Afghan Poetry of the Seventeenth Century is a selection of Khatak’s poems, edited and compiled by C.E. Biddulph of Trinity College, Cambridge. The book contains an introduction to the history of Afghanistan and the poet Khatak, a grammatical introduction that explains the fundamentals of the Pushto language, English translations of a selection of Khatak’s poems, and the original Pushto texts written in the Persian script. The translations are either by Biddulph or reproduced from H.G. Raverty’s Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (1862). In the introduction, Biddulph writes that Khatak’s poems “are characteristic of the national character and the circumstances of his life; they contain the most extraordinary mixture of warlike, not to say bloodthirsty sentiments, and those of a philosophical, religious, or sentimental nature.

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