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	List of poets List of poets People on this list should ideally have wikipedia articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.

A

Joze Abram[?], (1875-1938), poet
Dannie Abse, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
Milton Acorn, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
Leonie Adams[?], (High Falcon - 1929), poet
Fleur Adcock[?], (born 1934), poet
Joseph Addison, (1672-1719), English poet
Lucius Afranius, Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
Dritëro Agolli[?], poet
James Agree[?], poet
Sin Ai[?], poet
Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973), poet
Mark Akenside, (1721-1770), poet
Bella Akhmadulina[?], (born 1957), poet
Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966), poet
Linda Aksomitis[?], novels, travel, poetry under pseudonym Sunflower Sue, manual for use of serger.
Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556), poet
Fran Albreht[?], (1889-1965), poet
Ivan Albreht[?], poet
Vera Albreht[?], poet
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273 CE), poet
Richard Aldington, poet
Claribel Alegría[?], poet
Vicente Aleixandre, (1989-1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
Josip Murn Aleksandrov[?], (1879-1901), poet
Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet
Alisoun[?], poet
Donald Allen[?] (New American Poetry)
William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889), poet
Damaso Alonso[?], poet
Natan Alterman[?], poet
Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
Yehuda Amichai[?], poet
A. R. Ammons[?], poet
Anacreon, Greek poet
Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980), poet
Jon Anderson, (born 1944), musician
Jorge Carrera Andrade[?], (1903-1978), poet
Miha Andreas[?], (1762-1821), poet
Aneirin, medieval epic poet
Maya Angelou[?], (born 1928), poet
Brother Antoninus[?], poet
Chairil Anwar[?], (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949), poet
Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918), (born Russian) poet
Apuleius, poet
Louis Aragon, (1897-1982), poet
Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)
Tudor Arghezi[?] (greatest Romanian poet)
Bonaventura Carles Aribau[?], (1798-1862), poet
Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533), Italian poet
Simon Armitage, (born 1963), poet
Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet
Achim von Arnim[?], (1781-1831), German poet
Bettina von Arnim[?], (1785-1859), German poet
Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), English poet
Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
John Ashbery, (born 1927), poet
Thomas Ashe[?], (1836-1889), poet
Anton Askerc[?], (1856-1912), poet
Douglas Asper[?], poet
Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230), poet
Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), English poet
Ausonius, (c. 310-395), poet
Miha Avanzo[?], (born 1949), poet
Margaret Avison, (born 1918), poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
Robert Ayton[?], (1570-1638), poet

B

Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC), poet
Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973), poet
Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881), poet
Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845), poet
Robert Bagg[?], poet
Julio Baghy[?], poet
Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851), poet
France Balantic[?], (1921-1943), poet
Christianne Balk[?] (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)
Amiri Baraka[?] (aka Leroi Jones)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825), poet
John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395), poet
Barba Porfirio Jacob[?] (Colombian poet)
George Barker[?], poet
Richard Barnefield[?], (1574-1627), poet
William Barnes, (1801-1886), poet
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867), poet
Elizabeth Barrett[?], poet
Judith Baumel[?] (The Weight of Numbers - Whitman award)
James K. Baxter, (1926-1972), poet
Francis Beaumont[?], (1586-1616), poet
Joshua Beckman, poet
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer[?], (1836-1870), poet
Beddoes[?] (English writer in Germany)
Aphra Behn, (1640-1689), poet
Ben Belitt[?], poet
Marvin Bell[?], poet
Gioconda Belli[?], (born 1948), poet
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli[?], (Roman dialect)
Hilaire Belloc[?], poet
Andrey Bely[?], (1880-1934), poet and author
William Benet Rose[?], poet
Stephen Vincent Benet[?], (1898-1943), poet
Stephen Vincent Benét[?], (1898-1943), poet
Gottfried Ben[?], German poet
Gwendolyn B. Bennett[?], poet
Nejc Bernard[?], (born 1970), poet
Daniel Berrigan[?], poet
Wendell Berry[?], poet
John Berryman[?], poet
John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet
Helen Bevington[?] (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
Bing & Cohen[?] (Greek & Roman erotic verse)
Miron Bialoszewski[?], poet
Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943), poet
Earle Birney[?], (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
Nevin Birsa[?], (born 1947), poet
John Bishop Peale[?], poet
Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979), poet
Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
Don Blanding[?], poet
William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
Andrej Blatnik[?], (born 1963), poet
Aleksandr Blok[?], (1880-1921), poet
Michael Blumenthal[?], poet
Edmund Blunden, poet
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt[?], poet
Robert Bly[?], poet
Louise Bogan[?], poet
Boileau, (1636-1711), poet
Berta Bojetu[?], (1946-1997), poet
Eavan Boland[?], (born 1944), poet
Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985), author
Arna Wendell Bontemps[?], poet
Philip Booth[?], poet
Edgar Bowers[?], poet
Mark Boyd Alexander[?], (1563-1601 - sonnets), poet
Esad Babacic[?], (born 1965), poet
Rado Bordon[?], (1915-1992), poet
Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentinean writer
Marx Alexander Boyd[?], (1563-1601), poet
Matej Bor[?], (1913-1956), poet
Tadeusz Borowski[?], poet
Allison Boyer[?], (born 1974), poet
Daniel C. Boyer, (born 1971), painter, poet
Kay Boyle[?] (A Glad Day)
William Braithwaite[?], (1878-1962), poet
Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984), American novelist, poet
Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842), poet
André Breton, (1896-1966), poet
Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842), poet
Vida Brest[?], (born 1925), poet
Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626), poet
Robert Bridges, (1844-1930), poet
John Malcol Brinnin[?], poet
Daniel Louis Brodsky[?], poet
Joseph Brodsky[?], (1940-1996), poet
Wladyslaw Broniewski[?], poet
William Bronk[?], (died 1999), poet
Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), British author
Brooke, Rupert, (1887-1925), English poet
Brooks, Gwendolyn[?], (born 1917), poet
Joan Brossa[?], (1919-1998), poet
Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet[?]
Brovina, Flora, poet
Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897), poet
William Browne[?], (1588-1643), poet
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, (1806-1861), English poet
Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), English poet
William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878), poet
Sterling A. Brown[?], poet
Andrej Brvar[?], (born 1945), poet
Ernest Bryll[?], poet
Valeri Bryusov[?], (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
Georg Büchner[?], German poet
Andrej Budal[?], (1889-1972), poet
Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), US author
Basil Bunting[?], poet
Ronnie Burk, (1955-2003), poet
Michael Burkard[?], poet
Stanley Burnshaw[?], poet
Robert Burns, (1759-1796), poet
Edwin G. Burrows[?], poet
William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997), British author
Andrzej Bursa[?], poet
Wilhelm Busch, (1832-1908), poet
Samuel Butler, (1612-80), English novelist, poet
Ignazio Buttitta[?], (sicilian dialect)
Gjon Buzuku[?], poet
Witter Bynner[?] (also under Emanuel Morgan)
Lord Byron, (1788-1824), Lord Byron, poet

