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Australian poet and essayist

British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)

Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic (1506–1568)

Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz

Abbasid prince,Poet,Politician,Governor

Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

Mughal court poet and minister (1556–1627)

17th-century English writer

Arab poet of the Abbasid period

8th century Arabic poet

Muslim Arab poet of Abbasid era (died 850)

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

Arab poet (550-600)

Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)

Russian poet (1820–1892)

Agrippa d'Aubigné

Ahmed Fouad Negm

Egyptian politician and poet

Martiniquais writer, poet and politician

Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi

Iraqi poet (640-708)

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair

Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist

Contemporary Samoan poet and writer

Alberto de Oliveira

Brazilian writer

Greek lyric poet

Ancient Greek lyric poet from Sparta

Aleksei Kruchyonykh

Russian futurist poet and artist

English poet (1688–1744)

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)

al-Hariri of Basra

Arab poet and Scholar of later Abbasid era

Alice de Chambrier

Swiss poet (1861–1882)

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Turkic poet and politician (1449-1501)

Allan Ramsay (poet)

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

Arab philosopher and poet (973–1057)

Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)

Pre-Islamic Arab poet

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman

Indonesian poet

Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar

Amr ibn Kulthum

Knight and the leader of the Taghlib tribe

Ancient Greek lyric poet

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

André Chénier

French poet 1762–1794

English Metaphysical poet, satirist and politician

English poet and writer (born 1952)

Russian-Soviet poet (1889–1966)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

English author (1743–1825)

Anne Bradstreet

Anglo-American poet

American poet (1928–1974)

Anrakuan Sakuden

Japanese writer

Antarah ibn Shaddad

Arabian warrior and poet

Antiochus Kantemir

Russian academic

Antonio Machado

Apollonius of Rhodes

3rd century BC Greek epic poet

Ancient Greek lyric poet

Ariwara no Narihira

Japanese writer, courtier and waka poet

Occitan troubadour

French poet (1854–1891)

2nd century Buddhist Indian poet and philosopher

Hungarian poet (1905–1937)

Augusto dos Anjos

Brazilian poet and teacher

Ancient Greek lyric poet

Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani

Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)

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

Chinese poet and official

American writer

Bayram al-Tunisi

Bertran de Born

Occitan troubadour

Indian linguist, poet and writer

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

Arab poet of Abbasid period (821–897)

Australian poet

Caecilius Statius

Roman comic poet (c. 220 BC – c. 166 BC)

An Ancient English poet

Ancient poet and librarian

State of Cao Wei prince and poet (192-232)

American writer and editor

Swiss writer (1845–1924)

Italian writer and politician (1819-1892)

Carol Ann Duffy

Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955)

Latin poet of the late Roman Republic (c. 84 – c. 54 BC)

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

Chrétien de Troyes

12th century French poet and trouvère

Christina Rossetti

Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Smart

Jamaican American writer, poet

Clemens Brentano

German poet and novelist (1778-1842)

Clement Clarke Moore

American writer and Professor of Literature

French poet (1495-1544)

Comte de Lautréamont

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

Constantine P. Cavafy

Greek poet (1863–1933)

American author (1903–1946)

Anglo Saxon poet

Polish poet (1821–1883)

Czesław Miłosz

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

Dafydd ap Gwilym

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)

Chinese Tang dynasty poet

Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician (803–852)

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

16th-century English poet

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)

Sumerian priestess and poet

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)

Persian poet, author of Shahnameh

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 Quarles

Francis Scott Key

American lawyer and poet

François de Malherbe

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

François Villon

French poet and criminal

American poet, art critic and writer

Fujiwara no Shunzei

Poet and court noble

Fujiwara no Teika

Poet and court noble (1162–1241)

Azerbaijani poet (1483–1556)

Russian symbolist writer

Fyodor Tyutchev

Russian poet (1803-1873)

Tatar poet (1886–1913)

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat, writer, educator, and feminist

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Italian writer (1863–1938)

Chinese poet and playwright (c.1305–1370)

Gavrila Derzhavin

Russian poet (1743–1816)

