Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan
(1797–1869), Indian poet. Ghalib (Mirza Asadullah Khan), commonly regarded as the greatest Urdu poet, also wrote poetry and prose in Persian and was a great wit and...
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In the following essay, Wig attempts "to study Ghalib's life from a psychological point of view, in an effort to understand his complex personality and the way it influenced his poetry.&...
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In the following excerpt, Mujeeb provides a brief appraisal of Ghalib's career as a poet.
Ghalib's biographer finds it difficult to identify any event that could be called significant...
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In the following essay, Ali provides a short overview of Ghalib's thought and approach to writing poetry.
Ghalib died a hundred years ago in Delhi at the age of seventy-two, having lost his ...
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In the following excerpt, Sud discusses Ghalib's contribution to ghazal writing through an examination of several ghazals, finding him the greatest of all poets of this genre in his originality...
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In the following excerpt, Kumar discusses how Ghalib expressed the grief, yearning, and regret in his own life in his poetry and how his poetry, in turn, helped him overcome his sorrow.
Great art i...
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In the following excerpt, Sadiq stresses the less attractive side of Ghalib's character to bring to light those subconscious traits that largely determined his inner life and therefore his poet...
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In the following essay, Nairn discusses five couplets belonging to a ghazal Ghalib wrote before he was nineteen, providing both the transcripted Urdu and free prose translation. The ghazal is consider...
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Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan
Critical Essay by N. N. Wig
