Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry reached is peak in the 19th century. The most well-developed vessel of poetry has turned out to be the ghazal, which has by far exceeded all other forms of Urdu poetry by its quality and quantity within the cosmos of Urdu.
Poets
13th-century:
16th century:
- Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah – wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi
17th century:
18th century:
19th century:
- Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer
- Mir Babar Ali Anis
- Bahadur Shah II
- Mirza Sauda
- Mirza Ghalib
- Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq
- Dagh Dehlvi
20th century:
- Altaf Hussain Maulana Hali
- Akbar Allahabadi
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Hasrat Mohani
- Amjad Hyderabadi
- Fani Badayuni
- Yagana Changezi
- Akhtar Shirani
- Miraji
- Seemab Akbarabadi
- Aarzoo Lakhnawi
- Jigar Moradabadi
- Firaq Gorakhpuri
- Hafeez Jalandhari
- Josh Malihabadi
- Ahsan Danish
- Saghar Nizami
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Noon Meem Rashid
- Majeed Amjad
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz
- Jan Nisar Akhtar
- Nasir Kazmi
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Jagan Nath Azad
- Majrooh Sultanpuri
- Asrarul Haq Majaz
- Syed Mahmood Khundmiri
- Ibn-e-Insha
- Munir Niyazi
- Ada Jaffery
- Zafar Iqbal
21st century:
- Jaun Elia
- Ahmad Faraz
- Raees Warsi
- Akhlaque Bandvi
- Rahat Indori
- Waseem Barelvi
- Ishrat Afreen
- Manzar Bhopali
- Adeel Zaidi