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★ Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
★ Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
★ Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
★ Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
★ Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
★ Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
★ Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
★ Lucius Afranius (poet) (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
★ Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
★ James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
★ Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
★ Ai (born 1947), pseudonym of American poet Florence Anthony
★ Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
★ Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician.
★ Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
★ Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
★ Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
★ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
★ Alcman (''fl.'' 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
★ Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
★ Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
★ 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 (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
★ Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
★ Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
★ Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
★ Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
★ Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
★ Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
★ A. R. Ammons(1926–2001) American author and poet
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★ 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)
★ Apollonius of Rhodes (270-after 245 BC)
★ Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
★ Archilochus, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
★ 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)
★ Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)
★ Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
★ Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
★ John Ashbery, (born 1927)
★ Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
★ Farid al-Din 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)
★ Margaret Avison (born 1918)
★ Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
★ Ashok Chakradhar (Born 8th February 1951)
★ 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)
★ Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
★ Jesse Ball American poet
★ 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)
★ 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, (1937-?)
★ Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
★ Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
★ Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
★ Hilaire Belloc
★ Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
★ Gottfried Ben
★ Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
★ William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
★ Gwendolyn B. Bennett
★ Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool poet (UK) best known for his work during the era of punk.
★ Ilhan Berk
★ Daniel Berrigan
★ Wendell Berry
★ John Berryman
★ John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
★ Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
★ Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943)
★ 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
★ 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
★ 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)
★ 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)
★ James Brock, (born 1958)
★ Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
★ Wladyslaw Broniewski
★ William Bronk, (died 1999)
★ Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
★ Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
★ 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
★ Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
★ George Mackay Brown
★ William Browne, (1588-1643)
★ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
★ Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
★ William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
★ Bryher
★ Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
★ Georg Büchner
★ Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
★ Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994) poet, novelist
★ 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)
★ Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
★ Caedmon (old English)
★ Cali Xuseen Xirsi
★ Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
★ Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
★ Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
★ Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
★ Luís 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)
★ Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
★ Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
★ Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
★ Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
★ Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (''Low Tide on Grand Pre'')
★ Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
★ Hayden Carruth
★ Anne Carson, (born 1950)
★ William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
★ Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
★ Charles Causley
★ C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)
★ 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
★ Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
★ Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
★ Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
★ Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
★ John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
★ 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)
★ 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, (1721-1759)
★ William Congreve, (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
★ Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
★ Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
★ William Cowper, (1731-1800)
★ 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)
★ Necati Cumalı
★ E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
★ Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
★ Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
★ Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
★ Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
★ Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
★ David Daniels, (1933- ) Visual 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)
★ Alan Davies, American poet
★ 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
★ James Deahl
★ Aurora de Albornoz, (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
★ Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
★ Walter de la Mare, author, poet
★ 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)
★ Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530-1606)
★ 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
★ Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
★ Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
★ Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
★ James Dickey, (1923-1997)
★ Blaga Dimitrova
★ Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
★ Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
★ Henry Austin Dobson
★ Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
★ Antonia Donatiello, (born 1950), Italian writer and poet
★ John Donne, (1572-1631)
★ Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
★ Gavin Douglas
★ Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
★ Rita Dove
★ Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)
★ Jane Draycott
★ Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
★ Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
★ John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
★ Richard Dripping, Punk persona of Liverpool poet Jim Bennett.
★ 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
★ Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
★ W.E.B. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
★ Du Fu, the Poet Saint
★ Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
★ Alan Dugan
★ Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
★ 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
★ Richard Eberhart
★ Russell Edson
★ Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
★ George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
★ T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
★ Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
★ Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
★ Ana Elsner, multi-lingual American poet
★ Paul Eluard, French poet
★ Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
★ Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
★ Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
★ Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
★ William Empson, (1906-1984)
★ Yunus Emre
★ 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
★ Haydar Ergülen
★ Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
★ Mehmet Erte
★ Maggie Estep, American slam poet
★ Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
★ Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
★ Florbela Espanca, (poet)
★ Salvador Espriu, writer
★ Euripides (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
★ Mari Evans
★ William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
★ Gavin Ewart
★ Fenggan
★ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
★ Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
★ Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
★ Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
★ Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
★ 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.
★ John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet.
★ Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
★ [Hristo Fotev], (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet
★ Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
★ Janet Frame, (born 1924)
★ Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
★ Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
★ Naim Frashëri (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 1900
★ Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
★ Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
★ Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
★ Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
★ Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet
★ Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
★ Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
★ Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
★ Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
★ Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
★ George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
★ David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001)
★ Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
★ John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
★ Stefan George, (1868-1933)
★ Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
★ Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
★ Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
★ Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
★ Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
★ Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
★ Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
★ Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
★ Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
★ Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
★ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), ''(part-time;)''
★ Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet
★ Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
★ Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
★ Ziya Gökalp
★ Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes'' (see also Goody)
★ Pavel Golia (1887-1959)
★ Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
★ Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
★ Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-1967)
★ Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet
★ 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, (1558-1592)
★ Horace Gregory
★ Eamon Grennan
★ Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
★ Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
★ Franz Grillparzer
★ Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
★ Angelina Weld Grimke
★ Charlotte Forten Grimke
★ Stanisław Grochowiak
★ Philip Gross
★ Ghulam rasool dadda, (1921-1999)
★ Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
★ Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
★ Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
★ Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
★ Guido Guinizelli
★ Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
★ Gül Baba
★ Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
★ Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
★ Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
★ Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
★ Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
★ Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)
★ Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
★ Hafez
★ Han Yu
★ Han-Shan
★ Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
★ Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
★ Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
★ Gwen Harwood
★ Alamgir Hashmi
★ Ahmet Haşim
★ Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
★ Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
★ Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
★ Robert Hayden
★ Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
★ John Heath-Stubbs
★ Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
★ Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
★ Jennifer Michael Hecht
★ 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
★ Hesiod, ancient Greek 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)
★ William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
★ Dick Higgins, (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
★ Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
★ Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
★ Nazım Hikmet
★ Ellen Hinsey, poet
★ H.L. Hix, American poet
★ Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
★ 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 (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
★ Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
★ Quintus Horatius Flaccus
★ George Moses Horton
★ Joan Houlihan
★ A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
★ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
★ Richard Howard
★ Fanny Howe
★ Susan Howe
★ 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
★ Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)
★ Avetik Isahakyan, (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet
★ Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
★ Clive James
★ Randall Jarrell
★ Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
★ Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
★ Elizabeth Jennings
★ Jia Dao
★ John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet
★ Edmund John
★ 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
★ Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
★ Anthony Joseph
★ 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 (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist
★ Kábir,
★ Uuno Kailas (1901-1933), Finnish
★ Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
★ Orhan Veli Kanik
★ Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
★ Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
★ Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
★ Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
★ John Keats, (1795-1821)
★ Weldon Kees
★ Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
★ X. J. Kennedy
★ Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
★ Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
★ Keorapetse Kgositsile
★ Khushal Khan Khattak
★ Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
★ Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
★ Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
★ Khalid Yazdani, (born 1953)Home Page
★ Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
★ 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''
★ Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
★ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
★ Etheridge Knight
★ Jan Kochanowski (1530-84)
★ Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
★ Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
★ Faik Konica
★ Ted Kooser
★ Koroglu
★ Srecko Kosovel (1904-1926)
★ Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
★ Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
★ Ruth Krauss
★ Miroslav Krleža (1589-1638), poet, novelist
★ Maxine Kumin
★ Stanley Kunitz
★ Tuli Kupferberg (born 1923)
★ Onat Kutlar
★ Pierre Labrie poet from Quebec (1972- )
★ Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
★ Philip Lamantia
★ Alphonse de Lamartine
★ Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
★ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
★ Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
★ Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
★ James Laughlin
★ Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
★ D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''
★ Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
★ Layamon
★ Eric Layman
★ Irving Layton, (born 1912 - 2006)
★ Lalitha Lenin
★ Edward Lear (1812-1888)
★ Jan Lechon
★ Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
★ Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
★ Eino Leino (1878-1926), Finnish
★ Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
★ Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, novelist
★ Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
★ Boleslaw Lesmian
★ Rika Lesser
★ Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
★ Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
★ Philip Levine
★ Larry Levis
★ D. A. Levy (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
★ William Levy
★ Saunders Lewis (1893-1985)
★ Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957)
★ Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
★ José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
★ Tim Liardet
★ Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
★ Li Qiao
★ Li Qingzhao
★ Li Shangyin
★ Tim Lilburn
★ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
★ Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
★ Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
★ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
★ Federico García Lorca
★ Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
★ Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), American
★ James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891), American
★ Robert Lowell, (1917-1977), American
★ Mina Loy (Dada)
★ Lu You
★ Gherasim Luca
★ Lucilius
★ Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
★ Lucan, (39-65), Roman
★ Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
★ Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
★ Luo Binwang
★ Mario Luzi
★ John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
★ John Lyly, (1553-1606)
★ George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)
★ Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
★ 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
★ Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
★ Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
★ Haki R. Madhubuti
★ John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
★ Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
★ Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), general and poet
★ G. D. Madgulkar (1919-Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
★ Michel A. Mendoza (1983-present) poet, lyricist.
★ Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
★ David Mallet
★ Sir Thomas Malory
★ 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
★ Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895-1988)
★ Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
★ Chris Mansell (1953-)
★ Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
★ Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
★ Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
★ Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
★ Edwin Markham
★ Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
★ Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
★ Martial (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
★ Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
★ Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)
★ John Masefield, (1878-1967)
★ Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
★ Matsuo Bashō, (1644-1694), haiku poet
★ Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
★ Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
★ Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
★ Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
★ John McCrae, (1872-1918), ''In Flanders Fields''
★ Bryant H. McGill
★ William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
★ Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
★ Campbell McGrath
★ Wendy McGrath
★ Thomas McGrath, (1916-1990), ''The 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
★ Rod McKuen
★ James McMichael (born 1939)
★ Meng Houran
★ Norman MacCaig
★ Mei Yaochen
★ Meng Haoran
★ George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
★ 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)
★ Henri Michaux, poet and painter
★ Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
★ Veronica Micle (1850-1889)
★ Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
★ Josephine Miles
★ Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
★ Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
★ Leslie Adrienne Miller
★ Tim Miller, poet and publisher
★ Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
★ Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911-2004)
★ Alice Duer Miller
★ Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
★ John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
★ Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
★ Adrian Mitchell
★ S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
★ Ndre Mjeda
★ 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)
★ Dom Moraes
★ Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
★ Merrill Moore, (1903-1957), Sonneteer
★ 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)
★ Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
★ Howard Moss
★ Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
★ Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
★ Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
★ Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
★ Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
★ Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
★ Les Murray, (born 1938)
★ Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
★ Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
★ Susan Musgrave, Poet.
★ Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : ''Santa Claus''
★ Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
★ Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
★ John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
★ Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
★ Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
★ Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
★ Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
★ Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
★ Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
★ John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
★ Nezami (1141–1209)
★ Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
★ B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
★ John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
★ Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970)
★ Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
★ Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
★ Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
★ Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965)
★ Nolla, Olga (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
★ Caroline Norton (1808 - 1877)
★ Cyprian Kamil Norwid
★ Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
★ Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
★ Alfred Noyes
★ Naomi Shihab Nye
★ Francis Ohanyido (1970- ), African Philosopher -Poet
★ Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
★ Sharon Olds
★ Mary Oliver
★ Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
★ Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
★ George Oppen
★ Peter Orlovsky (beat)
★ Öser
★ Alice Oswald
★ Ouyang Xiu
★ Ovid, (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet
★ Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
★ Ismet Özel
★ Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
★ Ron Padgett
★ Grace Paley
★ Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
★ Palladas
★ Michael Palmer, (1943-)
★ Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
★ Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
★ Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
★ Nicanor Parra, Chile
★ Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
★ Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
★ Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
★ Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
★ Don Paterson
★ Coventry Patmore
★ Brian Patten
★ Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet
★ Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
★ Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
★ Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
★ Sam Pereira
★ Persius (34-62), Roman poet
★ Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
★ Robert Peters, (1924-) American poet
★ Pascale Petit
★ Petrarch (''Francesco Petrarca''), (1304-1374)
★ Ambrose Philips
★ Pindar (522-443 BC), Theban lyric poet
★ Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
★ Ruth Pitter
★ Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
★ Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)
★ Shmuel Plavnik(1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer
★ Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
★ Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
★ Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
★ Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
★ Halina Poswiatowska
★ Winthrop Mackworth Praed
★ E.J. Pratt
★ France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
★ Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
★ Robert Priest
★ Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
★ Bryan Waller Proctor
★ Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
★ Luigi Pulci
★ Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet
★ Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
★ Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
★ Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
★ Dudley Randall
★ Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
★ John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
★ Tom Raworth
★ Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
★ Wayne Ray, 1950 -
★ Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
★ Ishmael Reed
★ 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)
★ Kenneth Rexroth
★ Charles Reznikoff
★ Pi Rixiu
★ 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
★ Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
★ Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
★ Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
★ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, (1647-1680)
★ Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
★ Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
★ Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
★ Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
★ Penelope Rosemont
★ Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
★ Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
★ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
★ Nicholas Rowe
★ Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
★ Tadeusz Różewicz
★ Friedrich Rückert
★ Muriel Rukeyser, (1913-1980)
★ Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877)
★ Umberto Saba
★ Sa'di
★ Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
★ Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491-1558)
★ Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
★ Sonia Sanchez
★ Michal Šanda, (1965- ), Czech poet
★ Sappho, ancient Greek poet
★ Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
★ William Saroyan, (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent
★ Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
★ Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924-1995), Indonesian poet
★ Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
★ Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
★ Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
★ Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
★ Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
★ 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)
★ Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
★ Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
★ Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
★ Vikram Seth
★ Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)
★ Thomas Shadwell
★ William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
★ Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996), Artist and black activist
★ Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
★ Jo Shapcott
★ Karl Shapiro
★ 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)
★ Ron Silliman (born 1946)
★ Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
★ Charles Simic
★ Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
★ Lemn Sissay
★ Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
★ Marilyn Singer
★ John Skelton, (1460-1529)
★ Myra Sklarew
★ Kenneth Slessor
★ Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
★ Juliusz Slowacki
