List of poets
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This is a list of poets. People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.
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Alphabetical list
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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A
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Ab-Ak
- Joze Abram, (1875-1938)
- Dannie Abse, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
- Milton Acorn, (1923-1986)
- Leonie Adams, (High Falcon - 1929)
- Fleur Adcock, (born 1934)
- Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)
- Endre Ady, (1877-1919)
- Lucius Afranius (poet), Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
- Patience Agbabi, (born 1965)
- James Agee, (1909-1955)
- Dritëro Agolli, (born 1931)
- Ai, (born 1947), pseudonym of Florence Anthony
- Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973)
- Mark Akenside, (1721-1770)
- Bella Akhmadulina, (born 1957)
- Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966)
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Al-Am
- Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556)
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
- Richard Aldington
- Claribel Alegria
- Vicente Aleixandre, (1898-1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
- Josip Murn Aleksandrov, (1879-1901)
- Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
- Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet
- James Alexander Allan (1889-1956), Australian poet
- William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
- Damaso Alonso
- Natan Alterman
- Al Alvarez
- Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
- Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
- Yehuda Amichai
- Kingsley Amis, born 1922
- A. R. Ammons
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An-Ap
- Anacreon
- Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
- Jon Anderson, (born 1944)
- Mário de Andrade, (1893-1945)
- Aneirin, medieval epic poet
- Antler (poet), (1946-)
- Brother Antoninus
- Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
- Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
- Apuleius
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Ar-Au
- Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
- The Archpoet (Medieval)
- Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843-1925)
- Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
- Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
- Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
- Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
- Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
- Achim von Arnim, (1781-1831)
- Bettina von Arnim, (1785-1859)
- David Garrett Arnold, (born 1977)
- Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)
- Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
- Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
- John Ashbery, (born 1927)
- Thomas Ashe, (1836-1889)
- Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
- Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230)
- Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
- W. H. Auden, (1907-1973)
- Ausiàs March, (1397-1459)
- Ausonius, (c. 310-395)
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Av-Ay
- Margaret Avison, (born 1918)
- Robert Ayton, (1570-1638)
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B
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Ba
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Bab-Bal
- Ken Babstock, Canadian
- Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
- Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
- Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
- George Bacovia, Romanian poet
- Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
- Julio Baghy
- Bai Juyi
- Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
- Jesse Ball American poet
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Bar-Bax
- Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
- Porfirio Barba-Jacob
- John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
- George Barker, (1913-1991)
- Les Barker
- Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
- William Barnes, (1801-1886)
- Elizabeth Barrett
- Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
- James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)
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Be
- Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
- Joshua Beckman
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
- Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
- Marvin Bell
- Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
- Gottfried Ben
- Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
- William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
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Bi-Bl
- Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
- Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
- Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
- Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Jarvis Black
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
- Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
- William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
- Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
- Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
- Michael Blumenthal
- Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Robert Bly
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Bo
- Jean Bodel
- Louise Bogan
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)
- Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
- Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
- Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)
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Br
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Bra-Bri
- William Braithwaite[1], (1878-1962)
- Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
- Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
- Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch poet and playwright
- Christopher Brennan, (1870-1932), Australian
- Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
- Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
- André Breton, (1896-1966)
- Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
- Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
- Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)
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Bro-Bry
- Daniel Louis Brodsky
- Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
- Wladyslaw Broniewski
- William Bronk, (died 1999)
- Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
- Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
- Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
- Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
- Flora Brovina
- Sterling A. Brown
- Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
- George Mackay Brown
- William Browne, (1588-1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
- Joseph Bruchac, editor & publisher, poet, Native American folklorist
- Andrej Brvar, (born 1945)
- William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
- Bryher
- Ernest Bryll
- Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
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Bu-By
- Georg Büchner
- Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
- Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994)
- Basil Bunting
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
- William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
- Edwin G. Burrows
- Andrzej Bursa
- Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
- Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
- Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
- Lord Byron, (1788-1824)
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C
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Ca
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Cab-Cap
- Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
- Caedmon (old English)
- Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
- Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
- Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
- Luis de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
- Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
- Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
- Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
- Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
- Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844)
- Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980)
- Ivan Cankar, (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893-1973)
- Edip Cansever
- Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD)
- Cao Pi
- Cao Zhi, (192-232)
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Car-Cav
- Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
- Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
- Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
- Will Carleton
- Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
- Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942)
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
- Hayden Carruth
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
- Gaius Valerius Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
- Charles Causley
- C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)
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Ce-Ci
- Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
- Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
- Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
- John Chalkhill
- Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674)
- Arthur Chapman, (1873-1935)
- George Chapman, (1560-1634)
- René Char, (1907-1998)
- Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
- Billy Childish
- Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956
- Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
- Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
- John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
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Cl
- Amy Clampitt
- John Clare, (1793-1864)
- George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
- Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
- Matthias Claudius
- Michelle Cliff
- Lucille Clifton,
- Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)
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Co
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Coc-Cor
- Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
- Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
- Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
- William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
- William Congreve (playwright), (1670-1729), English poet
- Robert Conquest, historian and poet
- Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
- Clark Coolidge
- Wendy Cope
- Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
- Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
- Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
- Jayne Cortez
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Cou-Cow
- Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
- Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
- William Cowper, (1731-1800)
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Cr-Cz
- George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
- Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
- Richard Crashaw, (1613-1649)
- Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
- Octave Crémazie
- Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
- Aleister Crowley, (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
- Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
- Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
- E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
- Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
- Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
- Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
- Leona Czwartkowski
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D
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Da
- Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
- Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
- Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
- Jia Dao
- Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
- Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
- René Daumal, (1908-1944)
- Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
- W. H. Davies
- William Davenant, (1606-1668)
- Donald Davidson, (1893-1968)
- John Davies, (1569-1626), historian
- Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
- Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
- Denis Davydov, (1784-1839)
- Cecil Day-Lewis
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De
- James Deahl
- Ales Debeljak, (born 1961)
- Walter de la Mare, author, poet
- Miriam DeCosta-Willis, poet & editor (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
- Marie de France
- Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
- Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
- François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
- Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
- Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
- Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Aubrey de Vere
- William F. DeVault, (1955-), American Author
- Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
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Di-Do
- Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
- Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
- Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
- James Dickey, (1923-1997)
- Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
- Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
- Alenka Jenstrle Dolezal, (born 1959)
- John Donne, (1572-1631)
- Maura Dooley
- Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
- Ivan Dornik, (1892-1968)
- Gavin Douglas
- Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)
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Dr
- Leah B. Drake
- Jane Draycott
- Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
- Ciril Drekonja, (1896-1944)
- Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
- John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
- William Drummond, (1585-1649)
- William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
- John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright
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Du-Dy
- Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
- W.E.B. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
- Joze Dular, (1915-2000)
- Du Fu, the Poet Saint
- Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
- Alan Dugan
- Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
- Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906)
- William Dunbar, (1465-1520)
- Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
- Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
- Stephen Dunn
- Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
- Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
- Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
- Stuart Dybek
- Bob Dylan, born 1941
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Ea-Er
- Charles F. Easton
- Richard Eberhart
- Russell Edson
- Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
- Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
- Fran Eller, (1873-1956)
- Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
- Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
- Paul Eluard, French poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
- Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- William Empson, (1906-1984)
- Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
- R.M. Engelhardt, (born 1964), American poet
- Paul Engle
- Ennius
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
- Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
- Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
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Es-Ew
- Maggie Estep, American slam poet
- Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
- Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
- Florbela Espanca, (poet)
- Salvador Espriu, writer
- Mari Evans
- William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
- Gavin Ewart
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F
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Fe-Fo
- Fenggan
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
- Thomas Ferril
- Afanasiy Fet, (1812-1892)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
- Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
- Robert Fitzgerald
- John Fletcher, (1579-1625)
- John Gould Fletcher, (1886-1950), Imagist poet
- F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
- Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898)
- John Forbes, (1950-1998), Australian poet
- Carolyn Forché, born 1950
- Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
- John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
- France Forstneric, (born 1958), mathematician.
- Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
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Fr-Fu
- Janet Frame, (born 1924)
- Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
- Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
- Naim Frashëri
- Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
- Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
- Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
- Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
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Ga-Gl
- Jean Garrigue
- Samuel Garth
- George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
- David Gascoyne
- Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
- John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
- Albert Gazeley,(1937), poet and writer
- Stefan George, (1868-1933)
- Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
- Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
- Lapo Gianni
- Wilfred Wilson Gibson
- Richard Gilder
- Gary Gildner (Letters from Vicksburg)
- Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
- Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
- Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
- Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
- Janko Glazer, (1893-1975)
- Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
- Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Goran Gluvi&, (born 1957)
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Go
- Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
- [[Cvetko Gl;'
olar]], (1879-1965)
- Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
- Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
- Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
- Pavel Golia, (1887-1959)
- Eugen Gomringer
- Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
- Justin Gonsales(1995) smarter than tyres lindsay who goes to agua fria high school
- Ray Gonzalez, (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s)
- Lorna Goodison
- Vojko Gorjan, (1949-1975)
- Sergei Gorodetsky
- Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet
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Gr
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Gra-Gri
- Alojz Gradnik, (1882-1968)
- Urejanje Niko Grafenauer [2] wiki link, (born 1940)
- Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
- Richard Graves, (1715-1804), British poet and essayist
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
- Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
- Robert Greene, (1560-1592)
- Simon Gregorcic, (1844-1906)
- Pankracij Gregorec, (1867-1920)
- Barbara Gregoric, (born 1964)
- Horace Gregory
- Eamon Grennan
- Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
- Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
- Franz Grillparzer
- Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
- Uri Tsvi Grinberg
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
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Gro-Gru
- Stanisław Grochowiak
- Philip Gross
- Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
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Gu-Gy
- Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
- Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
- Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
- Louise Imogen Guiney
- Guido Guinizelli
- Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
- Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
- Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
- Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
- Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
- Ramon Guthrie
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
- Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)
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H
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Ha
- Rachel Hadas
- Hafez
- Judith Hall
- Jef Hamby, American poet, author, surrealist painter
- Suheir Hammad, Palestinan-American poet and political activist
- Dennis M. Hammes {born 1945}
- Walter Hampson,1864-1932 Yorkshire dialect author and poet
- Han Yu
- Han-Shan
- Matjaz Hanzek, (born 1949)
- Jerzy Harasymowicz
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
- Frances E. W. Harper, poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
- Michael S. Harper
- Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
- Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
- Milka Hartman, (born 1902)
- Gwen Harwood
- Matthea Harvey
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
- Fany Hausmann, (1818-1862)
- Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
- Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
- Robert Hayden
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He
- Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
- John Heath-Stubbs
- Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
- Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
- John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
- Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
- Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
- William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
- Adrian Henri
- George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803)
- Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
- Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
- Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English poet
- Phoebe Hesketh, (1909-2005), English poet
- Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
- Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
- Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)
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Hi-Hr
- William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
- Rita Ann Higgins, poet, member of Aosdána
- Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
- Ellen Hinsey, poet
- Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
- Branko Hofman, (born 1929)
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
- James Hogg, (1770-1835)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
- John Hollander, born 1929
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
- Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- Thomas Hood, (1798-1845)
- A. D. Hope
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus
- George Moses Horton
- Jurij Houdlin, (born 1973)
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
- Dale M. Houstman
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Ivan Hribovsek, (1923-1945)
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Hu
- Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
- Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
- Richard Hugo
- Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
- Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
- Lynda Hull, (1954-1994)
- Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
- James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
- Constantijn Huyghens
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J
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Ja-Je
- Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
- Clive James
- Gustav Janus, (born 1939)
- Miran Jarc, (1900-1942)
- Urban Jarnik, (1784-1844)
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
- Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Vida Jeraj, (1875-1932)
- Luka Jeran, (1818-1896)
- Marjetka Jersek
- Milan Jesih, (born 1950)
[edit]
Ji-Ju
- Jia Dao
- Edmund John
- Fenton Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
- Lionel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784)
- David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
- Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
- James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
- James Joyce, (1882-1941)
- Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
- Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
- Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
- Juvenal
[edit]
K
[edit]
Ka-Kh
- Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
- Ali Ibrahim Kalyanaraman, (1977-Present)
- Ivana Kampus, (born 1945)
- Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
- Miha Kastelic, (1796-1868)
- Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
- Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
- Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
- John Keats, (1795-1821)
- Weldon Kees
- Harry Kemp
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jozef Kenda, (1859-1929)
- Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
- Dragotin Kette, (1876-1899)
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Khushal Khan Khattak
- Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
- Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
- Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)
[edit]
Ki-Kn
- Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
- Amy King
- Henry King, (1592-1669)
- William King, (1663-1712)
- Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882)
- Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
- John Kinsella (born 1963)
- Thomas Kinsella
- Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories
- Milan Klec, (born 1954)
- Marjan Klinar, (1922-1983)
- Mile Klopcic, (1905-1984)
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
- Nikolai Klyuev
- Majda Kne, (born 1954)
- Etheridge Knight
[edit]
Ko
[edit]
Kob-Kor
- Fran Kobal, (1881-1937)
- Josip Kobal, (1870-1888)
- Andrej Kocbek
- Edvard Kocbek, (1904-1981)
- Matjaz Kocbek, (born 1946)
- Jan Kochanowski, (born 1530)
- Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
- Anton Koder, (1851-1918)
- Andrej Kokot, (born 1936)
- Miklavz Komelj, (born 1970)
- Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
- Faik Konica
- Ted Kooser
- Sonja Koranter, (born 1948)
- Barbara Korun
[edit]
Kos-Koz
- Jovan Koseski, (1798-1884)
- France Kosmac, (1922-1974), poet, film director, publicist.
