List of poets 64618 224353697 2008-07-08T14:02:53Z Delicious carbuncle 6189844 Reverted 1 edit by [[Special:Contributions/199.72.114.62|199.72.114.62]]; Rm nn poet. This is a '''list of poets'''. It lists notable poets. <!--People on this list should have articles of their own, and should meet the Wikipedia notability guidelines for their poetry. Please place names on the list only if there is a real and existing article on the poet. Dead links in RED will be removed and placed in the Discussion page.--> ==Alphabetical list== {{compactTOC}}__NOTOC__ === A === ====Ab-Ak==== *[[Dannie Abse]] (born [[1923 in poetry|1923]]), English poet *[[Milton Acorn]] ([[1923 in poetry|1923]]&ndash;[[1986 in poetry|1986]]), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright *[[Léonie Adams]] ([[1899 in poetry|1899]]&ndash;[[1988 in poetry|1988]]), American poet *[[Fleur Adcock]] (born [[1934 in poetry|1934]]), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England *[[Joseph Addison]] ([[1672 in poetry|1672]]&ndash;[[1719 in poetry|1719]]), English essayist, poet, writer and politician *[[Endre Ady]] ([[1877 in poetry|1877]]&ndash;[[1919 in poetry|1919]]), Hungarian poet *[[Aeschylus]] (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian *[[Lucius Afranius (poet)]] (fl. circa [[94 BC]]), Roman comic poet *[[Patience Agbabi]] (born [[1965 in poetry|1965]]), English poet *[[James Agee]] ([[1909 in poetry|1909]]&ndash;[[1955 in poetry|1955]]), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic *[[Dritëro Agolli]] (born [[1931 in poetry|1931]]), Albanian poet *[[Ai (poet)|Ai]] (born [[1947 in poetry|1947]]), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony *[[Conrad Aiken]] ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]&ndash;[[1973 in poetry|1973]]), American poet and author *[[Mark Akenside]] ([[1721 in poetry|1721]]&ndash;[[1770 in poetry|1770]]), English poet and physician *[[Bella Akhmadulina]] (born [[1957 in poetry|1957]]), Russian poet *[[Anna Akhmatova]] ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]&ndash;[[1966 in poetry|1966]]), Russian poet ====Al-Am==== *[[Luigi Alamanni]], (1495&ndash;1556) *[[Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi]], (1207-1273) *[[Alcman]] (''fl.'' 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet *[[Richard Aldington]] ([[1892 in poetry|1892]]&ndash;[[1962 in poetry|1962]]) *[[Claribel Alegria]] (born [[1924 in poetry|1924]]), Central American poet *[[Vicente Aleixandre]], ([[1898 in poetry|1898]]&ndash;[[1984 in poetry|1984]]), [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Laureate]] [[1977 in poetry|1977]] *[[Josip Murn Aleksandrov]] ([[1879 in poetry|1879]]&ndash;[[1901 in poetry|1901]]) *[[Muhammad Ali]], (born [[1942 in poetry|1942]]), [[Boxing|boxer]], war protester, civil rights protester, and [[poet]] *[[Dante Alighieri]], (1265-1321), Italian poet *[[James Alexander Allan]] ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]&ndash;[[1956 in poetry|1956]]), Australian poet *[[William Allingham]], (1824 or 1828-[[1889 in poetry|1889]]) *[[Damaso Alonso]] ([[1898 in poetry|1898]]&ndash;[[1990 in poetry|1990]]), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic *[[Natan Alterman]] ([[1910 in poetry|1910]]&ndash;[[1970 in poetry|1970]]), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator *[[Al Alvarez]] (born [[1929 in poetry|1919]]), English poet *[[Amara Sinha]] (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet *[[Ambroise]], Norman-French poet of the [[Third Crusade]] *[[Yehuda Amichai]] ([[1924 in poetry|1924]]&ndash;[[2000 in poetry|2000]]) Israeli poet *[[Kingsley Amis]] ([[1922 in poetry|1922]]&ndash;[[1995 in poetry|1995]]) English author and poet *[[A. R. Ammons]]([[1926 in poetry|1926]]&ndash;[[2001 in poetry|2001]]) American author and poet ====An-Ap==== *[[Anacreon (poet)|Anacreon]] (570 BC-488 BC), Greek lyric poet *[[Alfred Andersch]], ([[1914]]-[[1980]]) *[[Hans Christian Andersen]], [[Denmark|Danish]] poet ([[1805]]–[[1875]]) *[[Jon Anderson]], (born [[1944]]), [[England|English]] [[rock music]] vocalist and lyricist *[[Mário de Andrade]], ([[1893]]-[[1945]]), [[Literature of Brazil|Brazilian]] poet, [[novel]]ist, [[musicology|musicologist]], [[art history|art historian]] and [[art critic|critic]], and [[photography|photographer]] *[[Aneirin]], medieval (6th century) epic poet *[[Antler (poet)]], ([[1946]]-) *[[Brother Antoninus]] *[[Chairil Anwar]], (Indonesian poet: [[1922]]-[[1949]]) *[[Guillaume Apollinaire]], ([[1880]]-[[1918]]) *[[Apollonius of Rhodes]] (270-after 245 BC) ====Ar-Au==== *[[Louis Aragon]], (1897-1982) *[[Archilochus]], (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet *[[Hugh Antoine d'Arcy]] (1843-1925) *[[Walter Arensberg|Walter Conrad Arensberg]] (1878-1954), American Dada-ist <!-- his entry here has been handicapped by the former bad lk based on confusing his middle and surnames. I'm not attesting to his being a poet -- but there is no support for the existence of "Walter Arensberg Conrad" except WP, so surely this is who was intended by this entry that i've modified --> *[[Tudor Arghezi]] (Romanian poet) *[[Ludovico Ariosto]], (1474-1533) *[[Rae Armantrout]], (1947-) *[[Simon Armitage]], (born 1963) *[[Ernst Moritz Arndt]] *[[Achim von Arnim]], (1781-1831) *[[Bettina von Arnim]], (1785-1859) *[[Matthew Arnold]], (1822-1888) *[[Jean Arp]], (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet *[[Antonin Artaud]], (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist *[[John Ashbery]], (born 1927) *[[Anton Askerc]], (1856-1912) *[[Farid al-Din Attar]], (c. 1130-c. 1230) *[[Margaret Atwood]], (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist *[[W. H. Auden]], (1907-1973) *[[Ausiàs March]], (1397-1459) *[[Ausonius]], (c. 310-395) ====Av-Ay==== *[[Margaret Avison]] (born 1918) *[[Robert Ayton]] (1570-1638) *[[Ashok Chakradhar]] (Born 8th February 1951) === B === ====Ba==== =====Bab-Bal===== *[[Ken Babstock]], Canadian *[[Bacchylides]], (died c. 467 BC) *[[Ingeborg Bachmann]], (1926-1973) *[[Sutardji Calzoum Bachri]], The President of Indonesian Poet *[[George Bacovia]], Romanian poet *[[Janos Bacsanyi]], (1763-1845) *[[Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski|Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński]], (1921-1944) *[[Julio Baghy]] *[[Bai Juyi]] *[[Joanna Baillie]], (1762-1851) *[[Bâkî]], (1526–1600), [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman]] poet *[[Jesse Ball]] American poet =====Bar-Bax===== *[[Amiri Baraka]] (aka Leroi Jones) *[[Anna Laetitia Barbauld]], (1743-1825) *[[Porfirio Barba-Jacob]] *[[John Barbour (poet)|John Barbour]], (c. 1316-1395) *[[George Barker (poet)|George Barker]], (1913-1991) *[[Les Barker]] *[[Richard Barnefield]], (1574-1627) *[[William Barnes]], (1801-1886) *[[Elizabeth Barrett]](March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) *[[Charles Baudelaire]], (1821-1867) *[[James K. Baxter]], (1926-1972) ====Be==== *[[Francis Beaumont]], (1586-1616) *[[Joshua Beckman]] *[[Gustavo Adolfo Becquer]], (1836-1870) *[[Thomas Lovell Beddoes]], (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany) *[[Aphra Behn]], (1640-1689) *[[Marvin Bell]], (1937-?) *[[Gioconda Belli]], (born 1948) *[[Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli]], ([[Rome|Roman dialect]]) *[[Xuan Bello]], (born 1965), best-known [[asturian language]] poet *[[Hilaire Belloc]] *[[Andrey Bely]], (1880-1934) *[[Gottfried Ben]] *[[Stephen Vincent Benét]], (1898-1943) *[[William Rose Benet|William Rose Benét]], (1886-1950) *[[Gwendolyn B. Bennett]] *[[Jim Bennett]] (1951) A [[Liverpool]] (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk. *[[Ilhan Berk]] *[[Daniel Berrigan]] *[[Wendell Berry]] *[[John Berryman]] *[[John Betjeman]], (1906-1984) *[[Helen Bevington]] (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall) ====Bi-Bl==== <!