[16] Under the independent rulers of Ardalan (9th–14th / 14th–19th century), with their capital latterly at Sanandaj, Gorani became the vehicle of a considerable corpus of poetry.

Names of forty classical poets writing in Gorani are known, but the details of the lives and dates are unknown for the most part.

Perhaps the earliest writer is Mele Perîşan, author of a masnavi of 500 lines on the Shi'ite faith who is reported to have lived around 1356–1431.

Other poets are known from the 17th–19th centuries and include Shaykh Mustafa Takhtayi, Khana Qubadi, Yusuf Yaska, Mistefa Bêsaranî and Khulam Rada Khan Arkawazi.

One of the last great poets to complete a book of poems (divan) in Gurani is Mawlawi Tawagozi south of Halabja.

Kurdish Shahnameh is a collection of epic poems that has been passed down through speech from one generation to the next, that eventually some stories were written down by Almas Khan-e Kanoule'ei in the eighteenth century.

There exist also a dozen or more long epic or romantic masnavis, mostly translated by anonymous writers from Persian literature including: Bijan and Manijeh, Khurshid-i Khawar, Khosrow and Shirin, Layla and Majnun, Shirin and Farhad, Haft Khwan-i Rostam and Sultan Jumjuma.

Herçen mewaçan: Fersî şekeren Kurdî ce şeker bell şîrînteren Yeqînen ce dewr dunyay pirr endêş Herkes dillşaden we ziwan wêş Although it's said that Persian is sweet as sugar, But, for me Kurdish is sweeter than sugar Clearly, in this perfidious world, Everyone is happy with his own beautiful mother tongue.

[6] Hewrami (Gurani: هەورامی, romanized: Hewramî) also known as Avromani, Awromani , Hawrami, or Horami, is a Gorani dialect and is regarded as the most archaic one.