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Intikhab-e-Kalam: Wehshat Kalkatvi

by Wehshat Kalkatvi
Additional authors: Compiled by Tanzeem-ul-Firdous
Series: The Platinum Series Urdu Virsa Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: 63 Pages 18x12 cm | PB ISBN:9780195797701. Year: 2017
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Books Books General Stacks Non-fiction 891.4391 W413I 2017 (Browse shelf) Available 45513

Prof. Dr Tanzeem-ul-Firdous is distinctive among female Pakistani critics and researchers in Urdu literature, since there are few others who have engaged in academic and research activities with such consistency over an extensive period. In addition to several published books, she has to her credit a large number of research papers and critical essays. She is engaged by Karachi University as Professor and as Research Supervisor to PhD students.

This is a representative selection of Wehshat Kalkatvi’s poetry. One of the major poets of twentieth century, Kalkatvi wrote both in Urdu and Persian. Afollower of the
style of Ghalib,.his poetry was also admired by his contemporaries, such as Allama Iqbal. His first collection Deewan-e-Wehshat was published in 1910, while his second collection Taraana-e-Wehshat was published in 1953. His third collection Nuqoosh-o-Aasar was published in 1957. Parvez Shahidi, the eminent progressive poet, was his disciple.

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