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The untranslatable refrain: radif, rhyme and the limits of the English ghazal
Dr. Fatima Sheikh
Lighthouse Review of Literature & Cultural Studies2025Literature & Cultural Studies19 citations
The ghazal's arrival in English has been narrated as a story of formal liberation, in which Anglophone poets took what they wanted and left the rest. This essay reads that account against the form's own structural logic, arguing that what w…
https://doi.org/10.53456/lrlcs.2025.10.3.288
