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Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz

Abbasid prince,Poet,Politician,Governor

Arab poet of the Abbasid period

8th century Arabic poet

Muslim Arab poet of Abbasid era (died 850)

Arab poet (550-600)

Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi

Iraqi poet (640-708)

al-Hariri of Basra

Arab poet and Scholar of later Abbasid era

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Turkic poet and politician (1449-1501)

Arab philosopher and poet (973–1057)

Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)

Pre-Islamic Arab poet

Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar

Amr ibn Kulthum

Knight and the leader of the Taghlib tribe

Antarah ibn Shaddad

Arabian warrior and poet

Ariwara no Narihira

Japanese writer, courtier and waka poet

Occitan troubadour

Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani

Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)

Chinese poet and official

Bertran de Born

Occitan troubadour

Arab poet of Abbasid period (821–897)

An Ancient English poet

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

Chrétien de Troyes

12th century French poet and trouvère

Anglo Saxon poet

Dafydd ap Gwilym

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

Chinese Tang dynasty poet

Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician (803–852)

Persian poet, author of Shahnameh

François Villon

French poet and criminal

Fujiwara no Shunzei

Poet and court noble

Fujiwara no Teika

Poet and court noble (1162–1241)

Chinese poet and playwright (c.1305–1370)

Unknown medieval poet

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Gillebríghde Albanach

Medieval Scottish poet and crusader

Gottfried von Strassburg

Medieval German poet

Guillaume de Lorris

French scholar and poet from Lorris

Persian poet and mystic (1325–1390)

Chinese poet of the Tang and Min dynasty

Chinese monk and poet

Arab king and poet (496–544)

15th-century Persian poet

Jarir ibn Atiyah

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

Vaishnava Sanskrit poet

French author (1240–1305)

14th/15th-century English writer

English monk and poet (c.1370–c.1451)

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Ki no Tsurayuki

Japanese writer

Sahabah and poet

Chinese poet (701–762)

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

Chinese poet and writer

Chinese historian and poet (1125–1210)

Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh

Gaelic poet and crusader

Bhakti sant-poet of Hinduism

Persian poet (c. 1141 – 1209)

Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

Ōshikōchi no Mitsune

Japanese writer

Ōtomo no Yakamochi

Japanese writer (718–785)

14th-century Italian scholar and poet

13th-century Volga Bulgarian poet

Persian poet, the founder of Persian poetry

13th-century Persian poet

Japanese poet (1118–1190)

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

German poet, composer and musician

Chinese poet (365–427)

Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah

Walther von der Vogelweide

Medieval German minstrel singer

Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)

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

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou

William Langland

Fourteenth century English poet

Wolfram von Eschenbach

German knight and poet

Jin Dynasty poet

Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

Zhang Hu (poet)

Chinese poet in mid-Tang dynasty.

Song dynasty poet

Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma