Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |