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THE NINE GREATEST URDU POETS OF DELHI Wali, Sauda, Dard, Mir, Zafar, Ghalib, Momin, Zauq, Dagh SELECTED POEMS & BIOGRAPHIES Translation & Introduction Paul Smith CONTENTS: The Urdu Language… page 7, Urdu Poetry… 15, Some Poetic Forms Used by the Poets… 19. THE POETS: Wali… 37, Sauda… 73, Dard… 147, Mir… 235, Zafar… 329, Ghalib… 401, Momin… 447, Zauq… 515, Dagh… 589. Here is the largest collection of their beautiful, often spiritual (Sufi) ruba’is, ghazals, qit’as, masnavis, qasida etc. in English in the correct rhyme-structures and meaning. Many pages on their Lives, Times & Poetry and Selected Bibliographies on all. Large Print (16pt) & Large Format Edition (7” x 10”) 655 pages. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages… including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Iraqi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Seemab, Jigar band many others and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children’s books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa