Narang describes Mir as “a poet of love and torment … a poet of agony and suffering as well as courage and audacity.” In the preface, Narang points out that Mir “has been called Khuda-i-Sukhan ” and praised by the likes of Muhammad Husain Azad, Imam Bakhsh Nasikh and Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, among others. The complexity of Mir’s poetry and the linguistic, critical and historical significance of the early Urdu verse he created, together with a glimpse of his life and times, are brought together for the Anglophone reader in The Hidden Garden: Mir Taqi Mir, which is Surinder Deol’s English translation of Narang’s book Usloobiyat-i-Mir. Mir Taqi Mir (1722-1810), known by the mononym ‘Mir’, remains a towering figure in Urdu literature and distinguished scholar Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, considers him “Urdu’s first complete poet.”
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