List of poets

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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. Please place names on the list only if there is a real and existing article on the poet.

Alphabetical list

A

Ab-Ak

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)
Endre Ady, (1877-1919)
Lucius Afranius (poet), Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
Patience Agbabi, (born 1965)
James Agee, (1909-1955)
Dritëro Agolli, (born 1931)
Ai, (born 1947), pseudonym of Florence Anthony
Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973)
Mark Akenside, (1721-1770)
Bella Akhmadulina, (born 1957)
Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966)

Al-Am

Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556)
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
Richard Aldington
Claribel Alegria
Vicente Aleixandre, (1898-1984), 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
James Alexander Allan (1889-1956), Australian poet
William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
Damaso Alonso
Natan Alterman
Al Alvarez
Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
Yehuda Amichai
Kingsley Amis, born 1922
A. R. Ammons

An-Ap

Anacreon
Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
Jon Anderson, (born 1944)
Mário de Andrade, (1893-1945)
Aneirin, medieval epic poet
Antler (poet), (1946-)
Brother Antoninus
Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
Apuleius

Ar-Au

Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
The Archpoet (Medieval)
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843-1925)
Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
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)
Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
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

Margaret Avison, (born 1918)
Robert Ayton, (1570-1638)

B

Ba

Bab-Bal

Ken Babstock, Canadian
Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
George Bacovia, Romanian poet
Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
Julio Baghy
Bai Juyi
Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
Jesse Ball American poet

Bar-Bax

Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
George Barker, (1913-1991)
Les Barker
Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
William Barnes, (1801-1886)
Elizabeth Barrett
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)

Be

Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
Joshua Beckman
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
Marvin Bell
Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
Hilaire Belloc
Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
Gottfried Ben
Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Ilhan Berk
Daniel Berrigan
Wendell Berry
John Berryman
John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi-Bl

Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
Jarvis Black
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
Michael Blumenthal
Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
Edmund Blunden
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Robert Bly

Bo

Br

Bra-Bri

[William Braithwaite], (1878-1962)
Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch poet and playwright
Christopher Brennan, (1870-1932), Australian
Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
André Breton, (1896-1966)
Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)

Bro-Bry

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
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)
Bryher
Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic

Bu-By

Georg Büchner
Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994)
Basil Bunting
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
Stanley Burnshaw
Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
Edwin G. Burrows
Andrzej Bursa
Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
Lord Byron, (1788-1824)

C

Ca

Cab-Cap

Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
Caedmon (old English)
Cali Xuseen Xirsi
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
Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
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)

Car-Cav

Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
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)
Arthur Chapman, (1873-1935)
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)
Billy Childish
Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956
Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
John Ciardi, Italian-American poet

Cl

Amy Clampitt
John Clare, (1793-1864)
George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
Matthias Claudius
Michelle Cliff
Lucille Clifton,
Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)

Co

Coc-Cor

Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
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
Robert Conquest, historian and poet
Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
Clark Coolidge
Wendy Cope
Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
Jayne Cortez

Cou-Cow

Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
William Cowper, (1731-1800)

Cr-Cz

George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
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
Aleister Crowley, (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
Necati Cumalı
E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
Leona Czwartkowski

D

Da

Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
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

James Deahl
Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
Walter de la Mare, author, poet
Miriam DeCosta-Willis, poet & editor (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
Marie de France
Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
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)
Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
Aubrey de Vere
William F. DeVault, (1955-), American Author
Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet

Di-Do

Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
James Dickey, (1923-1997)
Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
Henry Austin Dobson
Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
John Donne, (1572-1631)
Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
Gavin Douglas
Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
Rita Dove
Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)

Dr

Jane Draycott
Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
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, (1868-1963), writer, activist
Du Fu, the Poet Saint
Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
Alan Dugan
Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
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
Bob Dylan, born 1941

