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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dannie Abse
Poet
22-Sep-1923   Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Diane Ackerman
Author
7-Oct-1948   A Natural History of the Senses
Charles Follen Adams
Poet
21-Apr-1842 8-Mar-1918 Leedle Yawcob Strauss
Léonie Adams
Poet
9-Dec-1899 27-Jun-1988 Those Not Elect
Agathias
Historian
536 AD 582 AD On the Reign of Justinian
James Agee
Poet
27-Nov-1909 16-May-1955 A Death in the Family
Conrad Aiken
Poet
5-Aug-1889 17-Aug-1973 Earth Triumphant
Mark Akenside
Poet
9-Nov-1721 23-Jun-1770 The Pleasures of the Imagination
Anna Akhmatova
Poet
11-Jun-1889 5-Mar-1966 Poem Without a Hero
Richard Aldington
Poet
8-Jul-1892 27-Jul-1962 Death of a Hero
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Poet
11-Nov-1836 19-Mar-1907 The Story of a Bad Boy
Vicente Aleixandre
Poet
26-Apr-1898 14-Dec-1984 Spanish surrealist poet
Hervey Allen
Poet
8-Dec-1889 28-Dec-1949 Ballads of the Border
William Allingham
Poet
19-Mar-1824 18-Nov-1889 Day and Night Songs
Washington Allston
Painter
5-Nov-1779 9-Jul-1843 The Dead Man Revived
Moniza Alvi
Poet
2-Feb-1954   The Country at My Shoulder
Nicholas Amhurst
Author
16-Oct-1697 12-Apr-1742 The Craftsman
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Critic
27-Sep-1821 11-May-1881 Journal Intime
A. R. Ammons
Poet
18-Feb-1926 25-Feb-2001 Sphere
Anacreon
Poet
c. 560 BC c. 485 BC Greek lyric poet
Maya Angelou
Poet
4-Apr-1928   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
David Antin
Artist
1-Feb-1932   Improv artist, talk poet
Guillaume Apollinaire
Poet
26-Aug-1880 9-Nov-1918 Alcools, Calligrammes
Louis Aragon
Poet
3-Oct-1897 24-Dec-1982 Communistic French poet
Ludovico Ariosto
Poet
8-Sep-1474 6-Jul-1533 Orlando Furioso
Matthew Arnold
Poet
24-Dec-1822 15-Apr-1888 Culture and Anarchy
Antonin Artaud
Playwright
4-Sep-1896 4-Mar-1948 Theater of Cruelty
Juana de Asbaje
Poet
12-Nov-1651 17-Apr-1695 America's first feminist poet
John Ashbery
Poet
28-Jul-1927   Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Michael J. Astrue
Government
c. 1956   Social Security Commissioner
Margaret Atwood
Author
18-Nov-1939   The Handmaid's Tale
W. H. Auden
Poet
21-Feb-1907 29-Sep-1973 The Age of Anxiety
Hartmann von Aue
Poet
c. 1170 c. 1210 Der arme Heinrich
Ausonius
Poet
c. 310 AD c. 395 AD Roman poet and rhetorician
Alfred Austin
Poet
30-May-1835 2-Jun-1913 Poet Laureate of England, 1892-1913
Kofi Awoonor
Poet
13-Mar-1935   Rediscovery
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Poet
1532 Oct-1589 Pléiade poet
Joanna Baillie
Playwright
11-Sep-1762 23-Feb-1851 Family Legend
Evgeny Baratynsky
Poet
19-Feb-1800 29-Jun-1844 Russian Golden Age poet
George Barker
Poet
26-Feb-1913 27-Oct-1991 Calamiterror
Joel Barlow
Poet
25-Mar-1754 24-Dec-1812 The Hasty Pudding
Djuna Barnes
Novelist
12-Jun-1892 18-Jun-1982 Modernist poet, Nightwood
Matsuo Basho
Poet
1644 12-Oct-1694 Haiku master
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
9-Apr-1821 31-Aug-1867 Les Fleurs du Mal
Arnold Bax
Composer
8-Nov-1883 3-Oct-1953 Symphonist, Tone Poet
Samuel Beckett
Playwright
13-May-1906 22-Dec-1989 Waiting for Godot
Joachim du Bellay
Poet
c. 1522 1-Jan-1560 French Pléiade poet
Andrés Bello
Poet
29-Nov-1781 15-Oct-1865 South American intellectual, poet
Hilaire Belloc
Author
27-Jul-1870 16-Jul-1953 The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Stephen Vincent Benét
Author
22-Jul-1898 13-Mar-1943 John Brown's Body
William Rose Benét
Poet
2-Feb-1886 4-May-1950 The Dust Which Is God
Gottfried Benn
Poet
2-May-1886 7-Jul-1956 Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot
Steven Jesse Bernstein
Poet
4-Dec-1950 22-Oct-1991 Grunge poet and punk rocker
Ted Berrigan
Poet
15-Nov-1934 4-Jul-1983 The Sonnets
John Berryman
Poet
25-Oct-1914 7-Jan-1972 Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
John Betjeman
Poet
28-Aug-1906 19-May-1984 Summoned By Bells
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Poet
9-Jan-1873 4-Jul-1934 Foremost Hebrew poet
Frank Bidart
Poet
1939   The Book of the Body
Elizabeth Bishop
Poet
8-Feb-1911 6-Oct-1979 North & South
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Playwright
8-Dec-1832 26-Apr-1910 Synnöve Solbakken
William Blake
Poet
28-Nov-1757 12-Aug-1827 English romantic poet and artist
Steen Steensen Blicher
Author
11-Oct-1782 26-Mar-1848 Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk
Blind Harry
Poet
fl. 1470-92 fl. 1470-92 Acts and Deeds of William Wallace
Alexander Blok
Poet
16-Nov-1880 7-Aug-1921 Russian Silver Age poet
Edmund Blunden
Poet
1-Nov-1896 20-Jan-1974 Undertones of War
Robert Bly
Poet
23-Dec-1926   Iron John: A Book About Men
Louise Bogan
Poet
11-Aug-1897 4-Feb-1970 The New Yorker poetry critic
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Poet
c. 1434 20-Dec-1494 Orlando Innamorato
Nicolas Boileau
Poet
1-Nov-1636 13-Mar-1711 Satires du Sieur D...