C

Lydia Cabrera[?] (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
Dilys Cadwaladr[?], poet
Caedmon (old English)
Andon Zako Çajupi[?], poet
Barry Callaghan, (born 1937), author/poet
Robert Calvert, (1945-1988), poet
Luis de Camões, (poet, author of the Lusíadas[?])
Roy Campbell[?], poet
Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844), poet
Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980), poet
Ivan Cankar[?], (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist.
Mary Wedderburn Cannan[?], (1893-1973), poet
Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD), poet
Cao Pi, poet
Cao Zhi, (192-232), poet
Andrej Capuder[?], (born 1942), poet
Ernesto Cardenal[?], (born 1925), poet
Giosue Carducci, (1835-1907), Italian poet
Thomas Carew[?], (1595-1639), poet
Henry Carey[?], (1693-1743), poet
Will Carleton[?], poet
Bliss Carman, (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Hayden Carruth[?], poet
Anne Carson, (born 1950), Canadian writer
William Cartwright[?], (1611-1643), poet
Gaius Catullus Valerius, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
Charles Causley[?], poet
C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933), poet
Anica Cernej[?], (1900-1944), poet
Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963), poet
Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674), poet
George Chapman[?], (1560-1634), poet
Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler[?])
Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
Henri Chopin, (born 1922), poet
John Ciardi[?], Italian-American poet
Franc Cimperman[?], (1852-1873), poet
Josip Cimperman[?], (1847-1893), poet
Amy Clampitt[?], poet
John Clare, (1793-1864), poet
George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
Paul Claudel, (1868-1955), poet
Matthias Claudius, poet
Michelle Cliff[?], poet
Lucille Clifton[?], poet
Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861), poet
Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
Stan Cohen[?], poet
Wanda Coleman[?], poet
Hartley Coleridge[?], (1796-1849), poet
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge[?], (1861-1907), poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
Billy Collins[?] (U.S. Poet Laureate)
William Collins, (1721-1759), poet
William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
Evan S. Jr. Connell[?], poet
Leo Connellan[?] (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
Henry Constable[?], (1562-1613), poet
Clark Coolidge[?], poet
Wendy Cope[?], poet
Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875), poet
James D. Corrothers[?], poet
Gregory Corso, (1930-2001), (Gasoline - Beat poet)
Jayne Cortez[?], poet
Jeni Couzyn[?], poet
Malcolm Cowley[?], (1898-1989), (Dada)
Abraham Cowley[?], (1618-1667), poet
William Cowper, (1731-1800), poet
George Crabbe[?], (1754-1832), poet
Christopher Pearce Cranch[?], (19th c. American), poet
Hart Crane[?], (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
Douglas Crase[?], poet
Richard Crashaw[?], (1613-1649), poet
Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
Octave Crémazie, poet
Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
Marij Cuk[?], (born 1952), poet
Countee Cullen[?], (died 1946), poet
E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962), poet
Valentin Cundric[?], (born 1938), poet
Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842), poet
J. V. Cunningham[?], poet
Allen Curnow[?], (1911-2001), poet
Ivor Cutler[?], Scottish poet, musician and thinker

D

Kate Daniels[?], poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
Jia Dao[?], poet
Ruben Dario[?], (1867-1916), poet
Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
René Daumal, (1908-1944), poet
Jean Daurat, (1508-1588), poet
W. H. Davies[?], poet
William Davenant, (1606-1668), poet
John Davies[?], (1569-1626), historian
Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference), poet
Peter Davison, (born 1951), (poet son of Edward)
Denis Davydov[?], (1784-1839), poet
Cecil Day-Lewis, poet
Ales Debeljak[?], (born 1961), poet
Anton Debeljak[?], (1887-1952), poet
Tine Debeljak[?], (born 1913), poet
Walter de la Mare, author, poet
DeCosta-Willis[?] (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
Madeline DeFrees[?], poet
Marie de France, poet
Thomas Dekker[?], (1575-1641), poet
Milan Dekleva[?], (born 1946), poet
Leconte de Lisle[?], parnassian[?] poet
François de Malherbe, (1555-1628), poet
Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855), poet
Tory Dent, (1958- ), poet (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
Jeronim De Rada[?], poet
Jure Detela[?], (1951-1992), poet
Babette Deutsch[?], poet
Aubrey de Vere[?], poet
Feliks Dev[?], (1732-1786), poet
Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
Diane Di Prima[?] (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
James Dickey, (1923-1997), poet
Stephen Dobyns[?], American author, novelist, poet
Alenka Jenstrle Dolezal[?], (born 1959), poet
John Donne, (1572-1631), poet
Maura Dooley[?], poet
Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
Ivan Dornik[?], (1892-1968), poet
Gavin Douglas[?], poet
Keith Douglas[?], (1920-1944), poet
Rita Dove[?], poet
Ernest Dowson[?], (1867-1900), poet
Leah B. Drake[?], poet
Michael Drayton, (1563-1631), poet
Ciril Drekonja[?], (1896-1944), poet
Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
John Drinkwater, (1882-1937), poet
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
William Drummond[?], (1585-1649), poet
William Henry Drummond[?], (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright
Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560), poet
W.E.B. Du Bois, poet
W.E.N. Du Bois[?], poet
Joze Dular[?], (1915-2000), poet
Du Fu[?], the Poet Saint
Du Mu[?], (803-852 - Chinese poet), poet
W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
Alan Dugan[?], poet
Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955), poet
Edouard Dujardin[?] (We'll to the Woods No More)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906), poet
William Dunbar, (1465-1520), poet
Robert Duncan[?] (Black Mountain School)
Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet
Stephen Dunn[?], poet
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
Stuart Dybek[?], poet

E

Charles F. Easton[?], poet
Richard Eberhart[?], poet
Russell Edson[?], poet
Joseph von Eichendorff[?], (1788-1857), poet
George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
Fran Eller[?], (1873-1956), poet
Ebenezer Elliott[?], (1781-1849), poet
Paul Eluard, French poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
William Empson, (1906-1984), poet
Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
Paul Engle[?], poet
Hans Magnus Enzensberger[?], (born 1929), German poet
Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220), poet
Clayton Eshleman[?] (Antiphonal Swing)
Florbela Espanca[?], (poet)
Salvador Espriu[?], writer
Abbie Huston Evans[?], poet
Mari Evans[?], poet
William Everson[?] (In The Fictive Wish)
Richard Everswine[?], poet
Galvin Ewart[?], poet

F

Thomas Ferril[?], poet
Afanasiy Fet[?], (1812-1892), poet
Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925), poet
Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883), poet
Robert Fitzgerald[?], poet
Lawrence Fixel[?], poet
John Fletcher[?], (1579-1625), poet
F. S. Flint[?] (Imagist manifestos)
Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898), poet
John Forbes[?], poet
Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
John Ford, (1586-1639), cinematographer, director, writer, editor, producer, actor
France Forstneric[?], (born 1958), mathematician.
Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827), poet
Janet Frame, (born 1924), poet
Robert Francis[?], poet
Veronica Franco, (1546-1591), poet
Naim Frashëri[?], poet
Louis Fréchette[?], (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Erich Fried[?], (1921-1988), poet
Max Frisch[?], (1911-1991), Swiss poet
Ervin Fritz[?], (born 1940), poet
Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
Anton Funtek[?], (1862-1932), poet

G

Jean Garrigue[?], poet
Samuel Garth[?], poet
George Gascoigne, (1525-1577), poet
David Gascoyne[?], poet
Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), poet
John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
Stefan George[?], (1868-1933), poet
Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676), poet
Lapo Gianni[?], poet
Richard Gilder[?], poet
Gary Gildner[?] (Letters from Vicksburg)
Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997), US eccentrical writer
Dana Gioia[?] (essays on poetry)
Nikki Giovanni[?], (born 1943), poet
Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850), poet
Janko Glazer[?], (1893-1975), poet
Denis Glover[?], (1912-1980), poet
Louise Glück[?] (Bobbitt Prize winner)
Goran Gluvi&[?], (born 1957), poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
Cvetko Golar[?], (1879-1965), poet
Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970), poet
Rumer Golden[?] (In Noahs Ark)
Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes[?]
Pavel Golia[?], (1887-1959), poet
Eugen Gomringer[?], poet
Luis de Gongora[?], Spanish poet
Ray Gonzalez[?], (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s), poet
Lorna Goodison[?], poet
Vojko Gorjan[?], (1949-1975), poet
Alojz Gradnik[?], (1882-1968), poet
Niko Grafenauer[?], (born 1940), poet
Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
Robert Greene, (1560-1592), poet
Simon Gregorcic[?], (1844-1906), poet
Pankracij Gregorec[?], (1867-1920), poet
Barbara Gregoric[?], (born 1964), poet
Horace Gregory[?], poet
Eamon Grennan[?], poet
Fulk Greville[?], (1554-1628), poet
Nicholas Grimald[?], (1519-1562), poet
Uri Tsvi Grinberg[?], poet
Angelina Weld Grimke[?], poet
Charlotte Forten Grimke[?], poet
Stanislaw Grochowiak[?], poet
Philip Gross[?], poet
Igo Gruden[?], (1893-1948), poet
Edgar Guest[?], (American poet of the 1920s), poet
Jorge Guillen[?], (1893-1984), poet
Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
Louise Imogen Guiney[?], poet
Guido Guinizzelli[?], poet
Nikolay Gumilyov[?], (1886-1921), poet
Thom Gunn[?], (born 1929), poet
Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937), poet
Ramon Guthrie[?], poet
Brion Gysin, (1916-1986), poet

