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Mir Baber Ali Anees (Urdu: میر ببر علی انیس‎) was an Urdu poet, born in 1802 in Faizabad, Oudh now in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and died in 1874 in Lucknow, North-Western Provinces. Anis used Persian, Hindi, Arabic, and Sanskrit words fluently in his poetry, and such quality distinguished him from his fellows. Anis wrote prolonged Marsias, which was a custom of his times, but nowadays only selected sections were narrated even in the religious ceremonies.As a poet Mir Anis was doubtlessly great and prolific, His fame was not confined to Lucknow or Awadh alone, it spread in the length and breathe of India (undivided), wherever the poet went, he drew large crowds and his audience included men of all castes, creeds and religions. He was a poet of Ghazal too. Had he continued composing Ghazals, he would have perhaps earned a lasting fame in that field too. But there is a narrative that His father advised him to devote his talents to Marsia and Marsia lone. As an obedient son, he acted upon the advice of his father. His productive age was fairly long and he spent about 54 years in composing Marsias, Salams and Rubais. The Last few years of the life of Mir Anis were disturbed by the turbulent political events. It was the same period when the poet was faced with formidable economic difficulties. His health was fast deteriorating and he fell ill, and his illness took a serious turn. The great Poet breathed his last in the year 1291 Hijra, corresponding with 1874 A.D.