Poets

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson was a poet laureate of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria and also one of the most known poets in English Literature. ...

Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was a famous American poet who passionately battled against militarism, materialism and sexual repression. A prominent personality in the ...

Anne Bradstreet
With the publication of her first work “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, by a Gentlewoman of those Parts” in London in 1650, Anne Bradstreet became ...

Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was an influential American poet famous for her highly personal and confessional poetry. She had extensively used her knowledge of human ...

Aristophanes
Aristophanes was an acclaimed Greek comic playwright and poet. Among his originally written forty plays, only eleven are still extant. These, along with ...

Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a famous French poet and adventurer. He came out with some of his finest poems while he was still in his late teens, which is ...

C. Day Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis, commonly known as C. Day Lewis CBE, was an Irish-born poet and novelist. He was also a British poet Laureate from 1968, until he died in 1972. ...

Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a notable French poet, also known as an essayist, art critic and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. Being a critic and essayist, ...

Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, popularly known as Dante, was a chief Italian poet during the middle ages. Born in Florence, he spent a large portion of his life in ...

David Wagoner
David Wagoner is one of the prolific writers amongst the list of modern American literary scholars. Though media glare and attention has always eluded the ...

Derek Walcott
A Nobel laureate and an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Derek Walcott is one of the creative geniuses born in West ...

E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an impressive American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He is considered as one ...

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, who was also associated with the American Romantic Movement. He was better known for ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was among the most eminent English poets of the Victorian era. Her works were immensely famous in England as well as in United ...

Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop was an extremely admired American poet, quite popular for her striking sense of witty and descriptive poems. Bishop was the Poet Laureate of ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's prolific excellence lay in her positive approach and optimistic nature. She had started penning down poetry from an early age and ...

Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet much acclaimed worldwide for her unique poems. Known for her seclusion from outer world and introvert nature, ...

Ezra Pound
An expatriate American poet and critic, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was a chief personality in the initial modernist movement in poetry. He gained popularity for ...

Francesco Petrarch
The illustrious Italian poet, scholar and humanist, Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch is inarguably one of the most influential poets in the world literature and ...

Geoffrey Chaucer
Also known as the Father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was also the first poet to be buried in ...

George Elliot
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, more popular by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. Her popularity lies ...

George Herbert
George Herbert was an English poet, orator and Anglican priest with a Welsh origin. He had descended from a wealthy family and thus, was educated well. Herbert ...

George Santayana
George Santayana was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He never gave up his Spanish citizenship, despite being raised and educated ...

Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, the Pulitzer-prize winning poet from the Midwest, is one name that needs no introduction. Revered as the ‘patron saints’ among ...

Henrik Ibsen
A famous Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet, Henrik Ibsen is often considered as “the father” of modern theater and one of the founders of ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He was famous for writing lyric poems, which were popular for their musicality and stories of ...

Homer
Homer was a legendary ancient Greek poet who wrote the epics, the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”. These epics were a part of Western canon of literature and greatly ...

Horace
Horace, whose real name was Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was the leading Roman poet of the Augustan Age. He was a member of literary circle that included Virgil ...

Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was a novelist who had broken all literary conventions and traditions. He was popularly known literary iconoclast and is placed beside literary ...

James Weldon Johnson
A multi-faceted personality, James Weldon Johnson grew up to be America's top author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, ...

James Wright
James Arlington Wright, one of the most prolific American poets of the 20th century, was the proud recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Wright made a debut in the ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a key personality in the list of German writers and polymaths. He is regarded as the supreme Genius of modern German literature. ...

John Donne
John Donne was a famous English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest of his time. Known for his realistic and sensual style, his writings include a whole gamut ...

John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He was an influential man of letters and served under Oliver ...

John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He was an influential man of letters and served under Oliver ...

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish poet, writer and cleric who gained reputation as a great political writer and an essayist. Jonathan, who became Dean of St. ...

Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, popularly known as Jorge Luis Borges, was a renowned writer, essayist, and poet from Argentina. He is counted ...

Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, popularly known as Jorge Luis Borges, was a renowned writer, essayist, and poet from Argentina. He is counted ...

Judith Wright
Judith Wright, born in the early 20th century, was a well-known Australian poet, short-story writer and conversationalist. She was also a highly acclaimed ...

Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, popularly known as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the period between late 1st and early 2nd century AD. He was the author of the ...

Karel Appel
Karel Appel was an expressionist Dutch painter. He was a member of the famous COBRA, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s, which promoted ...

Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese American artist, writer, philosopher and the third most popular poet in history after Shakespeare and Laozi. Born in an ...

Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley Williams Amis was an English novelist, poet and teacher and his literary work is includes short stories, poetry, books of criticism, food and ...

Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was better known as the earliest innovators of new literary art form, jazz ...

Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was a Russia born writer and poet and is regarded as the world's greatest poet and novelist. The one of the legacies of the poet is the culmination ...

Lord Byron
Lord Byron was a famous British poet better known as the leading figure of Romanticism. His best known poems include, “She Walks in Beauty”, “When We Two ...

Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author, essayist, lecturer and humorist who wrote a series of famous books ...

Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold was a distinguished twentieth century English poet and critic who brought about a revolution in the world of English literature with his ...

Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat. A Nobel Prize laureate, his works were translated into English by many writers which included Samuel ...

Ogden Nash
A master of light verse, Frederic Ogden Nash was born in America. Not only did the elements of humor and wit in his poetry make him popular, Nash’s outrageous ...

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. It is believed that Omar adopted the name ‘Khayyám’, ...

Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, better known as Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, author and one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian Era. ...

Ovid
Ovid, also known as Publius Ovidius Naso, was a Roman poet. He was best known for his erotic poems such as Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. His most ...

P B Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest contributors to the romantic poetry in the English language and author of the Prometheus Unbound and many other ...

Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valery was a popular French poet, essayist, and philosopher. Paul showed great interest in numerous fields and is therefore often ...

Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin was one of the greatest English poets. He was awarded with many honors, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was also offered the ...

Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley is renowned as the first African-American poetess and the second African-American to get her/his book published. Her work is highly looked ...

Rabindranath Tagore
A Bengali mystic and artist, Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet, philosopher, music composer and a leader of Brahma Samaj, who took the India culture and ...

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke was a famous Austrian poet known for his significant contribution in German literature. He was famous for the “Thing poems”, which ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a famous American lecturer, philosopher, essayist, and poet. He was one of the leading figures of Transcendentalist movement. Together ...

Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright known for his mastery of dramatic verse. His dramatic monologues made him one of the most outstanding ...

Robert Burns
Robert Burns was a famous Scottish poet and lyricist. Also known as Rabbie Burns, or Scotland's favorite son, Burns is often credited as the national poet of ...

Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost is among the most fecund writers when it comes to poetry and playwriting. He was highly appreciated and admired for his realistic portrayal of ...

Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden was a famous American poet, essayist, and educator. He is best remembered for his book “Ballad of Remembrance”, for which he was awarded the ...

Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author, journalist and poet who wrote the famous fiction The Jungle Book. Born in the British India, Bombay, he worked in ...

Rumi
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet, an Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic. He is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual masters and ...

Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic and philosopher who along with William Wordsworth laid the foundation for English Romantic Movement. ...

Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu, also known as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya, was a famous Indian poet and a major freedom fighter who went on becoming the first Indian woman to be ...

Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan Silverstein, better known as Shel Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist and screenwriter. Born in ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish doctor, author and poet, and is most notably remembered for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. ...

Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek poet and one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His plays belonged to the period after Aeschylus and ...

Sylvia Plath
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Sylvia Plath was a stunning impressive poet, novelist and short story writer. She was also the first poet to win this Prize ...

T S Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, often shorten as T. S. Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic and a Nobel Prize winner for his exceptional work in the world ...

Ted Hughes
Many critics named him as one of the best poets of his generation. He was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. He was also appointed as a member of ...

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English author, novelist and poet, who is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement. Though he always regarded himself ...

Thomas Moore
What Robert Burns is to Scotland is Thomas Moore to Ireland. Popularly referred to as Anacreon Moore, Moore is considered as the National Bard of Ireland. A ...

Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist and playwright and a leading supporter of the Romantic Movement in France. He was also a visual artist, statesman and ...

Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, popularly known as Virgil was a magnificent classical Roman poet. Initially a student of rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy; Virgil soon ...

W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was a famous Irish poet, dramatist and one of the pioneers of the literary world in 20th century. The author was also a member of the ...

Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was considered as one of the most critical American Modernist poets of the 20th century. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and received ...

Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet, journalist and humanist. The poet is mainly known for his approach to Transcendentalism and realism and mastery in free ...

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer and poet ever known in the English language who authored world’s greatest poems, drama and sonnets. The ...

William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was one of the greatest English poets who, along with other poet and friend Samuel Coleridge, ushered into the English Romantic faction with ...