-- *[[Bing and Cohen|Bing & Cohen]] (Greek & Roman erotic verse) -- must be Peter Bing and Rip Cohen, anthologists: ''Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman ...'' --> *[[Laurence Binyon]], (1879-1943) *[[Earle Birney]], (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama *[[Nevin Birsa]], (born 1947) *[[Elizabeth Bishop]], (1911-1979) *[[Bill Bissett]], (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry *[[Lucian Blaga]], Romanian poet *[[Don Blanding]], (fl. mid 20th cen.), American, *[[William Blake]], (1757-1827), English painter, poet *[[Aleksandr Blok]], (1880-1921) *[[Benjamin Paul Blood]], (1832-1919) *[[Michael Blumenthal]] *[[Roy Blumenthal]], (born 1968) *[[Edmund Blunden]] *[[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]] *[[Robert Bly]] ====Bo==== *[[Jean Bodel]] *[[Louise Bogan]] *[[Matteo Maria Boiardo]], Italian poet *[[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], (1636-1711) *[[Eavan Boland]], (born 1944) *[[Heinrich Böll]], (1917-1985) *[[Arna Wendell Bontemps]] *[[Jorge Luis Borges]], (1899-1986) *[[Tadeusz Borowski]] *[[Mark Alexander Boyd]], (1563-1601) *[[Kay Boyle]] (A Glad Day) ====Br==== =====Bra-Bri===== *[[Di Brandt]], (born [[1952]]), Manitoba poet and literary critic *[[Richard Brautigan]], ([[1935]]-[[1984]]) *[[Bertolt Brecht]], ([[1898]]-[[1956]]), German ''Three-penny Opera'' lyricist *[[Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero|Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero]] ([[1585]]-[[1618]]), Dutch poet and playwright *[[Christopher Brennan]], ([[1870]]-[[1932]]), Australian *[[Clemens Brentano]], ([[1778]]-[[1842]]) *[[Clemens Brentano|Clemens von Brentano]], ([[1778]]-[[1842]]) *[[André Breton]], ([[1896]]-[[1966]]) *[[Nicholas Breton]], ([[1542]]-[[1626]]) *[[Ken Brewer]], (born [[1941]]) *[[Robert Bridges]], ([[1844]]-[[1930]]) =====Bro-Bry===== *[[James Brock]], (born 1958) *[[Joseph Brodsky]], (1940-1996) *[[Wladyslaw Broniewski]] *[[William Bronk]], (died 1999) *[[Anne Brontë]], (1820-1849) *[[Charlotte Brontë]], (1816-1855) *[[Emily Brontë]], (1818-1848), British author *[[Rupert Brooke]], (1887-1915) *[[Gwendolyn Brooks]], (born 1917) *[[Joan Brossa]], (1919-1998) *[[Nicole Brossard]], (born 1943), [[formalism|formalist]] poet *[[Flora Brovina]] *[[Thomas Edward Brown]], (1830-1897) *[[George Mackay Brown]] *[[William Browne]], (1588-1643) *[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], (1806-1861) *[[Robert Browning]], (1812-1889) *[[William Cullen Bryant]], (1794-1878) *[[Bryher]] *[[Valeri Bryusov]], (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic ====Bu-By==== *[[Georg Büchner]] *[[Vincent Buckley]], (1927-1988) *[[Charles Bukowski]], (1920-1994) poet, novelist *[[Basil Bunting]] *[[Anthony Burgess]] (1917-1993): ''Byrne'', ''Revolutionary Sonnets'', etc. *[[Stanley Burnshaw]] *[[Robert Burns]], (1759-1796) *[[William S. Burroughs]], (1914-1997) *[[Edwin G. Burrows]] *[[Andrzej Bursa]] *[[Raegan Butcher]] *[[Ray Buttigieg]], (born 1955) poet, composer, musician *[[Ignazio Buttitta]], (Sicilian dialect) *[[Witter Bynner]] (also under Emanuel Morgan) *[[George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]], (1788-1824) === C === ====Ca==== =====Cab-Cap===== *[[Lydia Cabrera]] (Cuban poet - anthropoetry) *[[Caedmon]] (old English) *[[Cali Xuseen Xirsi]] *[[Musa Cälil]] (1906-1944), [[Tatar]] poet, prisoner of the war *[[Barry Callaghan]], (born 1937) *[[Callimachus]] (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet *[[Robert Calvert]], (1945-1988) *[[Luís de Camões]], (author of the [[Lusíadas]]) *[[Roy Campbell (Poet)|Roy Campbell]] (1901-1957) *[[Jan Campert]],(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist *[[Remco Campert]] (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist *[[Thomas Campion]], (1567-1619), composer, poet *[[Thomas Campbell]], (1774-1844) *[[Melville Henry Cane]], (1879-1980) *[[Ivan Cankar]], (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist *[[Mary Wedderburn Cannan]], (1893-1973) *[[Edip Cansever]] *[[Cao Cao]], (155 AD-220 AD) *[[Cao Pi]] *[[Cao Zhi]], (192-232) =====Car-Cav===== *[[Ernesto Cardenal]], (born 1925) *[[Giosuè Carducci]], (1835-1907) *[[Thomas Carew]], (1595-1639) *[[Henry Carey]], (1693-1743) *[[Bliss Carman]], (1861-1929) (''Low Tide on Grand Pre'') *[[Lewis Carroll]], (1832-1898) *[[Hayden Carruth]] *[[Anne Carson]], (born 1950) *[[Jared Carter]] (born 1939) *[[William Cartwright]], (1611-1643) *[[Cyrus Cassells]], (born 1957) *[[Catullus]], (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet *[[Charles Causley]] *[[C. P. Cavafy]], (1863-1933) ====Ce-Ci==== *[[Paul Celan]], (1920-1970) *[[Anica Cernej]], (1900-1944) *[[Luis Cernuda]], (1903-1963) *[[Mário Cesariny]], (1923-2006) *[[John Chalkhill]] *[[Jean Chapelain]], (1595-1674) *[[Arthur Chapman]], (1873-1935) *[[George Chapman]], (1560-1634) *[[René Char]], (1907-1998) *[[Craig Charles]], (born 1964), ([[Red Dwarf (television)|Red Dwarf]], [[Captain Butler]]) *[[Thomas Chatterton]] *[[Geoffrey Chaucer]], (ca.1343-1400), ''Chanticleer the Fox'' (extract from ''[[Canterbury Tales]]'') *[[Billy Childish]] *[[Dario Chioli]], Italian poet, born 1956 *[[Choe Chiwon]], Korean ([[Silla]]) poet, born 857 *[[Henri Chopin]], (born 1922) *[[Chrétien de Troyes]], (fl. 12th century) *[[Ralph Chubb]], (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer *[[John Ciardi]], [[Italian-American]] poet ====Cl==== *[[Amy Clampitt]] *[[John Clare]], (1793-1864) *[[George Elliott Clarke]], poet, [[U of T]] professor *[[Paul Claudel]], (1868-1955) *[[Matthias Claudius]] *[[Brian P. Cleary]] *[[Michelle Cliff]] *[[Lucille Clifton]], *[[Arthur Hugh Clough]], (1819-1861) ====Co==== =====Coc-Cor===== *[[Jean Cocteau]], (1889-1963), French writer *[[Leonard Cohen]], (born 1934), poet/singer *[[Hartley Coleridge]], (1796-1849) *[[Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]], (1861-1907) *[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], (1772-1834), English poet *[[Billy Collins]] (U.S. Poet Laureate) *[[William Collins (poet)|William