Abstract
In this lecture delivered in India, the author rehabilitates Mīr’s poetry squarely into the framework of Urdu classical poetics. Demonstrating a historical continuity of a robust tradition to which such great poets as Walī, Nāsikh, Ghālib and Mīr all belonged, it is pointed out that for a piece of poetry to be “valid”, one does not need to seek explanatory principles by harking back to the poet’s actual life experiences and biographical details, political contexts of his times, or external historical factors in general.
Shamsur Reahman Faruqi . (2012) The Poetic Tradition of Mīr, Bunyad, Vol 2, Issue 2 .
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