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| Dannie
Abse (born 1923), English poet |
| Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian |
| Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556) |
| Jalal al-Din
Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273) |
| Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet |
| Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet |
| Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and
poet |
| Anacreon (570 BC-488 BC),
Greek lyric poet |
| Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet |
| Brother Antoninus |
| Apollonius of Rhodes
(270-after 245 BC) |
| Louis Aragon, (1897-1982) |
| Archilochus, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric
poet |
| 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) |
| Farid al-Din 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) |
| Margaret Avison (born 1918) |
| Robert Ayton (1570-1638) |
| Ashok Chakradhar (Born 8th February 1951) |
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| 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) |
| Jesse Ball American poet |
| 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(March
6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) |
| Charles Baudelaire,
(1821-1867) |
| James K. Baxter, (1926-1972) |
| 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, (1937-?) |
| Gioconda Belli, (born 1948) |
| Hilaire Belloc |
| Andrey Bely, (1880-1934) |
| Gottfried Ben |
| Stephen Vincent
Benét, (1898-1943) |
| William Rose Benét,
(1886-1950) |
| Gwendolyn B. Bennett |
| Daniel Berrigan |
| Wendell Berry |
| John Berryman |
| John Betjeman, (1906-1984) |
| Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall) |
| Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jean Bodel |
| Louise Bogan |
| Matteo Maria
Boiardo, Italian poet |
| Nicolas
Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711) |
| Eavan Boland, (born 1944) |
| Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985) |
| Arna Wendell
Bontemps |
| Jorge Luis Borges,
(1899-1986) |
| Tadeusz Borowski |
| Mark Alexander Boyd,
(1563-1601) |
| Kay Boyle (A Glad Day) |
| James Brock, (born 1958) |
| Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996) |
| Wladyslaw Broniewski |
| William Bronk, (died 1999) |
| Anne Brontë, (1820-1849) |
| Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855) |
| Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author |
| Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915) |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917) |
| Joan Brossa, (1919-1998) |
| 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 |
| Georg Büchner |
| Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988) |
| Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994) poet, novelist |
| 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 |
| Raegan Butcher |
| Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician |
| Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect) |
| Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan) |
| Lord
Byron, (1788-1824) |
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| Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry) |
| Caedmon (old English) |
| Cali Xuseen Xirsi |
| Barry Callaghan, (born 1937) |
| Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet |
| Robert Calvert, (1945-1988) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Jared Carter (born 1939) |
| William Cartwright,
(1611-1643) |
| Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957) |
| Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet |
| Charles Causley |
| C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933) |
| 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) |
| Thomas Chatterton |
| Billy Childish |
| Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956 |
| Henri Chopin, (born 1922) |
| Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer |
| Amy Clampitt |
| John Clare, (1793-1864) |
| Paul Claudel, (1868-1955) |
| Matthias Claudius |
| Michelle Cliff |
| Lucille Clifton, |
| Arthur Hugh Clough,
(1819-1861) |
| 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,
(1721-1759) |
| William
Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet |
| Robert Conquest, historian and poet |
| Henry Constable, (1562-1613) |
| Clark Coolidge |
| Wendy Cope |
| Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875) |
| Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline",
"Bomb". |
| Jayne Cortez |
| Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada) |
| Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667) |
| William Cowper, (1731-1800) |
| 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 |
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| Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet |
| Sapardi Djoko
Damono, Indonesian Poet |
| David Daniels,
(1933- ) Visual 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 |
| Jibanananda Das,(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author |
| René Daumal, (1908-1944) |
| Jean Daurat, (1508-1588) |
| Alan Davies, American
poet |
| 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 |
| James Deahl |
| Aurora de Albornoz,
(1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet |
| Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961) |
| Walter de la Mare,
author, poet |
| Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641) |
| François de
Malherbe, (1555-1628), |
| Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet |
| Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855) |
| Baltasar del
Alcázar, (1530-1606) |
| Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon
Amour) |
| Regina Derieva, (born 1949) |
| Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet |
| Babette Deutsch (1895-1982) |
| Aubrey de Vere |
| William F. DeVault,
(1955-), American Author |
| Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet |
| Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik) |
| Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet) |
| Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet |
| Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet |
| James Dickey, (1923-1997) |
| Blaga Dimitrova |
| Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet |
| Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist |
| Henry Austin Dobson |
| Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet |
| Antonia Donatiello,
(born 1950), Italian writer and poet |
| John Donne, (1572-1631) |
| Keith Douglas, (1920-1944) |
| Rita Dove |
| Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| Richard Eberhart |
| Russell Edson |
| 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 |
| Ana Elsner, multi-lingual American poet |
| Paul Eluard, French poet |
| Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson,
(1803-1882), American author |
| Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet |
| 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 |
| Maggie Estep, American slam poet |
| Wolfram von
Eschenbach, (died 1220) |
| Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing) |
| Florbela Espanca, (poet) |
| Salvador Espriu, writer |
| Euripides (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian |
| Mari Evans |
| William Everson (In The Fictive Wish) |
| Gavin Ewart |
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| Faruk Iremet (1965-), Swedish, Zazaish and Turkish poet |
| Fenggan |
| Lawrence
Ferlinghetti (1919-) |
| Leandro
Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828) |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay,
(born 1925) |
| Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator,
born 1956 |
| Edward
Fitzgerald, (1809-1883) |
| Robert Fitzgerald (1910
- 1985) |
| John Fletcher,
(1579-1625) |
| 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. |
| John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet. |
| Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827) |
| Hristo Fotev, (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet |
| Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from
Pakistan |
| 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 |
| Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet |
| Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from
Pakistan |
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| Asadulla Khan Ghalib Urdu & Persian Poet
(1796-1869) |
| Etienne-Paulin Gagne
(1808-1876) |
| 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) |
| Charles
Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946) |
| 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) |
| Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician |
| Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;) |
| Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet |
| Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970) |
| Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark) |
| Ziya Gökalp |
| Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little
Goody Two-Shoes |
| 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 |
| 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, (1558-1592) |
| Horace Gregory |
| Eamon Grennan |
| Fulk Greville, (1554-1628) |
| Bill Griffiths, (born 1948) |
| Franz Grillparzer |
| Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562) |
| Angelina Weld Grimke |
| Charlotte Forten
Grimke |
| Stanisław
Grochowiak |
| Philip Gross |
| Ghulam rasool dadda,
(1921-1999) |
| 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) |
| Brion Gysin, (1916-1986) |
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| Mohamed
Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi' |
| Hafez |
| 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 |
| John Heath-Stubbs |
| Anne Hébert, poet and novelist |
| Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004) |
| Jennifer Michael
Hecht |
| John Hegley, also performs as half of the
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