The Problems of Studying the Creative Heritage of Mir Taqi Mir

Abstract

The article deals with the main difficulties that a researcher may face studying the legacy of the classical Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir. During his life time Mir was accorded wide recognition as a great poet of North India and nowadays his ghazals are still popular and loved by Urdu speaking people. The main difficulties of a researcher concern many inaccuracies in biographic facts, principles of selecting ghazals to be analysed, the difficulties in translating ghazals to other languages and some other problems. The majority of papers on Mir are in Urdu. The study of Mir’s literary heritage by Russian philologists was practically frozen in the last century, and nowadays it seems relevant to continue it.