Maithili Sharan Gupta was born in 1886 in Chirgaon, Jhansi. Ram Chandra Gupta, his father, was against the concept of school education. For that he did not send his son to school and arranged his education at their home. He was given Sanskrit, English and Bengali education in his childhood. At this age his teacher was famous Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi.

At his young age he started writing poems in Hindi in various magazines including the then famous magazine Saraswati. His famous work Rang mein Bhang was published in 1910. During freedom struggle his nationalist poems like- Bharat Bharati became popular to patriot. After that he started writing poems based on mythological stories like Ramayana, Mahabharata. He also wrote poems based on the lives of religious leader.

His famous work Saket, is based on the epic Ramayan. He established Urmila-wife of Laxman as a protagonist though she is lesser-known character of the epic. The actual meaning of Saket is Ayodhya-the capital of Ramchandra. He used different kinds of pure Hindi language (Khadi Boli) in this poem. Maithili Sharan Gupta`s famous work Yashodhara revolves around Yashodhara, the wife of the religious leader Gautama Buddha.

Maithili Sharan Gupta`s major poems are Bharat-Bharati, Jayadrath Vadh, Vikat Bhat, Plassey ka Yuddha, Gurukul, Kisan, Panchavati, Siddharaj, Arjan-Visarjan, Kaaba-Karbala, Jayabharat, Dwapar, Jahush, Vaitalik, Kunal.He made translations of some famous literary work into Hindi. This includes Rubaiyats of Omar Khayyám and Sanskrit drama Swapnavaasavdatta. He also wrote some plays like- Tilottama, Chandrahaas .For this huge literary work Maithili Sharan Gupta was reckoned as the Rastra Kabi. He was given the honorary chair in the Rajyasabha after independence. He died in the year of 1965.