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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 ghazal "Sarakti jaye hai rukh se naqaab aahista aahista".
One of the leading pre-modern poets at lucknow, contemporary of Jigar Moradabadi.
Well-known poet; wrote ghazals, nazms and rubais prortraying romantic feelings and acute social consciousness