The following is a list of the most important poets of Slovak literature, for a list of Slovak authors of prose and drama see Slovak prose :
Middle Ages (800 – 1500)
Constantine (827-869) – born in Thessaloniki Maurus (?-1070) Leonard z Uničova (15th century)
Renaissance (1500-1650) Martin Rakovský (1535-1579) Ján Silván (1493-1573) Pavel Kyrmezer (?-1589) Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier (Laurentio Benedictino Nudozierino) (1555-1615) Ján Filický (?-1623) Ján Bocatius (1569-1621) Jakub Jakobeus (1591-1645) – born in Bohemia Martin Bošňák (?-1566) Štefan Komodický (16th century) Eliáš Láni (1570-1618) Daniel Pribiš (1580-1645)
Baroque (1650-1780) Juraj Tranovský (1592-1637) Benedikt Szőllősi (1609-1656) Daniel Sinapius Horčička I (1640-1688) Jób Trusius (17th century) Ján Sekáč (?-1818) Dionýz Kubík (1749-1811) Štefan Ferdinand Selecký (1675-?) Peter Benický (1606-1664) Hugolín Gavlovič (1712-1787)Štefan Pilárik I (1615-1693)
Classicism (1780-1840) Augustín Doležal (1737-1802) Bohuslav Tablic (1769-1832) Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795-1861)Ján Kollár (1793-1852) Ján Hollý (1785-1849) Karol Kuzmány (1806-1866)
Romantism (1840-1850) Ľudovít Štúr (1815-1856)Samo Chalupka (1812-1883)Andrej Sládkovič (1820-1872) Janko Kráľ (1822-1876) Ján Botto (1829-1881) Janko Matúška (1821-1877) Samo Vozár (1823-1850) Petőfi Sándor - the great Hungarian poet was a Magyarized SlovakMichal Miloslav Hodža (1811-1870) Viliam Paulíny-Tóth (1826-1877)
Between Romantism and Realism (1850-1875) Ľudovít Kubáni (1830-1869)
Realism (1875-1905) Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847-1916) Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849-1921)Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1842-1951)
Modernism (1905-1918) Ivan Krasko (1876-1958) Janko Jesenský (1874-1945) Vladimír Roy (1885-1936) Ivan Gall (1885-1955)
Between the World Wars (1918-1948) Štefan Krčméry (1892-1955) Martin Rázus (1888-1937) Emil Boleslav Lukáč (1900-1979) Ján Smrek (1898-1982) Ján Poničan (1902-1978) Fraňo Kráľ (1903-1955) Laco Novomeský (1904-1976)
Surrealism Rudolf Fabry (1915-1982) Vladimír Reisel (1919-?) Július Lenko (1914-?) Štefan Žáry (1918-?) Ján Brezina (1917-?) Pavel Bunčák (1915-?) Ján Rak (1916-1969)
Catholic Modernism Rudolf Dilong (1905-1986) Pavol Gašparovič Hlbina (1908-1977) Janko Silan (1914-1984) Karol Strmeň (1921-1994) Ján Haranta (1909-1983) Svetoslav Veigl (1915-?) Pavol Ušák-Oliva Mikuláš Šprinc Gorazd Zvonický
Literature after World War II (1948-1960's) Ján Kostra (1910-1975) Pavol Horov (1914-1975) Andrej Plávka (1907-1982) Ivan Kupec (1922) Vojtech Mihálik (1926)
Current literature (since the 1960's ) Milan Rúfus (1928) Miroslav Válek (1927-1991) Mikuláš Kováč (1934-1992) Ľubomír Feldek (1936) Jozef Mihalkovič (1935) Ján Šimonovič (1939-1994) Ján Stacho (1936-1995) Ján Ondruš (1932) Ján Buzássy (1935) Vlastimil Kovalčík (1939) Lýdia Vadkerti-Gavorníková (1932) Štefan Strážay (1940) Ivan Laučík (1944) Peter Repka (1944) Ivan Štrpka (1944) Štefan Moravčík (1943) Mila Haugová (1944) Ján Švantner (1949) Rudolf Čižmárik (1949) Jana Kantorová Báliková (1951) Eva Kováčová (1951) Anna Ondrejková (1954) Daniel Hevier (1955) Kamil Peteraj (1945) Jozef Urban (?) Pavol Hudák (1959) See also: List of national poetries
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