Urdu literature

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Key People

Manto's portrait

Saadat Hasan Manto

Pakistani author

Writer at work

Ismat Chughtai

Indian writer

Ahmed Ali

Pakistani writer

Qurratulain Hyder

Indian writer

Premchand

Premchand

Indian author

Mīrzā Asadullāh Khān Ghālib

Indian poet

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form