The homeland's an ocean /

Mīr, Mīr Taqī,

The homeland's an ocean / Mir Taqi Mir; translated from the urdu by Ranjit Hoskote. - xci, 158 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references


Introduction – Mir Taqi Mir: his life and times – Mir’s language: between Persian and the Hindavi continuum – Mir’s cultural horizons: north and south – The poet of a shattered world – Modes of self-assertion: Mir as an insider and outsider – Mir: his criteria and his critics – The Ghazal and the She’r – Coda – Notes – The poems – Note on the text – Acknowledgements.


In English; poems in Urdu with parallel translations into English.

9780143460213 (hbk.)

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

2025350826


Mīr, Mīr Taqī, 1810 --Translations into English.
Mīr, Mīr Taqī, 1810 --Criticism and interpretation.


Urdu poetry--Translations into English.
Poetry, Modern--18th century.

891.4391708 MIR / 022593