Arrigo Boito
Composer
24-Feb-1842 10-Jun-1918 Mefistofele
George Henry Boker
Playwright
6-Oct-1823 2-Jan-1890 Francesca da Rimini
Eavan Boland
Poet
24-Sep-1944   In a Time of Violence
Yves Bonnefoy
Poet
24-Jun-1923   Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
Arna Bontemps
Novelist
13-Oct-1902 4-Jun-1973 God Sends Sunday
Tadeusz Borowski
Author
12-Nov-1922 1-Jul-1951 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Edgar Bowers
Poet
2-Mar-1924 4-Feb-2000 For Louis Pasteur
Anne Bradstreet
Poet
c. 1612 16-Sep-1672 The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Richard Brautigan
Author
30-Jan-1935 14-Oct-1984 So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright
10-Feb-1898 14-Aug-1956 Mother Courage and Her Children
Robert Bridges
Poet
23-Oct-1844 21-Apr-1930 Prometheus the Firegiver
Francisco Brines
Poet
1932   Generation of 1950
Joseph Brodsky
Poet
24-May-1940 28-Jan-1996 "Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate
Branwell Brontë
Poet
26-Jun-1817 24-Sep-1848 The Brontë sisters' brother
Rupert Brooke
Poet
3-Aug-1887 23-Apr-1915 1914 and Other Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poet
7-Jun-1917 3-Dec-2000 Annie Allen
George Mackay Brown
Poet
17-Oct-1921 13-Apr-1996 Time in a Red Coat
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet
6-Mar-1806 29-Jun-1861 Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning
Poet
7-May-1812 12-Dec-1889 Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
Dennis Brutus
Poet
28-Nov-1924 26-Dec-2009 Sirens, Knuckles and Boots
William Cullen Bryant
Poet
3-Nov-1794 12-Jun-1878 Editor, The New York Evening Post
Charles Bukowski
Author
16-Aug-1920 9-Mar-1994 Love is a Dog from Hell
Ivan Bunin
Author
10-Oct-1870 8-Oct-1953 Russian short story writer, Light Breathing
Gottfried August Bürger
Poet
31-Dec-1747 8-Jun-1794 Lenore
Gelett Burgess
Cartoonist
30-Jan-1866 17-Sep-1951 Has never seen a purple cow
Robert Burns
Poet
25-Jan-1759 21-Jul-1796 Most beloved Scottish poet
Samuel Butler
Poet
8-Feb-1612 25-Feb-1680 Hudibras
Lord Byron
Poet
22-Jan-1788 19-Apr-1824 English romantic poet
Luís de Camões
Poet
c. 1524 10-Jun-1580 Os Lusíadas
Thomas Campion
Composer
12-Feb-1567 1-Mar-1620 English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres
Ernesto Cardenal
Poet
20-Jan-1925   Liberation theologist, important Nicaraguan poet
Giosuè Carducci
Poet
27-Jul-1835 16-Feb-1907 Odi barbare
Thomas Carew
Poet
1595 22-Mar-1639 A Rapture
Hayden Carruth
Poet
3-Aug-1921 29-Sep-2008 Brothers, I Loved You All
Raymond Carver
Author
25-May-1938 2-Aug-1988 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Giovanni Battista Casti
Poet
29-Aug-1724 5-Feb-1803 Novelle Galanti
António Feliciano de Castilho
Poet
18-Jan-1800 18-Jun-1875 A noite de Castello
Cristóbal de Castillejo
Poet
1490 12-Jun-1556 Spanish poet, disliked Italian forms
Catullus
Poet
c. 84 BC c. 54 BC Ancient Roman poet
Constantine P. Cavafy
Poet
29-Apr-1863 29-Apr-1933 Greek poet in Alexandria
Guido Cavalcanti
Poet
c. 1250 27-Aug-1300 Canzone d'Amore
Felice Cavallotti
Politician
6-Oct-1842 6-Mar-1898 Italian radical politician
Paul Celan
Poet
23-Nov-1920 20-Apr-1970 Todesfuge
Luis Cernuda
Poet
21-Sep-1902 5-Nov-1963 Generation of '27
Miguel de Cervantes
Novelist
29-Sep-1547 22-Apr-1616 Don Quixote
Aimé Césaire
Poet
25-Jun-1913 17-Apr-2008 Return to My Native Land
Pablo de Céspedes
Poet
1538 26-Jul-1608 Spanish poet, painter, sculptor, etc.
John Jay Chapman
Essayist
2-Mar-1862 4-Nov-1933 Essayist, founder of The Nursery
Charles, duc d'Orléans
Poet
24-Nov-1394 4-Jan-1465 Medieval French courtly poet
Alain Chartier
Poet
c. 1392 1449 La Belle Dame sans merci
Thomas Chatterton
Poet
20-Nov-1752 24-Aug-1770 Fabricated as Thomas Rowley
André de Chénier
Poet
30-Oct-1762 25-Jul-1794 Greatest 18th c. French poet
Chrétien de Troyes
Poet
fl. 1165-80 fl. 1165-80 Author of Arthurian romances
Christine de Pizan
Poet
1364 c. 1430 Le Livre des trois vertus
Charles Churchill
Poet
1731 4-Nov-1764 Rosciad
John Ciardi
Poet
24-Jun-1916 30-Mar-1986 How Does a Poem Mean?
Colley Cibber
Playwright
6-Nov-1671 11-Dec-1757 Apology
John Clare
Poet
13-Jul-1793 20-May-1864 Northamptonshire Peasant Poet
Paul Claudel
Poet
6-Aug-1868 23-Feb-1955 French poet and diplomat
Lucille Clifton
Poet
27-Jun-1936 13-Feb-2010 Good Woman
Jean Cocteau
Poet
5-Jul-1889 11-Oct-1963 La Belle et la Bête
Andrei Codrescu
Author
20-Dec-1946   Exquisite Corpse
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Poet
18-Mar-1892 20-Jan-1955 Strange Holiness
Leonard Cohen
Singer/Songwriter
21-Sep-1934   Everybody Knows
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
21-Oct-1772 25-Jul-1834 Rime of the Ancient Mariner
William Congreve
Playwright
24-Jan-1670 19-Jan-1729 The Way of the World
Wendy Cope
Poet
21-Jul-1945   If I Don't Know
Cid Corman
Poet
29-Jun-1924 12-Mar-2004 Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Pierre Corneille
Playwright
6-Jun-1606 1-Oct-1684 Le Cid
Gregory Corso
Poet
26-Mar-1930 17-Jan-2001 Beat poet, Gasoline
Charles Cotton
Poet
28-Apr-1630 16-Feb-1687 Translator of Montaigne
William Cowper
Poet
26-Nov-1731 25-Apr-1800 The Task
Hart Crane
Poet
21-Jul-1899 27-Apr-1932 Industrial and urban poet
Stephen Crane
Novelist
1-Nov-1871 5-Jun-1900 The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Creeley
Poet
21-May-1926 30-Mar-2005 Founded Black Mountain Review
Critias
Politician
c. 460 BC c. 403 BC Athenian orator and poet
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva
Poet
1731 5-Oct-1799 Hyssope
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Poet
17-Nov-1733 28-Jan-1805 Dorottya
Countee Cullen
Poet
30-May-1903 9-Jan-1946 Harlem Renaissance poet
e. e. cummings
Poet
14-Oct-1894 3-Sep-1962 Majuscule-challenged American poet
Ivor Cutler
Poet
15-Jan-1923 3-Mar-2006 Glasgow Dreamer
Isaac da Costa
Poet
14-Jan-1798 28-Apr-1860 De Verlossing van Nederland
Simon Dach
Poet
29-Jul-1605 15-Apr-1659 German lyrical poet
Samuel Daniel
Poet
1562 14-Oct-1619 The First Four Books of the Civil Wars
Roy Daniells
Poet
6-Apr-1902 13-Apr-1979 The Chequered Shade
Dante
Poet
1265 14-Sep-1321 La Divina Commedia
Bei Dao
Poet
2-Aug-1949   Exiled Chinese poet of the Misty School
Rubén Darío
Poet
18-Jan-1867 6-Feb-1916 Cantos de vida y esperanza
George Darley
Poet
1795 23-Nov-1846 Nepenthe
Erasmus Darwin
Naturalist
12-Dec-1731 18-Apr-1802 English naturalist, very bad poet
Jean Daurat
Poet
1508 1-Nov-1588 French Pléiade poet
Sir William Davenant
Poet
1606 7-Apr-1668 Gondibert
Donald Davidson
Poet
8-Aug-1893 25-Apr-1968 Agrarian, Southern American poet
Sir John Davies
Poet
16-Apr-1569 8-Dec-1626 Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing
W. H. Davies
Poet
3-Jul-1871 26-Sep-1940 Tramp-Poet, The Soul's Destroyer
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet
27-Apr-1904 22-May-1972 UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72
Walter de la Mare
Poet
25-Apr-1873 22-Jun-1956 Memoirs of a Midget
Casimir Delavigne
Poet
4-Apr-1793 11-Dec-1843 La Parisienne
Jacques Delille
Poet
22-Jun-1738 1-May-1813 French translator of Virgil
Giovanni Della Casa
Poet
28-Jun-1503 14-Nov-1556 Galateo
Sir John Denham
Poet
1615 10-Mar-1669 Cooper's Hill
Gavriil Derzhavin
Poet
3-Jul-1743 8-Jul-1816 Greatest Russian 18th-century poet
Eustache Deschamps
Poet
c. 1346 c. 1406 L'Art de Dictier
Antoinette Deshoulières
Poet
1-Jan-1638 17-Feb-1694 French poet-socialite
João de Deus
Poet
8-Mar-1830 11-Jan-1896 Flores do Campo
James Dickey
Poet
2-Feb-1923 19-Jan-1997 Deliverance
Emily Dickinson
Poet
10-Dec-1830 15-May-1886 Perplexing American poet
John Donne
Poet
1572 31-Mar-1631 Anniversaries
Timothy Donnelly
Poet
1969   Twenty-Seven Props
Rita Dove
Poet
28-Aug-1952   7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95
Ernest Dowson
Poet
2-Aug-1867 23-Feb-1900 English Decadent poet
Michael Drayton
Poet
1563 23-Dec-1631 Poly-Olbion
John Dryden
Poet
19-Aug-1631 1-May-1700 Absalom and Achitophel
Carol Ann Duffy
Poet
23-Dec-1955   Mean Time
Alan Dugan
Poet
12-Feb-1923 3-Sep-2003 Poems
Georges Duhamel
Novelist
30-Jun-1884 13-Apr-1966 Civilisation
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poet
27-Jun-1872 9-Feb-1906 Lyrics of a Lowly Life
William Dunbar
Poet
c. 1460 c. 1520 The Thrissil and the Rois
Robert Duncan
Poet
7-Jan-1919 3-Feb-1988 Bending the Bow
Lawrence Durrell
Novelist
27-Feb-1912 7-Nov-1990 The Alexandria Quartet
Richard Eberhart
Poet
5-Apr-1904 9-Jun-2005 Collected Poems
Dietrich Eckart
Playwright
23-Mar-1868 25-Dec-1923 Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
Günter Eich
Poet
1-Feb-1907 20-Sep-1972 Züge im Nebel
T. S. Eliot
Poet
26-Sep-1888 4-Jan-1965 Author of "The Waste Land"
Paul Éluard
Poet
14-Dec-1895 18-Nov-1952 La Capitale de la Douleur
Odysseas Elytis
Poet
2-Nov-1911 18-Mar-1996 Axion Esti
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
25-May-1803 27-Apr-1882 Essayist, wrote Nature
Mihai Eminescu
Poet
15-Jan-1850 15-Jun-1889 The greatest Romanian poet
William Empson
Critic
27-Sep-1906 15-Apr-1984 Seven Types of Ambiguity
Quintus Ennius
Poet
c. 239 BC c. 170 BC Founder of Roman literature
Epimenides
Poet
fl. 6th c. BC fl. 6th c. BC Deep-sleep prophet of Crete
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
Poet
7-Aug-1533 29-Nov-1594 La Araucana
Richard Fanshawe
Poet
1608 16-Jun-1666 Translator of Camões
Kenneth Fearing
Novelist
28-Jul-1902 26-Jun-1961 The Big Clock
Ferdowsi
Poet
3-Jan-940 AD 1020 AD Greatest Persian Poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet
24-Mar-1919   A Coney Island of the Mind
Eugene Field
Journalist
2-Sep-1850 4-Nov-1895 A Little Book of Western Verse
Dudley Fitts
Scholar
28-Apr-1903 10-Jul-1968 Translator of Greek literature
Carolyn Forché
Poet
28-Apr-1950   The Country Between Us
Ugo Foscolo
Playwright
6-Feb-1778 10-Sep-1827 The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Robert Frost
Poet
26-Mar-1874 29-Jan-1963 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Cornelius Gallus
Poet
c. 70 BC c. 26 BC Roman poet and orator
Federico García Lorca
Poet
5-Jun-1898 18-Aug-1936 Lament for a Bullfighter
Robert Garioch
Poet
9-May-1909 26-Apr-1981 Scots dialect poet
Robert Garnier
Poet
c. 1545 20-Sep-1590 Bradamante
João Batista de Almeida Garrett
Playwright
4-Feb-1799 9-Dec-1854 Frei Luís da Sousa
Théophile Gautier
Poet
30-Aug-1811 23-Dec-1872 The Hashish-Eaters' Club
John Gay
Poet
30-Jun-1685 4-Dec-1732 The Beggar's Opera
Stefan George
Poet
12-Jul-1868 4-Dec-1933 Algabal
Khalil Gibran
Poet
6-Jan-1883 10-Apr-1931 The Prophet
Allen Ginsberg
Poet
3-Jun-1926 5-Apr-1997 Howl!
Nikki Giovanni
Poet
7-Jun-1943   Black Feeling, Black Talk
Karl Gjellerup
Author
2-Jun-1857 11-Oct-1919 The Pilgrim Kamanita
Édouard Glissant
Poet
21-Sep-1928 3-Feb-2011 L'Intention Poétique
Goethe
Author
28-Aug-1749 22-Mar-1832 Most influential German writer
Albert Goldbarth
Poet
31-Jan-1948   The most prolific modern poet
Luís de Góngora y Argote
Poet
11-Jul-1561 23-May-1627 Soledades
Rémy de Gourmont
Poet
4-Apr-1858 27-Sep-1915 Promenades Littéraires
John Gower
Poet
c. 1330 Oct-1408 Confessio Amantis
Jorie Graham
Poet
9-May-1951   The Dream of the Unified Field
Robert Graves
Poet
24-Jul-1895 7-Dec-1985 I, Claudius
Thomas Gray
Poet
26-Dec-1716 30-Jul-1771 An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Horace Gregory
Poet
10-Apr-1898 11-Mar-1982 Chelsea Rooming House
Julian Grenfell
Poet
30-Mar-1888 26-May-1915 Into Battle
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
Poet
29-Aug-1709 16-Jun-1777 Vert Vert
Fulke Greville
Poet
3-Oct-1554 30-Sep-1628 Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney
Nicholas Grimald
Poet
1519 1559 Songes and Sonettes
Tommaso Grossi
Poet
20-Jan-1791 10-Dec-1853 The Lombards in the First Crusade
Edgar Guest
Poet
20-Aug-1881 5-Aug-1959 A Heap o' Livin'
