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This is a list of poets. People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry. | Lists of poets (by language, not nationality) Lists of English language poets by nationality Poets by genre or movement Other lists See also: lists of authors, poetry |
Alphabetical list
Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Ab-Ak - Joze Abram, (1875-1938)
- Dannie Abse, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
- Milton Acorn, (1923-1986)
- Leonie Adams, (High Falcon - 1929)
- Fleur Adcock, (born 1934)
- Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)
- Lucius Afranius, Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
- Patience Agbabi, (born 1965)
- Dritëro Agolli born 1931
- James Agree
- Ai (born 1947), pseudonym of Florence Anthony
- Sin Ai
- Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973)
- Mark Akenside, (1721-1770)
- Bella Akhmadulina, (born 1957)
- Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966)
Al-Am - Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556)
- Fran Albreht, (1889-1965)
- Ivan Albreht
- Vera Albreht
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
- Richard Aldington
- Claribel Alegria
- Vicente Aleixandre, (1989-1984), 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
- Alisoun
- Donald Allen (New American Poetry)
- William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
- Damaso Alonso
- Natan Alterman
- Al Alvarez
- Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
- Ambrose the poet
- Yehuda Amichai
- A. R. Ammons
An-Ap
Ar-Au - Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
- Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)
- Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
- Bonaventura Carles Aribau, (1798-1862)
- Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
- 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)
- Thomas Ashe, (1836-1889)
- Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
- Douglas Asper
- 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
B
Ba
Bab-Bal - Esad Babacic, (born 1965)
- Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
- Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
- Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
- Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881)
- George Bacovia, Romanian poet
- Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
- Robert Bagg
- Julio Baghy
- Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
- France Balantic, (1921-1943)
- Christianne Balk (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)
Bar-Bax
Be - Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
- Joshua Beckman
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
- Beddoes (English writer in Germany)
- Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
- Ben Belitt
- Marvin Bell
- Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
- William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
- Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
- Gottfried Ben
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Nejc Bernard, (born 1970)
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
Bi-Bl - Bing & Cohen (Greek & Roman erotic verse)
- Miron Bialoszewski
- Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
- Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
- John Bishop Peale
- Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
- Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
- Don Blanding
- William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
- Andrej Blatnik, (born 1963)
- 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-Despreaux, (1636-1711)
- Berta Bojetu, (1946-1997)
- Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
- Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Philip Booth
- Matej Bor, (1913-1956)
- Rado Bordon, (1915-1992)
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Edgar Bowers
- Mark Boyd Alexander, (1563-1601 - sonnets)
- Marx Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
- Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)
Br
Bra-Bri - William Braithwaite, (1878-1962)
- Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
- Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch poet and playwright
- Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
- Christopher Brennan, (1870-1932), Australian
- Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
- André Breton, (1896-1966)
- Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
- Vida Brest, (born 1925)
- Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
- Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)
- John Malcolm Brinnin
Bro-Bry - Daniel Louis Brodsky
- Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
- Wladyslaw Broniewski
- William Bronk, (died 1999)
- 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
- Sterling A. Brown
- 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)
- Andrej Brvar, (born 1945)
- Bryher
- Ernest Bryll
- Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
Bu-By
C
Ca
Cab-Cap - Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
- Dilys Cadwaladr
- Caedmon (old English)
- Andon Zako Çajupi
- Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
- Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
- Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
- Luis de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
- Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
- Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
- 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)
- Andrej Capuder, (born 1942)
Car-Cav - Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
- Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
- Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
- Will Carleton
- Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
- Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942)
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
- Hayden Carruth
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
- Gaius Valerius 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)
- 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)
- Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
- Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
- John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
- Franc Cimperman, (1852-1873)
- Josip Cimperman, (1847-1893)
Cl
Co
Coc-Cor - Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
- Stan Cohen
- Wanda Coleman
- Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
- Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
- William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
- William Congreve (playwright), (1670-1729), English poet
- Evan S. Jr. Connell
- Leo Connellan (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
- Robert Conquest, historian and poet
- Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
- Clark Coolidge
- Wendy Cope
- Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
- Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
- James D. Corrothers
- Jayne Cortez
Cou-Cow
Cr-Cz - George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
- Christopher Pearce Cranch, (19th c. American)
- Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
- Douglas Crase
- 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
- Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
- Marij Cuk, (born 1952)
- Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
- E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
- Valentin Cundric, (born 1938)
- Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
- J. V. Cunningham
- Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
- Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
- Leona Czwartkowski
D
Da - Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
- Kate Daniels
- 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)
- 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 - Ales Debeljak, (born 1961)
- Anton Debeljak, (1887-1952)
- Tine Debeljak, (born 1913)
- Walter de la Mare, author, poet
- DeCosta-Willis (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
- Madeline DeFrees
- Marie de France
- Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
- Milan Dekleva, (born 1946)
- Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
- François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
- Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
- Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
- Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
- Jeronim De Rada
- Jure Detela, (1951-1992)
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Aubrey de Vere
- Feliks Dev, (1732-1786)
- William F. DeVault, (1955-), American Author
- Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
Di-Do - Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
- Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
- James Dickey, (1923-1997)
- Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
- Alenka Jenstrle Dolezal, (born 1959)
- John Donne, (1572-1631)
- Maura Dooley
- Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
- Ivan Dornik, (1892-1968)
- Gavin Douglas
- Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)
Dr - Leah B. Drake
- Jane Draycott
- Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
- Ciril Drekonja, (1896-1944)
- Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
- John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
- 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
- W.E.N. Du Bois
- Joze Dular, (1915-2000)
- Du Fu, the Poet Saint
- Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
- W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
- Alan Dugan
- Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
- Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More)
- 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
E
Ea-Er - Charles F. Easton
- Richard Eberhart
- Russell Edson
- Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
- Fran Eller, (1873-1956)
- Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
- Paul Eluard, French poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
- Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- William Empson, (1906-1984)
- Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
- Paul Engle
- Ennius
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
- Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
- Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
- Maggie Estep, American slam poet
Es-Ew
F
Fe-Fo - Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
- Thomas Ferril
- Afanasiy Fet, (1812-1892)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
- Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Lawrence Fixel
- 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
- Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
- John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
- France Forstneric, (born 1958), mathematician.
- Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
Fr-Fu - Janet Frame, (born 1924)
- Robert Francis
- Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
- Naim Frashëri
- Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
- Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
- Ervin Fritz, (born 1940)
- Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
- Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
- Anton Funtek, (1862-1932)
G
Ga-Gl - Jean Garrigue
- Samuel Garth
- George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
- David Gascoyne
- Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
- John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
- Albert Gazeley,(1937), poet and writer
- Stefan George, (1868-1933)
- Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
- Lapo Gianni
- Wilfred Wilson Gibson
- Richard Gilder
- Gary Gildner (Letters from Vicksburg)
- Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997), US eccentrical writer
- Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
- Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
- Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
- Janko Glazer, (1893-1975)
- Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
- Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Goran Gluvi&, (born 1957)
Go - Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
- Cvetko Golar, (1879-1965)
- Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
- Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
- Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
- Pavel Golia, (1887-1959)
- Eugen Gomringer
- Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
- Ray Gonzalez, (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s)
- Lorna Goodison
- Vojko Gorjan, (1949-1975)
- Sergei Gorodetsky
Gr
Gra-Gri - Alojz Gradnik, (1882-1968)
- Niko Grafenauer, (born 1940)
- 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, (1560-1592)
- Simon Gregorcic, (1844-1906)
- Pankracij Gregorec, (1867-1920)
- Barbara Gregoric, (born 1964)
- Horace Gregory
- Eamon Grennan
- Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
- Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
- Franz Grillparzer
- Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
- Uri Tsvi Grinberg
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
Gro-Gru
Gu-Gy
H
Ha - Rachel Hadas
- Hafez
- Judith Hall
- Suheir Hammad, Palestinan-American poet and political activist
- Walter Hampson,1864-1932 Yorkshire dialect author and poet.
- Matjaz Hanzek, (born 1949)
- Jerzy Harasymowicz
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
- Frances E. W. Harper, poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
- Michael S. Harper
- Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
- Milka Hartman, (born 1902)
- Gwen Harwood
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
- Fany Hausmann, (1818-1862)
- 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)
- John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
- Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
- Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
- Essex Hemphill
- 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
- Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
- Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
- Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)
Hi-Hr - Rita Ann Higgins, poet, member of Aosdána
- Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
- Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
- Branko Hofman, (born 1929)
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
- James Hogg, (1770-1835)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
- 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
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus
- George Moses Horton
- Jurij Houdlin, (born 1973)
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Ivan Hribovsek, (1923-1945)
Hu - Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
- Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
- Richard Hugo
- Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
- Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
- Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
- James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
- Constantijn Huyghens
I
J
Ja-Je
Jo-Ju - Edmund John
- Fenton Johnson
- 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
- Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
- James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
- James Joyce, (1882-1941)
- Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
- Juvenal
K
Ka-Kh - Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
- Ivana Kampus, (born 1945)
- Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
- Miha Kastelic, (1796-1868)
- Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
- Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
- Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
- John Keats, (1795-1821)
- Weldon Kees
- Harry Kemp
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jozef Kenda, (1859-1929)
- Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
- Dragotin Kette, (1876-1899)
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Khushal Khan Khattak
- Omar Khayyam, (1048-1122)
- Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
- Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)
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