Taashshuq Lakhnavi

Lucknow's ghazal voice inside the marsiya — the garden, the sleepless night, the martyr's grave. Taashshuq Lakhnavi (1824–1892), born Sayyid Mirza at Lucknow on 11 March 1824, was a poet of the Lucknow school who wrote both ghazal and marsiya. He was the younger brother of the poet Ishq Lakhnavi, a disciple of Nasikh, and belonged to the family of poets around Mir Anees, the great master of the marsiya. He began with ghazals in his early years, and his ghazals are remembered for their delicacy of feeling and freshness of theme; his marsiyas carry the ghazal's music into lament, and the two forms meet in his verse — the same images, of the garden, the night of separation and the martyr's grave, serve both. Among his books are Baraheen-e-Gham and Baraheen-e-Ghazal, and his diwan and a later selection, Afkar-e-Tashshuq, survive in print. He died at Lucknow on 12 April 1892, aged 68.