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    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun   William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

    William Shakespeare

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    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

    The Iliad, The Odyssey   Homerus, best known as his anglicised name Homer, is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.

    Homer

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    The Iliad, The Odyssey Homerus, best known as his anglicised name Homer, is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets.

    The Divine Comedy, Love and the Gentle Heart, Sestina   Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages.

    Dante Alighieri

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    The Divine Comedy, Love and the Gentle Heart, Sestina Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages.

    Der Erlkönig, Herbstgefühle, Prometheus   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    Der Erlkönig, Herbstgefühle, Prometheus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman.

    The Raven, A Dream Within a Dream, Annabel Lee   Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

    Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Raven, A Dream Within a Dream, Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

    When You Are Old, He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven, A Crazed Girl   William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

    William Butler Yeats

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    When You Are Old, He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven, A Crazed Girl William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

    O Captain! My Captain!, A Clear Midnight, A child said What is the grass?   Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist.

    Walt Whitman

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    O Captain! My Captain!, A Clear Midnight, A child said What is the grass? Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist.

    The Tiger, A Poison Tree, Auguries of Innocence   William Blake was an English painter, poet and printmaker.

    William Blake

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    The Tiger, A Poison Tree, Auguries of Innocence William Blake was an English painter, poet and printmaker.

    Mandalay, If, A Child's Garden   Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

    Rudyard Kipling

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    Mandalay, If, A Child's Garden Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

    Kony, The Home and the World, Chokher Bali   Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in...

    Rabindranath Tagore

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    Kony, The Home and the World, Chokher Bali Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in...

    Auld Lang Syne, A Red Red Rose, My Heart's In the Highlands   Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

    Robert Burns

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    Auld Lang Syne, A Red Red Rose, My Heart's In the Highlands Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

    A Walk, The Panther, Again and Again   René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke —better known as Rainer Maria Rilke —was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense...

    Rainer Maria Rilke

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    A Walk, The Panther, Again and Again René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke —better known as Rainer Maria Rilke —was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense...

    In the Picture Gallery, Mountain Life, Thanks   Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

    Henrik Ibsen

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    In the Picture Gallery, Mountain Life, Thanks Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

    Ulysses, All Things Will Die, Charge Of The Light Brigade   Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

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    Ulysses, All Things Will Die, Charge Of The Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

    Friendship, Human Knowledge, Amalia   Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

    Friedrich Schiller

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    Friendship, Human Knowledge, Amalia Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

    Petrarch, From 'Visions'   Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.

    Petrarch

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    Petrarch, From 'Visions' Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.

    She Walks In Beauty, There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods, When We Two Parted   George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement....

    George Gordon Byron

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    She Walks In Beauty, There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods, When We Two Parted George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement....

    Hope is the thing with feathers, Faith is a fine invention, Heaven--is what I cannot reach!   Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.

    Emily Dickinson

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    Hope is the thing with feathers, Faith is a fine invention, Heaven--is what I cannot reach! Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.

    Proem, Balleta, Sonetto   Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

    Giovanni Boccaccio

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    Proem, Balleta, Sonetto Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

    Eugene Onegin, The Captain's Daughter, The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda   Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

    Aleksandr Pushkin

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    Eugene Onegin, The Captain's Daughter, The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

    Isthmian Odes of Pindar, The works of Pindar, Pindar's IV. Pythische Ode   Pindar, was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.

    Pindar

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    Isthmian Odes of Pindar, The works of Pindar, Pindar's IV. Pythische Ode Pindar, was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.

    Ozymandias, A Lament, Love's Philosophy   Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

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    Ozymandias, A Lament, Love's Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language.

    Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Before I Knocked, Under Milk Wood   Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", the "Play...

    Dylan Thomas

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    Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Before I Knocked, Under Milk Wood Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", the "Play...

    The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening   Robert Lee Frost was an American poet.

    Robert Frost

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    The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Lee Frost was an American poet.

    If You Forget Me, I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You, Don't Go Far Off   Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.

    Pablo Neruda

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    If You Forget Me, I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You, Don't Go Far Off Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.

    Her Voice, A Vision, Flower of Love   Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet.

    Oscar Wilde

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    Her Voice, A Vision, Flower of Love Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet.

    Songs and poems of Vladimir Vysotsky, Vacation in Vienna, I Love   Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Russian singer-songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet and Russian culture.

    Vladimir Vysotsky

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    Songs and poems of Vladimir Vysotsky, Vacation in Vienna, I Love Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Russian singer-songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet and Russian culture.

    The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock   Thomas Stearns Eliot OM, usually known as T. S. Eliot, was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

    T. S. Eliot

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    The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Thomas Stearns Eliot OM, usually known as T. S. Eliot, was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

    A Thing of Beauty (Endymion), Bright Star, When I Have Fears   John Keats was an English Romantic poet.

    John Keats

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    A Thing of Beauty (Endymion), Bright Star, When I Have Fears John Keats was an English Romantic poet.

    The Georgics, Eclogue 1-X   Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

    Virgil

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    The Georgics, Eclogue 1-X Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

    Paradise Lost, How Soon Hath Time, On His Blindness   John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

    John Milton

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    Paradise Lost, How Soon Hath Time, On His Blindness John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

    I wandered lonely as a cloud, The world is too much with us, Daffodils   William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads....

    William Wordsworth

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    I wandered lonely as a cloud, The world is too much with us, Daffodils William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads....

    Les Fleurs du mal, 33 Poemas Simbolistas, Poems in prose from Charles Baudelaire   Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

    Charles Baudelaire

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    Les Fleurs du mal, 33 Poemas Simbolistas, Poems in prose from Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

    Hymns to the Night   Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

    Novalis

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    Hymns to the Night Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

    The Lusiads of Camoens, A ilha dos amores, he Canzonen des Luis de Camoens   Luís Vaz de Camões, is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.

    Luís de Camões

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    The Lusiads of Camoens, A ilha dos amores, he Canzonen des Luis de Camoens Luís Vaz de Camões, is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.

    Satiren / Briefe. Sermones / Epistulae, Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum, Oden und Epoden   Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

    Horace

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    Satiren / Briefe. Sermones / Epistulae, Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum, Oden und Epoden Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, The Suicide's Argument   Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake...

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, The Suicide's Argument Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake...

    Hyperion's Song Of Destiny, Bread and Wine, Half of Life   Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.

