Nightingale of an Uncreated Garden: Ghalib's Intellectual Concerns

First of its kind in English, a critical analysis of select issues of Ghalib. His concept of Being and beings, concepts governing social life, a value system governing his poetic life, his rationalism, his refusal to follow traditional views without critical examination. We find him conversing wiith friends on the meaning of Meaning, and the relationship between word and meaning.The book has translations of select poetry from his Persian and Urdu work as well as it draws from his letters and other writings.