- Srecko Kosovel, (1904-1926)
- Miroslav Kosuta, (born 1936)
- Vladimir Kos, (born 1924)
- Jure Kovic
- Kajetan Kovic, (born 1931)
- Barbara Kozak
[edit]
Kr-Ky
- Lojze Krakar, (1929-1995)
- Taja Kramberger, (born 1970)
- Ruth Krauss
- Marko Kravos, (born 1943)
- Miroslav Krleža, (1589-1638), poet, novelist, etc
- Ernest Kroll
- Krystowczyk Monika, poet and painter
- Maxine Kumin
- Stanley Kunitz
- Kyurai Shinichiro, (1707-1785), "new haiku" poet
[edit]
L
[edit]
La
- Aquiles La Grave
- Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
- Philip Lamantia
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
- Steven Curtis Lance, romantic poet
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
- Joseph Langland
- Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
- Newoka LaShelle author of Ode Poet Valley
- James Laughlin
- Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
- Lawes
- D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
- Layamon
- Irving Layton, (born 1912), sex machine poet!
[edit]
Le
- Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
- Jan Lechon
- Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
- Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
- William Ellery Leonard
- Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
- Eleanor Lerman
- Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
- Boleslaw Lesmian
- Rika Lesser
- Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
- Anton Levec
- Peter Levec, (born 1923)
- Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
- Jernej Levicnik, (1808-1883)
- Philip Levine
- Larry Levis
- Zlatka Levstek, (born 1944)
- D. A. Levy, (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
- William Levy
- Saunders Lewis, (1893-1985)
- Wyndham Lewis, (1884-1957)
[edit]
Li
- Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
- Tyrese Lindsay freshmen in high school, class of '09, and goes to agua fria
- José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
- Tim Liardet
- Ewa Lipska
- Florjan Lipus, (born 1937)
- Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Li Yu
- Joseph C. Lincoln
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
- Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
- James Little, (born 1942), physician in North Carolina
- Alan Llwyd
- Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
- Andrus Lomp Estonian poet
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
- Federico García Lorca
- Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
- Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)
- Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
- Robert Lowell
- Amy Lowell, (1874-1925)
- Mina Loy (Dada)
- Lu You
- Gherasim Luca
- Lucilius
- Mihael Lotric, (born 1937)
- Joza Lovrencic, (1890-1952)
- Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
- Lucan
- Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
- Frank L. Ludwig (born 1964 in Hamburg), Irish
- Luo Binwang
- Mario Luzi
- John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
- John Lyly, (1553-1606)
- George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)
[edit]
M
[edit]
Ma
[edit]
Mac-Mak
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
- Cynthia MacDonald
- George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
- Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
- Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
- Compton Mackenzie
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
- Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Aarne Mäe Estonian poet
- France Magajna, (born 1957)
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
- Patrick Magee, (1986-Present), poet, writer, musician
- Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
- Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.