    Friedrich Hölderlin

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    Hyperion's Song Of Destiny, Bread and Wine, Half of Life Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.

    Cinderella, Ariel, Mirror   Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

    Sylvia Plath

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    Cinderella, Ariel, Mirror Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

    Funeral Blues, If I Could Tell You, Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue   Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, an American citizen, and regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

    W. H. Auden

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    Funeral Blues, If I Could Tell You, Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, an American citizen, and regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

    The Canterbury Tales   Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster...

    Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster...

    Ode to Solitude, Eloisa to Abelard, A Dying Christian to His Soul   Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.

    Alexander Pope

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    Ode to Solitude, Eloisa to Abelard, A Dying Christian to His Soul Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.

    Sagesse, Selected poems, Poems   Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement.

    Paul Verlaine

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    Sagesse, Selected poems, Poems Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement.

    A Hero of Our Time, The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, Demon   Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism.

    Mikhail Lermontov

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    A Hero of Our Time, The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, Demon Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism.

    Host and Guest   Vazha-Pshavela, simply referred to as Vazha is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili, noted Georgian patriot and author of the highest calibre in the field of Georgian...

    Vazha-Pshavela

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    Host and Guest Vazha-Pshavela, simply referred to as Vazha is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili, noted Georgian patriot and author of the highest calibre in the field of Georgian...

    Novellen und Gedichte, Ahnung und Gegenwart.

    Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

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    Novellen und Gedichte, Ahnung und Gegenwart.

    Die Judenbuche, Das geistliche Jahr, Last Gifts   Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria, Freiin von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, was a 19th-century German writer and composer.

    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

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    Die Judenbuche, Das geistliche Jahr, Last Gifts Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria, Freiin von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, was a 19th-century German writer and composer.

    August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet.

    August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

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    August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet.

    My Native Land, Lochinvar, The Truth of Women   Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.

    Sir Walter Scott

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    My Native Land, Lochinvar, The Truth of Women Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.

    A Smile to Remember, Alone with Everybody, Are You Drinking?   Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

    Charles Bukowski

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    A Smile to Remember, Alone with Everybody, Are You Drinking? Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

    Ana Kalandadze was a Georgian poet and one of the most influential female figures in modern Georgian literature.

    Ana Kalandadze

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    Ana Kalandadze was a Georgian poet and one of the most influential female figures in modern Georgian literature.

    Dead Be Not Proud, For whom the Bell Tolls, No Man Is an Island   John Donne was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England.

    John Donne

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    Dead Be Not Proud, For whom the Bell Tolls, No Man Is an Island John Donne was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England.

    Be With Those Who Help Your Being, Any Soul That Drank the Nectar, A Moment Of Happiness   Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mawlānā, Mevlânâ, Mevlevî, and more popularly simply as Rūmī, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist,...

    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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    Be With Those Who Help Your Being, Any Soul That Drank the Nectar, A Moment Of Happiness Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mawlānā, Mevlânâ, Mevlevî, and more popularly simply as Rūmī, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist,...

    The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Harmonium, Invective Against Swans   Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet.

    Wallace Stevens

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    The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Harmonium, Invective Against Swans Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet.

    For some we loved, Come Fill The Cup, The Rubaiyat   Omar Khayyám; born Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.

    Omar Khayyám

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    For some we loved, Come Fill The Cup, The Rubaiyat Omar Khayyám; born Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.

    The Mediator, Die insel Bachi, Why Art Thou Thus Cast Down My Heart?   Hans Sachs was a German meistersinger, poet, playwright, and shoemaker.

    Hans Sachs

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    The Mediator, Die insel Bachi, Why Art Thou Thus Cast Down My Heart? Hans Sachs was a German meistersinger, poet, playwright, and shoemaker.

    Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Odes et Ballades   Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers.

    Victor Hugo

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    Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Odes et Ballades Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers.

    Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a minnesinger and poet of the Middle Ages.

    Ulrich von Liechtenstein

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    Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a minnesinger and poet of the Middle Ages.

    Give All To Love, Fate, The Bell   Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Give All To Love, Fate, The Bell Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

    A Winter's Tale, To Women As Far As I'm Concerned, Self-Pity   David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D.

    D. H. Lawrence

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    A Winter's Tale, To Women As Far As I'm Concerned, Self-Pity David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D.

    Pensieri, Detti memorabili di Filippo Ottonieri, Scritti e frammenti autobiografici   Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist.

    Giacomo Leopardi

    [ranking: 61]
    Pensieri, Detti memorabili di Filippo Ottonieri, Scritti e frammenti autobiografici Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist and philologist.

    Death and his Brother Sleep, Ich Kann Es Nicht Vergessen, A Palm-tree   Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

    Heinrich Heine

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    Death and his Brother Sleep, Ich Kann Es Nicht Vergessen, A Palm-tree Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

    Aubade, Church Going, Faith Healing   Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.

    Philip Larkin

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    Aubade, Church Going, Faith Healing Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.

    Don Quijote de la Mancha, Ḍāna Kvigjoṭa, El gallardo español   Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, often known mononymously as Cervantes, was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.

    Miguel de Cervantes

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    Don Quijote de la Mancha, Ḍāna Kvigjoṭa, El gallardo español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, often known mononymously as Cervantes, was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.

    Prince Nikoloz "Tato" Baratashvili was a Georgian poet, one of the first Georgians to marry a modern nationalism with European Romanticism and to introduce "Europeanism" into...

    Nikoloz Baratashvili

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    Prince Nikoloz "Tato" Baratashvili was a Georgian poet, one of the first Georgians to marry a modern nationalism with European Romanticism and to introduce "Europeanism" into...

    Constantly Risking Absurdity, The World Is a Beautiful Place, I Am Waiting   Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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    Constantly Risking Absurdity, The World Is a Beautiful Place, I Am Waiting Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

    To the Virgins: Make Much of Time, A Hymn to Love, To Daffodils   Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for his book of poems, Hesperides.

    Robert Herrick

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    To the Virgins: Make Much of Time, A Hymn to Love, To Daffodils Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for his book of poems, Hesperides.

    The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan, Metaphysical Poetry, The Complete Poems   Henry Vaughan was a Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet.

    Henry Vaughan

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    The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan, Metaphysical Poetry, The Complete Poems Henry Vaughan was a Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet.

    Mystery-Bouffe, Night & Morning, The bedbug   Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. 1913-1917 saw Mayakovsky's rise to fame as a leader of the Russian Futurist...