Collins]], (1721-1759) *[[William Congreve (playwright)|William Congreve]], (1670-1729), English poet *[[Robert Conquest]], historian and poet *[[Henry Constable]], (1562-1613) *[[Clark Coolidge]] *[[Wendy Cope]] *[[Tristan Corbière]], (1845-1875) * [[Francis Cornford]] and [[Frances Cornford]] *[[Gregory Corso]], Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb". *[[Jayne Cortez]] =====Cot-Cow===== *[[Malcolm Cowley]], (1898-1989), (Dada) *[[Abraham Cowley]], (1618-1667) *[[William Cowper]], (1731-1800) ====Cr-Cz==== *[[George Crabbe]], (1754-1832) *[[Hart Crane]], (1899-1932), (The Bridge) *[[Stephen Crane]], (1871-1900), USA writer *[[Richard Crashaw]], (1613-1649) *[[Robert Creeley]], (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School) *[[Octave Crémazie]] *[[Charles Cros]], (1842-1888), French poet and inventor *[[Aleister Crowley]], (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet *[[Cui Hao (poet)|Cui Hao]], Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet *[[Countee Cullen]], (died 1946) *[[Necati Cumalı]] *[[e e cummings]], (1894-1962) *[[Allan Cunningham]], (1784-1842) *[[Allen Curnow]], (1911-2001) *[[Ivor Cutler]], Scottish poet, musician and thinker === D === ====Da==== *[[Roque Dalton]], (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet *[[Sapardi Djoko Damono]], Indonesian Poet *[[David Daniels (poet)|David Daniels]], (1933- ) Visual Poet *[[Jeffrey Daniels (author)|Jeffrey Daniels]], African-American Poet *[[Gabriele D'Annunzio]], (1863-1938), revolutionary *[[Jia Dao]] *[[Rubén Darío]], (1867-1916) *[[Erasmus Darwin]], (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist *[[Jibanananda Das]],(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author *[[René Daumal]], (1908-1944) *[[Jean Daurat]], (1508-1588) *[[Alan Davies (poet)|Alan Davies]], American poet *[[W. H. Davies]] *[[William Davenant]], (1606-1668) *[[Donald Davidson (poet)|Donald Davidson]], (1893-1968) *[[John Davies (poet)|John Davies]], (1569-1626), historian *[[Edward Davison]], (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference) *[[Peter Davison (poet)|Peter Davison]], (born 1951), (son of Edward) *[[Denis Davydov]], (1784-1839) *[[Cecil Day-Lewis]] ====De==== *[[James Deahl]] *[[Aurora de Albornoz]], (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet *[[Aleš Debeljak]], (born 1961) *[[Daniel Defoe]], (1659/61? - 1731) *[[Walter de la Mare]], author, poet *[[Thomas Dekker (poet)|Thomas Dekker]], (1575-1641) *[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]], (1651-1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet *[[Leconte de Lisle]], [[parnassian]] poet *[[François de Malherbe]], (1555-1628), *[[Alfred de Musset]], (1810-1857), 19th century poet *[[Gérard de Nerval]], (1808-1855) *[[Baltasar del Alcázar]], (1530-1606) *[[Tory Dent]], (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour) * [[Evariste de Parny]], 18th century French poet *[[Regina Derieva]], (born 1949) *[[Toi Derricotte]], (born 1941), African American Poet *[[Babette Deutsch]] (1895-1982) *[[Aubrey de Vere]] *[[Alfred de Vigny]], (1797-1863), 19th century poet ====Di-Do==== *[[Diane Di Prima]] (Memoirs of a Beatnik) *[[Souéloum Diagho]] (contemporary Tuareg poet) *[[Jennifer K Dick]], (b 1970), American Poet *[[Emily Dickinson]], (1830-1886), American poet *[[James Dickey]], (1923-1997) *[[Blaga Dimitrova]] *[[Paul Dirmeikis]], (1954- ), French poet *[[Thomas M. Disch]], (1940-2008), American poet, novelist *[[Henry Austin Dobson]] *[[Stephen Dobyns]], American author, novelist, poet *[[Pete Doherty]], (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet *[[Antonia Donatiello]], (born 1950), Italian writer and poet *[[John Donne]], (1572-1631) *[[H.D.|Hilda Doolittle]], (1886-1961), U.S. [[Imagist]] poet *[[Gavin Douglas]] *[[Keith Douglas]], (1920-1944) *[[Rita Dove]] *[[Ernest Dowson]], (1867-1900) ====Dr==== *[[Jane Draycott]] *[[Michael Drayton]], (1563-1631) *[[Aleksander Stavre Drenova]], (1872-1947), Albanian poet *[[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]], (1882-1937) *[[Annette von Droste-Hülshoff]], (1797-1848), German poet *[[William Drummond]], (1585-1649) *[[William Henry Drummond]], (1854-1907), poet, ''The habitant'' *[[John Dryden]], (1631-1700), poet and playwright ====Du-Dy==== *[[Joachim du Bellay]], (c. 1522-1560) *[[W.E.B. DuBois]], (1868-1963), writer, activist *[[Du Fu]], the Poet Saint *[[Du Mu]], (803-852), Chinese poet *[[Alan Dugan]] *[[Carol Ann Duffy]], (born 1955) *[[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], (1872-1906) *[[William Dunbar]], (1465-1520) *[[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]] (Black Mountain School) *[[Douglas Dunn]], (born 1942) *[[Stephen Dunn]] *[[Helen Dunmore]], poet, novelist *[[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany]], (1878-1957), Irish poet *[[Lawrence Durrell]], (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems) *[[Stuart Dybek]] *[[Bob Dylan]], born 1941 === E === ====Ea-Er==== *[[Richard Eberhart]] *[[Russell Edson]] *[[Joseph von Eichendorff]], (1788-1857) *[[George Eliot]], (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans) *[[T. S. Eliot]], (1888-1965), writer *[[Ebenezer Elliott]], (1781-1849) *[[Royston Ellis]], English poet inspired by Beat Generation *[[Ana Elsner]], multi-lingual American poet *[[Paul Eluard]], French poet *[[Claudia Emerson]], (born 1957) American poet *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], (1803-1882), American author *[[Gevorg Emin]], (1918-1998), Armenian poet *[[Mihai Eminescu]], Romanian poet *[[William Empson]], (1906-1984) *[[Yunus Emre]] *[[Michael Ende]], (1929-1995), German poet *[[R.M. Engelhardt]], (born 1964), American poet *[[Paul Engle]] *[[Ennius]] *[[Hans Magnus Enzensberger]], (born 1929), German poet *[[Louise Erdrich]], (born 1954), author *[[Haydar Ergülen]] *[[Max Ernst]], (1891-1976), (Dada) *[[Mehmet Erte]] ====Es-Ew==== *[[Maggie Estep]], American slam poet *[[Wolfram von Eschenbach]], (died 1220) *[[Clayton Eshleman]] (Antiphonal Swing) *[[Florbela Espanca]], (poet) *[[Salvador Espriu]], writer *[[Euripides]] (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian *[[Mari Evans]] *[[William Everson]] (In The Fictive Wish) *[[Gavin Ewart]] === F === *[[Faruk Iremet]] (1965-), Swedish, Zazaish and Turkish poet ====Fe-Fo==== *[[Fenggan]] *[[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] (1919-) *[[Leandro Fernández de Moratín]] (1760-1828) *[[Ian Hamilton Finlay]], (born 1925) *[[Annie Finch]], American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956 *[[Edward FitzGerald (poet)|Edward Fitzgerald]], (1809-1883) *[[Robert Fitzgerald]] (1910 - 1985) *[[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], (1579-1625) *[[John Gould Fletcher]], (1886-1950), [[Imagist]] poet *[[F. S. Flint]] (Imagist manifestos) *[[Theodor Fontane]], (1819-1898) *[[John Forbes (poet)|John Forbes]], (1950-1998), Australian poet *[[Carolyn Forché]], born 1950 *[[Ford Madox Ford]], (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers. *[[John Ford (dramatist)|John Ford]], (1586-1639), playwright and poet. *[[John M. Ford]], (1957-2006), novelist and poet. *[[Ugo Foscolo]], (1778-1827) *[[Hristo Fotev]], (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet *[[Fazil Jamili]], (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan ====Fr-Fu==== *[[Janet Frame]], (born 1924) *[[Robert Francis (poet)|Robert Francis]], (1901-1987) *[[Veronica Franco]], (1546-1591) *[[Naim Frashëri]] (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 1900 *[[Louis Fréchette]], (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist *[[Erich Fried]], (1921-1988) *[[Max Frisch]], (1911-1991), Swiss poet *[[Robert Frost]], (1874-1963), American poet *[[Gene Frumkin]], (1928-2007), American poet *[[Alice Fulton]], (born 1952), [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]] winner *[[Fazil Jamili]], (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan *[[Fuzûlî]], (1483?