Louise Imogen Guiney
Poet
7-Jan-1861 2-Nov-1920 A Roadside Harp
Thom Gunn
Poet
29-Aug-1929 25-Apr-2004 The Man with Night Sweats
Ivor Gurney
Poet
28-Aug-1890 26-Dec-1937 War's Embers
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Poet
c. 1340 1400 Greatest medieval Welsh poet
William Habington
Poet
4-Nov-1605 30-Nov-1654 Castara
Marilyn Hacker
Poet
27-Nov-1942   Presentation Piece
Hafez
Poet
1326 1389 Prominent Persian poet
Friedrich von Hagedorn
Poet
23-Apr-1708 28-Oct-1754 German Anacreontic poet
Judah ben Samuel Halevi
Poet
c. 1085 c. 1140 Hebrew Poet of the Middle Ages
Donald Hall
Poet
20-Sep-1928   The One Day
Albrecht von Haller
Doctor
16-Oct-1708 12-Dec-1777 Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani
Robert Hamerling
Poet
24-Mar-1830 13-Jul-1889 Ahasver in Rom
Thomas Hardy
Novelist
2-Jun-1840 11-Jan-1928 Far from the Madding Crowd
Joy Harjo
Poet
9-May-1951   The Last Song
Frances E. W. Harper
Poet
24-Sep-1825 22-Feb-1911 Abolitionist, temperance activist
Michael S. Harper
Poet
18-Mar-1938   Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Jim Harrison
Novelist
11-Dec-1937   Legends of the Fall
Moritz Hartmann
Poet
15-Oct-1821 13-May-1872 German patriotic poet
Robert Hass
Poet
1-Mar-1941   US Poet Laureate, 1995-97
André van Hasselt
Poet
5-Jan-1806 1-Dec-1874 Quatre Incarnations du Christ
Signe Hasso
Actor
15-Aug-1910 7-Jun-2002 A Double Life
Johannes Carsten Hauch
Poet
12-May-1790 4-Mar-1872 Valdemar Seir
Wilhelm Hauff
Poet
29-Nov-1802 18-Nov-1827 Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
Stephen Hawes
Poet
c. 1474 c. 1523 The Passetyme of Pleasure
Robert Hayden
Poet
4-Aug-1913 25-Feb-1980 Words in the Mourning Time
H. D.
Poet
10-Sep-1886 27-Sep-1961 Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Seamus Heaney
Poet
13-Apr-1939   The Spirit Level
Friedrich Hebbel
Playwright
18-Mar-1813 13-Dec-1863 Die Niebelungen Trilogie
Anthony Hecht
Poet
16-Jan-1923 20-Oct-2004 The Hard Hours
Verner von Heidenstam
Author
6-Jul-1859 20-May-1940 The Charles Men
Heinrich Heine
Poet
13-Dec-1797 17-Feb-1856 Buch der Lieder
Richard Hell
Musician
2-Oct-1949   Blank Generation
W. E. Henley
Poet
23-Aug-1849 11-Jul-1903 Invictus
George Herbert
Poet
3-Apr-1593 1-Mar-1633 The Temple
Johann Gottfried Herder
Philosopher
25-Aug-1744 18-Dec-1803 Sturm und Drang movement
José María de Heredia
Poet
22-Nov-1842 2-Oct-1905 Les Trophées
Oliver Herford
Poet
3-Dec-1863 5-Jul-1935 Cupid's Encyclopedia
Miguel Hernández
Poet
30-Oct-1910 28-Mar-1942 El rayo que no cesa
Robert Herrick
Poet
1591 Oct-1674 Hesperides
Hesiod
Poet
fl. 700 BC fl. 700 BC Works and Days
John Hewitt
Poet
28-Oct-1907 22-Jun-1987 No Rebel Word
Georg Heym
Poet
30-Oct-1887 16-Jan-1912 Der ewige Tag
Hildegard von Bingen
Religion
16-Sep-1098 17-Sep-1179 Scivias seu Visiones
Ralph Hodgson
Poet
9-Sep-1871 3-Nov-1962 The Skylark
Roald Hoffmann
Chemist
18-Jul-1937   Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
James Hogg
Poet
1770 21-Nov-1835 The Queen's Wake
Friedrich Hölderlin
Poet
20-Mar-1770 7-Jun-1843 Hyperion
John Hollander
Poet
28-Oct-1929   Powers of Thirteen
Karl von Holtei
Poet
24-Jan-1798 12-Feb-1880 German proto-Vaudevillian
Miroslav Holub
Poet
13-Sep-1923 14-Jul-1998 Immunologist, important Czech poet
Homer
Poet
fl. 8th c. BC fl. 8th c. BC Iliad and the Odyssey
Thomas Hood
Poet
23-May-1799 3-May-1845 Odes and Addresses to Great People
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Poet
16-Mar-1581 21-May-1647 Dutch History
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet
28-Jul-1844 8-Jun-1889 Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter
Horace
Poet
65 BC 27-Nov-8 BC Satirae
George Moses Horton
Poet
c. 1797 c. 1883 The Hope of Liberty
A. E. Housman
Poet
26-Mar-1859 30-Apr-1936 A Shropshire Lad
Richard Howard
Poet
13-Oct-1929   Untitled Subjects
Hrosvitha
Playwright
c. 935 AD c. 1000 AD Female medieval dramatist
Langston Hughes
Poet
1-Feb-1902 22-May-1967 The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Ted Hughes
Poet
16-Aug-1930 28-Oct-1998 Crow
T. E. Hulme
Poet
16-Sep-1883 28-Sep-1917 Modernist poet and critic
Leigh Hunt
Poet
19-Oct-1784 28-Aug-1859 Story of Rimini
Ulrich von Hutten
Poet
21-Apr-1488 29-Aug-1523 Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
David Ignatow
Poet
7-Feb-1914 17-Nov-1997 Rescue the Dead
Edmond Jabès
Poet
6-Apr-1912 2-Jan-1991 The Book of Resemblances
Helen Hunt Jackson
Poet
15-Oct-1830 12-Aug-1885 Ramona
Max Jacob
Poet
12-Jul-1876 5-Mar-1944 Le Cornet à dés
Richard Jago
Poet
1715 8-May-1781 The Blackbirds
Randall Jarrell
Poet
6-May-1914 14-Oct-1965 The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Jacques Jasmin
Poet
6-Mar-1798 4-Oct-1864 Provençal poet
Robinson Jeffers
Poet
10-Jan-1887 20-Jan-1962 Tamar and Other Poems
Elizabeth Jennings
Poet
18-Jul-1926 26-Oct-2001 Song for a Birth or a Death
Johannes V. Jensen
Author
20-Jan-1873 25-Nov-1950 The Long Journey
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Poet
24-Dec-1881 29-May-1958 Pastorales
Denis Johnson
Novelist
1-Jul-1949   Jesus' Son
Pauline Johnson
Poet
10-Mar-1860 7-Mar-1913 Mohawk Canadian poet and actress
Eugene Jolas
Editor
26-Oct-1894 26-May-1952 transition
June Jordan
Poet
9-Jul-1936 14-Jun-2002 Who Look At Me
Donald Justice
Poet
12-Aug-1925 6-Aug-2004 The Summer Anniversaries
Juvenal
Poet
c. 60 AD c. 140 AD Greatest Roman satiric poet
Chester Kallman
Poet
7-Jan-1921 18-Jan-1975 Librettist, translator
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Poet
20-Jul-1864 8-Apr-1931 Songs of the wilderness and love
Mary Karr
Author
16-Jan-1955   The Liars' Club
Bob Kaufman
Poet
18-Apr-1925 12-Jan-1986 Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
John Keats
Poet
31-Oct-1795 23-Feb-1821 English romantic poet
X. J. Kennedy
Poet
21-Aug-1929   Juvenile poet, Brats
Jack Kerouac
Novelist
12-Mar-1922 21-Oct-1969 On The Road
Francis Scott Key
Poet
1-Aug-1779 11-Jan-1843 The Star-Spangled Banner
Omar Khayyam
Mathematician
18-May-1048 4-Dec-1131 Rubaiyat
Joyce Kilmer
Poet
6-Dec-1886 30-Jul-1918 Trees
Galway Kinnell
Poet
1-Feb-1927   Selected Poems
Rudyard Kipling
Author
30-Dec-1865 18-Jan-1936 The Jungle Book
Carolyn Kizer
Poet
10-Dec-1925   Yin: New Poems
August Kleinzahler
Poet
1949   A Calendar of Airs
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Poet
2-Jul-1724 14-Mar-1803 Messias
Etheridge Knight
Poet
19-Apr-1931 10-Mar-1991 Poems from Prison
Kenneth Koch
Poet
27-Feb-1925 6-Jul-2002 On the Great Atlantic Rainway
Yusef Komunyakaa
Poet
29-Apr-1947   Neon Vernacular
Ted Kooser
Poet
25-Apr-1939   Poet Laureate of the United States
Maxine Kumin
Poet
6-Jun-1925   Up Country
Stanley Kunitz
Poet
29-Jul-1905 14-May-2006 US Poet Laureate, 2000
Tuli Kupferberg
Singer/Songwriter
28-Sep-1923 12-Jul-2010 The Fugs
Jean de la Fontaine
Poet
8-Jul-1621 13-Apr-1695 Fables and Contes
Jules Laforgue
Poet
16-Aug-1860 20-Aug-1887 Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Alphonse de Lamartine
Poet
21-Oct-1790 28-Feb-1869 Bland French poet, failed politician
Sidney Lanier
Poet
3-Feb-1842 7-Sep-1881 Important Southern lyrical poet
Victor de Laprade
Poet
13-Jan-1812 13-Dec-1883 Les Muses d'État
Philip Larkin
Poet
9-Aug-1922 2-Dec-1985 The Whitsun Weddings
Richmond Lattimore
Poet
6-May-1906 26-Feb-1984 Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
James Laughlin
Publisher
30-Oct-1914 12-Nov-1997 Founder, New Directions Press
Comte de Lautréamont
Poet
4-Apr-1846 24-Nov-1870 Les Chants de Maldoror
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Paranormal
11-Nov-1741 2-Jan-1801 Essays on Physiognomy
Emma Lazarus
Poet
22-Jul-1849 19-Nov-1887 The New Colossus
Edward Lear
Poet
12-May-1812 29-Jan-1888 The Owl and the Pussycat
Francis Ledwidge
Poet
19-Aug-1887 31-Jul-1917 Songs of the Fields
John Lehmann
Poet
2-Jun-1907 7-Apr-1987 Thrown to the Woolfs
Charles Godfrey Leland
Poet
15-Aug-1824 20-Mar-1903 Hans Breitmann's Ballads
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Poet
12-Jan-1751 24-May-1792 Sturm und Drang movement
Giacomo Leopardi
Poet
29-Jun-1798 14-Jun-1837 Despairing Italian classical poet
Mikhail Lermontov
Poet
15-Oct-1814 27-Jul-1841 A Hero of Our Time
Denise Levertov
Poet
24-Oct-1923 20-Dec-1997 With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
Philip Levine
Poet
10-Jan-1928   What Work Is
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Aviator
22-Jun-1906 7-Feb-2001 Wife of Charles Lindbergh
Vachel Lindsay
Poet
10-Nov-1879 5-Dec-1931 The Congo and Other Poems
Mikhail Lomonosov
Poet
19-Nov-1711 15-Apr-1765 Early father of Russian poetry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
27-Feb-1807 24-Mar-1882 Evangeline
Richard Lovelace
Poet
1618 1658 To Althea from Prison
Amy Lowell
Poet
9-Feb-1874 12-May-1925 What's O'Clock
James Russell Lowell
Author
22-Feb-1819 12-Aug-1891 The Biglow Papers
Robert Lowell
Poet
1-Mar-1917 12-Sep-1977 Lord Weary's Castle
Malcolm Lowry
Novelist
28-Jul-1909 27-Jun-1957 Under the Volcano
Lucan
Poet
39 AD 65 AD Pharsalia
Lucretius
Poet
c. 99 BC c. 55 BC On the Nature of Things
Raymond Lull
Religion
1232 29-Jun-1315 Catalan mystic
Luxorius
Poet
c. 496 AD c. 534 AD Roman epigrammatist
John Lydgate
Poet
c. 1370 c. 1451 Troy Book
Hugh MacDiarmid
Poet
11-Aug-1892 9-Sep-1978 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Cynthia Macdonald
Poet
2-Feb-1928   Amputations
José Agostinho de Macedo
Poet
11-Sep-1761 2-Oct-1831 Os Burros
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Poet
1-Sep-1941 29-Nov-1987 A Breakfast for Barbarians
Machado de Assis
Novelist
21-Jun-1839 29-Sep-1908 Dom Casmurro
Antonio Machado
Poet
26-Jul-1875 22-Feb-1939 Generation of '98
Percy MacKaye
Playwright
16-Mar-1875 31-Aug-1956 The Canterbury Pilgrims
Kenneth Mackenzie
Novelist
25-Sep-1913 19-Jan-1955 Dead Men Rising
Sorley Maclean
Poet
26-Oct-1911 24-Nov-1996 Scottish/Gaelic poet
Archibald Macleish
Poet
7-May-1892 20-Apr-1982 Conquistador
Louis MacNeice
Poet
12-Sep-1907 3-Sep-1963 Autumn Journal
James Macpherson
Hoaxer
27-Oct-1736 17-Feb-1796 So-called translations of Ossian
Jay Macpherson
Poet
13-Jun-1931   O Earth Return
Haki R. Madhubuti
Author
23-Feb-1942   Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
Maurice Maeterlinck
Playwright
29-Aug-1862 6-May-1949 Pelléas et Mélisande
Derek Mahon
Poet
23-Nov-1941   Night-Crossing
François de Malherbe
Poet
1555 16-Oct-1628 Larmes de Saint Pierre
Stéphane Mallarmé
Poet
18-Mar-1842 9-Sep-1898 A Throw of the Dice
Osip Mandelshtam
Poet
1891 27-Dec-1938 Acmeist Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan
Poet
1-May-1803 20-Jun-1849 O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire
Manilius
Poet
fl. 1st c. AD fl. 1st c. AD Astronomica
Frederic Manning
Poet
1887 22-Feb-1935 The Middle Parts of Fortune
Robert Mannyng
Poet
c. 1264 c. 1340 Handlyng Synne
Alessandro Manzoni
Poet
7-Mar-1785 22-May-1873 I Promessi Sposi
Marie de France
Poet
c. 1175 1190 Lais
Edwin Markham
Poet
23-Apr-1852 7-Mar-1940 The Man With the Hoe
Jeannette Marks
Poet
16-Aug-1875 1964 The Merry Merry Cuckoo
John Marston
Playwright
7-Oct-1576 25-Jun-1634 The Malcontent
Martial
Poet
41 AD 104 AD Roman epigrammatist
Harry Martinson
Poet
6-May-1904 11-Feb-1978 Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Andrew Marvell