H

Rachel Hadas[?], poet
Hafez, poet
Suheir Hammad[?], Palestinan-American poet and political activist
Matjaz Hanzek[?], (born 1949), poet
Jerzy Harasymowicz[?], poet
Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
Frances E. W. Harper[?], poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
Michael S. Harper[?], poet
Tony Harrison, (born 1937), poet
Milka Hartman[?], (born 1902), poet
Gwen Harwood[?], poet
Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946), poet
Fany Hausmann[?], (1818-1862), poet
Stephen Hawes[?], (died 1523), poet
Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
Robert Hayden[?], poet
Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
John Heath-Stubbs[?], poet
Anne Hébert[?], poet and novelist
Anthony Hecht[?], poet
John Hegley[?], also performs as half of the "Popticians"
Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856), poet
Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835), poet
Essex Hemphill[?], poet
William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903), poet
Adrian Henri[?], poet
George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
Zbigniew Herbert[?], poet
Johann Gottfried Herder[?], poet
Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803), poet
Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942), poet
Antoine Héroet, (died 1568), poet
Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), American poet, novelist
Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game[?], Steppenwolf
Dorothy Hewett[?], novelist, poet
Thomas Heywood[?], (157?-1650), poet
Rita Ann Higgins[?], poet, member of Aosdána
Geoffrey Hill[?], (born 1932), poet
Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
Branko Hofman[?], (born 1929), poet
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929), poet
James Hogg, (1770-1835), poet
Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843), poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Hugh Hood[?], Montreal Anglo poet. Master work is 10 volume novel.
Thomas Hood, (1798-1845), poet
A. D. Hope[?], poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889), poet
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus
George Moses Horton[?], poet
Jurij Houdlin[?], (born 1973), poet
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936), poet
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547), poet
Ivan Hribovsek[?], (1923-1945), poet
Langston Hughes, (1902-1967), poet
Ted Hughes, (1930-1998), poet
Richard Hugo[?], poet
Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
Vicente Huidobro[?], (1893-1948), poet
Alexander Hume[?], (1560-1609), poet
James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet

J

Clive James[?], poet
Gustav Janus[?], (born 1939), poet
Miran Jarc[?], (1900-1942), poet
Urban Jarnik[?], (1784-1844), poet
Randall Jarrell[?], poet
Robinson Jeffers[?], (died 1962), poet
Simon Jenko[?], (1835-1869), poet
Elizabeth Jennings, poet
Vida Jeraj[?], (1875-1932), poet
Luka Jeran[?], (1818-1896), poet
Marjetka Jersek[?], poet
Milan Jesih[?], (born 1950), poet
Fenton Johnson[?], poet
Georgia Douglas Johnson[?], poet
Helene Johnson[?], poet
James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
Lionel Johnson[?], poet
Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), English poet
David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
Leroi Jones[?] aka Amiri Baraka
James T. Jones[?] (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
James Joyce, (1882-1941), Irish author
Donald Justice[?] (The Summer Anniversary)
Juvenal, poet

