Famous Poets

Acock, Fleur (New Zealand);

Akhmatova, Anna (Russian);

Alcaeus (Greek);

Anacreon (Greek);

Angelou, Maya (American);

Apollinaire, Guillaume (Wilhelm de Kostrowitzki; French);

Archilochus (Greek);

Ariosto, Ludovico (Italian);

Arnold, Matthew (English);

Auden, W. H. (American);

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (American);

Barbour, John (Scottish);

Bashō Matsuo (Matsuo Munefusa; Japanese);

Baudelaire, Charles (French);

Baxter, James (New Zealand);

Belloc, Hilaire (British, b. in France);

Betjeman, John (English);

Bishop, Elizabeth (American);

Blake, William (English);

Blok, Aleksandr (Russian);

Blunden, Edmund (English);

Borges, Jorge (Argentinian);

Breton, André (French);

Bridges, Robert (English);

Brodsky, Joseph (American, b. in Russia);

Brontë, Emily (English);

Brooke, Rupert (English);

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (English);

Browning, Robert (English);

Bunin, Ivan (Russian);

Bunting, Basil (English);

Bürger, Gottfried (German);

Burns, Robert (Scottish);

Butler, Samuel (English);

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (English);

Caedmon (Anglo-Saxon);

Callimachus (Greek);

Camões, Luís de (Portuguese);

Campbell, Roy (South African);

Carew, Thomas (English);

Castilho, Antonio Feliciano de (Portuguese);

Catullus (Roman);

Cavafy, Constantine (Greek);

Cavalcanti, Guido (Italian);

Chapman, George (English);

Chatterton, Thomas (English);

Chaucer, Geoffrey (English);

Chrétien de Troyes (French);

Clare, John (English);

Clough, Arthur Hugh (English);

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (English);

Cowley, Abraham (English);

Cowper, William (English);

Crabbe, George (English);

Crane, Hart (American);

cummings, e. e. (American);

Cynewulf (Anglo-Saxon);

Dafydd ap Gwilym (Welsh);

D'Annunzio, Gabriele (Italian);

Dante Alighieri (Italian);

Da Ponte, Lorenzo (Italian);

Davies, W. H. (English);

Day Lewis, C. (English);

de la Mare, Walter (English);

Dickinson, Emily (American);

Donne, John (English);

Doolittle, Hilda (American);

Dowson, Ernest (English);

Dryden, John (English);

Dunbar, William (Scottish);

Eliot, T. S. (British, b. in America);

Éluard, Paul (French);

Elytis, Odysseus (Greek);

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (American);

Empson, William (English);

Ennius (Roman);

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (American);

Firdausi (Abu al-Qasim Mansur; Persian);

FitzGerald, Edward (English);

Flecker, James Elroy (English);

Foscolo, Ugo (Italian);

Freneau, Philip (American);

Frost, Robert (American);

Gautier, Théophile (French);

Gay, John (English);

Gibran, Khalil (American, b. in Lebanon);

Ginsberg, Allen (American);

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German);

Góngora y Argote, Luis de (Spanish);

Graves, Robert (English);

Gray, Thomas (English);

Gunn, Thom (English);

Gurney, Ivor (English);

Haavikko, Paavo (Finnish);

Hardy, Thomas (English);

Harrison, Tony (English);

Heaney, Seamus (Irish);

Heine, Heinrich (German);

Herbert, George (English);

Herbert, Zbigniew (Polish);

Herrick, Robert (English);

Hesiod (Greek);

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (Austrian);

Hogg, James (Scottish);

Hölderlin, Friedrich (German);

Homer (Greek);

Hood, Thomas (English);

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (English);

Horace (Roman);

Housman, A. E. (English);

Hughes, Ted (English);

Hugo, Victor (French);

Iqbal, Muhammad (Indian);

Jonson, Ben (English);

Kalidasa (Indian);

Kavanagh, Patrick (Irish);

Keats, John (English);

La Fontaine, Jean de (French);

Laforgue, Jules (French);

Lamartine, Alphonse de (French)

Landor, Walter Savage (English)

Langland, William (English)

Larkin, Philip (English)

Lawrence, D. H. (English)

Layamon (English)

Lear, Edward (English)

Leconte de Lisle, Charles (French)

Leopardi, Giacomo (Italian)

Lermontov, Mikhail (Russian)

Li Po (Chinese)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (American)

Lorca, Federico Garcia (Spanish)

Lovelace, Richard (English)

Lowell, Amy (American)

Lowell, Robert (American)

Lucan (Roman)

Lucretius (Roman)

Lydgate, John (English)

Macdiarmid, Hugh (Christopher Grieve; Scottish)

MacNeice, Louis (Northern Irish)

Malherbe, François de (French)

Mallarmé, Stéphane (French)

Mandelstam, Osip (Russian, b. in Poland)

Marinetti, Filippo (Italian)

Martial (Roman)

Marvell, Andrew (English)

Masefield, John (English)

Mayakovsky, Vladimir (Russian)

Meleager (Greek)

Millay, Edna St Vincent (American)

Milosz, Czeslaw (American, b. in Lithuania)

Milton, John (English)

Montale, Eugenio (Italian)

Moore, Marianne (American)

Moore, Thomas (Irish)

Motion, Andrew (English)

Muir, Edwin (Scottish)

Murray, Les (Australian)

Nash, Ogden (American)

Neruda, Pablo (Neftalí Reyes; Chilean)

Omar Khayyam (Persian)

Ovid (Roman)

Owen, Wilfred (English)

Pasternak, Boris (Russian)

Patmore, Coventry (English)

Paz, Octavio (Mexican)

Péguy, Charles (French)

Petrarch (Italian)

Pindar (Greek)

Plath, Sylvia (American)

Pope, Alexander (English)

Porter, Peter (British, b. in Australia)

Pound, Ezra (American)

Propertius, Sextus (Roman)

Pushkin, Aleksandr (Russian)

Quasimodo, Salvatore (Italian)

Raine, Craig (British)

Rilke, Rainer Maria (German, b. in Czechoslovakia)

Rimbaud, Arthur (French)

Rochester, 2nd Earl of (John Wilmet; English)

Rossetti, Christina (English)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (English)

Russell, George (Irish)

Sadi (Persian)

Sappho (Greek)

Sassoon, Siegfried (English)

Schiller, Friedrich von (German)

Shakespeare, William (English)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (English)

Sidney, Philip (English)

Simonides (Greek)

Sitwell, Edith (English)

Skelton, John (English)

Smith, Stevie (English)

Southey, Robert (English)

Spender, Stephen (English)

Spenser, Edmund (English)

Statius, Publius Papinius (Roman)

Stevens, Wallace (American)

Suckling, John (English)

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (English)

Tagore, Rabindranath (Indian)

Taliesin (Welsh)

Tannhäuser (German)

Tasso, Torquato (Italian)

Tate, Nahum (Irish)

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (English)

Theocritus (Greek)

Thespis (Greek)

Thomas, Dylan (Welsh)

Thomas, Edward (English)

Thomas, R. S. (Welsh)

Thompson, Francis (English)

Thomson, James (Scottish)

Tibullus, Albius (Roman)

Traherne, Thomas (English)

Tu Fu (Chinese)

Tulsidas (Indian)

Tzara, Tristan (French, b. in Romania)

Ungaretti, Giuseppe (Italian)

Valéry, Paul (French)

Vaughan, Henry (Welsh)

Verlaine, Paul (French)

Vigny, Alfred de (French)

Villon, François (French)

Virgil (Roman)

Vogelweide, Walther von der (German)

Walcott, Derek (St Lucian)

Warren, Robert Penn (American)

Whitman, Walt (American)

Williams, William Carlos (American)

Wordsworth, William (English)

Wright, Judith (Australian)

Wyatt, Thomas (English)

Yeats W. B. (Irish)

Yesenin, Sergei (Russian)

Yevtushenko, Yevgenii (Russian)