Poet
31-Mar-1621 18-Aug-1678 English poet and member of Parliament
John Masefield
Poet
1-Jun-1878 12-May-1967 Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67
Edgar Lee Masters
Poet
23-Aug-1869 5-Mar-1950 Spoon River Anthology
Thomas May
Poet
1595 13-Nov-1650 The History of the Long Parliament
James McAuley
Poet
12-Oct-1917 15-Oct-1976 Australian poet, Ern Malley hoaxer
Michael McClure
Poet
20-Oct-1932   The Blossom; or Billy the Kid
Phyllis McGinley
Poet
21-Mar-1905 22-Feb-1978 A Pocketful of Wry
William McGonagall
Poet
1825 29-Sep-1902 The Tay Bridge Disaster
Claude McKay
Novelist
15-Sep-1890 22-May-1948 Home to Harlem
Rod McKuen
Poet
29-Apr-1933   A Boy Named Charlie Brown
George Meredith
Novelist
12-Feb-1828 18-May-1909 The Egoist
William Meredith
Poet
9-Jan-1919 30-May-2007 Partial Accounts
James Merrill
Poet
3-Mar-1926 6-Feb-1995 Nights and Days
W. S. Merwin
Poet
30-Sep-1927   The Carrier of Ladders
Metastasio
Poet
3-Jan-1698 12-Apr-1782 Italian librettist of the 18th century
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet
22-Feb-1892 19-Oct-1950 Renascence
Joaquin Miller
Poet
8-Sep-1837 17-Feb-1913 Songs of the Sierras
May Miller
Playwright
26-Jan-1899 8-Feb-1995 The Bog Guide
Richard Monckton Milnes
Poet
19-Jun-1809 11-Aug-1885 Poetry for the People
Czeslaw Milosz
Poet
30-Jun-1911 14-Aug-2004 Polish novelist and poet, The Captive Mind
John Milton
Poet
9-Dec-1608 8-Nov-1674 Paradise Lost
Frédéric Mistral
Poet
8-Sep-1830 25-Mar-1914 Provençal poet and ethnographer
Gabriela Mistral
Poet
7-Apr-1889 10-Jan-1957 Desolación
S. Weir Mitchell
Novelist
15-Feb-1829 4-Jan-1914 The Case of George Dedlow
Goenawan Mohammad
Journalist
29-Jul-1941   Muckraking Indonesian journalist
Harriet Monroe
Poet
23-Dec-1860 26-Sep-1936 Founder of Poetry magazine
Eugenio Montale
Poet
12-Oct-1896 12-Sep-1981 Ossi di seppia
Clement Clarke Moore
Poet
15-Jul-1779 10-Jul-1863 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Marianne Moore
Poet
15-Nov-1887 5-Feb-1972 Collected Poems
Christopher Morley
Novelist
5-May-1890 28-Mar-1957 The Haunted Bookshop
William Morris
Artist
24-Mar-1834 3-Oct-1896 Arts and Crafts Movement
Jim Morrison
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1943 3-Jul-1971 Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors
Sarah Wentworth Morton
Poet
1759 14-May-1846 Ouabi
Howard Moss
Poet
22-Jan-1922 16-Sep-1987 Finding Them Lost
Lisel Mueller
Poet
8-Feb-1924   The Need to Hold Still
Paul Muldoon
Poet
20-Jun-1951   Moy Sand and Gravel
Alfred de Musset
Poet
11-Dec-1810 2-May-1857 Les Caprices de Marianne
Ogden Nash
Poet
19-Aug-1902 19-May-1971 Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker
John G. Neihardt
Poet
8-Jan-1881 3-Nov-1973 A Cycle of the West
Howard Nemerov
Poet
1-Mar-1920 5-Jul-1991 US Poet Laureate, 1987-88
Pablo Neruda
Poet
12-Jul-1904 23-Sep-1973 Residencia en la Tierra
Gérard de Nerval
Poet
22-May-1808 26-Jan-1855 Unbalanced French romantic poet
Amado Nervo
Poet
27-Aug-1870 24-May-1919 Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna
E. Nesbit
Novelist
15-Aug-1858 4-May-1924 The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Nezahualcoyotl
Head of State
1402 1472 Texcoco philosopher-king, Aztec poet
Nicander
Poet
fl. 2nd c. BC fl. 2nd c. BC Greek physician and poet
Ken Nordine
Radio Personality
19-Jan-1920   Word Jazz
Frank O'Hara
Poet
27-Jun-1926 25-Jul-1966 Meditations in an Emergency
Ben Okri
Author
15-Mar-1959   The Famished Road
Sharon Olds
Poet
19-Nov-1942   The Dead and the Living
Mary Oliver
Poet
10-Sep-1935   American Primitive
Charles Olson
Poet
27-Dec-1910 10-Jan-1970 The Maximus Poems
Elder Olson
Critic
9-Mar-1909 25-Jul-1992 Critics and Criticism
Michael Ondaatje
Novelist
12-Sep-1943   The English Patient
George Oppen
Poet
24-Apr-1908 7-Jul-1984 Objectivist proponent and poet
Peter Orlovsky
Poet
8-Jul-1933 30-May-2010 Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Otway
Playwright
3-Mar-1652 14-Apr-1685 Venice Preserved
Sir Thomas Overbury
Poet
18-Jun-1581 15-Sep-1613 The Wife
Ovid
Poet
20-Mar-43 BC 17 AD Metamorphoses
Wilfred Owen
Poet
18-Mar-1893 4-Nov-1918 Dulce Et Decorum Est
Luis Palés Matos
Poet
20-Mar-1898 23-Feb-1959 Tuntún de pasa y griferia
Grace Paley
Author
11-Dec-1922 22-Aug-2007 The Little Disturbances of Man
Francis Turner Palgrave
Critic
28-Sep-1824 24-Oct-1897 Golden Treasury
Giuseppe Parini
Poet
22-May-1729 15-Aug-1799 Il Mattino
Dorothy Parker
Author
22-Aug-1893 7-Jun-1967 Constant Reader known for acerbic quips
Thomas Parnell
Poet
1679 1718 The Hermit
Jean Passerat
Poet
18-Oct-1534 14-Sep-1602 Satyre ménippée
Boris Pasternak
Author
10-Feb-1890 30-May-1960 Doctor Zhivago
Kenneth Patchen
Poet
13-Dec-1911 8-Jan-1972 Journal of Albion Moonlight
Coventry Patmore
Poet
23-Jul-1823 26-Nov-1896 The Unknown Eros
Cesare Pavese
Poet
9-Sep-1908 27-Aug-1950 La luna e i falò
Octavio Paz
Poet
31-Mar-1914 19-Apr-1998 The Labyrinth of Solitude
Thomas Love Peacock
Novelist
18-Oct-1785 23-Jan-1866 Nightmare Abbey
James Gates Percival
Poet
15-Sep-1795 2-May-1856 Clio
Cristina Peri Rossi
Author
12-Nov-1941   Los Museos Abandonados
Bonaventure des Périers
Poet
1500 1544 Nouvelles récréations
Saint-John Perse
Poet
31-May-1887 20-Sep-1975 Exile
Fernando Pessoa
Author
13-Jun-1888 30-Nov-1935 Heteronymous author, The Book of Disquiet
Petrarch
Scholar
20-Jul-1304 19-Jul-1374 Father of Humanism
Phanocles
Poet
fl. 4th c. BC fl. 4th c. BC Greek elegiac poet
Philemon
Poet
c. 361 BC c. 263 BC Greek poet of the New Comedy
Manuel Philes
Poet
c. 1275 1345 Byzantine poet and flatterer
Philetas of Cos
Poet