- Clarence Major
- Svetlana Makarovic, (born 1939)
- Peter Makuck
[edit]
Mal-Mar
- Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
- David Mallet
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Miroslav Malovrh, (1861-1922)
- Goffredo Mameli, (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
- Osip Mandelstam, (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
- James Clarence Mangan
- Bill Manhire, (born 1946)
- Manilius
- Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
- Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
- Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
- Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
- Joan Maragall, (1860-1911), writer
- Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
- Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
- Edwin Markham
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
- Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
- Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
- Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)
[edit]
Mas-Maz
- John Masefield, (1878-1967)
- Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
- Basho Matsuo, (1644-1694), haiku poet
- Neza Maurer, (born 1930)
- Blaz Mavrel
- Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
- Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
- Gail Mazur
[edit]
Mc
- James McAuley
- Linda McCarriston
- J. D. McClatchy
- Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders' Fields
- Colleen McElroy
- Bryant H. McGill
- Phyllis McGinley
- William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902)
- Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
- Campbell McGrath
- Wendy McGrath
- Thomas McGrath (Movie at the End of the World)
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
- James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Claude McKay
- Don McKay
- Irene McKinney
- Rod McKuen
- Sandra McPherson
[edit]
Me
- Meisetsu, (1847-1926 - haiku poet)
- Meng Houran
- Norman MacCaig
- Anton Medved, (1869-1910)
- Mei Yaochen
- Vladimir Memon
- Janez Menart, (born 1929)
- Meng Haoran
- George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
- Ace Mermolja, (born 1951)
- Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
- James Merrill, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
- Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
- W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
- Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
- Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)
[edit]
Mi-Ml
- Henri Michaux, poet and painter
- Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
- Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
- Josephine Miles
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
- Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
- Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
- Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004)
- Alice Duer Miller
- Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
- John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
- Ivan Minatti, (born 1924)
- Gaston Miron, Quebec poet
- Thor Misen, US Poet
- Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Adrian Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
- Ndre Mjeda
- Iztok Mlakar
[edit]
Mo
- Stefan Modrinjak, (1774-1827)
- Matti Moguči Estonian poet
- Harold Monro
- Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
- Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
- Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
- Merrill Moore (& R. Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)
- Dom Moraes
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
- Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
- Frederick Morgan
- John Morgan, (1688-1733)
- Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914)
- William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
- Jim Morrison {poet, songwriter}
- Stephen Morse (1945 - )(American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
- Howard Moss
- Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
- Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
- Brane Mozetic, (born 1958)
[edit]
Mu
- Lisel Mueller
- Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
- Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
- Aleksander Müller Estonian poet
- Nolie Mumey
- Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
- Les Murray, (born 1938)
- Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
- Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
- Erna Muser, (1879-1901)
- Susan Musgrave, Poet. Married for love.
[edit]
N
[edit]
Na-Nj
- Marcia Nardi
- Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
- Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
- John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
- Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson
- Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
- Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
- John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
- Nezami
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
- B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
- John Gambril Nicholson
- Lorine Niedecker
- Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
- Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
[edit]
No-Ny
- Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
- Fan Noli
- Caroline Norton
- Cyprian Kamil Norwid
- Anton Novacan, (1887-1951)
- Boris A. Novak, (born 1953)
- Irena Zorko Novak, (born 1953)
- Novica Novakovic, (born 1965)
- Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
- Lili Novy, (1885-1958)
- Alfred Noyes
- Naomi Shihab Nye
[edit]
O
- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
- George Ochoa (1990) Agua Fria High School student, Sophomore class of '08
- Sharon Olds
- Anton Oliban, (1824-1860)
- Dave Oliphant
- Mary Oliver
- Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
- Terry A. O'Neal
- France Onic, (1901-1975)
- Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
- George Oppen
- Peter Orlovsky (beat)
- Jacqueline Osherow
- Vinko Oslak, (born 1947)
- Iztok Osojnik, (born 1951)
- Josip Osti, (born 1945)
- Alice Oswald
- Ouyang Xiu
- Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 BC-17 AD), (more commonly known as Ovid)
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
[edit]
P
[edit]
Pa
- Robert Pack
- Ruth Padel
