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Первые две главы бесплатноSauda: Selected Poems
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Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda · о: Poetry
Selected poems of Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda (1713–1781), with Mir Taqi Mir the great poet of eighteenth-century Delhi and the master of the Urdu qasida: his ode in praise of the Prophet, which moves from a prelude of wise sayings through a 'second opening' to the praise of the Prophet's justice, together with twenty-four ghazals full of wit, wordplay and mockery of the Shaikh and the Qazi, and four quatrains. Urdu text from Urdu Wikisource with a couplet-by-couplet facing English translation, notes on puns and allusions, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Sauda, Selected Poems, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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Первые две главы бесплатноThe Urdu Ghazal from Wali to Yagana
اردو غزل: ولی سے یگانہ تک
Wali Dakkani, Mir Dard, Atish, Zauq, Dagh, Hasrat Mohani, Fani and Yagana · о: Poetry
Forty-eight ghazals by eight masters of the Urdu lyric, six by each, tracing the form across two and a half centuries: Wali Dakkani, the Deccani poet who showed Delhi that the ghazal could be written in Urdu; the Sufi Khwaja Mir Dard; Atish of Lucknow; Zauq, laureate of the last Mughal court; Dagh, master of the playful Delhi idiom; and the twentieth-century voices of Hasrat Mohani, Fani Badayuni and Yas Yagana Changezi. The standard 'Wali to Yagana' sequence of university Urdu courses, with the Urdu text from Urdu Wikisource, a couplet-by-couplet facing English translation, notes on allusions and wordplay, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: The Urdu Ghazal from Wali to Yagana, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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Первые две главы бесплатноMeeraji: Selected Poems
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Meeraji · о: Poetry
Forty-five poems by Meeraji (1912–1949), with N. M. Rashid the founder of modern Urdu poetry and a pioneer of Urdu free verse: ten ghazals and thirty-five nazms, including The Call of the Sea, The Clerk's Song of Love, The Pilgrim, Deprivation, The Student, The Tall Building and The End of the War. Dreamlike monologues on desire, loneliness, memory, time and the self, drawing on French Symbolism and Freud as well as Hindi song and Indian myth, they made Meeraji the most daring voice of the Halqa-e-Arbab-e-Zauq in 1940s Lahore. Urdu text from Urdu Wikisource with a line-by-line facing English translation, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Meeraji, Selected Poems, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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Первые две главы бесплатноIntikhab-e-Akbar: Satires and Occasional Poems
انتخابِ اکبر: پیش رو یعنی قطعات
Akbar Allahabadi · о: Poetry
Akbar Allahabadi (1846–1921), judge, wit and the great comic poet of Urdu, wrote the sharpest verse commentary on India's meeting with the West: on the "New Light" of English education, English clothes and words, Sir Sayyid and the Aligarh college, Westernised young men and their English brides, purdah, the railway and the telegraph, and the Viceroy's durbars. This book gives the complete section "Pesh-rau" ("The Vanguard") of his collected poems, sixty pieces including "A Glimpse of the Delhi Durbar", "Lightning in the Church", the purdah poem of 1891, his answer to Southey's "Cataract of Lodore", "The Curzon Sabha" and the national poem written for Mohsin-ul-Mulk, with his parodies of Hafiz and Sa'di. Urdu text from Kulliyat-e-Akbar, Part One (4th ed., Standard Press, Allahabad, 1914), with a facing line-by-line English translation, notes on the puns and Persian quotations, an introduction and a glossary. A core text for courses on Urdu poetry and on colonialism and modernity in South Asia. Cite as: Akbar Allahabadi, Intikhab-e-Akbar: Pesh-rau, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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