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Australian poet and essayist

British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)

Achim von Arnim

German poet and novelist

Adam Lindsay Gordon

British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist

Adelaide Anne Procter

English poet and songwriter

Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)

Russian poet (1820–1892)

Ahmed Fouad Negm

Egyptian politician and poet

Martiniquais writer, poet and politician

Contemporary Samoan poet and writer

Alberto de Oliveira

Brazilian writer

Aleksei Kruchyonykh

Russian futurist poet and artist

Alexander Pushkin

Alfonsina Storni

English poet (1835–1913)

Alfred de Vigny

French poet, playwright, and novelist

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland (1809–1892)

Alice de Chambrier

Swiss poet (1861–1882)

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman

Indonesian poet

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966))

English poet and writer (born 1952)

Russian-Soviet poet (1889–1966)

American poet (1928–1974)

Antiochus Kantemir

Russian academic

Antonio Machado

French poet (1854–1891)

Hungarian poet (1905–1937)

Augusto dos Anjos

Brazilian poet and teacher

Australian journalist, author, and poet (1864–1941)

American writer

Bayram al-Tunisi

Senegalese poet, storyteller and diplomat

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Norwegian writer (1832–1910)

Poet, literary critic, editor, teacher

Boris Pasternak

Russian and Soviet writer (1890–1960)

Branwell Brontë

British artist (1817-1848)

Australian poet

Australian poet

American writer and editor

Swiss writer (1845–1924)

Italian writer and politician (1819-1892)

Carol Ann Duffy

Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)

Cecil Day-Lewis

Irish, Poet Laureate, and also mystery writer

Cecília Meireles

Brazilian writer

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic (1821–1867)

Charles Bernstein

American writer

Charles Bukowski

American writer (1920–1994)

French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)

Charles Reznikoff

American Jewish Objectivist poet (1894-1976)

Charlotte Elliott

English poet, hymn writer, and editor

North Korean poet

Christina Rossetti

Christopher Okigbo

Jamaican American writer, poet

Clemens Brentano

German poet and novelist (1778-1842)

Clement Clarke Moore

American writer and Professor of Literature

Comte de Lautréamont

Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)

Constantine P. Cavafy

Greek poet (1863–1933)

American author (1903–1946)

Polish poet (1821–1883)

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)

Daigaku Horiguchi

Japanese writer

Russian writer (1905-1942)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British poet, illustrator, painter and translator

Russian artist, poet and publicist (1882–1967)

Denise Levertov

American poet (1923–1997)

Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)

Russian artist and writer

American humorist

Dorothea Mackellar

Australian poet

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Malagasy writer (1913-1978)

American writer and illustrator (1904–1991)

Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)

American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894-1962)

American writer

British poet and critic (1887–1964)

Edith Södergran

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Slovenian writer

Edward Faragher

Edward FitzGerald (poet)

English poet and translator

Edward Thomas (poet)

British poet and novelist

Singaporean poet and academic (born 1933)

Finnish poet and journalist

Finnish polymath and poet (1802–1884)

Elie Rajaonarison

Writer (1951-2010)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English poet, author

Elizabeth Bishop

American poet and short-story writer

Else Lasker-Schüler

Jewish German poet

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet (1855–1916)

Emily Dickinson

American poet (1830–1886)

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Esteban Echeverría

Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist

Esther Razanadrasoa

Malagasy novelist

Eugenio Montale

Italian poet (1896-1981)

American poet and critic (1885–1972)

Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director (1898–1936)

Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)

Florence Van Leer Earle Coates

American writer and poet

Forugh Farrokhzad

Iranian poet (1935-1967)

France Prešeren

Slovene national poet, and Romantic poet

Frances Sargent Osgood

Francis Scott Key

American lawyer and poet

American poet, art critic and writer

Russian symbolist writer

Fyodor Tyutchev

Russian poet (1803-1873)

Ğabdulla Tuqay

Tatar poet (1886–1913)

