After these preliminary general remarks on the poetry
of the latest epoch, we may pass to the consideration of
Biographies of
modern poets.
some of its chief representatives. For information
as to those who flourished before about
A.D. 1870 my chief sources have been the three
works of that industrious writer Riḍá-qulí Khán, poetically
Majma'u'lFuṣaḥá.
surnamed Hidáyat, to wit the large general biography
of Persian poets entitled Majma'u'l-