Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Poets, including Voltaire, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley

18th Century Poets

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Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Poets, including Voltaire, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Samuel Johnson.

William Wordsworth

07 April 1770, British

Poet

Voltaire

21 November 1694, French

Writer

William Blake

28 November 1757, British

Painter

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28 August 1749, German

Poet

John Keats

31 October 1795, British

Romantic poet

Samuel Johnson

18 September 1709, British

Writer

Walter Scott

15 August 1771, Scottish

Novelist

Robert Burns

25 January 1759, Scottish

Poet and Lyricist

Friedrich Schiller

10 November 1759, German

Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher

Phillis Wheatley

08 May 1753, American

Poet

John Clare

13 July 1793, British

English poet

Thomas Moore

28 May 1779, Irish

Poet

William Cowper

26 November 1731, British

Poet

Oliver Goldsmith

10 November 1728, Irish, British

Novelist, Playwright, Poet

Mikhail Lomonosov

19 November 1711, Russian

Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer

Novalis

02 May 1772, German

Philosopher & Poet

William Cullen Bryant

03 November 1794, American

Romantic Poet

Alphonse de Lamartine

21 October 1790, French

Writer

Leigh Hunt

19 October 1784, British

English Essayist, Poet & Critic

Alfred de Vigny

27 March 1797, French

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Samuel Coleridge

21 October 1772, British

Poet

P B Shelley

04 August 1792, British

Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

04 August 1792, British

Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,

Ahmad Shah Durrani

1722 AD, Afghan

Mughal emperor

John Galt

02 May 1779, Scottish

Novelist

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

15 May 1689, British

Writer

Johann Gottfried Herder

25 August 1744, German, Polish

Philosopher

François-René de Chateaubriand

04 September 1768, French

Writer, Politician, Diplomat, Historian, Poet,

Giacomo Leopardi

29 June 1798, Italian

Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist

Christopher Smart

11 April 1722, British

Poet

Thomas Gray

26 December 1716, British

Poet, Writer, Literary critic

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Isaac Watts

17 July 1674, British

Theologian

Heinrich von Kleist

18 October 1777, German

Playwright, Poet, Short story writer, Novelist,

Mir Taqi Mir

1722 AD, Indian

author, poet

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

22 January 1729, German

Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

30 October 1751, Irish

Poet, Politician, Librettist, Writer, Playwright

Hannah More

02 February 1745, British

Writer, Poet, Essayist

Waris Shah

1722 AD, Pakistani

poet

Friedrich Schlegel

10 March 1772, German

Poet

James Hogg

09 December 1770

Poet, Writer, Novelist, Biographer, Songwriter

Tobias Smollett

19 March 1721, British, Scottish

Author

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

26 May 1700, German

Priest, Translator, Theologian, Poet, Hymnwriter

Ramprasad Sen

1718 AD, Indian

Poet-saint

Joel Barlow

24 March 1754, American

Poet, Diplomat, Writer

François Fénelon

06 August 1651, French

Theologian

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

08 September 1647, British

Former Lord Privy Seal

Dorothy Wordsworth

25 December 1771, British

Author

Clement Clarke Moore

15 July 1779, American

Author

Sayat-Nova

14 June 1712, Armenian

Poet

Kobayashi Issa

15 June 1763, Japanese

Poet, Painter, Writer

Thomas Love Peacock

18 October 1785, British

Novelist

Cao Xueqin

1724 AD, Chinese

Writer

Francesco Algarotti

11 December 1712, Italian

Polymath

August Wilhelm Schlegel

08 September 1767, German

Linguist, Translator, Sanskrit scholar,

Walter Savage Landor

30 January 1775, British

Author

Andrés Bello

29 November 1781, Chilean, Venezuelan

Poet, Legislator, Philosopher, Educator,

N. F. S. Grundtvig

08 September 1783, Danish

Author

Clemens Brentano

09 September 1778, German

Poet

John Keble

25 April 1792, British

Poet

Thomas Hood

23 May 1799, British

Writer, Poet

Mary Lamb

03 December 1764, British

Author

Felicia Hemans

25 September 1793, British

Poet

Vittorio Alfieri

16 January 1749, Italian

Dramatist

Vasily Zhukovsky

29 January 1783, Russian

linguist, poet, translator, writer, literary

Ludwig Tieck

31 May 1773, German

Poet

Ang Duong

12 June 1796, Cambodian

King

Eliza Haywood

1693 AD, British

British author

Nikolay Karamzin

12 December 1766, Russian

Writer

Yosa Buson

1716 AD, Japanese

Poet

Nicolas Chamfort

06 April 1741, French

Writer

Ryōkan

02 November 1758, Japanese

Buddhist Monk

Ludwig Uhland

26 April 1787, German

Poet

George Crabbe

24 December 1754, British

Poet

Nahum Tate

1652 AD, Irish

Poet

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

02 April 1798, German

Poet

Friedrich Rückert

16 May 1788, German

Poet

John Flaxman

06 July 1755, British

Painter, Poet, Sculptor, Illustrator

Ernst Moritz Arndt

26 December 1769, German

Poet, Writer, University teacher

Adelbert von Chamisso

30 January 1781, German, French

Botanist, Poet, Pteridologist, Bryologist, Writer

Elizabeth F. Ellet

18 October 1818, American

Writer

Sylvain Maréchal

15 August 1750, French

Essayist

Orest Kiprensky

24 March 1782, Russian

Poet

José Bonifácio de Andrada

13 June 1763, Brazilian

Statesman

Philip Freneau

02 January 1752, American

Poet

Rudolf Erich Raspe

29 February 1736, German

Librarian

Anna Seward

12 December 1747, British

Writer, Poet, Literary critic

Francis Daniel Pastorius

26 September 1651, German, American

Educator

Gabriele Rossetti

28 February 1783, Italian, British

Poet

Wilhelm Müller

07 October 1794, German

Poet

Denis Fonvizin

14 April 1745, Russian

Dramatist

Amelia Opie

12 November 1769, British

Novelist and poet

Joanna Baillie

11 September 1762, Scottish

Poet

Pierre-Jean de Béranger

19 August 1780, French

Poet

Stanisław Staszic

06 November 1755, Polish

Philosopher