Poets/Writers From London

One of the founding fathers of modern Urdu poetry.

British Urdu scholar and communist. Celebrated translator of Ghalib's poetry and prose.

One of the most prominent and trend-setting modern poets.

English poet and satirist; known for "The Rape of the Lock" and "An Essay on Criticism.".

Asad Amanat Ali was a famed ghazal and classical singer from Pakistan and the son of Amanat Ali Khan. He hailed from the Patiala Gharana of musicians.

Medical doctor / living in London.

English theologian, poet, and cardinal; a leading figure in the Oxford Movement.

Legendary English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets.

A great scholar of poetry and prose in Urdu and Persian. Retired university lecturer.

British Romantic poet and satirist; author of "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.".

Prominent poet of New Ghazal in Pakistan.

One of the prominent poets who infused modern ghazal with a fresh sense of feeling and imaginative power.

Popular Pakistani poet, known for his romantic poems and ghazals.

A poet known for his nauhas and poems on the Karbala.

A people's poet with progressive leanings also served as the president of the Progressive Writers Association of the UK.

One of the prominent leaders of the Indian freedom movement.

Renowned Urdu fiction writer, novelist, and one of the pioneers of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in the subcontinent.