Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Poets, including Voltaire, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Samuel Johnson.
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
William Blake28 November 1757, British
Painter
William Wordsworth07 April 1770, British
Poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe28 August 1749, German
Poet
John Keats31 October 1795, British
Romantic poet
Samuel Johnson18 September 1709, British
Writer
Robert Burns25 January 1759, Scottish
Poet and Lyricist
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
Phillis Wheatley08 May 1753, American
Poet
William Cowper26 November 1731, British
Poet
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Thomas Moore28 May 1779, Irish
Poet, Singer, Songwriter, & Entertainer
Mikhail Lomonosov19 November 1711, Russian
Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer
John Clare13 July 1793, British
English poet
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
William Cullen Bryant03 November 1794, American
Romantic Poet
Alphonse de Lamartine21 October 1790, French
Writer
Leigh Hunt19 October 1784, British
English Essayist, Poet & Critic
Alfred de Vigny27 March 1797, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Samuel Coleridge21 October 1772, British
Poet and Philosopher
P B Shelley04 August 1792, British
Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Alexander Pushkin06 June 1799, Russian
Poet
Francis Scott Key01 August 1779, American
Poet, Lawyer, Writer, Poet lawyer
Heinrich Heine13 December 1797, German
Poet
Bahadur Shah II24 October 1775, Indian
Poet
Lady Caroline Lamb13 November 1785, British
Poet, Writer, Novelist
Mir Taqi Mir1722 AD, Indian
author, poet
François-René de Chateaubriand04 September 1768, French
Writer, Politician, Diplomat, Historian, Poet,
Thomas Gray26 December 1716, British
Poet, Writer, Literary critic
Waris Shah1722 AD, Pakistani
poet
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Isaac Watts17 July 1674, British
Theologian
Giacomo Leopardi29 June 1798, Italian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
Heinrich von Kleist18 October 1777, German
Playwright, Poet, Short story writer, Novelist,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan30 October 1751, Irish
Poet, Politician, Librettist, Writer, Playwright
Hannah More02 February 1745, British
Writer, Poet, Essayist
Andrés Bello29 November 1781, Chilean, Venezuelan
Poet, Legislator, Philosopher, Educator,
James Hogg09 December 1770
Poet, Writer, Novelist, Biographer, Songwriter
Nicolaus Zinzendorf26 May 1700, German
Priest, Translator, Theologian, Poet, Hymnwriter
N. F. S. Grundtvig08 September 1783, Danish
Poet, Historian, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer,
Kobayashi Issa15 June 1763, Japanese
Poet, Painter, Writer
Thomas Hood23 May 1799, British
Writer, Poet
Vittorio Alfieri16 January 1749, Italian
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Actor, Translator, Stage
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle10 May 1760, French
Composer, Poet, Writer, Playwright
August Wilhelm Schlegel08 September 1767, German
Linguist, Translator, Sanskrit scholar,
Vasily Zhukovsky29 January 1783, Russian
linguist, poet, translator, writer, literary
Anna Seward12 December 1747, British
Writer, Poet, Literary critic
John Flaxman06 July 1755, British
Painter, Poet, Sculptor, Illustrator
Adelbert von Chamisso30 January 1781, German, French
Botanist, Poet, Pteridologist, Bryologist, Writer
Ernst Moritz Arndt26 December 1769, German
Poet, Writer, University teacher
Joel Barlow24 March 1754, American
Poet, Diplomat, Writer
Ferenc Kazinczy27 October 1759, Hungarian
Linguist, Writer, Playwright, Poet
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington01 September 1789, British
Poet, Writer
George Gordon Byron22 January 1788, British
Poet, Politician
James Montgomery04 November 1771, British
Poet
Anne Grant21 February 1755, British
Poet, Historian
Robert Pollok19 October 1798, British
Writer, Poet
Charles Churchill31 January 1731, British
Poet, Writer
Anna Letitia Barbauld20 June 1743, Liechtensteiner, British