Balance between poets

Balancing is nothing but a form of criticism, which distinguishes bad from good, and shows strengths and weaknesses in the methods of eloquence. It requires strength in literature, and insight into the Arabs' ways of expression, and from here the ancients used to turn to Al-Nabigha under his red dome, in Souk Ukaz, In their view, he was the poet most capable of weighing speech.
Writers in various eras were tasked with balancing among the poets who excelled in one era. They balanced between Imru' al-Qais, al-Nabigha, Zuhair, and al-A'sha in pre-Islamic times, and between Jarir, al-Farazdaq, and al-Akhtal in the Umayyad dynasty, and between Abu Nuwas, Muslim ibn al-Walid, and Abu al-Atahiyya. And between Ibn Al-Mu'tazz and Ibn Al-Rumi, and between Abu Tammam and Al-Buhturi in the Abbasid state, and also the balances were held between those who excelled after those stalwarts until the era in which we live, and the era is close to what was written about the balance between Shawqi, Hafez and Mutran in the Egyptian and Syrian newspapers, and the writers still differ in their rulings. On those poets who preceded them, or were contemporary with them.