Seemab

One of the foremost poets of pre-modern poetry Seemab’s body of work is tremendous. It encompasses a vast range of emotions and ideas and is sometimes even sufiyana. His manner of versification (tarz-e-taghaful) is simple informal and very appealing. His poetry also has eloquence and his use of idioms and phrases entices the reader.Umr-e-daraz maang ke layi thi chaar din do aarzoo mein kat gaye do intezaar mein For a long life I begged and four days I could negotiate two days of which I spent in pining and two in waitThis book contains notes on Urdu poetry Literary movements and Seemab Akbarabadi along with a selection of 50 popular couplets of Seemab presented in Urdu Devanagari and Roman scripts followed by its English translation.