E

Ea-Er

Richard Eberhart
Russell Edson
Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
Paul Eluard, French poet
Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
William Empson, (1906-1984)
Yunus Emre
Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
R.M. Engelhardt, (born 1964), American poet
Paul Engle
Ennius
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
Haydar Ergülen
Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
Mehmet Erte

Es-Ew

Maggie Estep, American slam poet
Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
Florbela Espanca, (poet)
Salvador Espriu, writer
Mari Evans
William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
Gavin Ewart

F

Fe-Fo

Fenggan
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
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
Carolyn Forché, born 1950
Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

Fr-Fu

Janet Frame, (born 1924)
Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
Naim Frashëri (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 1900
Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
Eve Merriam

G

Ga-Gl

Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001)
Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
Stefan George, (1868-1933)
Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Go

Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet
[Cvetko Golar], (1879-1965)
Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
Ziya Gökalp
Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
Pavel Golia (1887-1959)
Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-1967)
Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet

Gr

Gra-Gri

Urejanje Niko Grafenauer [link] wiki link, (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)
Horace Gregory
Eamon Grennan
Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
Franz Grillparzer
Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
Angelina Weld Grimke
Charlotte Forten Grimke

Gro-Gy

Stanisław Grochowiak
Philip Gross
Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
Guido Guinizelli
Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
Gül Baba
Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)

H

Ha

Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
Hafez
Dennis M. Hammes
Han Yu
Han-Shan
Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
Gwen Harwood
Alamgir Hashmi
Ahmet Haşim
Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
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)
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
Phoebe Hesketh, (1909-2005), English poet
Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)

Hi-Hr

William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
Nazım Hikmet
Ellen Hinsey, poet
Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
James Hogg, (1770-1835)
Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
John Hollander, born 1929
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 (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
George Moses Horton
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
Fanny Howe
Susan Howe

Hu

Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
Richard Hugo
Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
Lynda Hull, (1954-1994)
Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet

I

Jean Ingelow

J

Ja-Ju

Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
Clive James
Randall Jarrell
Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
Elizabeth Jennings
Jia Dao
Edmund John
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
Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
Anthony Joseph
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
James Joyce, (1882-1941)
Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
Juvenal

K

Ka-Kh

Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
Orhan Veli Kanik
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
X. J. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Khushal Khan Khattak
Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)

Ki-Kn

Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
Henry King, (1592-1669)
William King, (1663-1712)
Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882)
Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
John Kinsella (born 1963)
Thomas Kinsella
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob-Ky

Jan Kochanowski, (born 1530)
Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
Faik Konica
Ted Kooser
Koroglu
Srecko Kosovel, (1904-1926)
Taja Kramberger, (born 1970)
Ruth Krauss
Miroslav Krleža, (1589-1638), poet, novelist, etc
Maxine Kumin
Stanley Kunitz
Cem Kurtulus
Onat Kutlar

L

La

Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
Philip Lamantia
Alphonse de Lamartine
Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
[Steven Curtis Lance], romantic poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
James Laughlin
Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
Layamon
Irving Layton, (born 1912 - 2006)

Le

Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
Jan Lechon
Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
Boleslaw Lesmian
Rika Lesser
Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
Philip Levine
Larry Levis
D. A. Levy, (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
William Levy
Saunders Lewis, (1893-1985)
Wyndham Lewis, (1884-1957)

Li

Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
Tim Liardet
Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
Li Qiao
Li Qingzhao
Li Shangyin
Li Yu
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
Federico García Lorca
Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
Robert Lowell
Amy Lowell, (1874-1925)
Mina Loy (Dada)
Lu You
Gherasim Luca
Lucilius
Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
Lucan
Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
Frank L. Ludwig (born 1964 in Hamburg), Irish
Luo Binwang
Mario Luzi
John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
John Lyly, (1553-1606)
George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)

M

Ma

Mac-Mak

Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
Compton Mackenzie
Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
Haki R. Madhubuti
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
Patrick Magee (born 1986) poet, writer, musician
Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), general and poet