    Vladimir Mayakovsky

    [ranking: 69]
    Mystery-Bouffe, Night & Morning, The bedbug Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. 1913-1917 saw Mayakovsky's rise to fame as a leader of the Russian Futurist...

    In a Station of the Metro, The River-Merchant's Wife, And the days are not full enough   Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement.

    Ezra Pound

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    In a Station of the Metro, The River-Merchant's Wife, And the days are not full enough Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement.

    He is more than a hero, Awed by her splendor, Cleis   Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets.

    Sappho

    [ranking: 71]
    He is more than a hero, Awed by her splendor, Cleis Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets.

    A Season in Hell, Illuminations, Collected poems   Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes.

    Arthur Rimbaud

    [ranking: 72]
    A Season in Hell, Illuminations, Collected poems Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes.

    Jerusalem Delivered, Ecco Mormorar L'onde, Hedge that divides the lovely   Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and...

    Torquato Tasso

    [ranking: 73]
    Jerusalem Delivered, Ecco Mormorar L'onde, Hedge that divides the lovely Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and...

    i carry your heart with me, may i feel said he, i like my body when it is with your   Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E.

    e e cummings

    [ranking: 74]
    i carry your heart with me, may i feel said he, i like my body when it is with your Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E.

    Leben, Lieben, Leiden. Catulls Lesbia- Gedichte Mit Begleittexten   Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry.

    Catullus

    [ranking: 75]
    Leben, Lieben, Leiden. Catulls Lesbia- Gedichte Mit Begleittexten Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry.

    The Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, Complete Destruction   William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine.

    William Carlos Williams

    [ranking: 76]
    The Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, Complete Destruction William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine.

    The Faerie Queene, My Love Is Like to Ice, Epithalamion   Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.

    Edmund Spenser

    [ranking: 77]
    The Faerie Queene, My Love Is Like to Ice, Epithalamion Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.

    The Alchemist in the City, God's Grandeur, The Windhover   Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

    Gerard Manley Hopkins

    [ranking: 78]
    The Alchemist in the City, God's Grandeur, The Windhover Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

    Blackberry-Picking, Death of a Naturalist, Mid-Term Break   Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIA was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Seamus Heaney

    [ranking: 79]
    Blackberry-Picking, Death of a Naturalist, Mid-Term Break Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIA was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Ballade, The Debate Between Villon And His Heart, Epitaph In The Form Of A Ballade   François Villon born in Paris in 1431 and disappeared from view in 1463, is the best known French poet of the late Middle Ages.

    François Villon

    [ranking: 80]
    Ballade, The Debate Between Villon And His Heart, Epitaph In The Form Of A Ballade François Villon born in Paris in 1431 and disappeared from view in 1463, is the best known French poet of the late Middle Ages.

    To His Coy Mistress, A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body, Eyes and Tears   Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.

    Andrew Marvell

    [ranking: 81]
    To His Coy Mistress, A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body, Eyes and Tears Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.

    Harlem, As I Grow Older, I Too   James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.

    Langston Hughes

    [ranking: 82]
    Harlem, As I Grow Older, I Too James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman   Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer.

    Maya Angelou

    [ranking: 83]
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer.

    Poems of Wordsworth, guide to English literature and Essay on Gray, Matthew Arnold's books   Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

    Matthew Arnold

    [ranking: 84]
    Poems of Wordsworth, guide to English literature and Essay on Gray, Matthew Arnold's books Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

    The face that launch'd a thousand ships, Hero and Leander, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love   Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day.

    Christopher Marlowe

    [ranking: 85]
    The face that launch'd a thousand ships, Hero and Leander, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day.

    To an Athlete Dying Young, When I Was One-and-Twenty, Here Dead We Lie   Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

    A. E. Housman

    [ranking: 86]
    To an Athlete Dying Young, When I Was One-and-Twenty, Here Dead We Lie Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

    What Is Pink?, The Skylark, From Queens' Gardens   Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.

    Christina Rossetti

    [ranking: 87]
    What Is Pink?, The Skylark, From Queens' Gardens Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.

    A Night in a Moorish Harem, The temple & A priest to the temple, The Williams manuscript of George Herbert's poems   George Herbert was a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.

    George Herbert

    [ranking: 88]
    A Night in a Moorish Harem, The temple & A priest to the temple, The Williams manuscript of George Herbert's poems George Herbert was a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.

    Doctor Zhivago, L'an 1905, Récit   Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator.

    Boris Pasternak

    [ranking: 89]
    Doctor Zhivago, L'an 1905, Récit Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator.

    Thomas Murner was a German satirist, poet and translator. He was born at Oberehnheim near Strasbourg.

    Thomas Murner

    [ranking: 90]
    Thomas Murner was a German satirist, poet and translator. He was born at Oberehnheim near Strasbourg.

    L'hérésiarque et Cie, Les Onze Mille Verges ou les Amours d'un hospodar, Alcools   Guillaume Apollinaire, born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent.

    Guillaume Apollinaire

    [ranking: 91]
    L'hérésiarque et Cie, Les Onze Mille Verges ou les Amours d'un hospodar, Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire, born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent.

    Ah how sweet it is to love!, Happy the man, Can life be a blessing   John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668.

    John Dryden

    [ranking: 92]
    Ah how sweet it is to love!, Happy the man, Can life be a blessing John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668.

    De rerum natura, Di Lucrezio Caro Della natura delle cose libri VI, The nature of things   Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher.

    Lucretius

    [ranking: 93]
    De rerum natura, Di Lucrezio Caro Della natura delle cose libri VI, The nature of things Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher.

    Poemas de Wang Wei, The Poetry of Wang Wei, Poems of Wang Wei   Wang Wei and also known by other names such as Wang Youcheng, was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman.

    Wang Wei

    [ranking: 94]
    Poemas de Wang Wei, The Poetry of Wang Wei, Poems of Wang Wei Wang Wei and also known by other names such as Wang Youcheng, was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman.

    The Dark Night, Verweilen vor Gott, St.

    John of the Cross

    [ranking: 95]
    The Dark Night, Verweilen vor Gott, St.

    Life Studies, Collected Prose, Near the ocean   Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet.

    Robert Lowell

    [ranking: 96]
    Life Studies, Collected Prose, Near the ocean Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet.

    King Solomon of Israel

    [ranking: 97]

    Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Day, Lovesong, Full Moon and Little Frieda   Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OM was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation.

    Ted Hughes

    [ranking: 98]
    Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Day, Lovesong, Full Moon and Little Frieda Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OM was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation.

    Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, the most indefatigable agent in the regeneration of the Magyar language and literature at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.

    Ferenc Kazinczy

    [ranking: 99]
    Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, the most indefatigable agent in the regeneration of the Magyar language and literature at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.

    Unvanquished City, Valley of the Issa, The Captive Mind   Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat of Lithuanian origin.

    Czesław Miłosz

    [ranking: 100]
    Unvanquished City, Valley of the Issa, The Captive Mind Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat of Lithuanian origin.

    Galaktion Tabidze, simply referred to as Galaktioni was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets.

    Galaktion Tabidze

    [ranking: 101]
    Galaktion Tabidze, simply referred to as Galaktioni was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets.

    The Last Temptation of Christ, Captain Michalis, Journeying   Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus.

    Nikos Kazantzakis

    [ranking: 102]
    The Last Temptation of Christ, Captain Michalis, Journeying Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus.

    God chose them, Mente, Mundo Y Accion   Donald Grady Davidson was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author.

    Donald Davidson

    [ranking: 103]
    God chose them, Mente, Mundo Y Accion Donald Grady Davidson was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author.

    Earth Triumphant, John Deth, A Metaphysical Legend   Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography.

    Conrad Aiken

    [ranking: 104]
    Earth Triumphant, John Deth, A Metaphysical Legend Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography.

    The City That Does Not Sleep, Before the Dawn, Ballad of the Moon   Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

    Federico García Lorca

    [ranking: 105]
    The City That Does Not Sleep, Before the Dawn, Ballad of the Moon Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

    The poems of Gray, Odes, Cross   Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.

    Thomas Gray

    [ranking: 106]
    The poems of Gray, Odes, Cross Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.

    Capitale de la douleur, 152 proverbes mis au gout du jour, Poesies   Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.

    Paul Éluard

    [ranking: 107]
    Capitale de la douleur, 152 proverbes mis au gout du jour, Poesies Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.

    Slough, False Security, Diary of a Church Mouse   Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

    John Betjeman

    [ranking: 108]
    Slough, False Security, Diary of a Church Mouse Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

    On Grief and Reason: Essays, Nativity Poems, So Forth : Poems   Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

    Joseph Brodsky

    [ranking: 109]
    On Grief and Reason: Essays, Nativity Poems, So Forth : Poems Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

    Tao Te Ching, The Way and Its Power, The Tao of the Tao Te Ching   Laozi was a philosopher and poet of ancient China.

    Laozi

    [ranking: 110]
    Tao Te Ching, The Way and Its Power, The Tao of the Tao Te Ching Laozi was a philosopher and poet of ancient China.

    Metamorphoses, Elegy for Tibullus, Love and War   Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet, living during the reign of Augustus, and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.

    Ovid

    [ranking: 111]
    Metamorphoses, Elegy for Tibullus, Love and War Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet, living during the reign of Augustus, and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.

    "I Said to Love, " A Broken Appointment, I Need Not Go   Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet.

    Thomas Hardy

    [ranking: 112]
    "I Said to Love, " A Broken Appointment, I Need Not Go Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet.

    Beautiful Losers, I Am a Hotel, Jeux de dames   Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ is a Canadian singer–songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.

    Leonard Cohen

    [ranking: 113]
    Beautiful Losers, I Am a Hotel, Jeux de dames Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ is a Canadian singer–songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.

    Winter Days, A Zen Wave, Oku no Hosomichi   Matsuo Bashō, born 松尾 金作, then Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

    Basho

    [ranking: 114]
    Winter Days, A Zen Wave, Oku no Hosomichi Matsuo Bashō, born 松尾 金作, then Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

    My Last Duchess, A Pretty Woman, Porphyria's Lover   Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

    Robert Browning

    [ranking: 115]
    My Last Duchess, A Pretty Woman, Porphyria's Lover Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

    Divan-e-Hafez, Ghazalhā-yi Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān-i Ḥafiẓ   Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy".

    Hafez

    [ranking: 116]
    Divan-e-Hafez, Ghazalhā-yi Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān-i Ḥafiẓ Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy".

    Last Spring   Gottfried Benn was a German poet and essayist.

    Gottfried Benn

    [ranking: 117]
    Last Spring Gottfried Benn was a German poet and essayist.

    Shu Dao Nan, Quiet Night Thought, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter   Li Bai, also known as Li Po, was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights.

    Li Bai

    [ranking: 118]
    Shu Dao Nan, Quiet Night Thought, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Li Bai, also known as Li Po, was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights.

    mar sem fim, Ecologia e território, rosto e as máscaras   Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most...

    Fernando Pessoa

    [ranking: 119]
    mar sem fim, Ecologia e território, rosto e as máscaras Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most...

    The beginning & the end, and other poems, Z̆eny od mysu Sur   John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast.

    Robinson Jeffers

    [ranking: 120]
    The beginning & the end, and other poems, Z̆eny od mysu Sur John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast.

    Tell Me a Story, A Way to Love God, Evening Hawk   Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

    Robert Penn Warren

    [ranking: 121]
    Tell Me a Story, A Way to Love God, Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

    Shakespeare, Sculpture, Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings   Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.

    Johann Gottfried Herder

    [ranking: 122]
    Shakespeare, Sculpture, Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.

    Selected Poems of Du Fu, Du Fu Selected Poems, Tu-Fu   Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Along with Li Bai, he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.

    Du Fu

    [ranking: 123]
    Selected Poems of Du Fu, Du Fu Selected Poems, Tu-Fu Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Along with Li Bai, he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.

    Psałterz Dawidów, Odprawa posłów greckich, Fraszki   Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language.

    Jan Kochanowski

    [ranking: 124]
    Psałterz Dawidów, Odprawa posłów greckich, Fraszki Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language.

    Hovering Fly and Other Essays, Collected Poems, 1919-1976   John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

    Allen Tate

    [ranking: 125]
    Hovering Fly and Other Essays, Collected Poems, 1919-1976 John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

    My Papa's Waltz, I Knew a Woman, Elegy For Jane   Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry.

    Theodore Roethke

    [ranking: 126]
    My Papa's Waltz, I Knew a Woman, Elegy For Jane Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry.