–1556), [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] poet === G === ====Ga-Gl==== *[[Mirza Ghalib|Asadulla Khan Ghalib]], (1796-1869) Urdu & Persian Poet *[[Etienne-Paulin Gagne]] (1808-1876) *[[Jean Garrigue]] (1914 - 1972) *[[Samuel Garth]] (1661 - 1719) *[[George Gascoigne]], (1525-1577) *[[David Gascoyne]] (1916 - 2001) *[[Théophile Gautier]], (1811-1872) *[[John Gay]], (1685-1732), songwriter, poet *[[Stefan George]], (1868-1933) *[[Paul Gerhardt]], (c. 1606-1676) *[[Aaref Ghazvini]], (1882- 1934) *[[Charles Ghigna (Father Goose)]] (born 1946) *[[Khalil Gibran]], (The Prophet) (1883-1931) *[[Wilfred Wilson Gibson]] (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962) *[[Allen Ginsberg]], (1926-1997) *[[Dana Gioia]] (essays on poetry) *[[Nikki Giovanni]], (born 1943) *[[Giuseppe Giusti]], (1809-1850) *[[Denis Glover]], (1912-1980) *[[Louise Gluck|Louise Glück]], (1943 - ) [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]] ====Go==== *[[Gérald Godin]], (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], (1749-1832), ''(part-time;)'' *[[Octavian Goga]] (1881-1938) Romanian poet *[[Leah Goldberg|Lea Goldberg]], (1911-1970) *[[Rumer Godden]] (In Noahs Ark) *[[Ziya Gökalp]] *[[Oliver Goldsmith]], (1730-1774), ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes'' *[[Pavel Golia]] (1887-1959) *[[Luis de Gongora]], Spanish poet *[[Lorna Goodison]] (born 1947) Jamaican poet *[[Sergei Gorodetsky]] (1884-1967) *[[Herman Gorter]] (1864-1927), Dutch poet ====Gr==== =====Gra-Gri===== *[[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 (16th century)|Robert Greene]], (1558-1592) *[[Horace Gregory]] *[[Eamon Grennan]] *[[Fulk Greville]], (1554-1628) *[[Bill Griffiths]], (born 1948) *[[Franz Grillparzer]] *[[Nicholas Grimald]], (1519-1562) *[[Angelina Weld Grimke]] *[[Charlotte Forten Grimke]] =====Gro-Gy===== *[[Stanisław Grochowiak]] *[[Philip Gross]] *[[Igo Gruden]], (1893-1948) *[[Edgar Guest]], (American poet of the [[1920s]]) *[[Jorge Guillen]], (1893-1984) *[[Nicolas Guillen|Nicolas Guillén]], (1902-1989), (Cuban poet) *[[Guido Guinizelli]] *[[Guiot de Provins]], (French poet of the 12th century) *[[Gül Baba]] *[[Nikolay Gumilyov]], (1886-1921) *[[Dzivo Gundulic|Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola]], (1589-1638) *[[Thom Gunn]], (born 1929) *[[Ivor Gurney]], (1890-1937) *[[Pedro Juan Gutiérrez]] ([[Cuba]], [[1950]]- ) *[[Brion Gysin]], (1916-1986) === H === ====Ha==== *[[Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi']] *[[Hafez (poet)|Hafez]] *[[Han Yu]] *[[Hanshan (poet)|Han-Shan]] *[[Thomas Hardy]], (1840-1928), English poet *[[Tony Harrison]], (born 1937) *[[Carla Harryman]], (born 1952) *[[Gwen Harwood]] *[[Alamgir Hashmi]] *[[Ahmet Haşim]] *[[Gerhart Hauptmann]], (1862-1946) *[[Stephen Hawes]], (died 1523) *[[Robert Stephen Hawker]], (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar *[[Robert Hayden]] ====He==== *[[Seamus Heaney]], (born 1939), [[Saoi]] of [[Aosdána]] *[[John Heath-Stubbs]] *[[Anne Hébert]], poet and novelist *[[Anthony Hecht]], (1923-2004) *[[Jennifer Michael Hecht]] *[[John Hegley]], also performs as half of the "Popticians" *[[Heinrich Heine]], (1797-1856) *[[Felicia Hemans]], (1793-1835) *[[William Ernest Henley]], (1849-1903) *[[Adrian Henri]] *[[George Herbert]], (1593-1633), public orator and poet *[[Zbigniew Herbert]] *[[Johann Gottfried Herder]] *[[Johann Gottfried von Herder]], (1744-1803) *[[Miguel Hernandez]], (1910-1942) *[[Antoine Héroet]], (died 1568) *[[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], (1591-1674), English poet *[[Hesiod]], ancient Greek poet *[[Phoebe Hesketh]], (1909-2005), English poet *[[Hermann Hesse]], (1877-1962), author of ''[[The Glass Bead Game]]'', ''[[Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' *[[Dorothy Hewett]], novelist, poet *[[Thomas Heywood]], (157?-1650) ====Hi-Hr==== *[[William Heyen]], poet, literary critic, novelist *[[Dick Higgins]], (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher *[[Scott Hightower]], (born 1952) *[[Geoffrey Hill]], (born 1932) *[[Nazım Hikmet]] *[[Ellen Hinsey]], poet *[[H.L. Hix]], American poet *[[Rolf Hochhuth]], (born 1931), playwright *[[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], (1874-1929) *[[James Hogg]], (1770-1835) *[[Friedrich Hölderlin]], (1770-1843) *[[John Hollander]], (born 1929) *[[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]], (1809-1894), USA scholar *[[Homer]], epic poet, author of the [[Iliad]] and the [[Odyssey]] *[[Hugh Hood]], Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age). *[[Thomas Hood]], (1798-1845) *[[A. D. Hope]] (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000) *[[Gerard Manley Hopkins]], (1844-1889) *[[Horace|Quintus Horatius Flaccus]] *[[George Moses Horton]] *[[Joan Houlihan]] *[[Alfred Edward Housman|A. E. Housman]], (1859-1936) *[[Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey]], (1517-1547) *[[Richard Howard]] *[[Fanny Howe]] *[[Susan Howe]] ====Hu==== *[[Mohammad Nurul Huda]], a modern poet from Bangladesh *[[Langston Hughes]], (1902-1967) *[[Ted Hughes]], (1930-1998) *[[Richard Hugo]] *[[Victor Hugo]], (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright *[[Vicente Huidobro]], (1893-1948) *[[Lynda Hull]], (1954-1994) *[[Alexander Hume]], (1560-1609) *[[James Henry Leigh Hunt]], (1784-1859), English poet *[[Aldous Huxley]], (1894-1963) === I === *[[Avetik Isahakyan]], (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet === J === ====Ja-Ju==== *[[Richard Jago]], (1715-1781) *[[Clive James]] *[[Randall Jarrell]] *[[Robinson Jeffers]], (died 1962) *[[Simon Jenko]], (1835-1869) *[[Elizabeth Jennings]] *[[Jia Dao]] *[[John of the Cross]] (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet *[[Edmund John]] *[[Georgia Douglas Johnson]] *[[Helene Johnson]] *[[James Weldon Johnson]], (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader *[[Lionel Johnson]] *[[Samuel