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Old-poets in Asian, by popularity

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  1. Farrokhzad, Forough   Asian. Born: 1935, Died: 1967 (modern), 5 poems.
  2. Nizami, Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Muayyad   Asian. Born: 1141, Died: 1209, 1 poems.
    Nizami forms the favorite romantic reading of Persians even today. He is the chief teller of love tales for his people. He wrote five long poetic books, commonly called "The Five Treasures
  3. Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid   Asian. Born: 1058, Died: 1111, 1 poems.
    It was his habit from an early age, he says, to search for the true reality of things. In the process he came to doubt the senses and even reason itself as the means to 'certain knowledge', and fell into a deep scepticism.
  4. Sanai, Hakim   Asian. Born: 1080, Died: 1131, 10 poems.
    Hakim Sanai wasthe best of the three great mystical mathnavi writers of Persia the second being Attar and the third Rumi, of him Rumi said "Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and 'Attar.”
  5. Musume, Sugawara Takesue no   Asian. Born: 1009, Died: 1070, 9 poems.
    This author's name means "daughter of Sugawara no Takasue"; she was born in Kyoto but raised in the east when her father was an assistant governor.
  6. Issa, Kobayashi   Asian. Born: 1763, Died: 1827, 54 poems.
    One of Japan's pre-modern Haiku masters.
  7. Saigyo,   Asian. Born: 1118, Died: 1190, 19 poems.
    The wandering poet-monk Saigyo (1118-90) lived in seclusion in this small hut for some while. He is well known as an itinerant monk who composed many fine waka poems in the tanka form.
  8. Abu Madi, Ilya   Asian. Born: 1890, Died: 1957 (modern), 1 poems.
  9. Khayyam, Omar   Asian. Born: 1021, Died: 1122, 4 poems.
    An outstanding mathematician and astronomer and, wrote several works, including his most popular Rubaiyat
  10. Akahito, Yamabe no   Asian. Born: 700, Died: 740, 26 poems.
    He is famous for writing one of the first
    known descriptions of Mt. Fuji. Akahito was most famous for being able to simply capture a thought or a scene in a few short lines.
  11. Dehlvi, Daagh   Asian. Born: 1831, Died: 1905, 17 poems.
    In the history of Urdu poetry, the classical period concluded with Daagh Dehlvi. His tremendous popularity as a poet ironically coincided with the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the colonisation of the subcontinent by the British. Daagh’s ghazals
  12. Batiushkov, Konstantin Nikolaevich   Asian. Born: 1787, Died: 1855, 9 poems.
    it was Konstantin's youth spent in Petersburg which played the most important part in his development as a poet
  13. Bihari,   Asian. Born: 1595, Died: 1664, 1 poems.
    Bihari Lal Chaube was born in Govindpur, near Gwalior, and spent his boyhood at Orchha.
  14. Chong, Chol   Asian. Born: 1536, Died: 1593, 1 poems.
    Chong Ch’ol and Yun Sondo are usually ranked first and second in importance among Korea's poets. Chong was perhaps the more briliant of the two.
  15. Mutanabbi, Al   Asian. Born: 915, Died: 965, 1 poems.
  16. Zauq,   Asian. Born: 1789, Died: 1854, 1 poems.
    Zauq was a prominent contemporary of Ghalib and in the history of Urdu poetry the rivalry of the two poets is quite well known. During his lifetime Zauq was more popular than Ghalib.
  17. Mehta, Narsimha   Asian. Born: 1414, Died: 1481, 1 poems.
    A 15th C. devotional poet known as the father of Gujrati poetry
  18. Tsurayuki, Ki no   Asian. Born: 868, Died: 964, 79 poems.
    Ki no Tsurayuki  is famous as a poet, a critic and a diarist and as one of the compilers of the Kokinshu.
  19. Shiki, Masaoka   Asian. Born: 1867, Died: 1902, 206 poems.
    Masaoki Shiki, was the great modernizer of Japanese haiku.
  20. Saikaku, Ihara   Asian. Born: 1642, Died: 1693, 1 poems.
    Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai [comic linked verse] poet, astonishing contemporaries with his skill at composing sequences of thousands of stanzas in a single sitting. Later he turned to writing ukiyozoshi, a popular prose form which i
  21. Anwar, Chairil   Asian. Born: 1922, Died: 1949, 4 poems.
    Primary architect of the Indonesian literary revolution in both poetry and prose.
  22. Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich   Asian. Born: 1880, Died: 1921, 19 poems.
    considered the greatest of the Russian symbolists. As the leading disciple of Vladimir Soloviev, he voiced both mysticism and idealistic passion in an early cycle of love poems
  23. Quli Qutub Shah, Mohammed   Asian. Born: 1580, Died: 1612, 4 poems.
    The founder of the city of Hyderabad, Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah,  was not the first poet of Urdu language but he was the first Urdu poet who compiled his collection.
  24. Asian, Anonymous   Asian. Born: 1, Died: 1950, 26 poems.
    I am no one,
    Constructing eternity so
    I can live forever.
  25. Hitomaro, Kakinomoto no Asomi   Asian. Born: 660, Died: 708, 50 poems.
    One of Japan's greatest, and most appealing, poets, whose work still has a resonance for us today.
  26. Baratashvili, Nikoloz   Asian. Born: 1817, Died: 1845, 10 poems.
  27. Sen, Samar   Asian. Born: 1916, Died: 1987 (modern), 1 poems.
  28. Toumanian, Hovhannes   Asian. Born: 1869, Died: 1923, 9 poems.
  29. Ersoy, Mehmet Akif   Asian. Born: 1873, Died: 1936, 3 poems.
  30. Khatoon, Habba   Asian. Born: 1554, Died: 1609, 8 poems.
    Habba Khatoon or Zooni was a poetess from the wooded hills and valleys of Kashmir.
  31. Phu, Sunthorn   Asian. Born: 1786, Died: 1856, 1 poems.
    Considered the greatest Thai poet, Sunthorn Phu, much like the Romantics of the Western world, broke away from royal verse through his common origins and his use of simple, understated language.
  32. Trai, Nguyen   Asian. Born: 1380, Died: 1442, 5 poems.
  33. Emre, Yunus   Asian. Born: 1238, Died: 1320, 29 poems.
  34. Ssu-mu, Hsiang-ju   Asian. Born: -179, Died: -117, 1 poems.
    During the Han period elaborate rhyming prose (fu) dominated the world of poetry, and Sima Xiangru was its most able practitioner.
  35. Pshavela, Vasha   Asian. Born: 1861, Died: 1915, 1 poems.
  36. Ho, Li   Asian. Born: 791, Died: 817, 19 poems.
    A ninth century Chinese poet who was known as 'Poet-Ghost' and a 'daemonic genius' for his explorations of the ghostly world.
  37. Moradabadi, Jigar   Asian. Born: 1896, Died: 1982 (modern), 1 poems.
  38. Rustaveli, Shota   Asian. Born: 1172, Died: 1216, 1 poems.
  39. Saib,   Asian. Born: 1601, Died: 1677, 1 poems.
    One of the greatest master of Persian poetry of his time.
  40. Huong, Ho Xuan   Asian. Born: 1772, Died: 1822, 16 poems.
    She was born in the late 18th century and died in the early 19th century.  The exact dates have not been located yet.
  41. Antar,   Asian. Born: 525, Died: 615, 2 poems.
    Antarah, ‘The Black Knight’, was the son of a tribal leader and an Abyssinian slave girl. He became renowned for his poetry and for his skill in warfare; ultimately he became the hero of an extensive legend, the Romance of Antar.
  42. Malihabadi, Josh   Asian. Born: 1898, Died: 1982 (modern), 2 poems.
  43. JuYi, Bai   Asian. Born: 772, Died: 846, 29 poems.
  44. Mei, Yuan   Asian. Born: 1716, Died: 1798, 4 poems.
    Mei was not only the most popular poet of the Ch'ing Dynasty (eighteenth century) but the most popular poet in the 2500-year history of classical Chinese poetry.
  45. ibn Mansur Al-Hallaj, Hussein   Asian. Born: 858, Died: 922, 2 poems.
    He is referred to as "Love's Prophet." Considered one of the most influential Sufi writers and an important character in Islamic history.
  46. Bhartrihari,   Asian. Born: 570, Died: 651, 11 poems.
    Complications of love life inspired Bhartrihari to become a recluse and a poet. The opening verse of his Vairagyashatak begins with a lament and ends with a wry curse-Yam chintyami satamtam mayi sa virakta ( The one I pine for is indifferent to me)
  47. Brodsky, Joseph   Asian. Born: 1940, Died: 1996 (modern), 33 poems.
    He is a splendid poetic translator and has translated into Russian, among others, the English metaphysical poets, and the Polish emigre poet, Czeslaw Milosz. His own poetry has been translated into at least ten languages.
  48. al-Farazdaq,   Asian. Born: 641, Died: 728, 1 poems.
    Arab poet famous for his satires
  49. Fuzuli, Muhammed Suleyman Oglu   Asian. Born: 1494, Died: 1556, 5 poems.
    One of the most famous and greatest poets of Turkish literature.
  50. Yesenin, Sergey Alexandrovich   Asian. Born: 1895, Died: 1925, 11 poems.
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