![]() It is the author’s interest in Ghalib’s non-inclusion of many of his verses in his published divans that sets this book apart from the majority of studies of Ghalib’s poetry. It discusses at length the logic, rationale and the justifications behind Ghalib’s rigorous selection of his verses in his different divans. This book is not so much a biography of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib as an incisive and comprehensive study of the textual history of his poetry. The writing of such a book also required an investigator with a command over English, Urdu, Persian and knowledge of a smattering of Arabic, for the author, Mehr Afshan Farooqi, is clear that “to not be aware of Ghalib’s Persian poetry while assessing him is to present an incomplete picture of his poetic genius”. : A Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical BiographyĬould have been written only by a scholar who has spent a lifetime studying Ghalib, untying the knots of his difficult poetry and looking for both his extant manuscripts and lostĭivans (selections of poems). ![]()
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