Mir Hasan (poet)

Mir Ghulam Hasan
Traditional portrait of Mir Hasan (published 1941), reproduced from an 18th-century manuscript.
Born1736 (1736)
Delhi
Died1786 (aged 49–50)
Lucknow
Pen nameHasan
LanguageUrdu, Persian

Mir Ghulam Hasan, known simply as Mīr Ḥasan or Mir Hasan Dehlavi, was an biographer, critic, and Urdu poet.

He is known for his masnavis, the most famous being Sihar-ul-Bayan. Other notable works include a diwan of ghazals and Tazkira-i-Shora-i-Urdu, a tazkira of Urdu poets, written in Persian.

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