Mal-Mar

Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
David Mallet
Sir Thomas Malory
[Miroslav Malovrh], (1861-1922)
Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan
Bill Manhire (born 1946)
Manilius
Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
Chris Mansell (1953-)
Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
[Joan Maragall], (1860-1911), writer
Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
Edwin Markham
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)

Mas-Maz

John Masefield, (1878-1967)
Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
Basho Matsuo, (1644-1694), haiku poet
Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet

Mc

Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders Fields
Bryant H. McGill
William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902)
Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
Campbell McGrath
Wendy McGrath
Thomas McGrath, (1916-1990), The Movie at the End of the World
Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
Claude McKay
Don McKay
Rod McKuen

Me

Meng Houran
Norman MacCaig
Mei Yaochen
Meng Haoran
George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
James Merrill, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)

Mi-Ml

Henri Michaux, poet and painter
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
Josephine Miles
Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911-2004)
Alice Duer Miller
Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Adrian Mitchell
S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
Ndre Mjeda

Mo

Harold Monro
Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
Dom Moraes
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
Frederick Morgan
John Morgan, (1688-1733)
Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914)
William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
Jim Morrison
Stephen Morse (1945 - )(American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
Howard Moss
Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958

Mu

Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
Efe Murat
Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
Les Murray, (born 1938)
Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
Susan Musgrave, Poet.

N

Na-Nj

Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
Nezami
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970)
Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler

No-Ny

Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965)
Caroline Norton (1808 - 1877)
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
[Anton Novacan], (1887-1951)
[Boris A. Novak], (born 1953)
Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
Alfred Noyes
Naomi Shihab Nye

O

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
George Oppen
Peter Orlovsky (beat)
Gregory Orr
Alice Oswald
Ouyang Xiu
Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 BC-17 AD), (more commonly known as Ovid)
Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
Ismet Özel

P

Pa

Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
Ron Padgett
[Pavlina Pajk], (1854-1901)
Grace Paley
Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
Palladas
Michael Palmer, (1943-)
Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
Nicanor Parra, Chile
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
Don Paterson
Coventry Patmore
[Marko Pavcek], (1958-1979)
Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet

Pe-Pl

Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
Sam Pereira
Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
Pascale Petit
Francesco Petrarca
Ambrose Philips
Pi Rixiu
Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
Ruth Pitter
Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)

Po-Pu

Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
Halina Poswiatowska
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
E.J. Pratt
France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
Robert Priest
Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
Bryan Waller Proctor
Luigi Pulci
Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet

R

Ru

S

Sa

Umberto Saba
Sa'di
Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491-1558)
Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
Sonia Sanchez
Sappho, ancient Greek poet
Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet

Sc-Se

Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), inventor of historical novel
Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin poet
Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
Fernanda seno, (1942-1996)
Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
Vikram Seth
Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)

Sh-Si

Thomas Shadwell
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
Jo Shapcott
Karl Shapiro
Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)
William Shenstone
Taras Shevchenko
James Shirley, (1596-1666)
Avraham Shlonsky
Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
Eli Siegel, (1902-1978)
Ron Silliman (born 1946)
Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
Charles Simic
Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
Lemn Sissay
L.E. Sissman
Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
Tara Singh

Sk-Sn

John Skelton, (1460-1529)
Myra Sklarew
Kenneth Slessor
Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
Juliusz Slowacki
Christopher Smart
Joze Smit, (born 1922)
Charlotte Smith, (1749-1806)
Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
LeRoy Smith
Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
Patti Smith
Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
William Jay Smith
Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
Tara Singh

So-Sp

Edith Södergran
David Solway, (born 1941)
William Somervile, (1675-1742)
Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
Natsume Soseki, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
Gary Soto
Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
Robert Southwell, (1561-1595)
Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599)

St

Sta-Sto

Leopold Staff
William Stafford
George Starbuck
Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
Morris Stegosaurus (Keith Morris Kurzman), slam poet
Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
Eric Stenbock
Mattie Stepanek, (1990-2004), American poet and advocate
Gerald Stern
Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), lighthouses
Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
James Still
Theodor Storm, (1817-1888)
Alfonsina Storni, (1892-1938)

