List of poets

Below is a List of notable poets

A

Dannie Abse (White Coat Purple Coat)

Leonie Adams (High Falcon - 1929)

Donald Allen (New American Poetry)

Chairil Anwar (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)

Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)

Tudor Arghezi (greatest Romanian poet)

B

Christianne Balk (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)

Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)

Barba Porfirio Jacob (Colombian poet)

George Barker

William Barnes

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Elizabeth Barrett

Judith Baumel (The Weight of Numbers - Whitman award)

Joshua Beckman

Beddoes (English writer in Germany)

Ben Belitt

Marvin Bell

Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli

Hilaire Belloc

William Benet Rose

Stephen Vincent Benet

Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bing & Cohen (Greek & Roman erotic verse)

Mark Boyd Alexander (1563-1601 - sonnets)

Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

William Braithwaite (1878-1962)

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Samuel Butler (1612-80)

Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)

Lord Byron

C

Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)

Caedmon (old English)

Robert Calvert

Roy Campbell

Thomas Campion (1567-1619)

Gaius Catullus Valerius

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)

William Collins (1721-1759)

Evan S. Jr. Connell

Leo Connellan (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)

Clark Coolidge

Wendy Cope

Gregory Corso (Gasoline - Beat poet)

Jeni Couzyn

Malcolm Cowley (Dada)

Abraham Cowley

William Cowper

George Crabbe

Christopher Pearce Cranch (19th c. American)

Hart Crane (The Bridge)

Stephen Crane

Douglas Crase

Robert Creeley (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)

Countee Cullen

E. E. Cummings

J. V. Cunningham

D

Kate Daniels

W. H. Davies

Edward Davison (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)

Peter Davison (poet son of Edward)

Cecil Day-Lewis

Walter de la Mare

DeCosta-Willis (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)

Madeline DeFrees

Babette Deutsch

Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)

Du Fu, the Poet Saint

Du Mu (803-852 - Chinese poet)

Alan Dugan

Carol Ann Duffy

Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)

Douglas Dunn

Stephen Dunn

Lawrence Durrell (A Private Country: Poems)

Stuart Dybek

E

Max Ernst (Dada)

Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)

Salvador Espriu

Abbie Huston Evans

William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)

Richard Everswine

Galvin Ewart

F

F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)

G

Gary Gildner (Letters from Vicksburg)

Allen Ginsberg

Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)

Nikki Giovanni

Louise Glück (Bobbitt Prize winner)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lea Goldberg

Rumer Golden (In Noahs Ark)

Eugen Gomringer

Ray Gonzalez (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s)

Edgar Guest (most popular American poet of 20's)

Nicolas Guillén (Cuban poet)

H

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Dorothy Hewett

Geoffrey Hill

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

A. D. Hope

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A. E. Housman

Langston Hughes

Ted Hughes

J

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Lionel Johnson

Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka

James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)

Ben Jonson

Donald Justice (The Summer Anniversary)

K

Kálmán Kalocsay

Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)

Joyce Kilmer

Galway Kinnell (Body Bags)

Thomas Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)

L

Philip Lamantia

Walter Savage Landor (English writer in Italy)

William Ellery Leonard

Giacomo Leopardi

Eleanor Lerman

Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumverate)

Philip Levine

Larry Levis

Wyndham Lewis

José Lezama Lima (Cuban poet)

Li Po, the Poet Immortal

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Vachel Lindsay

Lawrence Lipking

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Federico Garc Lorca

Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)

Mina Loy (Dada)

John Gillespie Magee, Junior (Aviation poet)

Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)

Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)

John McCrae In Flanders' Fields

Phyllis McGinley

William Topaz McGonagall

Thomas McGrath (Movie at the End of the World)

Claude McKay

Irene McKinney

Sandra McPherson

Meisetsu (1847-1926 - haiku poet)

Meng Houran

Stuart Merrill (symbolist)

James Merrill (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)

W.S. Merwin (The Miner's Pale Children)

Paul Metcalf (Melville's grandson)

Josephine Miles

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)

Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)

Marianne Moore

Merrill Moore (& R. Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)

Frederick Morgan

William Morris (Norse sagas & old French matter)

Howard Moss

Andrew Motion (poet laureate 1999-)

N

Marcia Nardi

Ogden Nash

Howard Nemerov (Guide to the Ruins)

Pablo Neruda (Residence on Earth 1946)

O

Frank O'Hara (NY School)

Sharon Olds

Dave Oliphant

Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)

George Oppen

Peter Orlovsky (beat)

Publius Ovidius Naso

Wilfred Owen

P

Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)

Don Paterson

Robert Pawlwoski

Octavio Paz

Peele (Batsabe Sings)

Fernando Pessoa

Francesco Petrarca

Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)

Ruth Pitter

Sylvia Plath (The Colossue)

Williams Plomer

Edgar Allan Poe

Alexander Pope

Ezra Pound (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)

R

Kathleen Raine

Carl Rakosi

John Crowe Ransom (Kenyon College)

David Ray

Man Ray (Dada)

Byron H. Reece

Ishmael Reed

R.D. Reeve (The Blue Cat)

Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Carolyn M. Rodgers

Theodore Roethke

Isaac Rosenberg

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Sarah Ruden

Muriel Rukeyser

S

Philip Schultz (Deep Within The Ravine - Lamont selection)

Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)

Sir Walter Scott

Gil Scott-Heron

Jaroslav Seifert (Nobel Prize)

Kathleen Spivack (The Beds We Lie In)

W.D. Snodgrass (aka S.S. Gardons)

Gary Snyder (beat - Regarding Wave)

Gary Soto

Stephen Spender (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)

Trumbull Stickney (19th c.)

James Still

Mark Strand (former poet laureate)

T

Geneviere Taggard (Calling Western Union)

Mary Tull (Stained Windows; #52 Dorrance Contempry series)

Tristan Tzara (Dada)

U

Louis Untermeyer (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)

John Updike (Facing Nature)

V

Jean Valentine (Home Deep Blue)

Jonas Very (19th c. American "Renaissance")

Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)

Peter Viereck

Francois Villon (15th c. French)

Walther von der Vogelweide

Andrei Voznesensky

W

Robert Wace

David Wagoner

Diane Wakoski (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)

Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize for Literature)

Rosmarie Waldrop

Philip Walen

Arthur Waley (Translations from the Chinese)

Alice Walker

Walsinghame

Wang Wei, the Poet Buddha

Wang Changling

Candice Ward

Warniek Marilyn Nelson

Robert Penn Warren

David Wayne

Theodore Weiss

Philip Whalen (beat)

John Wheelock Hall (The Black Panther)

E.B. White (Fox of Peacock)

Walt Whitman

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Wieners (beat - Ace of Pentacles)

Richard Wilbur (past poet laureate - Things of This World)

Oscar Wilde

Shirley Williams

Miller Williams

William Carlos Williams (Paterson)

John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)

Wright James (The Green Wall)

Charles Wright

Judith Wright

Sir Thomas Wyatt (They flee from me)

Elinor Wylie

X

Xu Zhi Mo, melancholic poet of early 20 century China

Y

John Yau

William Butler Yeats

Stephen Yenser (Whitman winner - The Fire In All Things)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Marguerite Young

Young David

Z

Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)

Poets (by language not nationality)

Poets by genre or movement

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