fl 4th. c. BC fl. 4th c. BC Very thin Alexandrian poet, critic
Ambrose Philips
Poet
c. 1675 18-Jun-1749 Pastorals
John Philips
Poet
30-Dec-1676 15-Feb-1708 The Splendid Shilling
Katharine Philips
Poet
1-Jan-1631 22-Jun-1664 Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
Marge Piercy
Novelist
31-Mar-1936   Gone to Soldiers
Robert Pinsky
Poet
20-Oct-1940   US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000
Sylvia Plath
Poet
27-Oct-1932 11-Feb-1963 Daddy
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
19-Jan-1809 7-Oct-1849 The Raven
Politian
Scholar
14-Jul-1454 28-Sep-1494 Humanist under Lorenzo de Medici
Alexander Pope
Poet
21-May-1688 30-May-1744 The Dunciad
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
E. J. Pratt
Poet
4-Feb-1883 26-Apr-1964 Newfoundland Verse
Frederic Prokosch
Novelist
17-May-1908 6-Jun-1989 The Skies of Europe
Aleksandr Pushkin
Poet
26-May-1799 10-Feb-1837 Russia's greatest poet
Salvatore Quasimodo
Poet
20-Aug-1901 14-Jun-1968 Acque e terre
Raymond Queneau
Novelist
21-Feb-1903 25-Oct-1976 Zazie dans le métro
Kathleen Raine
Poet
14-Jun-1908 6-Jul-2003 Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake
John Crowe Ransom
Poet
30-Apr-1888 4-Jul-1974 God Without Thunder
Ishmael Reed
Novelist
22-Feb-1938   The Free-Lance Pallbearers
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Poet
9-Jan-1856 17-Dec-1935 A Handful of Lavendar
Kenneth Rexroth
Poet
22-Dec-1905 6-Jun-1982 Disenchanted beat poet
Bernardim Ribeiro
Author
c. 1482 Oct-1552 Menina e Moça
Adrienne Rich
Poet
16-May-1929 27-Mar-2012 An Atlas of the Difficult World
I. A. Richards
Critic
26-Feb-1893 7-Sep-1979 The Meaning of Meaning
Laura Riding
Poet
16-Jan-1901 2-Sep-1991 A Survey of Modernist Poetry
James Whitcomb Riley
Poet
7-Oct-1849 22-Jul-1916 The Hoosier Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet
04-Dec-1875 29-Dec-1926 Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
Arthur Rimbaud
Poet
20-Oct-1854 10-Nov-1891 Une Saison en Enfer
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Poet
10-Jan-1860 26-Nov-1943 Earth's Enigmas
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Author
30-Oct-1881 13-Mar-1941 The Great Meadow
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poet
22-Dec-1869 6-Apr-1935 The Man Against the Sky
Theodore Roethke
Poet
25-May-1908 1-Aug-1963 The Waking
Pierre de Ronsard
Poet
11-Sep-1524 27-Dec-1585 Lead Pléiade poet
Christina Rossetti
Poet
5-Dec-1830 29-Dec-1894 Goblin Market and Other Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Painter
12-May-1828 9-Apr-1882 English pre-Raphaelite painter
Muriel Rukeyser
Poet
15-Dec-1913 12-Feb-1980 The Book of the Dead
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Poet
19-May-1890 26-Apr-1916 Dispersão
Nelly Sachs
Poet
10-Dec-1891 12-May-1970 O the Chimneys
Thomas Sackville
Aristocrat
1536 19-Apr-1608 Earl of Dorset
Vita Sackville-West
Author
9-Mar-1892 2-Jun-1962 The Land
Pedro Salinas
Poet
27-Nov-1891 4-Dec-1951 Generation of '27
Carl Sandburg
Author
6-Jan-1878 22-Jul-1967 Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer
Sapphire
Novelist
4-Aug-1950   Push
Sappho
Poet
fl. c. 610 BC fl. c. 580 BC The Tenth Muse
May Sarton
Poet
3-May-1912 16-Jul-1995 Plant Dreaming Deep
Siegfried Sassoon
Poet
8-Sep-1886 1-Sep-1967 War Poems
Richard Savage
Poet
c. 1697 1-Aug-1743 Poet-subject of Life of Savage
Friedrich von Schiller
Playwright
10-Nov-1759 9-May-1805 Wallenstein
James Schuyler
Poet
9-Nov-1923 12-Apr-1991 Freely Espousing
Delmore Schwartz
Poet
8-Dec-1913 11-Jul-1966 Summer Knowledge
Sir Walter Scott
Author
15-Aug-1771 21-Sep-1832 Ivanhoe
Gil Scott-Heron
Poet
1-Apr-1949 27-May-2011 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Giorgos Seferis
Poet
1-Mar-1900 20-Sep-1971 Imerolóyion katastrómatos
Jaroslav Seifert
Poet
23-Sep-1901 10-Jan-1986 The Nightingale Sings Out of Tune
Léopold Senghor
Head of State
9-Oct-1906 20-Dec-2001 President of Senegal, 1960-80
Robert W. Service
Poet
16-Jan-1874 11-Sep-1958 Bard of the Yukon
Anne Sexton
Poet
9-Nov-1928 4-Oct-1974 Live or Die
William Shakespeare
Playwright
23-Apr-1564 23-Apr-1616 Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
Karl Shapiro
Poet
10-Nov-1913 14-May-2000 Person, Place and Thing
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
4-Aug-1792 8-Jul-1822 Prometheus Unbound
William Shenstone
Poet
18-Nov-1714 11-Feb-1763 The Schoolmistress
Carol Shields
Novelist
2-Jun-1935 16-Jul-2003 The Stone Diaries
Alan Sillitoe
Novelist
4-Mar-1928 25-Apr-2010 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Shel Silverstein
Poet
25-Sep-1930 10-May-1999 Where the Sidewalk Ends
Charles Simic
Poet
9-May-1938   The World Doesn't End
Simonides of Amorgos
Poet
fl. 7th c. BC fl. 7th c. BC Greek iambic poet
Simonides of Ceos
Poet
c. 556 BC c. 468 BC Greek lyric poet
Louis Simpson
Poet
27-Mar-1923   At The End of the Open Road
Edith Sitwell
Poet
7-Sep-1887 9-Dec-1964 Façade
John Skelton
Poet
c. 1460 21-Jun-1529 Why come ye nat to courte
W. D. Snodgrass
Poet
5-Jan-1926 13-Jan-2009 Heart's Needle
Gary Snyder
Poet
8-May-1930   Turtle Island
Robert Southey
Poet
12-Aug-1774 21-Mar-1843 A Vision of Judgment
Robert Southwell
Religion
c. 1561 21-Feb-1595 Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Stephen Spender
Poet
28-Feb-1909 16-Jul-1995 The Destructive Element
Edmund Spenser
Poet
c. 1552 13-Jan-1599 The Faerie Queene
Carl Spitteler
Poet
24-Apr-1845 29-Dec-1924 The Olympic Spring
William Stafford
Poet
17-Jan-1914 28-Aug-1993 Traveling Through the Dark
Statius
Poet
c. 45 AD 96 AD Silvae and Thebais
Mattie Stepanek
Poet
