Product Description: This is a brilliant translation of the Aab-e-hayat (Water of Life), the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry. First published in 1880, it has exerted enormous influence over modern Urdu literary history.

Product Description: This is a brilliant translation of the Aab-e-hayat (Water of Life), the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry. First published in 1880, it has exerted enormous influence over modern Urdu literary history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributing seven poets are seeking to re-invent poetry and create a new mood in the Urdu poetry from Pakistan. This book brings together selections from the work of these poets who are situated somewhat outside the mainstream. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributing seven poets are seeking to re-invent poetry and create a new mood in the Urdu poetry from Pakistan. This book brings together selections from the work of these poets who are situated somewhat outside the mainstream.

Product Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry—long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture—became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent Indian Mutiny of 1857...read more