Jagdish Gupt ( hi, डा. जगदीश गुप्त) (1924–2001) was an Indian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

of the

Nayi kavita Nayi (also known as "Nao") is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in western Ethiopia. Most of the speakers of the language live in two separated areas. The largest grouping live in Decha woreda of the Keffa Zone. The ...

(नई कविता) generation, a period of

Modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, ...

in modern Indian Hindi poetry. He was chairman of the Department of Hindi at

Allahabad University , mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees" , established = , type = Public , chancellor = Ashish Chauhan , vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava , head_label ...

Jagdish Gupta was born in Shahabad, Hardoi district. He earned an MA and D.Phil. He worked as a chairman of the Hindi Department in Allahabad University and engaged in freelance writing. Gupta was a noble poet, literature writer and critic. He was a noted Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement of the early 20th century. His main Poetry – Collection: "Nav ke panv, Aditya Ekant, Him Vidh, Shabd Dansh, Shambuk and Yugm." He did his thesis on Gujrati and Brajbhasha. He had a special interest in painting. He was honored by the government of the Braj sahatiya mandal of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

References

1924 births 2001 deaths Hindi-language poets People from Hardoi Academic staff of the University of Allahabad 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets Poets from Uttar Pradesh 20th-century Indian male writers {{India-poet-stub