میر انیسؔ : اپنے ہم عصر ناقدین کی نظر میں (بہ حوالۂ خصوصی:آزادؔ، حالیؔ، اثرؔ، شبلیؔ)

Elegiacal Poetry in Urdu is referred to "Marsia"; a famous genre of Urdu Literature, and Mir Anis (1803–1874) is the beacon of this genre. Hailing from Faizabad (Oudh State) Mir Anis stayed in Lukhnow and formed a marvelous tradition of Marsia in Urdu. His Marsias are best known for analogy, imagery and dramatic illustration of situation in Urdu. Among the early critics of Urdu, Muhammad Hussain Azad, Altaf Hussain Hali, Imdad Imam Asar and Maulana Shibli Nomani have the distinction that they were born during the reign of Mir Anis. Not only this, but they also got their basic critical insight from the socio–political condition and scholarly culture of Anis's time. They wrote excellent criticism of Mir Anis's poetry which became a beacon for future researchers. Among them, Azad wrote superficially on Mir Anis, but Hali, Asar and Shibli wrote in more detail. In the tradition of Anis Shinasi, Shibli's work is often referred to the comparison of Mir Anis and Mirza Dabeer, but among these critics, Anis has been analyzed in a very unconventional and unique way by Imdad Imam Asar because he compared the epic aspects of his poetry with European classical poets like Homer amp; Shakespeare. He found the quality of drama writing more solid in Anis rather than those of Europe. This article covers the critical views of the said four contemporary critics of Mir Anis