Unknown medieval poet

Geoffrey Chaucer

English poet and author (c. 1340s – 1400)

Geoffrey Grigson

English poet, writer, critic and naturalist

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

English poet, orator and Anglican priest

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

British politician

Gerard Manley Hopkins

English poet and Catholic priest (1844–1889)

Indian Urdu poet (1797–1869)

Giacomo Leopardi

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

Gillebríghde Albanach

Medieval Scottish poet and crusader

Giorgos Seferis

20th-century Greek poet and diplomat

Giosuè Carducci

Italian poet and teacher

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Italian poet and writer

Ancient Roman dramatist

Gottfried von Strassburg

Medieval German poet

Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet and writer

Guillaume de Lorris

French scholar and poet from Lorris

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)

Persian poet and mystic (1325–1390)

Chinese poet of the Tang and Min dynasty

Chinese monk and poet

Harry Martinson

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

Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

16th-century English nobleman

Henry James Pye

English Poet Laureate

Australian writer and poet

Welsh metaphysical poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator

German writer (1877–1962)

Ancient Greek poet

Ancient Greek poet

Traditional author of the Iliad and Odyssey

Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)

Igor Severyanin

Japanese writer

Arab king and poet (496–544)

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 Beattie (poet)

Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)

James Russell Lowell

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

Scottish poet (1700–1748)

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)

15th-century Persian poet

Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer

Jarir ibn Atiyah

Arab poet and satirist (c. 650 – c. 728)

Jaroslav Seifert

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate

Vaishnava Sanskrit poet

French author (1240–1305)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Malagasy writer

Joachim du Bellay

French poet, critic, and member of the Pléiade

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist and politician

English poet (1906–1984)

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

17th-century English poet and playwright

Welsh Church of England cleric, poet and painter

14th/15th-century English writer

John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and abolitionist (1807–1892)

English Romantic poet

English monk and poet (c.1370–c.1451)

English poet and writer (1878–1967)

Canadian poet and physician (1872–1918)

17th-century English poet and civil servant

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

John Owen (epigrammatist)

Welsh epigrammatist

John Sinclair (poet)

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

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

José de la Cruz

Filipino writer (1746–1829)

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

1st/2nd century Roman noble woman and poet

Julia de Burgos

Puerto Rican poet

Juliusz Słowacki

15th-century Indian poet and saint

Japanese writer

Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Classical Sanskrit poet and playwright

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Katherine Philips

Anglo-Welsh poet and translator

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)

Ki no Tsurayuki

Japanese writer

South Korean poet (born 1933)

Ghanaian poet and author

Konstantin Balmont

Korney Chukovsky

Kosta Khetagurov

Ossetian poet (1859-1906)

Sahabah and poet

Langston Hughes

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

Laurence Eusden

English actor-manager, playwright, and poet laureate

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)

Chinese poet (701–762)

Chinese Song Dynasty poet, known as "the most talented woman in all ages"

Chinese poet and writer

English poet (1788–1824)

Lorine Niedecker

American poet 1903 - 1970

French poet (1897–1982)

Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist

American poet and Nobel laureate

French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian politician and writer (1839–1908)

Chinese historian and poet (1125–1210)

1st-century BC Roman poet

Ludovico Ariosto

Luís de Camões

Portuguese poet

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

1st-century Latin poet from Hispania

Australian poet (1865–1962)

Japanese poet, author, and literary critic

Mateiu Caragiale

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

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

Matteo Maria Boiardo

English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)

17th/18th-century English diplomat and poet

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)

Military citadels under London

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

Mughal Indian Urdu language poet

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

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Iranian poet and scholar

Mongane Wally Serote

South African poet and writer

South Asian Islamic philosopher and poet (1877–1938)

Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh

Gaelic poet and crusader

Anglo-Irish poet and playwright

Bhakti sant-poet of Hinduism

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

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)

Nikolai Gumilev

Russian poet (1886-1921)

Nikolay Nekrasov

Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher

Persian poet (c. 1141 – 1209)

Nobutsuna Sasaki

Tanka poet and scholar of Japanese literature.

German poet and writer

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

Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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

Ōshikōchi no Mitsune

Japanese writer

Osip Mandelstam

Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)

Oswald de Andrade

Brazilian poet novelist and cultural critic

Ōtomo no Yakamochi

Japanese writer (718–785)

Oton Župančič

Slovenian poet, writer (1878-1949)

Finnish poet and writer (1931-2008)

Chilean poet and diplomat (1904–1973)

Ancient Roman poet (-219--129)

Parvin E'tesami

Paul Blackburn (poet)

American writer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

American writer and poet

French poet and dramatist

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)

14th-century Italian scholar and poet

English writer, jazz critic and librarian

English poet, courtier, and diplomat

Phillis Wheatley

African-born American poet (1753–1784)

Pierre de Ronsard

Belgian writer and poet (1870–1925)

Pontus de Tyard

French poet and bishop

Ancient Chinese poet

13th-century Volga Bulgarian poet

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)

Richard Crashaw

British poet (1844-1930)

Robert Browning

English poet and playwright

Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

Robert Duncan (poet)

American poet (1919-1988)

Robert Fergusson

Scottish poet and writer

English poet and novelist

Robert Henryson

15th-century Scottish makar (poet)

Robert Herrick (poet)

English poet and cleric (1591–1674)

American poet (1917–1977)

Robert Penn Warren

American poet, novelist, and literary critic

English romantic poet (1774–1843)

Robert Southwell (priest)

American poet and writer

Nicaraguan poet, periodist and writer

Persian poet, the founder of Persian poetry

13th-century Persian poet

English poet (1887–1915)

Indian-Canadian poet (born 1992)

Japanese poet (1118–1190)

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 Butler (poet)

Poet and satirist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Japanese poet and artist

Ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos

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)

Semonides of Amorgos

Ancient Greek poet

Soviet Mari poet

Russian poet (1895–1925)

Shaaban bin Robert

Tanzanian writer

Chinese poet, statesman, and historian (441–513)

Siegfried Sassoon

English poet, diarist and memoirist

Poet and writer

English poet, playwright, novelist

Iranian poet and painter (1928-1980)

Chinese poet of the Chu State (the Warring States Period)

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

Ancient Greek lyric poet

Sully Prudhomme

Sulpicia (satirist)

1st century Roman poet and satirist

Indian writer, poet and singer

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)

German poet, composer and musician

Chinese poet (365–427)

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)

3rd-century BC Greek poet

Théodore de Banville

French writer (1823-1891)

Theodore Roethke

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet (1908–1963)

Théophile de Viau

French poet (1590-1696)

Théophile Gautier

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

Thomas Campbell (poet)

18th/19th-century Scottish poet

Thomas Chatterton

English medieval-style poet (1752–1770)

English poet and historian

Thomas Holley Chivers

American poet (1809-1858)

Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

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)

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator

Italian poet (1544–1595)

Tristan Corbière

Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)

17th-century Varkari Sant and Poet

16th century Hindu saint and poet

Italian writer, revolutionary and poet

Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah

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)

1st-century-BC Roman poet

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian poet (1893–1930)

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Anglo-American poet

Wallace Stevens

Walter Kennedy (poet)

Medieval Scottish poet

Walther von der Vogelweide

Medieval German minstrel singer

Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)

Tang-dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman

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)

English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)

William Gilmore Simms

American writer

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou

William Langland

Fourteenth century English poet

William McGonagall

Scottish-Irish extremely bad poet (1825-1902)

William Neill (poet)

William Whitehead (poet)

18th-century British Poet Laureate and playwright

Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner

Wolfram von Eschenbach

German knight and poet

Jin Dynasty poet

Yevgeny Baratynsky

Japanese poet and painter

Japanese tanka poet

Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

Poet (1917-1987)

American poet and literary critic

Zhang Hu (poet)

Chinese poet in mid-Tang dynasty.

Song dynasty poet

Zinaida Gippius

Russian poet (1869–1945)

Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma