INDEX OF Poets

A well-known poet of mystical thoughts.

An important poet of Hamd and Naat.

Widely celebrated and sung Urdu poet. Rose to iconic stature through his seductively romantic and anti-establishment poetry.

One of the founders of Urdu criticism. Outstanding pre-modern poet. Famous for writing Yaadgar-e-Ghalib, the first biography of Mirza Ghalib.

Eminent Urdu poet and contemporary of Dagh Dehlvi. Famous for penning the ghazal "Sarakti jaye hai rukh se naqaab aahista aahista.".

Son of famous poet Josh Malsiyani.

One of the leading pre-modern poets at lucknow, contemporary of Jigar Moradabadi.

Well-known poet; wrote ghazals, nazms, and rubais portraying romantic feelings and acute social consciousness.

One of the emerging young poets, known for expressing spontaneity in ghazal.