Urdu Virsah 

This book contains selections from the verses of Khawaja Haider Ali Atish, the most renowned ghazal poet of the Lucknow school. The selection has been made by another poet of classical stature, Pandit Brij Narayan Chakbast. This selection was published in the early 1920s and had become a rare document. Khawaja Haider Ali Atish, lived in an environment of decadent poetry, but in keeping with his ascetic nature he wrote mainly on spiritual themes, and of the calamities befalling his age. His poetry is captivating even though he relegated romantic themes to the margins of his poetry. The diction of Atish is remarkable, for though it lacks the flow and facility of his contemporaries, it is attuned to reflection, in which he excels. It was for this reason that Brij Narayan Chakbast, a poet, himself deserving of a volume in this series, made a selection of his poetry. - from Amzon