Str-Stu

Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
Jesse Stuart

Su-Sz

Su Shi
Su Xiaoxiao
Sir John Suckling
Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
Francis Sullivan
Cemal Süreya
Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
May Swenson
Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996

T

Ta-Te

Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941)
Tao Qian
Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
James Tate
Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
Sara Teasdale
Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
Lucy Terry
A.S.J. Tessimond
Neyzen Tevfik

Th-To

Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
Jan Theuninck, (born 1954)
Dylan Thomas, (1914-1953)
Edward Thomas, (1878-1917)
Lorenzo Thomas, (1944-2005)
R. S. Thomas, (1913-2000)
John Thompson, (1845-1913), Canadian writer
Francis Thompson, (1859-1907)
James Thomson, (1834-1882)
James Thomson (Seasons)
Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
Thomas Tickell
Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
Melvin B. Tolson
Jean Toomer

Tr-Tz

Thomas Traherne
Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
Quincy Troupe
Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886-1913), Tatar poet
Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
Julian Tuwim
Jan Twardowski
Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521-1605)
Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803-1873)
Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963), (Dada)

U

Miguel de Unamuno
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
Allen Upward, Imagist

V

Va-Ve

Mona Van Duyn
Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
Vemana
Helen Vendler
Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian

Vi-Vr

Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
Peter Viereck
François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec signer-songwriter and poet
Publius Vergilius Maro
Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
Walter von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)

W

Wa

Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
Ugonna Wachuku, (born 1971), (Inspirational and soulful poems)
Diane Wakoski, (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
Derek Walcott, (born 1930), (Nobel Prize for Literature)
Rosmarie Waldrop
Arthur Waley (Translations from the Chinese)
Alice Walker, (born 1944)
Edmund Waller, (1606-1687)
Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989)
Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
Roger Waters
Isaac Watts, (1674-1748)
David Wayne, (1914-1995)

We-Wh

John Webster, (died 1630)
Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899 - 1946)
Philip Whalen (beat)
Margaret Walker
Martin Walser, (born 1927)
Franz Werfel, (1890-1945), Czech poet
Johan Herman Wessel, (1742-1785)
Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784)
E.B. White, (1899-1985), (Fox of Peacock)
Walt Whitman, (1819-1892)
Isabella Whitney, b. 1540s?
John Greenleaf Whittier, (1807-1892)

Wi

John Wieners (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
Richard Wilbur (past poet laureate - Things of This World)
Jane Wilde, (1826-1896), Irish poet and nationalist, wife of Sir William Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), Irish playwright, poet and satirist
John Wilkinson
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, the first vernacular poet
Saul Williams (born 1972)
Shirley Williams (born 1930)
Miller Williams
Oscar Williams, American poet and anthologist
Sherley Anne Williams
Waldo Williams, (1904-1971), Welsh poet
William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791)
William Carlos Williams
John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
Yvor Winters
George Wither, (1588-1667)

Wo-Wy

Rafał Wojaczek
Christa Wolf
Charles Wolfe, (1791-1823)
Hans Wollschläger
George Woodcock (1912-1995) poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Franz Wright
Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835-1866)
Charles Wright musician, poet
James Wright (1927-1980)
Judith Wright (1915-2000)
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
Elinor Wylie
Hedd Wyn

X

Xu Zhimo, melancholic poet of early 20th century China

Y

Mark Yakich
Leo Yankevich (1961-present)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist, senator
Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
Marguerite Young
David Young
Edward Young (1683-1765)
Kevin Young (poet) American poet (born 1970)
Han Yu
Yunus Emre 13th century Turkish poet

Z

Andrea Zanzotto
Lisa Zaran (born 1969)
Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982)
Robert L.J. Zenik
Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Znidarsic (born 1959)
Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), Austrian writer

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