    View with a Grain of Sand, Non-required Reading, That's Why We Are Alive   Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Wisława Szymborska

    [ranking: 127]
    View with a Grain of Sand, Non-required Reading, That's Why We Are Alive Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Sonetos completos, Obras de don Luis de Góngora, Píramo y Tisbe   Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet.

    Luis de Góngora

    [ranking: 128]
    Sonetos completos, Obras de don Luis de Góngora, Píramo y Tisbe Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet.

    King David of Israel

    [ranking: 129]

    Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems, Chetki   Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

    Anna Akhmatova

    [ranking: 130]
    Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems, Chetki Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

    Arcadia   Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.

    Jacopo Sannazaro

    [ranking: 131]
    Arcadia Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.

    Articole şi traduceri, Scrieri de criticǎ teatralǎ, Puizii   Mihai Eminescu was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet.

    Mihai Eminescu

    [ranking: 132]
    Articole şi traduceri, Scrieri de criticǎ teatralǎ, Puizii Mihai Eminescu was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet.

    Il taccuino del vecchio, 1952-1960, Sentimiento del Tiempo - La Tierra Prometida   Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

    Giuseppe Ungaretti

    [ranking: 133]
    Il taccuino del vecchio, 1952-1960, Sentimiento del Tiempo - La Tierra Prometida Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

    A translation of Notre avant-guerre/Before the war by Robert Brasillach   Robert Brasillach was a French author and journalist.

    Robert Brasillach

    [ranking: 134]
    A translation of Notre avant-guerre/Before the war by Robert Brasillach Robert Brasillach was a French author and journalist.

    The new criticism, complete poems of John Crowe Ransom, God without thunder   John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.

    John Crowe Ransom

    [ranking: 135]
    The new criticism, complete poems of John Crowe Ransom, God without thunder John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.

    Andrómeda y Perseo, Fieras Afemina Amor, La nave del mercader   Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the...

    Pedro Calderón de la Barca

    [ranking: 136]
    Andrómeda y Perseo, Fieras Afemina Amor, La nave del mercader Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the...

    Fängelse, The Sorrow Gondola, Baltics   Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator.

    Tomas Tranströmer

    [ranking: 137]
    Fängelse, The Sorrow Gondola, Baltics Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator.

    Selected poems, The Cavalier Poets, To Althea   Richard Lovelace was an English poet in the seventeenth century.

    Richard Lovelace

    [ranking: 138]
    Selected poems, The Cavalier Poets, To Althea Richard Lovelace was an English poet in the seventeenth century.

    The works of John Greenleaf Whittier, The river path, Prose works of John Greenleaf Whittier   John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.

    John Greenleaf Whittier

    [ranking: 139]
    The works of John Greenleaf Whittier, The river path, Prose works of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.

    Izbrannai͡a︡ proza v dvukh tomakh, Za vsekh-protivu vsekh!, The Poem of the End   Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature.

    Marina Tsvetaeva

    [ranking: 140]
    Izbrannai͡a︡ proza v dvukh tomakh, Za vsekh-protivu vsekh!, The Poem of the End Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature.

    Verwandlungen / Transformations, All My Pretty Ones, Live or Die   Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.

    Anne Sexton

    [ranking: 141]
    Verwandlungen / Transformations, All My Pretty Ones, Live or Die Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.

    Hug of War, Jimmy Jet and His TV Set, Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out   Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein was an American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books.

    Shel Silverstein

    [ranking: 142]
    Hug of War, Jimmy Jet and His TV Set, Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein was an American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books.

    Verweilen vor Gott, The life of the Holy Mother S.

    Teresa of Ávila

    [ranking: 143]
    Verweilen vor Gott, The life of the Holy Mother S.

    Dirge Without Music, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why, Love Is Not All   Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    [ranking: 144]
    Dirge Without Music, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why, Love Is Not All Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright.

    Junior Great Books, Tartuffe, Poems 1943-1956   Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator.

    Richard Wilbur

    [ranking: 145]
    Junior Great Books, Tartuffe, Poems 1943-1956 Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator.

    The autumn wind, The spring of my life, The stars are whispering   Kobayashi Issa, was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals.

    Kobayashi Issa

    [ranking: 146]
    The autumn wind, The spring of my life, The stars are whispering Kobayashi Issa, was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals.

    The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Early New England Meditative Poetry, works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse   Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published.

    Anne Bradstreet

    [ranking: 147]
    The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Early New England Meditative Poetry, works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published.

    Poems of Phillis Wheatley, The collected works of Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects   Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American woman and first published African-American poet.

    Phillis Wheatley

    [ranking: 148]
    Poems of Phillis Wheatley, The collected works of Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American woman and first published African-American poet.

    Luke & John, An evangelism primer, To pray God's will   Ben Johnson is a minister.

    Ben Johnson

    [ranking: 149]
    Luke & John, An evangelism primer, To pray God's will Ben Johnson is a minister.

    Pictures from an Institution, No Other Book: Selected Essays, The third book of criticism   Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title...

    Randall Jarrell

    [ranking: 150]
    Pictures from an Institution, No Other Book: Selected Essays, The third book of criticism Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title...

    Essays of Today and Yesterday, The lost poems of Francis Thompson, Selected writings   Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic.

    Francis Thompson

    [ranking: 151]
    Essays of Today and Yesterday, The lost poems of Francis Thompson, Selected writings Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic.

    Letters to William Hayward, David Jones, The fatigue   David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets.

    David Jones

    [ranking: 152]
    Letters to William Hayward, David Jones, The fatigue David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets.

    Howl, Father Death Blues, Haiku (Never Published)   Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow.

    Allen Ginsberg

    [ranking: 153]
    Howl, Father Death Blues, Haiku (Never Published) Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow.

    Paolo Iashvili was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement.

    Paolo Iashvili

    [ranking: 154]
    Paolo Iashvili was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement.

    Collected stories for children, Walter de la Mare: Short Stories, 1895-1926   Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist.

    Walter de la Mare

    [ranking: 155]
    Collected stories for children, Walter de la Mare: Short Stories, 1895-1926 Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist.

    Poems of a Mountain Home, A troubled heart & other waka, Mirror for the moon   Saigyō Hōshi was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.

    Saigyō

    [ranking: 156]
    Poems of a Mountain Home, A troubled heart & other waka, Mirror for the moon Saigyō Hōshi was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.

