying Ghalib s mastery of a graceful poetic form admired for centuries.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Bly is the author, editor and translator of numerous works of poetry and prose. His books include Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, Morning Poems, The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures.

Sunil Dutta was born in Jaipur. He is a biologist and a student of classical Indian music and literature. He has played a role in the attempt to preserve the ancient Indian musical tradition of Dhrupad.

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Verlag
Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
817167576X
ISBN 13 
9788171675760
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
156
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