- Ron Padgett
- Pavlina Pajk, (1854-1901)
- Grace Paley
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- Rado Palir
- Palladas
- Michael Palmer, (1943-)
- Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
- Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
- Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
- Nicanor Parra, Chile
- Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
- Linda Pastan
- Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
- Elina Patané, Italian poet
- Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
- Andrea Paterson
- Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
- Don Paterson
- Coventry Patmore
- Vida Mokrin Pauer, (born 1961)
- Marko Pavcek, (1958-1979)
- Tone Pavcek, (born 1928)
- Robert Pawlwoski
- Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet
[edit]
Pe-Pl
- Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
- Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
- George Peel, (1558-1597)
- Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
- Sam Pereira
- Lawrence S. Pertillar, (1947-), American poet
- Bruno Pertot
- Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
- Ruza Lucija Petelin
- Pascale Petit
- Francesco Petrarca
- Annukka Peura Finnish poetess
- Ambrose Philips
- Pi Rixiu
- France Pibernik, (born 1928)
- Matjaz Pikalo, (born 1963)
- Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
- Bojan Pisk, (born 1933)
- Klemen Pisk
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Iztok Geister Plamen, (born 1945)
- Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)
- German Plisetsky, (born 1931)
- Williams Plomer
[edit]
Po-Pu
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
- Denis Poniz, (born 1948)
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
- Christopher Porpora, (1974-)
- Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
- Carlo Porta, (Milanese dialect)
- Halina Poswiatowska
- Blaz Potocnik, (1799-1872)
- Jure Potokar, (born 1956)
- Neil Powell
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Andrej Praprotnik, (1827-1895)
- E.J. Pratt
- Ivan Pregelj, (1883-1960)
- France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
- Robert Priest
- Janez Primic, (1785-1823)
- Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
- Bryan Waller Proctor
- Luigi Pulci
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet
[edit]
R
[edit]
Ra-Re
- Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
- Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
- Meta Rainer, (born 1904)
- Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
- Dudley Randall
- Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
- Darren B. Rankins (Born 1966)
- John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
- Mauri Raus Estonian poet
- Tom Raworth
- David Ray
- Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
- Wayne Ray, 1950 -
- Byron H. Reece
- Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- R.D. Reeve (The Blue Cat)
- Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Naomi Replansky
- Ivan Resman, (1848-1905)
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Charles Reznikoff
[edit]
Ri
- Carles Riba
- Stan Rice, (1943-2002), poet and artist
- Adrienne Rich
- Lola Ridge, (1873-1941)
- Laura Riding, (1901-1981)
- Anne Ridler
- James Whitcomb Riley, (1853-1916)
- Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926)
- Arthur Rimbaud, (1854-1891), symbolist poet
[edit]
Ro
- Michele Roberts
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
- Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
- Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , (1647-1680)
- Carolyn M. Rodgers
- Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
- Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
- Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
- Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
- Braco Rotar
- Nicholas Rowe
- Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
- Andrej Rozman Roza, (born 1955)
- Tadeusz Rozewicz
- Gregor Rozman
[edit]
Ru
- Marshall Rubin
- Friedrich Rückert
- Sarah Ruden
- Muriel Rukeyser, (1913-1980)
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877)
- Eva Rütel Estonian poetess
[edit]
S
[edit]
Sa
- Umberto Saba
- Sa'di
- Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (1487-1558)
- Tomaz Salamun, (born 1941)
- Severin Sali, (1911-1992)
- Joan Salvat-Papasseit, (1894-1924)
- Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
- Sonia Sanchez
- Jordi de Sant Jordi
- Sappho, ancient Greek poet
- Mitja Sarabon
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
[edit]
Sc-Se
- Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
- Susan Schaeffer
- Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
- Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
- Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
- Philip Schultz (Deep Within The Ravine - Lamont selection)
- Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
- Claudio Sciacca, young poet, painter, writer
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), inventor of historical novel
- Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
- Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin poet
- Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
- Tone Seliskar, (1900-1969)
- Peter Semolic, (born 1967)
- Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
- Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
- Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
- Vikram Seth
- Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)
[edit]
Sh-Si
- Thomas Shadwell
- William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
- Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
- Jo Shapcott
- Karl Shapiro
- Luci Shaw
- Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)
- William Shenstone
- Taras Shevchenko
- James Shirley, (1596-1666)
- Avraham Shlonsky
- Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
- Eli Siegel, (1902-1978)
- Arvi Siig Estonian poet
- Ron Silliman (born 1946)
- Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
- Shabnam Sharma, Indian (Hindi) Poetess
- Charles Simic
- Barbara Simoniti
- Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
- Albert Sirok
- Karel Sirok
- Lemn Sissay
- L.E. Sissman
- Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
- Ivan Sivec, (born 1945)
- Tara Singh
[edit]
Sk-Sn
- John Skelton, (1460-1529)
- Myra Sklarew
- Kathleen Spivack (The Beds We Lie In)
- Kenneth Slessor
- Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
- Juliusz Slowacki
- Christopher Smart
- Joze Smit, (born 1922)
- Charlotte Smith, (1749-1806)
- Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
- LeRoy Smith
- Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
- Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
- Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
- William Jay Smith
- Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
- W.D. Snodgrass (aka S.S. Gardons)
- Joze Snoj, (born 1934)
- Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
- Tara Singh
[edit]
So-Sp
- Edit Södergran
- David Solway, (born 1941)
- William Somervile, (1675-1742)
- Mustafa Altay Sönmez, (born 1984) Contemprary Turkish poet
- Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
- Ljubka Sorli
- Natsume Soseki, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
- Gary Soto
- Caroline Southey, (1787-1854)
- Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
- Robert Southwell, (1561-1595)
- A. B. Spellman
- Anne Spencer
- Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
- Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599)
[edit]
St
[edit]
Sta-Sto
- Leopold Staff
- William Stafford
- Valentin Stanic, (1774-1847)
- Jernej Stante
- George Starbuck
- Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
- C.K. Stead, (born 1932)
- Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
- Ales Steger, (born 1973)
- Morris Stegosaurus (Keith Morris Kurzman), slam poet
- Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
- Eric Stenbock
- Gerald Stern
- Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), lighthouses
- Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
- James Still
- Theodor Storm, (1817-1888)
- Alfonsina Storni, (1892-1938)
[edit]
Str-Stu
- Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
- Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
- James A. Strecker
- Josip Stritar, (1836-1923), poet, author and editor.
- Gregor Strnisa, (1929-1987)
- Igor Stropnik, (born 1966)
- Jesse Stuart
- Elma Stuckley
[edit]
Su-Sz
- Su Shi
- Su Xiaoxiao
- Sir John Suckling
- Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
- Francis Sullivan
- Taisto Summanen Karelian poet
- Jules Supervielle
- Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
- Keston Sutherland
- Barton Sutter
- Ivo Svetina (b. 1948)
- May Swenson
- Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
- Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
- Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
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Ta-Te
- Ales Tacer
- Geneviere Taggard (Calling Western Union)
- Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941)
- Anton Tanc, (1887-1947)
- Tao Qian
- Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
- Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
- James Tate
- Veno Taufer, (born 1933)
- Vida Taufer, (1903-1966)
- Zora Tavcar
- Eleanor Ross Taylor
- Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
- Sara Teasdale
- Marjan Telatko
- Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
- Lucy Terry
- A.S.J. Tessimond
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Th-To
- Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
- Alexander Theroux
- Jan Theuninck, (born 1954)
- Dylan Thomas, (1914-1953)
- Edward Thomas, (1878-1917)
- Lorenzo Thomas, (1944-2005)
- R. S. Thomas, (1913-2000)
- John Thompson, (1845-1913), Canadian writer
- Francis Thompson, (1859-1907)
- James Thomson, (1834-1882)
- James Thomson (Seasons)
- Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
- Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
- Thomas Tickell
- Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Lovro Toman, (1827-1870)
- Margaret Tongue
- Jean Toomer
- Edo Torkar
- Igor Torkar, (born 1913)
- Ridgely Torrence
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Tr-Tz
- Thomas Traherne
- Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
- Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
- Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
- Ivan Zamejski Trinko, (1863-1954)
- Quincy Troupe
- Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
- Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
- Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
- Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
- Mary Tull, (Stained Windows; #52 Dorrance Contempry series)
- Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886-1913), Tatar poet
- Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
- Julian Tuwim
- Jan Twardowski
- Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521-1605)
- Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803-1873)
- Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963), (Dada)
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U
- Joze Udovic, (1912-1986)
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
- Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
- John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
- Allen Upward, Imagist
- Turgut Uyar
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Va-Ve
- Jean Valentine (Home Deep Blue)
- Mona Van Duyn
- Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
- Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
- Matija Valjavec, (1831-1897)
- Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
- Pashko Vasa
- Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
- Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
- Sasa Vegri, (born 1934)
- Vemana
- Helen Vendler
- Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
- Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
- Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
- Jonas Very, (19th c. American "Renaissance")
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Vi-Vo
- Maja Vidmar, (born 1961)
- Tit Vidmar, (1929-1999)
- Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
- Peter Viereck
- François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
- Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec signer-songwriter and poet
- Cene Vipotnik, (1914-1972)
- Publius Vergilius Maro
- Jani Virk, (born 1962)
- Jozef Virk, (1810-1880)
- Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
- Anton Vodnik, (1901-1965)
- France Vodnik, (1903-1986)
- Valentin Vodnik, (1758-1819), poet, journalist, philologist.