    The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Men That Don't Fit In, The Cremation of Sam McGee   Robert William Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".

    Robert W. Service

    [ranking: 157]
    The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Men That Don't Fit In, The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert William Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".

    Children of The Night, The town down the river, The valley of the shadow   Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and sonnet writer who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    [ranking: 158]
    Children of The Night, The town down the river, The valley of the shadow Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and sonnet writer who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

    Open City #4, Poesia Minimalista Norteamericana, Stroki dli͡a︡ zimy   Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator.

    Mark Strand

    [ranking: 159]
    Open City #4, Poesia Minimalista Norteamericana, Stroki dli͡a︡ zimy Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator.

    Der Messias. Gesang I - III. Text des Erstdrucks von 1748., Die Deutsche Gelehrenrepublik, Klopstick Der Messias: Werke und Briefe Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe   Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet.

    Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

    [ranking: 160]
    Der Messias. Gesang I - III. Text des Erstdrucks von 1748., Die Deutsche Gelehrenrepublik, Klopstick Der Messias: Werke und Briefe Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet.

    Der Hexensabbat, Des Lebens Überfluss, Aus Tiecks Novellenzeit   Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th...

    Johann Ludwig Tieck

    [ranking: 161]
    Der Hexensabbat, Des Lebens Überfluss, Aus Tiecks Novellenzeit Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th...

    British country life in autumn and winter, British country life in spring and summer, Lafcadio Hearn   Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh poet and essayist. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences.

    Edward Thomas

    [ranking: 162]
    British country life in autumn and winter, British country life in spring and summer, Lafcadio Hearn Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh poet and essayist. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences.

    Life & Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, Iwein, Der arme Heinrich   Hartmann von Aue was a Middle High German knight and poet.

    Hartmann von Aue

    [ranking: 163]
    Life & Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, Iwein, Der arme Heinrich Hartmann von Aue was a Middle High German knight and poet.

    The fiction of William Faulkner, Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin, Selected Poems Summer Knowledge   Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer.

    Delmore Schwartz

    [ranking: 164]
    The fiction of William Faulkner, Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin, Selected Poems Summer Knowledge Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer.

    Songs from a Bamboo Village, Masaoka Shiki   Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan.

    Masaoka Shiki

    [ranking: 165]
    Songs from a Bamboo Village, Masaoka Shiki Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan.

    Selected Poems, The Rowley Poems, The Works Of Thomas Chatterton V1   Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry.

    Thomas Chatterton

    [ranking: 166]
    Selected Poems, The Rowley Poems, The Works Of Thomas Chatterton V1 Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry.

    Labyrinths, Ficciones, The Aleph   Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE, was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature.

    Jorge Luis Borges

    [ranking: 167]
    Labyrinths, Ficciones, The Aleph Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE, was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature.

    Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gasoline & the Vestal Lady on Brattle   Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers.

    Gregory Corso

    [ranking: 168]
    Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gasoline & the Vestal Lady on Brattle Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers.

    Collected poems, 1936-1976, The wolf at the door   Robert Francis was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.

    Robert Francis

    [ranking: 169]
    Collected poems, 1936-1976, The wolf at the door Robert Francis was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.

    Land of Scoundrels, Selected poetry, The Scarlet of the Dawn   Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet.

    Sergei Yesenin

    [ranking: 170]
    Land of Scoundrels, Selected poetry, The Scarlet of the Dawn Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet.

    I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, A Gleam of Sunshine, A Psalm of Life   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    [ranking: 171]
    I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, A Gleam of Sunshine, A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

    For all my walking, Mountain tasting, Santoka   Taneda Santōka was the pen-name of a Japanese author and haiku poet.

    Taneda Santoka

    [ranking: 172]
    For all my walking, Mountain tasting, Santoka Taneda Santōka was the pen-name of a Japanese author and haiku poet.

    Chronicles: Volume One, Masked and Anonymous, Renaldo and Clara   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

    Bob Dylan

    [ranking: 173]
    Chronicles: Volume One, Masked and Anonymous, Renaldo and Clara Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

    The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Christmas every day   William Dean Howells was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright.

    William Dean Howells

    [ranking: 174]
    The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Christmas every day William Dean Howells was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright.

    Joseph Skipsey

    Joseph Skipsey

    [ranking: 175]
    Selected poems [of] Joseph Skipsey Joseph Skipsey was a Northumberland born poet and songwriter in the middle and late 19th century.

    The Tay Bridge Disaster, Poetic gems, More poetic gems   William Topaz McGonagall was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor.

    William Topaz McGonagall

    [ranking: 176]
    The Tay Bridge Disaster, Poetic gems, More poetic gems William Topaz McGonagall was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor.

    Omeros, The Capeman, Dream on Monkey Mountain   Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

    Derek Walcott

    [ranking: 177]
    Omeros, The Capeman, Dream on Monkey Mountain Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

    Nigārishāt-i Iqbāl, Rubayiat of Iqbal, Asrār-i khvudī   Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was an academic, poet, barrister, philosopher, scholar mystic and politician in British India, who is widely regarded as having inspired the...

    Muhammad Iqbal

    [ranking: 178]
    Nigārishāt-i Iqbāl, Rubayiat of Iqbal, Asrār-i khvudī Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was an academic, poet, barrister, philosopher, scholar mystic and politician in British India, who is widely regarded as having inspired the...

    Haiku master Buson, Yosa no Buson   Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.

    Yosa Buson

    [ranking: 179]
    Haiku master Buson, Yosa no Buson Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.

    Gold in the Mountain, America, The Maldive Shark   Herman Melville was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857.

    Herman Melville

    [ranking: 180]
    Gold in the Mountain, America, The Maldive Shark Herman Melville was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857.

    Selected poetry of Delmira Agustini   Delmira Agustini, an Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century.

    Delmira Agustini

    [ranking: 181]
    Selected poetry of Delmira Agustini Delmira Agustini, an Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century.

    Letters And Diary Of Alan Seeger, Poems   Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion.

    Alan Seeger

    [ranking: 182]
    Letters And Diary Of Alan Seeger, Poems Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion.

    Nicholas Anthony Virgilio was an internationally recognized haiku poet who is credited with helping to popularize the Japanese style of poetry in the United States.

    Nick Virgilio

    [ranking: 183]
    Nicholas Anthony Virgilio was an internationally recognized haiku poet who is credited with helping to popularize the Japanese style of poetry in the United States.