★ Christopher Smart
★ Charlotte Smith, (1749-1806)
★ Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
★ Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
★ Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
★ Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
★ William Jay Smith
★ Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
★ Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
★ Edith Södergran
★ David Solway, (born 1941)
★ William Somervile, (1675-1742)
★ Sophocles, (c.496-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
★ Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
★ Natsume Sōseki, (1867-1916), ''Kokoro'', ''I Am a Cat''
★ Gary Soto
★ Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
★ Robert Southwell, (1561-1595)
★ Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
★ Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599)
★ Leopold Staff
★ William Stafford
★ George Starbuck
★ Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
★ Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
★ Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
★ Eric Stenbock
★ Mattie Stepanek, (1990-2004), American poet and advocate
★ Gerald Stern
★ Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
★ Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
★ Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
★ James Still
★ Theodor Storm, (1817-1888)
★ Alfonsina Storni, (1892-1938)
★ Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
★ Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
★ Jesse Stuart
★ Su Shi
★ Su Xiaoxiao
★ Sir John Suckling
★ Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
★ Cemal Süreya
★ Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
★ Paul Summers poet (b.1967)
★ Robert Sward poet (b. 1933)
★ May Swenson
★ Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
★ Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
★ Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
★ Sephiroth Midgar Poet
★ Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941)
★ Tao Qian
★ Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
★ Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
★ James Tate
★ Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
★ Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
★ Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
★ Lucy Terry
★ A.S.J. Tessimond
★ Neyzen Tevfik
★ Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
★ Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
★ 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)
★ Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
★ Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
★ Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
★ Thomas Tickell
★ Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
★ Melvin B. Tolson
★ Jean Toomer
★ Thomas Traherne
★ Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
★ Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
★ Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
★ Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
★ Quincy Troupe
★ Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
★ Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
★ Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
★ Hovhannes Tumanyan, (1869-1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
★ Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
★ Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
★ 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)
★ Miguel de Unamuno
★ Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
★ Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
★ John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
★ Charles Upton
★ Allen Upward, Imagist
★ Mona Van Duyn
★ Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
★ Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
★ Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
★ Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
★ Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
★ Vemana
★ Helen Vendler
★ Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
★ Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
★ Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
★ Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
★ Peter Viereck
★ François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
★ Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
★ Publius Vergilius Maro
★ Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
★ Walter von der Vogelweide
★ Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
★ Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
★ Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
★ Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
★ Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)
★ Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
★ Sidney Wade, (born 1951)
★ Diane Wakoski, (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
★ Derek Walcott, (born 1930), (Nobel Prize for Literature)
★ Rosmarie Waldrop
★ Arthur Waley (Translations from the Chinese)
★ Alice Walker, (born 1944)
★ Edmund Waller, (1606-1687)
★ Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
★ Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989)
★ Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
★ Roger Waters
★ Isaac Watts, (1674-1748)
★ David Wayne, (1914-1995)
★ John Webster, (died 1630)
★ Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
★ Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899 - 1946)
★ Philip Whalen (beat)
★ Margaret Walker
★ Martin Walser, (born 1927)
★ Franz Werfel, (1890-1945), Czech poet
★ Johan Herman Wessel, (1742-1785)
★ Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784)
★ E.B. White, (1899-1985), (Fox of Peacock)
★ Walt Whitman, (1819-1892)
★ Isabella Whitney, b. 1540s?
★ John Greenleaf Whittier, (1807-1892)
★ John Wieners (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
★ 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
★ Emmett Williams (1925-2007), concrete poet
★ Miller Williams
★ Oscar Williams, American poet and anthologist
★ Saul Williams (born 1972)
★ Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999)
★ Waldo Williams, (1904-1971), Welsh poet
★ William Carlos Williams, (1883-1963), American
★ William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791)
★ John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
★ Yvor Winters
★ George Wither, (1588-1667)
★ Rafał 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)
★ Kirby Wright
★ Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
★ Elinor Wylie
★ Hedd Wyn
★ Xu Zhimo, melancholic poet of early 20th century China
★ Mark Yakich
★ Leo Yankevich (1961-present)
★ Peyo Yavorov
★ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist, senator
★ Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
★ Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
★ Marguerite Young
★ David Young
★ Edward Young (1683-1765)
★ Kevin Young (poet) American poet (born 1970)
★ A. W. Yrjänä (1967-), Finnish
★ Han Yu
★ Yunus Emre 13th century Turkish poet
★ Adam Zagajewski
★ Andrea Zanzotto
★ Lisa Zaran (born 1969)
★ Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982)
★ Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
★ Benjamin Znidarsic (born 1959)
★ Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
★ Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
★ Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), Austrian writer
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Ab-Ak
★ Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
★ Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
★ Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
★ Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
★ Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
★ Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
★ Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
★ Lucius Afranius (poet) (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
★ Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
★ James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
★ Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
★ Ai (born 1947), pseudonym of American poet Florence Anthony
★ Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
★ Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician.
★ Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
★ Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
Al-Am
★ Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
★ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
★ Alcman (''fl.'' 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
★ Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
★ Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
★ 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 (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
★ Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
★ Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
★ Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
★ Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
★ Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
★ Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
★ A. R. Ammons(1926–2001) American author and poet
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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)
★ Apollonius of Rhodes (270-after 245 BC)
Ar-Au
★ Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
★ Archilochus, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
★ 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)
★ Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)
★ Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
★ Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
★ John Ashbery, (born 1927)
★ Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
★ Farid al-Din 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)
Av-Ay
★ Margaret Avison (born 1918)
★ Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
★ Ashok Chakradhar (Born 8th February 1951)
B
Ba
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)
★ Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
★ Jesse Ball American poet
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)
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, (1937-?)
★ Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
★ Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
★ Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
★ Hilaire Belloc
★ Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
★ Gottfried Ben
★ Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
★ William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
★ Gwendolyn B. Bennett
★ Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool poet (UK) best known for his work during the era of punk.
★ Ilhan Berk
★ Daniel Berrigan
★ Wendell Berry
★ John Berryman
★ John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
★ Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
Bi-Bl
★ Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943)
★ 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
★ 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
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)
Br
Bra-Bri
★ 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)
Bro-Bry
★ James Brock, (born 1958)
★ Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
★ Wladyslaw Broniewski
★ William Bronk, (died 1999)
★ Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
★ Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
★ 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
★ Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
★ George Mackay Brown
★ William Browne, (1588-1643)
★ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
★ Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
★ William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
★ Bryher
★ Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
Bu-By
★ Georg Büchner
★ Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
★ Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994) poet, novelist
★ 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)
C
Ca
Cab-Cap
★ Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
★ Caedmon (old English)
★ Cali Xuseen Xirsi
★ Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
★ Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
★ Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
★ Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
★ Luís 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)
Car-Cav
★ Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
★ Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
★ Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
★ Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
★ Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (''Low Tide on Grand Pre'')
★ Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
★ Hayden Carruth
★ Anne Carson, (born 1950)
★ William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
★ Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
★ Charles Causley
★ C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)
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
★ Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
★ Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
★ Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
★ Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
★ John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
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)
Co
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, (1721-1759)
★ William Congreve, (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
Cot-Cow
★ Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
★ Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
★ William Cowper, (1731-1800)
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)
★ Necati Cumalı
★ E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
★ Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
★ Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
★ Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
D
Da
★ Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
★ Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
★ David Daniels, (1933- ) Visual 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)
★ Alan Davies, American poet
★ 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
De
★ James Deahl
★ Aurora de Albornoz, (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
★ Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
★ Walter de la Mare, author, poet
★ 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)
★ Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530-1606)
★ 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
Di-Do
★ Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
★ Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
★ Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
★ James Dickey, (1923-1997)
★ Blaga Dimitrova
★ Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
★ Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
★ Henry Austin Dobson
★ Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
★ Antonia Donatiello, (born 1950), Italian writer and poet
★ John Donne, (1572-1631)
★ Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
★ Gavin Douglas
★ Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
★ Rita Dove
★ Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)
Dr
★ Jane Draycott
★ Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
★ Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
★ John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
★ Richard Dripping, Punk persona of Liverpool poet Jim Bennett.
★ 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
Du-Dy
★ Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
★ W.E.B. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
★ Du Fu, the Poet Saint
★ Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
★ Alan Dugan
★ Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
★ 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
E
Ea-Er
★ Richard Eberhart
★ Russell Edson
★ Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
★ George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
★ T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
★ Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
★ Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
★ Ana Elsner, multi-lingual American poet
★ Paul Eluard, French poet
★ Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
★ Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
★ Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
★ Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
★ William Empson, (1906-1984)
★ Yunus Emre
★ 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
★ Haydar Ergülen
★ Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
★ Mehmet Erte
Es-Ew
★ Maggie Estep, American slam poet
★ Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
★ Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
★ Florbela Espanca, (poet)
★ Salvador Espriu, writer
★ Euripides (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
★ Mari Evans
★ William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
★ Gavin Ewart
F
Fe-Fo
★ Fenggan
★ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
★ Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
★ Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
★ Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
★ Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
★ 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.
★ John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet.
★ Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
★ [Hristo Fotev], (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet
★ Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
Fr-Fu
★ Janet Frame, (born 1924)
★ Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
★ Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
★ Naim Frashëri (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 1900
★ Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
★ Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
★ Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
★ Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
★ Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet
★ Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
★ Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
★ Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
G
Ga-Gl
★ Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
★ Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
★ George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
★ David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001)
★ Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
★ John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
★ Stefan George, (1868-1933)
★ Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
★ Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
★ Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
★ Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
★ Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
★ Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
★ Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
★ Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
★ Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Go
★ Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
★ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), ''(part-time;)''
★ Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet
★ Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
★ Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
★ Ziya Gökalp
★ Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes'' (see also Goody)
★ Pavel Golia (1887-1959)
★ Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
★ Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
★ Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-1967)
★ Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet
Gr
Gra-Gri
★ 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, (1558-1592)
★ Horace Gregory
★ Eamon Grennan
★ Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
★ Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
★ Franz Grillparzer
★ Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
★ Angelina Weld Grimke
★ Charlotte Forten Grimke
Gro-Gy
★ Stanisław Grochowiak
★ Philip Gross
★ Ghulam rasool dadda, (1921-1999)
★ Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
★ Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
★ Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
★ Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
★ Guido Guinizelli
★ Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
★ Gül Baba
★ Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
★ Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
★ Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
★ Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
★ Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
★ Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)
H
Ha
★ Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
★ Hafez
★ Han Yu
★ Han-Shan
★ Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
★ Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
★ Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
★ Gwen Harwood
★ Alamgir Hashmi
★ Ahmet Haşim
★ Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
★ Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
★ Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
★ Robert Hayden
He
★ Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
★ John Heath-Stubbs
★ Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
★ Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
★ Jennifer Michael Hecht
★ 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
★ Hesiod, ancient Greek 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)
Hi-Hr
★ William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
★ Dick Higgins, (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
★ Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
★ Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
★ Nazım Hikmet
★ Ellen Hinsey, poet
★ H.L. Hix, American poet
★ Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
★ 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 (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
★ Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
★ Quintus Horatius Flaccus
★ George Moses Horton
★ Joan Houlihan
★ A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
★ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
★ Richard Howard
★ Fanny Howe
★ Susan Howe
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
★ Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)
I
★ Avetik Isahakyan, (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet
J
Ja-Ju
★ Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
★ Clive James
★ Randall Jarrell
★ Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
★ Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
★ Elizabeth Jennings
★ Jia Dao
★ John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet
★ Edmund John
★ 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
★ Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
★ Anthony Joseph
★ 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 (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist
K
Ka-Kh
★ Kábir,
★ Uuno Kailas (1901-1933), Finnish
★ Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
★ Orhan Veli Kanik
★ Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
★ Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
★ Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
★ Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
★ John Keats, (1795-1821)
★ Weldon Kees
★ Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
★ X. J. Kennedy
★ Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
★ Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
★ Keorapetse Kgositsile
★ Khushal Khan Khattak
★ Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
★ Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
★ Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
★ Khalid Yazdani, (born 1953)Home Page
Ki-Kn
★ Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
★ 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''
★ Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
★ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
★ Etheridge Knight
Ko
Kob-Ky
★ Jan Kochanowski (1530-84)
★ Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
★ Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
★ Faik Konica
★ Ted Kooser
★ Koroglu
★ Srecko Kosovel (1904-1926)
★ Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
★ Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
★ Ruth Krauss
★ Miroslav Krleža (1589-1638), poet, novelist
★ Maxine Kumin
★ Stanley Kunitz
★ Tuli Kupferberg (born 1923)
★ Onat Kutlar
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La
★ Pierre Labrie poet from Quebec (1972- )
★ Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
★ Philip Lamantia
★ Alphonse de Lamartine
★ Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
★ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
★ Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
★ Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
★ James Laughlin
★ Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
★ D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''
★ Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
★ Layamon
★ Eric Layman
★ Irving Layton, (born 1912 - 2006)
★ Lalitha Lenin
Le
★ Edward Lear (1812-1888)
★ Jan Lechon
★ Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
★ Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
★ Eino Leino (1878-1926), Finnish
★ Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
★ Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, novelist
★ Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
★ Boleslaw Lesmian
★ Rika Lesser
★ Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
★ Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
★ Philip Levine
★ Larry Levis
★ D. A. Levy (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
★ William Levy
★ Saunders Lewis (1893-1985)
★ Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957)
Li
★ Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
★ José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
★ Tim Liardet
★ Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
★ Li Qiao
★ Li Qingzhao
★ Li Shangyin
★ Tim Lilburn
★ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
★ Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
★ Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
★ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
★ Federico García Lorca
★ Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
★ Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), American
★ James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891), American
★ Robert Lowell, (1917-1977), American
★ Mina Loy (Dada)
★ Lu You
★ Gherasim Luca
★ Lucilius
★ Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
★ Lucan, (39-65), Roman
★ Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
★ Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
★ Luo Binwang
★ Mario Luzi
★ John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
★ John Lyly, (1553-1606)
★ George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)
M
Ma
Mac-Mak
★ Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
★ 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
★ Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
★ Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
★ Haki R. Madhubuti
★ John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
★ Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
★ Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), general and poet
★ G. D. Madgulkar (1919-Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
★ Michel A. Mendoza (1983-present) poet, lyricist.
