William Shakespeare26 April 1564, British
Writer
J. R. R. Tolkien03 January 1892, British, South African
Writer
Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet and Author
Jim Morrison08 December 1943, American
Singer, Lyricist, Poet, Musician, Filmmaker
Oscar Wilde16 October 1854, Irish
Playwright
Aleister Crowley12 October 1875, British
Leonard Cohen21 September 1934, Canadian
Singer-songwriter
Edgar Allan Poe19 January 1809, American
Author, Poet, Editor and Literary Critic
Roald Dahl13 September 1916, British, Welsh
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Rudyard Kipling30 December 1865, British
Author & Poet
Lord Byron22 January 1788, British
Poet, Politician
Allen Ginsberg03 June 1926, American
Poet
Robert Frost26 March 1874, American
Poet
T. S. Eliot26 September 1888, American
Poet
Charles Bukowski16 August 1920, German, American
Poet
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
William Wordsworth07 April 1770, British
Poet
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Rumi30 September 1207, Afghan, Turkish
Great Poet
Aldous Huxley26 July 1894, British, American
Writer
Homer0800 BC, Greek
Greek author
William Blake28 November 1757, British
Painter
Walt Whitman31 May 1819, American
Poet & humanist
Dante Alighieri30 April 1265, Italian
Poet
Jack Kerouac12 March 1922, American
Novelist, Poet
James Joyce02 February 1882, Irish
Writer
Henry David Thoreau12 July 1817, American
Writer and Philosopher
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe28 August 1749, German
Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson25 May 1803, American
American Lecturer, Philosopher, Essayist & Poet
Kabir1440 AD, Indian
Saint and Mystic Poet
Muhammad Iqbal09 November 1877, Pakistani
Poet & Philosopher
William Faulkner25 September 1897, American
Writer, Nobel Laureate
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Robert Louis Stevenson13 November 1850, Scottish
Novelist, Poet
John Keats31 October 1795, British
Romantic poet
Geoffrey Chaucer1343 AD, British
Poet
John Milton09 December 1608, British
Poet, Polemicist, and Civil Servant for the
Langston Hughes01 February 1902, American
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, & Columnist
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Shel Silverstein25 September 1930, American
Poet
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Chinua Achebe16 November 1930, Nigerian
Nigerian novelist
A. A. Milne18 January 1882, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Robert Burns25 January 1759, Scottish
Poet and Lyricist
Thomas Hardy02 June 1840, British
Novelist & Poet
Ezra Pound30 October 1885, American
Poet
Jorge Luis Borges24 August 1899, Argentinian
Poet
Pablo Neruda12 July 1904, Chilean
Chilean poet
Samuel Johnson18 September 1709, British
Writer
Bertolt Brecht10 February 1898, German
Poet
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
Virgil15 October 0070, Ancient Roman
Poet
Dylan Thomas27 October 1914, Welsh
Poet & Writer
Ted Hughes17 August 1930, British
Poet and Children's Writer
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
William Morris24 March 1834, British
Textile Designer, Poet
Tulsidas1497 AD, Indian
Poet & Saint
Jonathan Swift30 November 1667, Irish
Author and Satirist
John Donne22 January 1572, British
Poet, lawyer, satirist
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
Federico García Lorca05 June 1898, Spanish
Poet
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048, Iranian, Persian
Mathematician
Ovid20 March 0043, Italian, Romanian
Poet
W. H. Auden21 February 1907, British
Poet
Aeschylus0525 BC, Greek
Greek Tragedian
Charles Baudelaire09 April 1821, French
Poet
Arthur Rimbaud20 October 1854, French
Poet
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Sophocles0496 BC, Greek
Ancient Greek Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 February 1807, American
Poet & Educator
Petrarch20 July 1304, Italian
Poet & Philosopher
Khalil Gibran06 January 1883, Lebanese
Artist
Alexander Pope21 May 1688, British
Amir Khusrow1253 AD, Indian
Sufi Poet
John Updike18 March 1932, American
Kazi Nazrul Islam24 May 1899, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Neal Cassady08 February 1926, American
Rainer Maria Rilke04 December 1875, Austrian
Poet & Novelist
Guy de Maupassant05 August 1850, French
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Jean Cocteau05 July 1889, French
Novelist, Poet, Artist & Filmmaker
Robert Browning07 May 1812, British
Poet & Playwright
Horace08 December 0065, Ancient Roman
Roman poet
E. E. Cummings14 October 1894, American
Poet
Ben Jonson11 June 1572, British
Dramatist, Poet & Actor
Seamus Heaney13 April 1939, Irish
Poet
Wilfred Owen18 March 1893, British
Poet
George Santayana16 December 1863, Spanish, Italian
Philosopher, Essayist, Poet, & Novelist
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
Ron Cephas Jones08 January 1957, American
Actor
Vikram Seth20 June 1952, Indian
Writer
Philip Larkin09 August 1922, British
Poet
Siegfried Sassoon08 September 1886, British
Robert Graves24 July 1895, British
Poet & Novelist
Boris Pasternak10 February 1890, Russian, Russian
Poet & Writer
John Dryden09 August 1631, British
poet
Wendell Berry05 August 1934, American
Horatio Alger13 January 1832, American
American writer