Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography

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Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical BiographyMirza 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

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