List of poets
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.
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Alphabetical list
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
- 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
- Aubrey de Vere
- Feliks Dev, (1732-1786)
- Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
Di-Do
- Gregory DiGregorio, American author
- 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)
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), American poet
- 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 Prize winner)
- 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
- 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)
Ki-Kn
- Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
- Amy King
- 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
- Milan Klec, (born 1954)
- Marjan Klinar,
(1922-1983)
- Mile Klopcic, (1905-1984)
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock,
(1724-1803)
- Nikolai Klyuev
- Majda Kne, (born 1954)
- Etheridge Knight
Ko
Kob-Kor
- Fran Kobal, (1881-1937)
- Josip Kobal, (1870-1888)
- Andrej Kocbek
- Edvard Kocbek,
(1904-1981)
- Matjaz Kocbek, (born
1946)
- Jan Kochanowski, (born 1530)
- Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
- Anton Koder, (1851-1918)
- Andrej Kokot, (born 1936)
- Miklavz Komelj, (born
1970)
- Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient,
(Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
- Faik Konica
- Ted Kooser
- Sonja Koranter, (born
1948)
- Barbara Korun
Kos-Koz
Kr-Ku
L
La
- Philip Lamantia
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
- Steven Curtis Lance (http://mind-brain.com/poemdirectory/stevelance/comment.php), romantic poet
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in
Italy)
- Joseph Langland
- Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
- James Laughlin
- Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
- Lawes
- D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
- Layamon
- Irving Layton, (born 1912), sex machine poet!
Le
- Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
- Jan Lechon
- Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
- Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
- William Ellery
Leonard
- Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
- Eleanor Lerman
- Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841),
poet, author and painter
- Boleslaw Lesmian
- Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
- Anton Levec
- Peter Levec, (born 1923)
- Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
- Jernej Levicnik,
(1808-1883)
- Philip Levine
- Larry Levis
- Zlatka Levstek, (born
1944)
- 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 poet)
- Tim Liardet
- Ewa Lipska
- Florjan Lipus, (born 1937),
author.
- Alan Llwyd, (current)
- Mihael Lotric, (born
1937)
- Joza Lovrencic,
(1890-1952)
- Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), US poet
- Lucan
- Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
- John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
- John Lyly, (1553-1606)
- George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)
- Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shanyin
- Li Yu
- Joseph C.
Lincoln
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
- Vachel Lindsay, (1879-
M
Ma
Mac-Mak
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
- Cynthia
MacDonald
- 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
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
- Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
- Haki R.
Madhubuti
- France Magajna, (born
1957)
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior,
(1922-1941), (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
- Derek Mahon (Northern Irish
poet)
- Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.
- Clarence Major
- Svetlana
Makarovic, (born 1939)
- Peter Makuck
Mal-Mar
- Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
- David Mallet
- 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
- Manilius
- Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
- Bill Mannhire, (born
1946)
- Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
- Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
- Robert
Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
- 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
Mc
- James McAuley
- Linda
McCarriston
- J. D. McClatchy
- Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders' Fields
- Colleen McElroy
- Bryant H. McGill
- Phyllis McGinley
- William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902)
- Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
- Thomas McGrath (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
- Irene McKinney
- Sandra McPherson
Me
- Meisetsu, (1847-1926 - haiku
poet)
- Meng Houran
- Norman MacCaig
- Anton Medved, (1869-1910)
- Vladimir Memon
- Janez Menart, (born 1929)
- George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
- Ace Mermolja, (born 1951)
- 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), oustanding Polish poet and writer
- 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 (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004)
- Alice Duer Miller
- John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
- Ivan Minatti, (born 1924)
- Gaston Miron, Quebec poet
- Thor Misen, US Poet
- Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Adrian Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell,
American novelist, poet
- Ndre Mjeda
- Iztok Mlakar
Mo
- Stefan Modrinjak,
(1774-1827)
- 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)
- Merrill Moore (& R.
Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)
- 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)
- Howard Moss
- Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
- Brane Mozetic, (born
1958)
Mu
N
Na-Nj
- Marcia Nardi
- Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
- Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
- Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
- Alice
Moore Dunbar Nelson
- Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
- Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
- John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
- Nezami
- B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
- John Gambril Nicholson
- Lorine Niedecker
- 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
- Caroline Norton
- Cyprian Kamil Norwid
- Anton Novacan,
(1887-1951)
- Boris A. Novak, (born
1953)
- Irena Zorko Novak,
(born 1953)
- Novica Novakovic,
(born 1965)
- Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
- Novalis (Friedrich von
Hardenberg)
- Lili Novy, (1885-1958)
- Alfred Noyes
- Naomi Shihab Nye
O
P
Pa
- Robert Pack
- Ruth Padel
- Ron Padgett
- Pavlina Pajk, (1854-1901)
- Grace Paley
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- Rado Palir
- Palladas
- Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
- Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
- Nicanor Parra, Chile
- Giovanni Pascoli,
Italian poet
- Linda Pastan
- Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
- Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
- Andrea Paterson
- Andrew Barton
Paterson (banjo)
- Don Paterson
- Coventry Patmore
- Vida Mokrin Pauer,
(born 1961)
- Marko Pavcek, (1958-1979)
- Tone Pavcek, (born 1928)
- Robert Pawlwoski
- 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
- George Peel, (1558-1597)
- Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
- Bruno Pertot
- Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
- Ruza Lucija
Petelin
- Pascale Petit
- Francesco Petrarca
- Ambrose Philips
- France Pibernik, (born
1928)
- Matjaz Pikalo, (born
1963)
- Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
- Bojan Pisk, (born 1933)
- Klemen Pisk
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian,
poet, philosopher
- Iztok Geister
Plamen, (born 1945)
- Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)
- German Plisetsky,
(born 1931)
- Williams Plomer
Po-Pu
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
- Denis Poniz, (born 1948)
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
- Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
- Carlo Porta, (Milanese dialect)
- Halina
Poswiatowska
- Blaz Potocnik,
(1799-1872)
- Jure Potokar, (born 1956)
- Neil Powell
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Andrej Praprotnik,
(1827-1895)
- E.J. Pratt
- Ivan Pregelj, (1883-1960)
- France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
- Robert Priest
- Janez Primic, (1785-1823)
- Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
- Bryan Waller Proctor
- Luigi Pulci
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet
R
Ra-Re
- Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
- Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
- Meta Rainer, (born 1904)
- Carl Rakosi
- Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
- John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
- Tom Raworth
- David Ray
- Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
- Byron H. Reece
- Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- R.D. Reeve (The Blue Cat)
- Christopher Reid (In
the Echoey Tunnel)
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of
Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Naomi Replansky
- Ivan Resman, (1848-1905)
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Charles Reznikoff
Ri
Ro
- Michele Roberts
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
- Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
- Georges Rodenbach,
Symbolist poet and novelist
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ,
(1647-1680)
- Carolyn M.
Rodgers
- Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
- Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
- Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
- Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English
poet
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
- Braco Rotar
- Nicholas Rowe
- Richard Rowlands,
(1565-1630)
- Andrej Rozman
Roza, (born 1955)
- Tadeusz Rozewicz
- Gregor Rozman
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