Ehsan Danish
Pakistani poet, writer, linguist, and lexicographer (1914-1982) · Pakistan · On the map · Writers · Died at 68
Ehsan Danish, born Ehsan-ul-Haq Eḥsānu l-Ḥaq), was an Urdu poet, prose writer, linguist, lexicographer and scholar from Pakistan. Ehsan Danish penned over 100 scholastic books of poetry, prose, linguistics, lexicography and prosody.
Ehsan Danish is read about 7.5 times a day, in 6 languages.
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At the beginning of his career, his poetry was very romantic but later his poems addressed the lot of the labourers and he came to be called the "Šhāʿir-e Mazdūr" by his audience. According to one commentator, his poetry inspired the common people's feelings and he has been compared with Josh Malihabadi. He holds the unique position as one of the best poets of all time, with fine, romantic and revolutionary, but simple style of poetry.