Johnson]], (1709-1784) *[[David Jones (poet)|David Jones]], (1895-1974), artist and poet *[[Ben Jonson]], (1573-1637), poet and dramatist *[[Anthony Joseph]] *[[Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj|Jovan Jovanović Zmaj]] (1833-1904) *[[James Joyce]], (1882-1941) *[[Frank Judge]], (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic *[[Jamal Jumá]], (born 1956) *[[Donald Justice]], (1925-2004), poet and artist *[[Juvenal]] (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist === K === ====Ka-Kh==== *[[Kábir]], *[[Uuno Kailas]] (1901-1933), Finnish *[[Kálmán Kalocsay]], (1891-1976) *[[Ilya Kaminsky]] (born 1977) *[[Orhan Veli Kanik]] *[[Andreas Karavis]], (born 1932) *[[Erich Kästner]], (1899-1974), poet, novelist *[[Bob Kaufman]] (coined "Beatnik") *[[Patrick Kavanagh]], (1904-1967) *[[John Keats]], (1795-1821) *[[Weldon Kees]] *[[Arthur Kelton]], (d. 1549/1550) *[[X. J. Kennedy]] *[[Jack Kerouac]], (1922-1969), US writer *[[Frederick Kesner (poet)|Frederick Kesner]] (born 1967) Australian poet *[[Keorapetse Kgositsile]] *[[Khushal Khan Khattak]] *[[Omar Khayyám]], (1048-1122) *[[Velemir Khlebnikov]], (1885-1922) *[[Vladislav Khodasevich]], (1886-1939) *[[Nikos Kavvadias]], (1910-1975), Greek poet ====Ki-Kn==== *[[Joyce Kilmer]], (1886-1918) *[[Amy King]] *[[Henry King]], (1592-1669) *[[William King (poet)|William King]], (1663-1712) *[[Gottfried Kinkel]], (1815-1882) *[[Galway Kinnell]] (born 1927, Body Bags) *[[John Kinsella]] (born 1963) *[[Thomas Kinsella]] *[[Rudyard Kipling]], (1865-1936), ''[[Just So Stories]]'' *[[Necip Fazıl Kısakürek]] *[[Eila Kivikk'aho]] (1921-2004) *[[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]], (1724-1803) *[[Etheridge Knight]] ====Ko==== =====Kob-Ky===== *[[Jan Kochanowski]] (1530-84) *[[Kenneth Koch]] (NY Poet school) *[[Yusef Komunyakaa]] (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.) *[[Faik Konica]] *[[Ted Kooser]] *[[Koroglu]] *[[Srecko Kosovel]] (1904-1926) *[[Taja Kramberger]] (born 1970) *[[Ignacy Krasicki]] (1735-1801) *[[Ruth Krauss]] *[[Miroslav Krleza|Miroslav Krleža]] (1589-1638), poet, novelist *[[Maxine Kumin]] *[[Stanley Kunitz]] *[[Tuli Kupferberg]] (born 1923) *[[Onat Kutlar]] === L === ====La==== *[[Pierre Labrie]] poet from Quebec (1972- ) *[[Jarkko Laine]] Finnish poet *[[Philip Lamantia]] *[[Alphonse de Lamartine]] *[[Charles Lamb]], (1775-1834) *[[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] *[[Walter Savage Landor]], (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy) *[[Philip Larkin]], (1922-1985) *[[James Laughlin]] *[[Comte de Lautréamont]], (1846-1870) *[[D. H. Lawrence]], (1885-1930), author of ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' *[[Henry Lawson]], prose and poetry *[[Layamon]] *[[Eric Layman]] *[[Irving Layton]], (born 1912 - 2006) *[[Lalitha Lenin]] ====Le==== *[[Edward Lear]] (1812-1888) *[[Jan Lechon]] *[[Francis Ledwidge]] (1887-1917) *[[Dennis Lee]], writer of children's poetry *[[Eino Leino]] (1878-1926), Finnish *[[Giacomo Leopardi]] (1798-1837), Italian poet *[[Mikhail Lermontov]] (1814-1841), poet, novelist *[[Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov]], (1814-1841), poet, author and painter *[[Boleslaw Lesmian]] *[[Rika Lesser]] *[[Gotthold Lessing]], playwright, poet *[[Denise Levertov]] (Black Mountain triumvirate) *[[Philip Levine (poet)|Philip Levine]] *[[Larry Levis]] *[[D. A. Levy]] (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher *[[William Levy]] *[[Saunders Lewis]] (1893-1985) *[[Wyndham Lewis]] (1884-1957) ====Li==== *[[Li Hou Zhu]], (931-978) *[[José Lezama Lima]] (Cuban) *[[Tim Liardet]] *[[Li Po]], (701-762), the Poet Immortal *[[Li Qiao]] *[[Li Qingzhao]] *[[Li Shangyin]] *[[Tim Lilburn]] *[[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]], (1906-2001) *[[Vachel Lindsay]], (1879-1931) *[[Thomas Lodge]], (1556-1625) *[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], (1807-1882), American *[[Federico García Lorca]] *[[Richard Lovelace]], (1618-1658) *[[Amy Lowell]], (1874-1925), American *[[James Russell Lowell]], (1819-1891), American *[[Robert Lowell]], (1917-1977), American *[[Mina Loy]] (Dada) *[[Lu You]] *[[Gherasim Luca]] *[[Lucilius]] *[[Maria White Lowell]], (1821-1853), American *[[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]], (39-65), Roman *[[Lucretius]], (98?-55 BC), physicist *[[Fitz Hugh Ludlow]] (1836-1870) *[[Luo Binwang]] *[[Mario Luzi]] *[[John Lydgate]], (1370-1450) *[[John Lyly]], (1553-1606) *[[George Lyttelton]], (1709-1773) ===M=== ====Ma==== =====Mac-Mak===== *[[Hugh MacDiarmid]], (1892-1978) *[[George MacDonald]], (1824-1905), poet, novelist *[[Sorley MacLean]], (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet *[[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], Canadian writer, poet *[[Arthur Machen]], (1863-1947), Irish poet *[[Compton Mackenzie]] *[[Archibald MacLeish]], (1892-1982) *[[Louis MacNeice]], (1907-1963) *[[Haki R. Madhubuti]] *[[John Gillespie Magee, Jr.]], (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer) *[[Derek Mahon]] (Northern Irish poet) *[[Rudolf Maister]] (1874-1934), general and poet *[[G. D. Madgulkar]] (1919-Unknown) [[Marathi]] and [[Hindi]] poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator. =====Mal-Mar===== *[[Stéphane Mallarmé|Stephane Mallarme]], (1842-1898) *[[David Mallet (dramatist and poet)|David Mallet]] *[[Sir Thomas Malory]] *[[Goffredo Mameli]] (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer *[[Osip Mandelstam]] (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet *[[James Clarence Mangan]] *[[Bill Manhire]] (born 1946) *[[Marcus Manilius|Manilius]] *[[Heinrich Mann]], (1871-1950) *[[Klaus Mann]], (1906-1949) *[[Thomas Mann]], (1875-1955), author *[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]], (1895-1988) *[[Robert Mannyng of Brunne]], (1269-1340) *[[Chris Mansell]] (1953-) *[[Alessandro Manzoni]], (1785-1873), poet, novelist *[[Ausias March]], (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century *[[Marie de France]], (fl. 12th century) *[[Giambattista Marini]], (1569-1625) *[[Edwin Markham]] *[[Christopher Marlowe]], (1564-1593), English playwright *[[Clément Marot]], (1496-1544) *[[Martial]] (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist *[[Harry Martinson]], (1904-1978), Swedish poet *[[Andrew Marvell]], (1621-1678) =====Mas-Maz===== *[[John Masefield]], (1878-1967) *[[Edgar Lee Masters]], (1869-1950) *[[Matsuo Bashō]], (1644-1694), [[haiku]] poet *[[Glyn Maxwell]], (born 1962) *[[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], (1893-1930) *[[Karl May]], (1842-1912), German poet ====Mc==== *Dermot McCarthy, (born 1948), Canadian poet and academic *[[Michael McClure]] (Dark Brown - beat) *[[John McCrae]], (1872-1918), ''[[In Flanders Fields]]'' *[[Bryant H. McGill]] *[[William Topaz McGonagall]], (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language *[[Roger McGough]], (born 1937), comedian, poet *[[Campbell