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat, writer, educator, and feminist

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Italian writer (1863–1938)

Geoffrey Grigson

English poet, writer, critic and naturalist

Gerard Manley Hopkins

English poet and Catholic priest (1844–1889)

Indian Urdu poet (1797–1869)

Giacomo Leopardi

Italian poet, philosopher, and writer (1798–1837)

Giorgos Seferis

20th-century Greek poet and diplomat

Giosuè Carducci

Italian poet and teacher

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Italian poet and writer

Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet and writer

Guillermo Prieto

Mexican writer and politician

Swedish writer (1907-1968)

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

American writer and journalist

Gwendolyn Brooks

American writer (1917–2000)

American poet and novelist (1886–1961)

Harry Martinson

German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter

Australian writer and poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator

German writer (1877–1962)

Igor Severyanin

American poet laureate, writer, and librarian (1841–1928)

Innokenty Annensky

Russian poet, critic and translator

Isaac Rosenberg

Japanese poet and playwright (1886–1960)

Bulgarian writer and poet (1850-1921)

Malawian writer and poet (born 1944)

Jackson Mac Low

American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright

Jacques Prévert

French poet and screenwriter (1900-1977)

Jacques Rabemananjara

Malagasy politician, playwright, and poet

James Russell Lowell

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

James Thomson (poet, born 1834)

Scottish writer (1834-1882)

James Weldon Johnson

American writer and civil rights activist

James Whitcomb Riley

American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)

Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer

Jaroslav Seifert

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malagasy writer

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

English poet (1906–1984)

John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and abolitionist (1807–1892)

English Romantic poet

English poet and writer (1878–1967)

Canadian poet and physician (1872–1918)

John Sinclair (poet)

José Hernández (writer)

Argentine writer (1834-1886)

Argentine journalist, politician, librarian and writer

Cuban poet, writer, philosopher and nationalist leader

Russian poet (1940–1996)

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

Hungarian writer (1791-1830)

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner

Jules Supervielle

Julia de Burgos

Puerto Rican poet

Juliusz Słowacki

Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Bengali poet, writer and musician (1899–1976)

Kenneth Slessor

Australian poet and journalist

Keorapetse Kgositsile

South African poet and political activist (1938–2018)

South Korean poet (born 1933)

Ghanaian poet and author

Konstantin Balmont

Korney Chukovsky

Kosta Khetagurov

Ossetian poet (1859-1906)

Langston Hughes

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American artist, writer and activist

Leconte de Lisle

French poet (1818–1894)

Brazilian writer and poet

French Guiana politician (1912-1978)

Leopoldo Lugones

Argentinian lyricist and storyteller

Les Murray (poet)

Australian poet and critic (1938-2019)

English poet (1788–1824)

Lorine Niedecker

American poet 1903 - 1970

French poet (1897–1982)

Irish poet and playwright (1907–1963)

Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist

American poet and Nobel laureate

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian politician and writer (1839–1908)

Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist (1830-1882)

Manuel Ortiz Guerrero

Paraguayan poet

Margaret Walker

American poet and writer

American poet (1887–1972)

Marina Tsvetaeva

Russian poet (1892 – 1941)

Mário de Andrade

Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer

Australian poet (1865–1962)

Japanese poet, author, and literary critic

Mateiu Caragiale

Poet, short story writer, novelist, visual artist, heraldist, civil servant (1885-1936)

English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)

Maximilian Voloshin

Russian poet (1877-1932)

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

Menotti Del Picchia

Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Guatemalan writer and poet-diplomat (1899-1974)

Russian writer (1872-1936)

British writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps (1882-1966)

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Iranian poet and scholar

Mongane Wally Serote

South African poet and writer

South Asian Islamic philosopher and poet (1877–1938)

Jewish German-Swedish poet and playwright. Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate

Nikolai Gumilev

Russian poet (1886-1921)

Nikolay Nekrasov

Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher

Nobutsuna Sasaki

Tanka poet and scholar of Japanese literature.

