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Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic (1506–1568)

Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

Mughal court poet and minister (1556–1627)

17th-century English writer

Agrippa d'Aubigné

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair

Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist

English poet (1688–1744)

Allan Ramsay (poet)

André Chénier

French poet 1762–1794

English Metaphysical poet, satirist and politician

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

English author (1743–1825)

Anne Bradstreet

Anglo-American poet

Anrakuan Sakuden

Japanese writer

Christopher Smart

French poet (1495-1544)

16th-century English poet

Francis Quarles

François de Malherbe

(1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator

Azerbaijani poet (1483–1556)

Gavrila Derzhavin

Russian poet (1743–1816)

English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754–1832)

English poet, orator and Anglican priest

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

British politician

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

16th-century English nobleman

Henry James Pye

English Poet Laureate

Welsh metaphysical poet

Japanese writer

James Beattie (poet)

Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

Scottish poet (1700–1748)

Joachim du Bellay

French poet, critic, and member of the Pléiade

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist and politician

16th- and 17th-century English poet and cleric

17th-century English poet and playwright

Welsh Church of England cleric, poet and painter

17th-century English poet and civil servant

Anglican cleric, hymn-writer, and abolitionist (1725–1807)

John Owen (epigrammatist)

Welsh epigrammatist

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

English poet, and peer of the realm (1647-1680)

José de la Cruz

Filipino writer (1746–1829)

15th-century Indian poet and saint

Japanese writer

Katherine Philips

Anglo-Welsh poet and translator

Laurence Eusden

English actor-manager, playwright, and poet laureate

French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon

Ludovico Ariosto

Luís de Camões

Portuguese poet

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

Matteo Maria Boiardo

17th/18th-century English diplomat and poet

Mughal Indian Urdu language poet

16th-century Hindu mystic poet, saint and devotee of the god Krishna

Anglo-Irish poet and playwright

Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)

French neo-Latin poet; called " the elder"; grand uncle to "the younger"

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

French poet and critic (1636–1711)

German poet and writer

French poet and dramatist

English poet, courtier, and diplomat

Phillis Wheatley

African-born American poet (1753–1784)

Pierre de Ronsard

Pontus de Tyard

French poet and bishop

Richard Crashaw

Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

Robert Fergusson

Scottish poet and writer

Robert Henryson

15th-century Scottish makar (poet)

Robert Herrick (poet)

English poet and cleric (1591–1674)

Robert Southwell (priest)

Samuel Butler (poet)

Poet and satirist

Japanese poet and artist

Indian writer, poet and singer

Théophile de Viau

French poet (1590-1696)

Thomas Chatterton

English medieval-style poet (1752–1770)

English poet and historian

Thomas Overbury

16th/17th-century English poet and essayist

Thomas Shadwell

17th-century English poet and playwright

Thomas Traherne

An English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer

Thomas Wyatt (poet)

English poet and diplomat (1503–1542)

Italian poet (1544–1595)

17th-century Varkari Sant and Poet

16th century Hindu saint and poet

Walter Kennedy (poet)

Medieval Scottish poet

English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)

William Whitehead (poet)

18th-century British Poet Laureate and playwright

Japanese poet and painter