17-Jul-1990 22-Jun-2004 Muscular-dystrophic boy-poet
Wallace Stevens
Poet
2-Oct-1879 2-Aug-1955 Harmonium
Douglas Stewart
Playwright
6-May-1913 14-Feb-1985 Fire in the Snow
Theodor Storm
Poet
14-Sep-1817 4-Jul-1888 Schimmelreiter
Mark Strand
Poet
11-Apr-1934   U.S. Poet Laureate 1990-91
Sir John Suckling
Poet
1609 1642 Fragmenta Aurea
Sully Prudhomme
Poet
16-Mar-1839 7-Sep-1907 Parnassian poet
Aleksandr Sumarokov
Playwright
14-Nov-1717 12-Oct-1777 Founder of Russian classical drama
Susarion
Poet
fl. 6th c. BC fl. 6th c. BC Greek comic poet
May Swenson
Poet
28-May-1913 4-Dec-1989 Another Animal
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet
5-Apr-1837 10-Apr-1909 Masochist Victorian poet
Joshua Sylvester
Poet
1563 28-Sep-1618 Essay of the Second Week
John Addington Symonds
Critic
5-Oct-1840 19-Apr-1893 Renaissance in Italy
Arthur Symons
Poet
28-Feb-1865 22-Jan-1945 English symbolist poet
Wislawa Szymborska
Poet
2-Jul-1923 1-Feb-2012 Polish poet
Genevieve Taggard
Poet
28-Nov-1894 8-Nov-1948 Travelling Standing Still
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet
7-May-1861 7-Aug-1941 Gitanjali
Amber Tamblyn
Actor
14-May-1983   Joan of Arcadia
Tannhäuser
Poet
c. 1200 c. 1270 13th c. German Minnesinger
Torquato Tasso
Poet
11-Mar-1544 25-Apr-1595 Gerusalemme Liberata
Alessandro Tassoni
Poet
28-Sep-1565 25-Apr-1635 The Rape of the Bucket
Allen Tate
Poet
19-Nov-1899 9-Feb-1979 Mr. Pope and Other Poems
James Tate
Poet
8-Dec-1943   The Lost Pilot
Nahum Tate
Poet
1652 30-Jul-1715 Imitative British playwright
John Taylor
Poet
24-Aug-1580 Dec-1653 The Water-Poet
Sara Teasdale
Poet
8-Aug-1884 29-Jan-1933 Strange Victory
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
6-Aug-1809 6-Oct-1892 The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ernest Thayer
Poet
14-Aug-1863 21-Aug-1940 Casey at the Bat
Theocritus
Poet
c. 310 BC c. 250 BC Inventor of bucolic poetry
Dylan Thomas
Poet
27-Oct-1914 9-Nov-1953 Most influential Welsh poet
Tomas Tranströmer
Poet
15-Apr-1931   Scandinavian poet
Fyodor Tyutchev
Poet
23-Nov-1803 15-Jul-1873 Russian Golden Age poet
Tristan Tzara
Poet
16-Apr-1896 24-Dec-1963 Founded the Dada movement
Miguel de Unamuno
Philosopher
29-Sep-1864 31-Dec-1936 El Cristo de Velázquez
Louis Untermeyer
Poet
1-Oct-1885 18-Dec-1977 Anthologist of poetry
Paul Valéry
Poet
30-Oct-1871 20-Jul-1945 La Jeune Parque
Mark Van Doren
Poet
13-Jun-1894 10-Dec-1972 The Happy Critic
Mona Van Duyn
Poet
9-May-1921 1-Dec-2004 To See, To Take
Henry Vaughan
Poet
17-Apr-1622 23-Apr-1695 Silex Scintillans
Lope de Vega
Playwright
25-Nov-1562 27-Aug-1635 Reformed Spanish comedy
Paul Verlaine
Poet
30-Mar-1844 8-Jan-1896 Leader of symbolist poetry movement
Jones Very
Poet
28-Aug-1813 8-May-1880 Religious mystic
Peter Viereck
Poet
5-Aug-1916 13-May-2006 Terror and Decorum
Alfred de Vigny
Poet
27-Mar-1797 17-Sep-1863 Chatterton
Virgil
Poet
15-Oct-70 BC 21-Sep-19 BC The Aeneid
Walther von der Vogelweide
Poet
c. 1170 c. 1230 Medieval German lyric poet
Diane Wakoski
Poet
3-Aug-1937   Coins & Coffins
Derek Walcott
Poet
23-Jan-1930   In a Green Night
Margaret Walker
Novelist
7-Jul-1915 30-Nov-1998 Jubilee
Edmund Waller
Poet
3-Mar-1606 21-Oct-1687 Go, Lovely Rose
William Walsh
Poet
1663 1708 Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
Mercy Otis Warren
Historian
25-Sep-1728 19-Oct-1814 History of the American Revolution
Robert Penn Warren
Poet
24-Apr-1905 15-Sep-1989 First US Poet Laureate
Thomas Warton
Poet
9-Jan-1728 21-May-1790 English Poet Laureate, 1785-90
Thomas Watson
Poet
c. 1557 26-Sep-1592 The Tears of Fancie
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin
Poet
15-Sep-1584 13-Feb-1653 Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte
Philip Whalen
Poet
20-Oct-1923 26-Jun-2002 Canoeing up Carbaga Creek
Phillis Wheatley
Poet
c. 1743 5-Dec-1784 First prominent African-American poet
Walt Whitman
Poet
31-May-1819 26-Mar-1892 Leaves of Grass
Reed Whittemore
Poet
11-Sep-1919 6-Apr-2012 Heroes & Heroines
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet
17-Dec-1807 7-Sep-1892 American abolitionist poet
Michael Wigglesworth
Poet
18-Oct-1631 10-Jun-1705 The Day of Doom
Richard Wilbur
Poet
1-Mar-1921   Second U.S. Poet Laureate
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poet
5-Nov-1850 30-Oct-1919 Poems of Passion
C. K. Williams
Poet
4-Nov-1936   Repair
Saul Williams
Rapper
29-Feb-1972   Slam
William Carlos Williams
Poet
17-Sep-1883 4-Mar-1963 Pictures from Brueghel
John Wilmot
Poet
1-Apr-1647 26-Jul-1680 Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
Yvor Winters
Poet
17-Oct-1900 25-Jan-1968 Primitivism & Decadence
Larry Woiwode
Novelist
30-Oct-1941   What I'm Going to Do, I Think
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Poet
c. 1170 c. 1220 Parzival
William Wordsworth
Poet
7-Apr-1770 23-Apr-1850 English romantic poet laureate
James Wright
Poet
13-Dec-1927 25-Mar-1980 The Branch Will Not Break
Judith Wright
Poet
31-May-1915 26-Jun-2000 The Moving Image
Sir Thomas Wyat
Poet
1503 6-Oct-1542 Introduced sonnet to England
Elinor Wylie
Poet
7-Sep-1885 16-Dec-1928 Nets to Catch the Wind
Xenophanes
Poet
c. 560 BC c. 478 BC Pre-Socratic, early monotheist
Nikolai Yazykov
Poet
16-Mar-1803 26-Dec-1846 Russian Golden Age poet
William Butler Yeats
Poet
13-Jun-1865 28-Jan-1939 The Land of Heart's Desire
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poet
18-Jul-1933   Babi Yar
Edward Young
Poet
1683 5-Apr-1765 Night Thoughts
Louis Zukofsky
Poet
23-Jan-1904 12-May-1978 Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement



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