Urdu Poetry - Collection Forms of Urdu Poetry

Collection Forms of Urdu Poetry

The principal collection forms of Urdu poetry are:

  • Diwan, a collection of poems, chiefly gazals.
  • Kulliyat, literally a complete collection of poems, but often applied to any collection containing poems of various kinds. Thus, Akbar Allahabadi published three kulliyats.

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