Author: Ram Babu Saksena
Publisher: Adam Publishers
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 334
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174351615
Description
This work is an outline of the development of Urdu Literature from the earliest time to the present day and seeks to interpret it to English knowing reader.
The object of this book is to trace an outline of the developoment of Urdu literature from the earliest time to the present day with biographical skdetches of writers and critical appreciations of their works with a description of the more important of them.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
The Language and its Origin / A General Survey of Urdu Literature / General Characteristics of Urdu Poetry / The Deccan School of Early Urdu Poetry / The Delhi School of Urdu Poets: The Age of Arzu and Hatim \ The age of Mir and Souda \ The age of Insha and Mushaffi / The Lucknow School of Urdu Poets / The Court of Lucknow and its Urdu Poets / Elegy and Elegy Writers / The Stragglers - Nazir Akbrabadi and Nasir Dehlvi / Courts of Delhi and its Poets : The age of Ghalib and Zouq / The Court of Rampur and Hyderabad: The age of Amir and Dagh / The New Movement in Urdu Poetry: The age of Azad and Hali / Urdu Prose: Its Birth and Growth Part 1, Fort William College at Calcutta \ Part II, The age of Ghalib and Sir Syed Ahmad \ Part III, The rise of Urdu Novel - The age of Sarshar and Sharar / Urdu Drama / Progress and Achievement of the Urdu Literature.
Contents
Preface
Foreword
CHAPTER I
The Language and Its Origin
CHAPTER II
A general Survey of Urdu Literature
CHAPTER III
General Characteristics of Urdu Policy
CHAPTER IV
The Deccan School of Early Urdu Poetry
CHAPTER V
The Delhi School of Urdu Poets: Part I
The age of Arzu and Hatim
CHAPTER VI
The Delhi School of Urdu Poets: Part II
The age of Mir and Souda
CHAPTER VII
The Delhi School of Urdu Poets: Part III
The age of Insha and Mushaffi
CHAPTER VIII
The Lucknow School of Urdu Poets:
The age of Nasikh and Atish
CHAPTER IX
The Court of Lucknow and its Urdu Poets:
The age of Wajid Ali Shah Akhtar
CHAPTER X
Elegy and Elegy Writers
CHAPTER XI
The Stragglers-Nazir Akbarabadi and Nasir Dehlvi
CHAPTER XII
Courts of Delhi and Poets: Part IV
The age of Ghalib and Zouq
CHAPTER XIII
The Court of Rampur and Hyderabad: The age of Amir and Dagh
CHAPTER XIV
The New Movement in Urdu Poetry: The age of Azad and Hali
CHAPTER XV
Urdu Prose: Its Birth and Growth: Part I,
Fort William College at Calcutta
CHAPTER XVI
Urdu Prose: Part II,
The age of Ghalib and Sir Syed Ahmad
CHAPTER XVII
Urdu Prose: Part III
The rise of Urdu Novel-The age of Sarshar and Sharar
CHAPTER XVIII
Urdu Drama
CHAPTER XIX
Progress and Achievement of the Urdu Literature
Index