McGrath]] *[[Wendy McGrath]] *[[Thomas McGrath (poet)|Thomas McGrath]], (1916-1990) *[[Duncan McIntyre]], Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre *[[James McIntyre (poet)|James McIntyre]], (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history *[[Claude McKay]] *[[Don McKay]] *[[Rod McKuen]] *[[James McMichael]] (born 1939) ====Me==== *[[Meng Houran]] *[[Norman MacCaig]] *[[Mei Yaochen]] *[[Meng Haoran]] *[[George Meredith]], (1828-1909), English poet, novelist *[[Stuart Merrill]], (1863-1915), (symbolist) *[[James Merrill]], (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days) *[[Thomas Merton]], (1915-1968), American author and [[Trappist]] [[monk]] *[[W. S. Merwin|W.S. Merwin]], (The Miner's Pale Children) *[[Sarah Messer]], (born 1966), American poet and writer *[[Charlotte Mew]], (1869-1928) *[[Henry Meyer]], (1840-1925) ====Mi-Ml==== * [[Henri Michaux]], poet and painter * [[Adam Mickiewicz]], (1798-1855), outstanding [[Poland|Polish]] poet and writer * [[Veronica Micle]] ([[1850]]-[[1889]]) * [[Agnes Miegel]], (1879-1964) * [[Josephine Miles]] * [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], (1892-1950) * [[Joaquin Miller]], (1837-1913) * [[Leslie Adrienne Miller]] * [[Tim Miller]], poet and publisher * [[Spike Milligan]], (1918-2002), (The Goon Show) * [[Czesław Miłosz]], [[Polish poet]], [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1980]] (1911-2004) * [[Alice Duer Miller]] * [[Grazyna Miller]], [[poet]] and [[translator]] [[Italian language|Italian]] -[[Polish language|Polish]], * [[John Milton]], (1608-1674), English poet * [[Gabriela Mistral]], (1889-1957), Winner of the [[nobel prize]] for literature. * [[Adrian Mitchell]] * [[S. Weir Mitchell]], American novelist, poet * [[Ndre Mjeda]] ====Mo==== *[[Harold Monro]] *[[Harriet Monroe]] (Poetry magazine) *[[Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax]], (1661-1715), creator of the [[Bank of England]] *[[Eugenio Montale]] (Nobel Laureate) *[[Marianne Moore]], (1887-1972) *[[Dom Moraes]] *[[Edythe Morahan de Lauzon]], poetess *[[Merrill Moore]], (1903-1957), [[Sonneteer]] *[[Thomas Moore]], (1779-1852) *[[Frederick Morgan]] *[[John Morgan (poet)|John Morgan]], (1688-1733) *[[Christian Morgenstern]], (1871-1914) *[[William Morris]], (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter) *[[Jim Morrison]] (poet, songwriter) *[[Stephen Morse]] (1945 - ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher) *[[Moschus]] (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet *[[Howard Moss]] *[[Andrew Motion]], (poet laureate 1999-) *[[Enrique Moya]], (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958) ====Mu==== *[[Erich Mühsam]], (1878-1934), [[Germany|German]] poet and revolutionary *[[Paul Muldoon]], (born 1951) *[[Lale Müldür]], (born 1956) *[[Laura Mullen]], American poet *[[Sheila Murphy]], U.S. poet *[[Joan Murray]], (born 1945), U.S. poet. *[[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], (born 1938) *[[Anthony Munday]], (1553-1633) *[[Richard Murphy (poet)|Richard Murphy]], poet, member of [[Aosdána]] *[[Susan Musgrave]], Poet. *[[Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri]], Pakistani poet and scholar === N === ====Na-Nj==== *[[Ogden Nash]], (1902-1971), : ''[[Santa Claus]]'' *[[Thomas Nashe]], (1567-1601) *[[Nedîm]], (1681?–1730), [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman]] poet *[[John Neihardt]], (1881-1973) *[[Émile Nelligan]], (1879-1941), Quebec poet *[[Howard Nemerov]], (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins) *[[Pablo Neruda]], (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the [[nobel prize]] for literature. *[[Nesîmî]], (d. 1417?), [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] poet *[[Neşâtî]], (d. 1674), [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman]] poet *[[Henry John Newbolt|Henry Newbolt]], (1862-1938), historian, poet *[[John Henry Newman]], (1801-1890) *[[Nezami]] (1141–1209) *[[Aimee Nezhukumatathil]] (1974- ) *[[B. P. Nichol]], (1944-1988) *[[John Gambril Nicholson]] (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931) *[[Lorine Niedecker]] (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970) *[[Millosh Gjergj Nikolla|Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)]] *[[Petar Petrovic Njegos]], (1813-1851), [[Serbs|Serb]] poet & ruler ====No-Ny==== *[[Christopher Nolan]], (born 1970), poet, member of [[Aosdána]] *[[Fan Noli]] (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965) *[[Olga Nolla|Nolla, Olga]] (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer *[[Caroline Norton]] (1808 - 1877) *[[Cyprian Kamil Norwid]] *[[Novalis]], (1772-1801), German poet and novelist *[[Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)]] *[[Alfred Noyes]] *[[Naomi Shihab Nye]] === O === *[[Francis Ohanyido]] (1970- ), African Philosopher -Poet *[[Frank O'Hara]] (1926-1966), [[New York School]] *[[Sharon Olds]] *[[Mary Oliver]] *[[Charles Olson]] ([[Black Mountain School]] founder) *[[Saishu Onoe]], Japanese poet *[[George Oppen]] *[[Peter Orlovsky]] (beat) *[[Öser]] *[[Alice Oswald]] *[[Ouyang Xiu]] *[[Ovid]], (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet *[[Wilfred Owen]], (1893-1918) *[[Ismet Özel]] === P === ====Pa==== *[[Ruth Padel]] (born 8 May 1946) *[[Ron Padgett]] *[[Grace Paley]] *[[Francis Turner Palgrave]] (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897) *[[Santeri Palin]], (1983-), Finnish poet *[[Palladas]] *[[Michael Palmer]], (1943-) *[[Daniele Pantano]], (1976-) *[[Dorothy Parker]], (1893-1967) *[[Thomas Parnell]], (1670-1718) *[[Nicanor Parra]], Chile *[[Giovanni Pascoli]], Italian poet *[[Boris Pasternak]], (1890-1960), novelist *[[Kenneth Patchen]], (1911-1972) *[[Andrew Barton Paterson]] ([[banjo]]) *[[Don Paterson]] *[[Coventry Patmore]] *[[Brian Patten]] *[[Octavio Paz]], (1914-1998), Mexican poet ====Pe-Pl==== *[[Thomas Love Peacock]], (1785-1866), English poet, novelist *[[Patrick Pearse]], [[poet]], teacher and leader of the [[Easter Rising]] *[[Charles Péguy]], 20th century poet *[[Kathleen Peirce]], (born 1956) *[[Sam Pereira]] *[[Persius]] (34-62), Roman poet *[[Fernando Pessoa]], (1888-1935) *[[Robert Peters]], (1924-) American poet *[[Pascale Petit]] *[[Petrarch]] (''Francesco Petrarca''), (1304-1374) *[[Ambrose Philips]] *[[Pindar]] (522-443 BC), Theban lyric poet *[[Robert Pinsky]] (former US poet laureate) *[[Ruth Pitter]] *[[Christine de Pizan]], (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher *[[Sylvia Plath]], (1932-1963), (The Colossue) *[[Shmuel Plavnik]](1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer ====Po-Pu==== *[[Edgar Allan Poe]], (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet *[[Marie Ponsot]], (born 1921) *[[Alexander Pope]], (1688-1744), English poet *[[Judith Pordon]], (born 1954), American poet *[[Ezra Pound]], (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader) *[[Halina Poswiatowska]] *[[Winthrop Mackworth