Mal-Mar
★ Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
★ David Mallet
★ Sir Thomas Malory
★ 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
★ Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895-1988)
★ Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
★ Chris Mansell (1953-)
★ Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
★ Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
★ Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
★ Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
★ Edwin Markham
★ Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
★ Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
★ Martial (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
★ Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
★ Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)
Mas-Maz
★ John Masefield, (1878-1967)
★ Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
★ Matsuo Bashō, (1644-1694), haiku poet
★ Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
★ Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
★ Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
Mc
★ Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
★ John McCrae, (1872-1918), ''In Flanders Fields''
★ Bryant H. McGill
★ William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
★ Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
★ Campbell McGrath
★ Wendy McGrath
★ Thomas McGrath, (1916-1990), ''The 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
★ Rod McKuen
★ James McMichael (born 1939)
Me
★ Meng Houran
★ Norman MacCaig
★ Mei Yaochen
★ Meng Haoran
★ George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
★ 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)
Mi-Ml
★ Henri Michaux, poet and painter
★ Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
★ Veronica Micle (1850-1889)
★ Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
★ Josephine Miles
★ Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
★ Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
★ Leslie Adrienne Miller
★ Tim Miller, poet and publisher
★ Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
★ Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911-2004)
★ Alice Duer Miller
★ Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
★ John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
★ Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
★ Adrian Mitchell
★ S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
★ Ndre Mjeda
Mo
★ 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)
★ Dom Moraes
★ Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
★ Merrill Moore, (1903-1957), Sonneteer
★ 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)
★ Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
★ Howard Moss
★ Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
★ Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
Mu
★ Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
★ Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
★ Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
★ Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
★ Les Murray, (born 1938)
★ Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
★ Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
★ Susan Musgrave, Poet.
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Na-Nj
★ Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : ''Santa Claus''
★ Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
★ Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
★ John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
★ Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
★ Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
★ Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
★ Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
★ Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
★ Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
★ John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
★ Nezami (1141–1209)
★ Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
★ B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
★ John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
★ Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970)
★ Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
★ Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
No-Ny
★ Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
★ Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965)
★ Nolla, Olga (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
★ Caroline Norton (1808 - 1877)
★ Cyprian Kamil Norwid
★ Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
★ Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
★ Alfred Noyes
★ Naomi Shihab Nye
O
★ Francis Ohanyido (1970- ), African Philosopher -Poet
★ Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
★ Sharon Olds
★ Mary Oliver
★ Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
★ Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
★ George Oppen
★ Peter Orlovsky (beat)
★ Öser
★ Alice Oswald
★ Ouyang Xiu
★ Ovid, (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet
★ Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
★ Ismet Özel
P
Pa
★ Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
★ Ron Padgett
★ Grace Paley
★ Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
★ Palladas
★ Michael Palmer, (1943-)
★ Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
★ Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
★ Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
★ Nicanor Parra, Chile
★ Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
★ Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
★ Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
★ Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
★ Don Paterson
★ Coventry Patmore
★ Brian Patten
★ Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet
Pe-Pl
★ Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
★ Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
★ Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
★ Sam Pereira
★ Persius (34-62), Roman poet
★ Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
★ Robert Peters, (1924-) American poet
★ Pascale Petit
★ Petrarch (''Francesco Petrarca''), (1304-1374)
★ Ambrose Philips
★ Pindar (522-443 BC), Theban lyric poet
★ Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
★ Ruth Pitter
★ Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
★ Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)
★ Shmuel Plavnik(1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer
Po-Pu
★ Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
★ Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
★ Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
★ Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
★ Halina Poswiatowska
★ Winthrop Mackworth Praed
★ E.J. Pratt
★ France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
★ Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
★ Robert Priest
★ Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
★ Bryan Waller Proctor
★ Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
★ Luigi Pulci
★ Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet
Q
R
Ra-Re
★ Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
★ Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
★ Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
★ Dudley Randall
★ Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
★ John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
★ Tom Raworth
★ Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
★ Wayne Ray, 1950 -
★ Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
★ Ishmael Reed
★ 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)
★ Kenneth Rexroth
★ Charles Reznikoff
★ Pi Rixiu
Ri
★ 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
Ro
★ Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
★ Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
★ Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
★ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, (1647-1680)
★ Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
★ Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
★ Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
★ Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
★ Penelope Rosemont
★ Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
★ Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
★ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
★ Nicholas Rowe
★ Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
★ Tadeusz Różewicz
Ru
★ Friedrich Rückert
★ Muriel Rukeyser, (1913-1980)
★ Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877)
S
Sa
★ Umberto Saba
★ Sa'di
★ Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
★ Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491-1558)
★ Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
★ Sonia Sanchez
★ Michal Šanda, (1965- ), Czech poet
★ Sappho, ancient Greek poet
★ Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
★ William Saroyan, (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent
★ Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
★ Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924-1995), Indonesian poet
Sc-Se
★ Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
★ Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
★ Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
★ Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
★ Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
★ 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)
★ Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
★ Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
★ Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
★ Vikram Seth
★ Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)
Sh-Si
★ Thomas Shadwell
★ William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
★ Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996), Artist and black activist
★ Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
★ Jo Shapcott
★ Karl Shapiro
★ 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)
★ Ron Silliman (born 1946)
★ Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
★ Charles Simic
★ Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
★ Lemn Sissay
★ Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
★ Marilyn Singer
Sk-Sn
★ John Skelton, (1460-1529)
★ Myra Sklarew
★ Kenneth Slessor
★ Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
★ Juliusz Slowacki
★ Christopher Smart
★ Charlotte Smith, (1749-1806)
★ Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
★ Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
★ Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
★ Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
★ William Jay Smith
★ Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
★ Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
So-Sp
★ Edith Södergran
★ David Solway, (born 1941)
★ William Somervile, (1675-1742)
★ Sophocles, (c.496-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
★ Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
★ Natsume Sōseki, (1867-1916), ''Kokoro'', ''I Am a Cat''
★ Gary Soto
★ Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
★ Robert Southwell, (1561-1595)
★ Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
★ Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599)
St
Sta-Sto
★ Leopold Staff
★ William Stafford
★ George Starbuck
★ Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
★ Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
★ Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
★ Eric Stenbock
★ Mattie Stepanek, (1990-2004), American poet and advocate
★ Gerald Stern
★ Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
★ Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
★ Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
★ James Still
★ Theodor Storm, (1817-1888)
★ Alfonsina Storni, (1892-1938)
Str-Stu
★ Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
★ Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
★ Jesse Stuart
Su-Sz
★ Su Shi
★ Su Xiaoxiao
★ Sir John Suckling
★ Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
★ Cemal Süreya
★ Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
★ Paul Summers poet (b.1967)
★ Robert Sward poet (b. 1933)
★ May Swenson
★ Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
★ Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
★ Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
★ Sephiroth Midgar Poet
T
Ta-Te
★ Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941)
★ Tao Qian
★ Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
★ Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
★ James Tate
★ Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
★ Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
★ Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
★ Lucy Terry
★ A.S.J. Tessimond
★ Neyzen Tevfik
Th-To
★ Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
★ Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
★ 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)
★ Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
★ Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
★ Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
★ Thomas Tickell
★ Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
★ Melvin B. Tolson
★ Jean Toomer
Tr-Tz
★ Thomas Traherne
★ Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
★ Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
★ Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
★ Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
★ Quincy Troupe
★ Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
★ Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
★ Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
★ Hovhannes Tumanyan, (1869-1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
★ Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
★ Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
★ 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)
U
★ Miguel de Unamuno
★ Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
★ Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
★ John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
★ Charles Upton
★ Allen Upward, Imagist
V
Va-Ve
★ Mona Van Duyn
★ Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
★ Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
★ Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
★ Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
★ Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
★ Vemana
★ Helen Vendler
★ Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
★ Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
★ Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
Vi-Vr
★ Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
★ Peter Viereck
★ François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
★ Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
★ Publius Vergilius Maro
★ Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
★ Walter von der Vogelweide
★ Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
★ Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
★ Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
★ Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
★ Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)
W
Wa
★ Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
★ Sidney Wade, (born 1951)
★ Diane Wakoski, (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
★ Derek Walcott, (born 1930), (Nobel Prize for Literature)
★ Rosmarie Waldrop
★ Arthur Waley (Translations from the Chinese)
★ Alice Walker, (born 1944)
★ Edmund Waller, (1606-1687)
★ Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
★ Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989)
★ Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
★ Roger Waters
★ Isaac Watts, (1674-1748)
★ David Wayne, (1914-1995)
We-Wh
★ John Webster, (died 1630)
★ Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
★ Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899 - 1946)
★ Philip Whalen (beat)
★ Margaret Walker
★ Martin Walser, (born 1927)
★ Franz Werfel, (1890-1945), Czech poet
★ Johan Herman Wessel, (1742-1785)
★ Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784)
★ E.B. White, (1899-1985), (Fox of Peacock)
★ Walt Whitman, (1819-1892)
★ Isabella Whitney, b. 1540s?
★ John Greenleaf Whittier, (1807-1892)
Wi
★ John Wieners (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
★ 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
★ Emmett Williams (1925-2007), concrete poet
★ Miller Williams
★ Oscar Williams, American poet and anthologist
★ Saul Williams (born 1972)
★ Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999)
★ Waldo Williams, (1904-1971), Welsh poet
★ William Carlos Williams, (1883-1963), American
★ William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791)
★ John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
★ Yvor Winters
★ George Wither, (1588-1667)
Wo-Wy
★ Rafał 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)
★ Kirby Wright
★ Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
★ Elinor Wylie
★ Hedd Wyn
X
★ Xu Zhimo, melancholic poet of early 20th century China
Y
★ Mark Yakich
★ Leo Yankevich (1961-present)
★ Peyo Yavorov
★ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist, senator
★ Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
★ Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
★ Marguerite Young
★ David Young
★ Edward Young (1683-1765)
★ Kevin Young (poet) American poet (born 1970)
★ A. W. Yrjänä (1967-), Finnish
★ Han Yu
★ Yunus Emre 13th century Turkish poet
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★ Adam Zagajewski
★ Andrea Zanzotto
★ Lisa Zaran (born 1969)
★ Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982)
★ Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
★ Benjamin Znidarsic (born 1959)
★ Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
★ Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
★ Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), Austrian writer
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