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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.Best Urdu Poetry
Poets
13th-century:

Amir Khusro
16th century:

Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah – wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi
17th century:

Wali Mohammed Wali Deccani
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan
18th century:

Faaiz Dehlvi
Khan Arzu
Mubarak Abru
Mir Taqi Mir
Nazeer Akbarabadi
Khwaja Mir Dard
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

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