Praed]] *[[E.J. Pratt]] *[[France Preseren|France Prešeren]], (1800-1849), [[Slovenes|Slovene]] *[[Jacques Prévert]], (1900-1977), French poet *[[Robert Priest]] *[[Richard Price (poet)]] (born 1966) *[[Matthew Prior]], (1664-1721) *[[Bryan Waller Proctor]] *[[Sextus Propertius]], (50 or 45-15 BCE), Latin Poet *[[Kevin Prufer]] (born 1969) *[[Luigi Pulci]] *[[Aleksandr Pushkin]], (1799-1837), Russian poet === Q === === R === ====Ra-Re==== *[[Dalia Rabikovich]], (born 1936) *[[Shamsur Rahman]], 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh *[[Kathleen Raine]], (1908-2003) *[[Carl Rakosi]] (1903-2004) *[[Dudley Randall]] *[[Thomas Randolph]], (1605-1635) *[[Agnes Rapai]], (1952- Hungarian poet *[[John Crowe Ransom]], (1888-1974) *[[Tom Raworth]] *[[Man Ray]], (1890-1976), ([[Dada]]) *[[Wayne Ray]], 1950 - *[[Angela Readman]] *[[Henry Reed]], (1914-1986) *[[Ishmael Reed]] *[[James Reaney]] *[[Abraham Regelson]], (1896-1981) *[[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]]) *[[Kenneth Rexroth]] *[[Charles Reznikoff]] *[[Pi Rixiu]] ====Ri==== *[[Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi]] ([[1941]]-[[2001]])[[Sufi]], poet & author *[[Stan Rice]], (1943-2002), poet and artist *[[Adrienne Rich]] *[[Lola Ridge]], (1873-1941) *[[Laura Riding]], (1901-1981) *[[Anne Ridler]] *[[James Whitcomb Riley]], (1853-1916) *[[Rainer Maria Rilke]], (1875-1926) *[[Arthur Rimbaud]], (1854-1891), [[symbolist]] poet ====Ro==== *[[Edwin Arlington Robinson]], (1869-1935) *[[Mary Robinson]], (1990-1997), Irish poet *[[Georges Rodenbach]], Symbolist poet and novelist *[[John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester]], (1647-1680) *[[Theodore Roethke]], (1908-1963) *[[Pierre de Ronsard]], (1524-1585) *[[Peter Rosegger]], (died 1918) *[[Franklin Rosemont]], (born 1943) *[[Penelope Rosemont]] *[[Isaac Rosenberg]], (1890-1918) *[[Christina Rossetti]], (1830-1894), English poet *[[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], (1828-1882), English poet *[[Nicholas Rowe (dramatist)|Nicholas Rowe]] *[[Richard Rowlands]], (1565-1630) *[[Tadeusz Różewicz]] ====Ru==== *[[Friedrich Rückert]] *[[Muriel Rukeyser]], (1913-1980) *[[Johan Ludvig Runeberg]], (1804-1877) *[[Rumi]] === S === ====Sa==== *[[Umberto Saba]] *[[Sa'di]] *[[Ali Ahmad Said]], (1930- ) *[[Mellin de Saint-Gelais]], (ca. 1491-1558) *[[Carl Sandburg]], (1878-1967) *[[Satsvarupa dasa Goswami]] (1939-) *[[Sonia Sanchez]] *[[Michal Šanda]], (1965- ), Czech poet *[[Sappho]], ancient Greek poet *[[Ann Sansom]], contemporary English poet *[[William Saroyan]], (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent *[[Siegfried Sassoon]], (1886-1967), British war poet *[[Subagio Sastrowardoyo]], (1924-1995), Indonesian poet ====Sc-Se==== *[[Maurice Scève]], (c. 1500-1564) *[[Friedrich Schiller]], (1759-1805), poet, playwright *[[Arno Schmidt]], (1914-1979) *[[Arthur Schnitzler]], (1862-1931), writer *[[Delmore Schwartz]] (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities) *[[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]], (1771-1832), inventor of [[historical novel]] *[[Gil Scott-Heron]], (born 1949) *[[George Bazeley Scurfield]], (1920-1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician *[[Johannes Secundus]], (1511-1536), [[Neo-Latin]] poet *[[Jaroslav Seifert]], (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize) *[[Seneca the Elder|Seneca]], (c. 54 BC-AD 39) *[[Léopold Senghor]], (1906-2001) *[[Robert W. Service]], poet of the Yukon *[[Vikram Seth]] *[[Anne Sexton]], (1928-1974) ====Sh-Si==== *[[Thomas Shadwell]] *[[William Shakespeare]], (c. 1564-1616), English poet *[[Tupac Shakur]], (1971-1996), Artist and black activist *[[Ntozake Shange]], (born 1948) *[[Jo Shapcott]] *[[Karl Shapiro]] *[[Mary Shelley]], (1797-1851) *[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], (1792-1822) *[[William Shenstone]] *[[Bhupi Sherchan]], [[Nepal]] poet *[[Taras Shevchenko]] *[[James Shirley]], (1596-1666) *[[Avraham Shlonsky]] *[[Sir Philip Sidney]], (born 1554) *[[Eli Siegel]], (1902-1978) *[[Ron Silliman]] (born 1946) *[[Shel Silverstein]], (1930-1999) *[[Charles Simic]] *[[Louis Simpson]], (born 1923) *[[Lemn Sissay]] *[[Edith Sitwell]], (1887-1964) *[[Marilyn Singer]] ====Sk-Sn==== *[[John Skelton]], (1460-1529) *[[Myra Sklarew]] *[[Andrew Slattery]], (born 1981) *[[Kenneth Slessor]] *[[Anton Martin Slomsek]], (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator. *[[Juliusz Slowacki]] *[[Christopher Smart]] *[[Charlotte Smith]], (1749-1806) *[[Clark Ashton Smith]], (1893-1961) *[[Margaret Smith (poet)|Margaret Smith]], American poet and artist *[[Patti Smith]] {poet and songwriter} *[[Stevie Smith]], (1902-1971) *[[William Jay Smith]] *[[Tobias Smollett]], (1721-1771) *[[Gary Snyder]], (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave) ====So-Sp==== *[[Edith Södergran]] *[[David Solway]], (born 1941) *[[William Somervile]], (1675-1742) *[[Sophocles]], (c.496-406 BC), Athenian tragedian *[[Charles Sorley]], (1895-1915), war poet *[[Natsume Sōseki]], (1867-1916), ''Kokoro'', ''I Am a Cat'' *[[Gary Soto]] *[[Robert Southey]], (1774-1843), [[Poet Laureate]] 1813 *[[Robert Southwell]], (1561-1595) *[[Stephen Spender]], (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930) *[[Edmund Spenser]], (1552-1599) ====St==== =====Sta-Sto===== *[[Leopold Staff]] *[[William Stafford]] *[[Harold Standish]], (1919-1972), Canadian poet *[[George Starbuck]] *[[Statius]], (c. AD 45-96) *[[Joseph Stefan]], (1835-1893), [[Slovenes|Slovene]] *[[Gertrude Stein]], (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry *[[Eric Stenbock]] *[[Mattie Stepanek]], (1990-2004), American poet and advocate *[[Gerald Stern]] *[[Wallace Stevens]], (1880-1955) *[[Robert Louis Stevenson]], (1850-1894) *[[Trumbull Stickney]], (19th c.) *[[James Still]] *[[Theodor Storm]], (1817-1888) *[[Alfonsina Storni]], (1892-1938) =====Str-Stu===== *[[Mark Strand]] (former [[Poet Laureate]], [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]] winner) *[[Botho Strauss]], (born 1944) *[[Jesse Stuart]] ====Su-Sz==== *[[Su Shi]] *[[Su Xiaoxiao]] * [[Sir John Suckling]] * [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], ruler of the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Islam]]ic poet * [[Cemal Süreya]] * [[Patrick Süskind]] (b. [[1949]]) * [[Paul Summers]] poet (b.