Ny Avana Ramanantoanina

Malagasy author, playwright, and poet (1891–1940)

Mexican writer, poet and diplomat

Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator

Russian and Soviet poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Poet, essayist, physician

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner for Indigenous rights

Osip Mandelstam

Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)

Oswald de Andrade

Brazilian poet novelist and cultural critic

Oton Župančič

Slovenian poet, writer (1878-1949)

Finnish poet and writer (1931-2008)

Chilean poet and diplomat (1904–1973)

Parvin E'tesami

Paul Blackburn (poet)

American writer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

American writer and poet

French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Early 19th-century English Romantic poet

Peter Porter (poet)

Australian, British based poet (1929-2010)

English writer, jazz critic and librarian

Belgian writer and poet (1870–1925)

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher, writer and novelist (1861–1941)

American poet (born 1947)

Raimundo Correia

Brazilian writer and judge (1859-1911)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian poet and writer

Probably the most famous poet writing in the Avar language (1923-2003)

British poet (1844-1930)

Robert Browning

English poet and playwright

Robert Duncan (poet)

American poet (1919-1988)

English poet and novelist

American poet (1917–1977)

Robert Penn Warren

American poet, novelist, and literary critic

English romantic poet (1774–1843)

American poet and writer

Nicaraguan poet, periodist and writer

English poet (1887–1915)

Indian-Canadian poet (born 1992)

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat

Egyptian poet and cartoonist

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian writer (1901-1968)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

American writer and poet

Sarah Josepha Hale

American writer and editor

Russian poet, satirist and children's writer

Irish poet, playwright, and translator (1939–2013)

Soviet Mari poet

Russian poet (1895–1925)

Shaaban bin Robert

Tanzanian writer

Siegfried Sassoon

English poet, diarist and memoirist

English poet, playwright, novelist

Iranian poet and painter (1928-1980)

Srečko Kosovel

Steen Steensen Blicher

Danish writer (1782-1848)

Stéphane Mallarmé

French Symbolist poet

Stephen Rodefer

American poet and painter

Stephen Spender

English poet and man of letters

Sully Prudhomme

American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic

Syl Cheney-Coker

Sierra Leonean writer

American poet, novelist and short story writer

Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965)

Taras Shevchenko

Ukrainian poet, artist, scholar, and political figure

English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)

Japanese writer

Thakin Kodaw Hmaing

Burmese poet and politician (1876–1964)

Théodore de Banville

French writer (1823-1891)

Theodore Roethke

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet (1908–1963)

Théophile Gautier

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

Thomas Campbell (poet)

18th/19th-century Scottish poet

Thomas Holley Chivers

American poet (1809-1858)

Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator

Tristan Corbière

Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)

Italian writer, revolutionary and poet

Russian poet (1873–1924)

Vasily Trediakovsky

Russian poet, translator, philologist

Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet (1783-1852)

Velimir Khlebnikov

Verner von Heidenstam

Swedish writer (1859-1940)

Vicente Aleixandre

Spanish poet (1898-1984)

Vinicius de Moraes

Brazilian poet and lyricist (1913–1980)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian poet (1893–1930)

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Anglo-American poet

Wallace Stevens

American poet, essayist, and journalist

English poet and soldier (1893–1918)

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

English poet and essayist (1840–1922)

Willem Bilderdijk

Dutch historian, linguist, poet and lawyer

Willem Frederik Hermans

William Allingham

19th-century Irish poet and scholar

English poet and artist

William Carlos Williams

American poet (1883-1963)

William Gilmore Simms

American writer

William McGonagall

Scottish-Irish extremely bad poet (1825-1902)

William Neill (poet)

Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner

Yevgeny Baratynsky

Japanese tanka poet

Poet (1917-1987)

American poet and literary critic

Zinaida Gippius

Russian poet (1869–1945)