(1)  Maula Bakhsh Kushta: Punjabi Sha'iran da Tazkira, Kushta  and Sons,   

     Lahore.1960, p198

(2) Akhtar Jafary, Hazrat Mian Muhammad Bukhsh:Hayati te Sha'ri, Maqsood Publishers, Lahore, 2007, p12

(3) Ghulam Husain Azhar; Mian Muhammad;Qutb Minar, Anarkali, Lahore, 1980, p70

(4)  Ismatullah Zahid: Perkh Pragey, Al-Tehrir, Urdu Bazar Lahore, 1980, p197

(5) Dante (1265-1321) was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He is widely known for his master piece namely Divine Comedy. 

(6) John Ruskin (1819 -1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. 

(7) John Galsworthy (1867 -1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

(8) Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -1586) was an English poet, courtier, and soldier. He is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

(9) Sajjad Baqir Rizvi:Maghrab ke Tanqidi Usool, Muqtadira Qaumi Zaban, Islamabad, 1987, p153

(10) Sajjad Baqir Rizvi:Maghrab ke Tanqidi Usool, p249

(11) Edgar Allan Poe[A.E.Poe] (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. 

(12) Saiful Malook, Mian Muhammad Bukhsh,Mian Muhammad Bukhsh Library, Mirpur Azad Kashmir, 2010, p206

(13)Thomas Stearns Eliot [T.S Eliot] (1888 - 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and finally one of the twentieth century's major poets.

(14) Mian Muhammad Bukhsh: Sohni Mahiwal, p17 

(15) Saiful Malook ,p 23 (16) Ibid, p23 (17) Ibid, p23

(18) Ibid, p2 (19) Ibid , p2 (20) Ibid , p437

(21) Ibid , p438 (22) Ibid, p437 (23) Ibid , p437

(24) Ibid, p437 (25) Ibid, p22 (26) Ibid, p22