Ghalib A Wilderness at My Doorstep

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in Agra in the closing years of the eighteenth century. A precocious child he began composing verses at an early age and gained recognition while he was still very young. He wrote in both Urdu and Persian and was also a great prose stylist. He was a careful even strict editor of his work who took to publishing long before his peers. His predilection for writing difficult obscure poetry peppered with complex metaphors produced a unique commentarial tradition t...See More