حالی کی منتخب تحریروں کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF SELECTED WRITINGS OF HALI Section Urdu Literature

Abstract

Hali started writing as a poet of the traditional Urdu ghazal. Later, he initiated a more serious phase of his literary career which also marked the beginning of modernism in Urdu literature. He made a major case for simplicity of expression and seriousness of thought and purpose. He emphasized upon the contemporary relevance of narrative poetry. His Muqaddama-i-Sher-o-shairi is, in many respects, the first critical manifesto of Urdu poetry. He developed a serious discourse in his Muqaddama which is valued as an anthology of ideas concerning the nature of true art, its language, the parametres of its creation, and the making of taste. Hali wrote sober and scientific prose, plain and persuasive poetry, broadly representing the case of art for life’s sake. His biographies of Sir Syed, Ghalib, and Persian poet Sadi remain authentic sources till this day.