Three Mughal Poets  -  Russell Islam

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The three great poets presented in this volume - Mir, Mir Hasan and Sauda - lived in Delhi, or in its general vicinity, in the eighteenth century during a time of widespread violence and disaster. The Mughal Empire was crumbling and disintegrating internally as the great feudal nobles fought among themselves for control of the emperor. In this atmosphere of misery, demoralization, and despair occurred the first major flowering of Urdu literature. Sauda, the first to be discussed, wrote poems in all the main...
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1998 Uitgever: OUP India 290 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0195633911 ISBN-13: 9780195633917