[[1967]]) * [[Robert Sward]] poet (b. [[1933]]) * [[Cole Swensen]] poet (b. [[1955]]), awareded [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in Poetry 2006 * [[May Swenson]] * [[Jonathan Swift]] ([[1667]]&ndash;[[1745]]) * [[Algernon Swinburne]] ([[1837]]&ndash;[[1909]]) * [[Joshua Sylvester]] ([[1563]]&ndash;[[1618]]) * [[Wislawa Szymborska|Wisława Szymborska]] (b. [[1923]]), [[Polish poet]], [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1996]] === T === ====Ta-Te==== *[[Rabindranath Tagore]], (1861-1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913 *[[Tao Qian]] *[[Jovica Tasevski - Eternijan]], Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic *[[Torquato Tasso]], (1544-1595) *[[Allen Tate]], (1899-1979) *[[James Tate (writer)|James Tate]] *[[Henry Taylor]], (1800-1886) *[[Sara Teasdale]] (1884-1933) *[[Alfred Tennyson]], (1809-1892), English poet *[[Lucy Terry]] *[[A.S.J. Tessimond]] *[[Neyzen Tevfik]] ====Th-To==== *[[Ernest Thayer]], (1863-1940) *[[Theocritus]] (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet *[[Jan Theuninck]], (born 1954) *[[Dylan Thomas]], (1914-1953) *[[Edward Thomas]], (1878-1917) *[[Lorenzo Thomas (poet)|Lorenzo Thomas]], (1944-2005) *[[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R. S. Thomas]], (1913-2000) *[[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]], (1845-1913), Canadian writer *[[Francis Thompson]], (1859-1907) *[[James Thomson (B.V.)|James Thomson]], (1834-1882) *[[James Thomson (Seasons)]] *[[Henry David Thoreau]], (1817-1862) *[[Tibullus]], (c. 54 BC-19 BC) *[[Chidiock Tichborne]], (1558-1586), conspirator and poet *[[Thomas Tickell]] *[[Ludwig Tieck]], (1773-1853) *[[Melvin B. Tolson]] *[[Jean Toomer]] ====Tr-Tz==== *[[Thomas Traherne]] *[[Georg Trakl]], (1887-1914) *[[Michel Tremblay]], (born 1942), author, playwright, poet *[[Roland Michel Tremblay]], (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter *[[Calvin Trillin]], (born 1935), American writer of comic verse *[[Quincy Troupe]] *[[Tõnu Trubetsky]] Estonian/Ruthenian poet *[[Marina Tsvetaeva]], (1892-1941), Russian poet *[[Kurt Tucholsky]], (1890-1935), German poet *[[Hovhannes Tumanyan]], (1869-1923), the "All-Armenian poet" *[[Julian Turner]] (born 1955), English poet *[[Thomas Tusser]], 16th century English poet. *[[Ghabdulla Tuqay|Ğabdulla Tuqay]], (1886-1913), [[Tatar]] poet *[[Hone Tuwhare]], (born 1922) *[[Julian Tuwim]] *[[Jan Twardowski]] *[[Pontus de Tyard]], (c. 1521-1605) *[[Fyodor Tyutchev]], (1803-1873) *[[Tristan Tzara]], (1896-1963), ([[Dada]]) === U === *[[Miguel de Unamuno]] *[[Giuseppe Ungaretti]], Italian poet *[[Louis Untermeyer]], (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry) *[[John Updike]], (born 1932), (Facing Nature) *[[Allen Upward]], [[Imagist]] *[[Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha]] === V === ====Va-Ve==== *[[Mona Van Duyn]] *[[Cesar Vallejo]], (1892-1938) *[[Paul Valéry]], (1871-1945), [[France|French]] [[author]] and [[poet]] of the [[Symbolist poetry|Symbolist]] school *[[Varand]], (Born 1954), [[Armenia|Armenian Poet]], Writer, Translator, painter, Professor of [[Armenian Literature]] *[[Dimitris Varos]], (1949-) *[[Henry Vaughan]], (1621-1695) *[[Vazha-Pshavela]] (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915) *[[Vemana]] *[[Helen Vendler]] *[[Jacint Verdaguer]], (1845-1902) *[[Paul Verlaine]], (1844-1896) *[[Paul Vermeersch]], (born 1973) Canadian ==== Vi-Vr ==== * [[Francis Viele-Griffin|Francis Vielé-Griffin]] (symbolist) * [[Peter Viereck]] * [[François Villon]], (1431-c.1474) * [[Gilles Vigneault]], (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet * [[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]] * [[Roemer Visscher]], (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet * [[Walter von der Vogelweide]] * [[Walther von der Vogelweide]], (c. 1170-c. 1230) * [[Vincent Voiture]], (1598-1648) * [[Joost van den Vondel]], (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet * [[Andrei Voznesensky]], (born 1933) * [[Stanko Vraz]], (1810-1851) === W === ====Wa==== *[[Robert Wace]] (c. 1115-c. 1183) *[[Sidney Wade]] (born 1951) *[[Diane Wakoski]] (born 1937) *[[Derek Walcott]] (born 1930) *[[Rosmarie Waldrop]] (born 1935) *[[Arthur Waley]] (1889-1966) *[[Alice Walker]] (born 1944) *[[Edmund Waller]] (1606-1687) *[[Wang Wei]] (698-759) *[[Robert Penn Warren]] (1905-1989) *[[Thomas Warton]] (1728-1790) *[[Roger Waters]] (born 1943) *[[Barrett Watten]] (born 1948) *[[Isaac Watts]] (1674-1748) *[[David Wayne]] (1914-1995) ====We-Wh==== *[[John Webster]] (c.1580-c.1634 *[[Hannah Weiner]] (1928–1997) *[[Wen Yiduo]] Chinese poet (1899 - 1946) *[[Philip Whalen]] (1923-2002) *[[Margaret Walker]] (1915-1998) *[[Martin Walser]] (born 1927) *[[Franz Werfel]] (1890-1945) *[[Johan Herman Wessel]] (1742-1785) *[[Phillis Wheatley]] (1753-1784) *[[E. B. White|E.B. White]] (1899-1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet *[[Walt Whitman]] (1819-1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist *[[Isabella Whitney]] b. 1540s? *[[Reed Whittemore]] b. 1919, American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor *[[John Greenleaf Whittier]] (1807-1892), American poet ====Wi==== *[[John Wieners]] (1934-2002) *[[Richard Wilbur]] (born 1921) *[[Jane Wilde]], (1826-1896) *[[Oscar Wilde]], (1854-1900) *[[John Wilkinson (poet)|John Wilkinson]] (born 1953) *[[William IX of Aquitaine|William IX, Duke of Aquitaine]] (1071-1126) *[[Emmett Williams]] (1925-2007) *[[Miller Williams]] (born 1930) *[[Oscar Williams]] (1900-1964) *[[Saul Williams]] (born 1972) *[[Sherley Anne Williams]] (1944-1999) *[[Waldo Williams]] (1904-1971) *[[William Carlos Williams]] (1883-1963) *[[William Williams Pantycelyn]] (1717-1791) *[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester|John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester]] (1647-1680) *[[Peter Lamborn Wilson]] *[[Yvor Winters]] (1900-1968) *[[George Wither]] (1588-1667) ====Wo-Wy==== *[[Rafał Wojaczek]] (born 1945-1971) *[[Christa Wolf]] (born 1929) *[[Charles Wolfe (poet)|Charles Wolfe]], (1791-1823) *[[Hans Wollschläger]](1935-2007) *[[George Woodcock]] (1912-1995) *[[Dorothy Wordsworth]] (1771-1855) *[[William Wordsworth]] (1770-1850) *[[Franz Wright]] (born 1953) *[[Philip Stanhope Worsley]] (1835-1866) *[[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]] (born in 1935) *[[James Wright (poet)|James Wright]] (1927-1980) *[[Judith Wright]] (1915-2000) *[[Thomas Wyatt (poet)|Thomas Wyatt]] (1503-1542) *[[Elinor Wylie]] (1885-1928) *[[Hedd Wyn]] (1887-1917) === X === *[[Xu Zhimo]], (1897-1931) === Y === *[[Leo Yankevich]] (born 1961) *[[Peyo Yavorov]] (1878-1914) *[[William Butler Yeats]] (1865-1939) *[[Sergei Yesenin]], (1895-1925) *[[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]] (born 1933) *[[Marguerite Young]] (1908-1995) *[[David Young (Canadian playwright)|David Young]] (born 1946) *[[Edward Young]] (1683-1765) *[[Kevin Young (poet)]] (born 1970) *[[A. W. Yrjänä]] (1967-) *[[Yunus Emre]] (1238?-1320?) === Z === *[[Adam Zagajewski]] (born 1945) *[[Andrea Zanzotto]] (born 1921) *[[Lisa Zaran]] (born 1969) *[[Marya Zaturenska]] (1902-1982) *[[Benjamin Zephaniah]] (born 1958) *[[Calvin Ziegler]] (1854-1930) *[[Zuhayr|Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ]] (520-609) *[[Louis Zukofsky]] (1904-1978) {{Lists of poets}} [[Category:Lists of poets| ]] [[cy:Rhestr beirdd enwog]] [[de:Liste von Dichtern]] [[et:Poeetide loend]] [[es:Lista de poetas]] [[he:משורר]] [[nl:Lijst van dichters]] [[ja:詩人一覧]] [[no:Lyrikk]] [[pt:Lista de poetas]] [[ro:Listă de poeţi]] [[zh:诗人列表]]