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Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976), poet
Ivana Kampus[?], (born 1945), poet
Miha Kastelic[?], (1796-1868), poet
Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
Bob Kaufman[?] (coined "Beatnik")
Patrick Kavanagh[?], (1904-1967), poet
John Keats, (1795-1821), Irish poet
Weldon Kees[?], poet
Harry Kemp[?], poet
X. J. Kennedy[?], poet
Jozef Kenda[?], (1859-1929), poet
Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
Dragotin Kette[?], (1876-1899), poet
Keorapetse Kgositsile[?], poet
Omar Khayyam, (1048-1122), Persian poet
Velemir Khlebnikov[?], (1885-1922), poet
Vladislav Khodasevich[?], (1886-1939), poet
Nguyen Khuyen[?] (Vietnamese)
Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918), poet
Henry King[?], (1592-1669), poet
William King, (1663-1712), poet
Johann Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882), poet
Galway Kinnell[?] (Body Bags)
Thomas Kinsella[?], poet
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories[?]
Milan Klec[?], (born 1954), poet
Marjan Klinar[?], (1922-1983), poet
Mile Klopcic[?], (1905-1984), poet
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803), poet
Majda Kne[?], (born 1954), poet
Etheridge Knight[?], poet
Fran Kobal[?], (1881-1937), poet
Josip Kobal[?], (1870-1888), poet
Andrej Kocbek[?], poet
Edvard Kocbek[?], (1904-1981), poet
Matjaz Kocbek[?], (born 1946), poet
Jan Kochanowski[?], (born 1530), poet
Kenneth Koch[?] (NY Poet school)
Anton Koder[?], (1851-1918), poet
Andrej Kokot[?], (born 1936), poet
Miklavz Komelj[?], (born 1970), poet
Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pultizer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
Faik Konica[?], poet
Ted Kooser[?], poet
Sonja Koranter[?], (born 1948), poet
Barbara Korun[?], poet
Jovan Koseski[?], (1798-1884), poet
France Kosmac[?], (1922-1974), poet, film director, publicist.
Srecko Kosovel[?], (1904-1926), poet
Miroslav Kosuta[?], (born 1936), poet
Vladimir Kos[?], (born 1924), poet
Jure Kovic[?], poet
Kajetan Kovic[?], (born 1931), poet
Barbara Kozak[?], poet
Lojze Krakar[?], (1929-1995), poet
Taja Kramberger, (born 1970), poet
Ruth Krauss[?], poet
Marko Kravos[?], (born 1943), poet
Ernest Kroll[?], poet
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski[?], poet
Maxine Kumin[?], poet
Stanley Kunitz[?], poet

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Philip Lamantia[?], poet
Charles Lamb, (1775-1834), poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon[?], poet
Walter Savage Landor[?], (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
Joseph Langland[?], poet
Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
James Laughlin[?], poet
Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870), poet
Lawes[?], poet
D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
Layamon, poet
Irving Layton[?], (born 1912), sex machine poet!
Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense[?]
Jan Lechon[?], poet
Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917), poet
Dennis Lee[?], writer of children's poetry
William Ellery Leonard[?], poet
Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
Eleanor Lerman[?], poet
Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov[?], (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
Boleslaw Lesmian[?], poet
Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
Anton Levec[?], poet
Peter Levec[?], (born 1923), poet
Denise Levertov[?] (Black Mountain triumverate)
Jernej Levicnik[?], (1808-1883), poet
Philip Levine[?], poet
Larry Levis[?], poet
Zlatka Levstek[?], (born 1944), poet
Saunders Lewis, (1893-1985), poet
Wyndham Lewis, (1884-1957), poet
Li Hou Zhu, (931-978), poet
José Lezama Lima[?] (Cuban poet)
Ewa Lipska[?], poet
Florjan Lipus[?], (born 1937), author.
Alan Llwyd[?], (current)
Mihael Lotric[?], (born 1937), poet
Joza Lovrencic[?], (1890-1952), poet
Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), US poet
Lucan, poet
Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
John Lydgate[?], (1370-1450), poet
John Lyly[?], (1553-1606), poet
George Lyttelton[?], (1709-1773), poet
Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
Li Qingzhao[?], poet
Li Shanyin[?], poet
Li Yu[?], poet
Joseph C. Lincoln[?], poet
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001), poet
Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931), poet
Lawrence Lipking[?], poet
Ramon Llull, (1235-1315), philosopher of the 13 century
Thomas Lodge[?], (1556-1625), poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American poet
Federico Garc Lorca[?], poet
Audre Lorde, (born 1934), black lesbian activist
Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)[?], poet
Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658), poet
Robert Lowell[?], poet
Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), poet
Mina Loy[?] (Dada)
Lucilius[?], poet
Mario Luzi[?], poet

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Hugh MacDiarmid[?], (1892-1978), poet
Cynthia MacDonald[?], poet
George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen[?], Canadian writer, poet
Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
Compton MacKenzie[?], poet
Nathaniel Mackey[?], poet
Archibald MacLeish[?], (1892-1982), poet
Louis MacNeice[?], (1907-1963), poet
Haki R. Madhubuti[?], poet
France Magajna[?], (born 1957), poet
John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), (Aviation poet)
Derek Mahon[?] (Northern Irish poet)
Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.
Clarence Major[?], poet
Svetlana Makarovic[?], (born 1939), poet
Peter Makuck[?], poet
Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898), poet
David Mallet[?], poet
Miroslav Malovrh[?], (1861-1922), poet
Goffredo Mameli, (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
Osip Mandelstam, (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
Osip E. Mandelstam[?], poet
James Clarence Mangan[?], poet
Manilius, poet
Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950), poet
Bill Mannhire[?], (born 1946), poet
Klaus Mann, (1906-1949), poet
Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
Robert Mannyng of Brunne[?], (1269-1340), poet
Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
Joan Maragall[?], (1860-1911), writer
Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625), poet
Edwin Markham[?], poet
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
Clément Marot, (1496-1544), poet
Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678), poet
John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet
Edgar Lee Masters[?], (1869-1950), poet
Basho Matsuo, (1644-1694), haiku poet
Neza Maurer[?], (born 1930), poet
Blaz Mavrel[?], poet
Glyn Maxwell[?], poet
Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930), poet
Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
Gail Mazur[?], poet
James McAuley[?], poet
Linda McCarriston[?], poet
Michael McClure[?] (Dark Brown - beat)
John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders' Fields
Colleen McElroy[?], poet
Phyllis McGinley[?], poet
William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), poet
Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
Thomas McGrath[?] (Movie at the End of the World)
Duncan McIntyre[?], Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
Claude McKay[?], poet
Don McKay[?], poet
Irene McKinney[?], poet
Sandra McPherson[?], poet
Meisetsu[?], (1847-1926 - haiku poet), poet
Meng Houran[?], poet

Norman MacCaig[?], poet
Anton Medved[?], (1869-1910), poet
Vladimir Memon[?], poet
Janez Menart[?], (born 1929), poet
George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
Ace Mermolja[?], (born 1951), poet
Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
James Merrill[?], (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist[?] monk
W.S. Merwin[?], (The Miner's Pale Children)
W.S. Merwin[?], (The Miner's Pale Children)
Paul Metcalf[?] (Melville's grandson)
Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928), poet
Henri Michaux[?], poet and painter
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), oustanding Polish poet and writer
Josephine Miles[?], poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950), poet
Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913), poet
Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
Czeslaw Milosz, Pole
Alice Duer Miller[?], poet
John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
Ivan Minatti[?], (born 1924), poet
Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Adrian Mitchell[?], poet
S. Weir Mitchell[?], American novelist, poet
Ndre Mjeda[?], poet
Iztok Mlakar[?], poet
Stefan Modrinjak[?], (1774-1827), poet
Harriet Monroe[?] (Poetry magazine)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
Eugenio Montale[?] (Nobel Laureate)
Marianne Moore, (1887-1972), poet
Merrill Moore[?] (& R. Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
Thomas Moore, (1779-1852), poet
Frederick Morgan[?], poet
Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914), poet
William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
Howard Moss[?], poet
Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-), poet
Brane Mozetic[?], (born 1958), poet
Lisel Mueller[?], poet
Erich Mühsam[?], (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
Paul Muldoon[?], (born 1951), poet
Nolie Mumey[?], poet
Les Murray[?], (born 1938), poet
Anthony Munday[?], (1553-1633), poet
Richard Murphy[?], poet, member of Aosdána
Erna Muser[?], (1879-1901), poet
Susan Musgrave[?], Poet. Married for love.

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Marcia Nardi[?], poet
Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
Thomas Nashe[?], (1567-1601), poet
Emile Nelligan, (1879-1941), French-Canadian poet
Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson[?], poet
Howard Nemerov[?], (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
John Henry Newman, (1801-1890), poet
Nezami[?], poet
B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988), poet
B.P Nicol[?], poet </