SOURCE: "The Poet of Sorrow," in The Melody of An Angel: Mirza Ghalib—His Mind and Art, Publication Bureau, Panjab University, 1981?, pp. 55-68.
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.
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