Garden of Essays

by Firaq Gorakhpuri

Raghupati Sahay (1896-1982) popularly known as Firaq Gorakhpuri was the doyen of Urdu poetry and literature of his age.

266 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

Raghupati Sahay, better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was a writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India.

As a distinguished poet, Firaq Gorakhpuri was well-versed in all traditional metrical forms such as ghazal, nazm, rubaai and qat'aa. He was a prolific writer, having written more than a dozen volumes of Urdu poetry, a half dozen of Urdu prose, several volumes on literary themes in Hindi, as well as four volumes of English prose on literary and cultural subjects.