- Bozo Vodusek, (1905-1978)
- Herman Vogel, (1941-1989)
- Walter von der Vogelweide
- Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
- Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
- Joze Volaric, (born 1932)
- Zlata Volaric, (born 1930)
- Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
- Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
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Vr
- Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)
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Wa
- Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
- Ugonna Wachuku, (born 1971), (Inspirational and soulful poems)
- David Wagoner
- Diane Wakoski, (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
- Derek Walcott, (born 1930), (Nobel Prize for Literature)
- Rosmarie Waldrop
- Philip Walen
- Arthur Waley (Translations from the Chinese)
- Alice Walker, (born 1944)
- Christopher Wallace-Crabbe
- Edmund Waller, (1606-1687)
- Walsinghame
- Wang Changling
- Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
- Candice Ward
- Warniek Marilyn Nelson
- Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989)
- Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
- Roger Waters
- Isaac Watts, (1674-1748)
- David Wayne, (1914-1995)
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We-Wh
- John Webster, (died 1630)
- Ian Wedde, (born 1946)
- Theodore Weiss
- Philip Whalen (beat)
- John Wheelock Hall (The Black Panther)
- Margaret Walker
- Martin Walser, (born 1927)
- Franz Werfel, (1890-1945), Czech poet
- Johan Herman Wessel, (1742-1785)
- Gilbert West
- Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784)
- E.B. White, (1899-1985), (Fox of Peacock)
- James M. Whitfield
- Walt Whitman, (1819-1892)
- John Greenleaf Whittier, (1807-1892)
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Wi
- John Wieners (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
- Kazimierz Wierzynski
- Richard Wilbur (past poet laureate - Things of This World)
- Jane Wilde, (1826-1896), Irish poet and nationalist, wife of Sir William Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), Irish playwright, poet and satirist
- John Wilkinson
- William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, the first vernacular poet
- Saul Williams (born 1972)
- Shirley Williams (born 1930)
- Miller Williams
- Oscar Williams, American poet and anthologist
- Sherley Anne Williams
- Waldo Williams, (1904-1971), Welsh poet
- William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791)
- William Carlos Williams
- John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
- Robley Wilson
- Yvor Winters
- George Wither, (1588-1667)
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Wo-Wy
- Rafal Wojaczek
- Christa Wolf
- Charles Wolfe, (1791-1823)
- Hans Wollschläger
- George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism
- Dorothy Wordsworth, (1771-1855)
- William Wordsworth, (1770-1850)
- Franz Wright
- Philip Stanhope Worsley, (1835-1866)
- Charles Wright, musician, poet
- James Wright, (1927-1980)
- Judith Wright, (1915-2000)
- Thomas Wyatt, (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
- Elinor Wylie
- Hedd Wyn
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X
- Xu Zhi Mo, melancholic poet of early 20th century China
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Y
- Leo Yankevich (1961-present)
- Yamamoto Tarazu, (1706?-1801?), "new haiku" poet
- John Yau
- William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
- Stephen Yenser (Whitman winner - The Fire In All Things)
- Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (born 1933)
- Marguerite Young
- David Young
- Edward Young, (1683-1765)
- Kevin Young (poet), American poet (born 1970)
- Han Yu
- Yunus Emre, 13th century Turkish poet
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Z
- Franci Zagoricnik, (born 1933)
- Ifigenija Zagoricnik, (born 1953)
- Dane Zajc, (born 1929)
- Andrea Zanzotto
- Lisa Zaran (born 1969)m
- Marya Zaturenska, (1902-1982)
- Robert L.J. Zenik
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Paul Zimmer
- Jozef Zizenceli, (1658-1714)
- Ciril Zlobec, (born 1925)
- Asta Znidarsic
- Benjamin Znidarsic, (born 1959)
- Maricka Znidarsic
- Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
- Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
- Brane Zupanc, (born 1950)
- Oton Zupancic, (1878-1949)
- Uros Zupan, (born 1963)
- Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942), Austrian writercy:Rhestr beirdd enwog
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