    Lyastovitsa. Stihove i Razkazi, Az i Moreto   Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas.

    Petya Dubarova

    [ranking: 184]
    Lyastovitsa. Stihove i Razkazi, Az i Moreto Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas.

    Suzy Kassem is an American writer, film director, philosopher, author, and poet of Egyptian heritage.

    Suzy Kassem

    [ranking: 185]
    Suzy Kassem is an American writer, film director, philosopher, author, and poet of Egyptian heritage.

    Black song, Plovldiv, Death   Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career.

    Dimcho Debelyanov

    [ranking: 186]
    Black song, Plovldiv, Death Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career.

    How Do I Love Thee?, A Curse for a Nation, Comfort   Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    [ranking: 187]
    How Do I Love Thee?, A Curse for a Nation, Comfort Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

    The Greatest Story Ever Told, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Chicago poems   Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

    Carl Sandburg

    [ranking: 188]
    The Greatest Story Ever Told, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Chicago poems Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

    Da bŭde den, Izbrani sŭchinenii︠a︡, Sŭbrani sŭchinenii͡a︡ v shest toma   Hristo Smirnenski, born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer.

    Hristo Smirnenski

    [ranking: 189]
    Da bŭde den, Izbrani sŭchinenii︠a︡, Sŭbrani sŭchinenii͡a︡ v shest toma Hristo Smirnenski, born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer.

    Svetoslav Terter, Under the Yoke, Selected stories   Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature".

    Ivan Vazov

    [ranking: 190]
    Svetoslav Terter, Under the Yoke, Selected stories Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature".

    Hristo Botev selected works   Hristo Botev, born Hristo Botyov Petkov, was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary.

    Hristo Botev

    [ranking: 191]
    Hristo Botev selected works Hristo Botev, born Hristo Botyov Petkov, was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary.

    Páginas escogidas, Antologia Apocrifa, Border of a dream   Antonio Machado, in full Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement...

    Antonio Machado

    [ranking: 192]
    Páginas escogidas, Antologia Apocrifa, Border of a dream Antonio Machado, in full Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement...

    The Knight in the Panther's Skin, Le chevalier à la peu de tigre, Vytiaz' v tyhroviǐ shkuri   Shota Rustaveli was a 12th-13th-century Georgian poet.

    Shota Rustaveli

    [ranking: 193]
    The Knight in the Panther's Skin, Le chevalier à la peu de tigre, Vytiaz' v tyhroviǐ shkuri Shota Rustaveli was a 12th-13th-century Georgian poet.

    The Art of Drowning, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Questions About Angels   William James "Billy" Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.

    Billy Collins

    [ranking: 194]
    The Art of Drowning, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Questions About Angels William James "Billy" Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.

    Gefärbtes Glas.

    Constantine P. Cavafy

    [ranking: 195]
    Gefärbtes Glas.

    Inside the Monster, Tu Martí, Lecturas para niños   José Julián Martí Pérez is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.

    José Martí

    [ranking: 196]
    Inside the Monster, Tu Martí, Lecturas para niños José Julián Martí Pérez is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.

    Cancion, Piedra y Cielo, Poesía (en verso)   Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish...

    Juan Ramón Jiménez

    [ranking: 197]
    Cancion, Piedra y Cielo, Poesía (en verso) Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish...

    Obras de Gustavo A.

    Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

    [ranking: 198]
    Obras de Gustavo A.

    San Juan de La Cruz

    San Juan de La Cruz

    [ranking: 199]

    Mantiq-ut-Tayr (Conference of the Birds)   Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm, better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ʿAṭṭār, was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and...

    Attar of Nishapur

    [ranking: 200]
    Mantiq-ut-Tayr (Conference of the Birds) Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm, better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ʿAṭṭār, was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and...

    El Buscón, Sonetos de, Vida de Marco Bruto   Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

    Francisco de Quevedo

    [ranking: 201]
    El Buscón, Sonetos de, Vida de Marco Bruto Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

    Preiddeu Annwfn, The poems of Taliesin, Book of Taliesin   Taliesin was an early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.

    Taliesin

    [ranking: 202]
    Preiddeu Annwfn, The poems of Taliesin, Book of Taliesin Taliesin was an early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.

    Leopoldo Cano

    Leopoldo Cano

    [ranking: 203]
    Leopoldo Cano y Masas was a Spanish soldier, poet and playwright associated with the Realist movement.

    Raghuvaṃśa, Ṛtusaṃhāra, Meghadūta   Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language.

    Kālidāsa

    [ranking: 204]
    Raghuvaṃśa, Ṛtusaṃhāra, Meghadūta Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language.

    Marcabru   Marcabru is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known.

    Marcabru

    [ranking: 205]
    Marcabru Marcabru is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known.

    Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart   Enheduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-hedu-ana or EnHeduAnna, was an Akkadian princess as well as High Priestess of the Moon god Nanna in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.

    Enheduanna

    [ranking: 206]
    Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart Enheduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-hedu-ana or EnHeduAnna, was an Akkadian princess as well as High Priestess of the Moon god Nanna in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.

    Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Love Songs, Flame and Shadow   Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St.

    Sara Teasdale

    [ranking: 207]
    Helen of Troy and Other Poems, Love Songs, Flame and Shadow Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St.

    Meera was a Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.

    Meera

    [ranking: 208]
    Meera was a Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.

    In the Mecca; Poems, Annie Allen   Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet and teacher.

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    [ranking: 209]
    In the Mecca; Poems, Annie Allen Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet and teacher.

    The Comtessa de Dia, probably named Beatritz or Beatriz, was a trobairitz.

    Beatritz de Dia

    [ranking: 210]
    The Comtessa de Dia, probably named Beatritz or Beatriz, was a trobairitz.

    Sarah Flower Adams was an English poet.

    Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

    [ranking: 211]
    Sarah Flower Adams was an English poet.

    Gaspar Núñez de Arce was a Spanish poet, dramatist and statesman.

    Gaspar Núñez de Arce

    [ranking: 212]
    Gaspar Núñez de Arce was a Spanish poet, dramatist and statesman.

    Don Juan Tenorio   José Zorrilla y Moral was a Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist.

    José Zorrilla

    [ranking: 213]
    Don Juan Tenorio José Zorrilla y Moral was a Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist.

    Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility   Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

    Jane Austen

    [ranking: 214]
    Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

    Roads (Designing the Future)   Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium.

    John McCrae

    [ranking: 215]
    Roads (Designing the Future) Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium.

    Poems, letters, drawings   Cyprian Kamil Norwid, a.k.a. Cyprian Konstanty Norwid was a nationally esteemed Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor.

    Cyprian Norwid

    [ranking: 216]
    Poems, letters, drawings Cyprian Kamil Norwid, a.k.a. Cyprian Konstanty Norwid was a nationally esteemed Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor.

    Rosa, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, Cotton candy on a rainy day   Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

    Nikki Giovanni

    [ranking: 217]
    Rosa, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, Cotton candy on a rainy day Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

    Complete poems, Selected poems, Pursuits amateur and academic   Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC, who published as E. J.

    E. J. Pratt

    [ranking: 218]
    Complete poems, Selected poems, Pursuits amateur and academic Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC, who published as E. J.

    Kallocain, För trädets skull, Samlade skrifter   Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.

    Karin Boye

    [ranking: 219]
    Kallocain, För trädets skull, Samlade skrifter Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.

    The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, Homage to Henry James, Tell me   Marianne Craig Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.

    Marianne Moore

    [ranking: 220]
    The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, Homage to Henry James, Tell me Marianne Craig Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.

    Help Wanted, Cruzando El Pacfico, Baseball in April and Other Stories   Gary Anthony Soto is an American author and poet.

    Gary Soto

    [ranking: 221]
    Help Wanted, Cruzando El Pacfico, Baseball in April and Other Stories Gary Anthony Soto is an American author and poet.

    Julie Hill Alger

    [ranking: 222]

    Lawrence of Arabia, Death of a Hero, The Duke   Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.

    Richard Aldington

    [ranking: 223]
    Lawrence of Arabia, Death of a Hero, The Duke Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.

    Overheard on a Saltmarsh, Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, Meeting Midnight   Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright.

    Carol Ann Duffy

    [ranking: 224]
    Overheard on a Saltmarsh, Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, Meeting Midnight Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright.

    Emblems of Love, New English poems, The Epic An Essay   Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".

    Lascelles Abercrombie

    [ranking: 225]
    Emblems of Love, New English poems, The Epic An Essay Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".

    The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Temple of My Familiar   Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and activist.

    Alice Walker

    [ranking: 226]
    The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Temple of My Familiar Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author and activist.

    The great tranquillity, The world is a room and other stories, Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai   Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet.

    Yehuda Amichai

    [ranking: 227]
    The great tranquillity, The world is a room and other stories, Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet.

    The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Hairs/Pelitos   Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.

    Sandra Cisneros

    [ranking: 228]
    The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Hairs/Pelitos Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.

    Faustus   Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist.

    Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

    [ranking: 229]
    Faustus Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist.

    César Vallejo

    [ranking: 230]

    Poesía política, Poemas y antipoemas, Poesia Chilena Contemporaneo   Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval is a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He is considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America.

    Nicanor Parra

    [ranking: 231]
    Poesía política, Poemas y antipoemas, Poesia Chilena Contemporaneo Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval is a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He is considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America.

    Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg was a German poet and critic. Gerstenberg was born in Tondern, Schleswig.

    Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

    [ranking: 232]
    Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg was a German poet and critic. Gerstenberg was born in Tondern, Schleswig.

    Poesía, teatro y prosa, Los empeños de una casa =   Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H., was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as "The Tenth Muse."...

    Sor Juana

    [ranking: 233]
    Poesía, teatro y prosa, Los empeños de una casa = Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H., was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known in her lifetime as "The Tenth Muse."...

    Leonora   Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet.

    Gottfried August Bürger

    [ranking: 234]
    Leonora Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet.

    Heinrich von Veldeke is the first writer in the Low Countries that we know by name who wrote in a European language other than Latin.

    Heinrich von Veldeke

    [ranking: 235]
    Heinrich von Veldeke is the first writer in the Low Countries that we know by name who wrote in a European language other than Latin.

    Rubén Darío

    [ranking: 236]

    Oberon   Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.

    Christoph Martin Wieland

    [ranking: 237]
    Oberon Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.

    The Forest Song, Boiarynia, On the Wings of Songs   Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka, was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature....

    Lesya Ukrainka

    [ranking: 238]
    The Forest Song, Boiarynia, On the Wings of Songs Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka, was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature....

    Lagar II, Selected prose and prose-poems, Producción de Gabriela Mistral de 1912 a 1918   Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and feminist.

    Gabriela Mistral

    [ranking: 239]
    Lagar II, Selected prose and prose-poems, Producción de Gabriela Mistral de 1912 a 1918 Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and feminist.

    Der Herr ist mein Licht und mein Heil, Max and Moritz, De Pälzer Max un Moritz   Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter.

    Wilhelm Busch

    [ranking: 240]
    Der Herr ist mein Licht und mein Heil, Max and Moritz, De Pälzer Max un Moritz Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter.

    Miguel Hernández

    [ranking: 241]

    Christian Fuerchtergott Gellert's The prayer sister   Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.

    Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

    [ranking: 242]
    Christian Fuerchtergott Gellert's The prayer sister Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.

    José Antonio Ramos Sucre was a Venezuelan poet, professor, consul and erudite.

    José Antonio Ramos Sucre

    [ranking: 243]
    José Antonio Ramos Sucre was a Venezuelan poet, professor, consul and erudite.

    Membretes =, Textos selectos, Obra Poetica   Oliverio Girondo was an Argentine poet.

    Oliverio Girondo

    [ranking: 244]
    Membretes =, Textos selectos, Obra Poetica Oliverio Girondo was an Argentine poet.

    The Ghost Lady, Selected Poems, Cele mai frumoase poezii   Rafael Alberti Merello was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

    Rafael Alberti

    [ranking: 245]
    The Ghost Lady, Selected Poems, Cele mai frumoase poezii Rafael Alberti Merello was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

    Effi Briest, Irrungen, Wirrungen   Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

    Theodor Fontane

    [ranking: 246]
    Effi Briest, Irrungen, Wirrungen Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

    The Place Without Limits, The Castle of Purity, The Holy Office   José Emilio Pacheco Berny audio was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.

    José Emilio Pacheco

    [ranking: 247]
    The Place Without Limits, The Castle of Purity, The Holy Office José Emilio Pacheco Berny audio was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.

    The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987   Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer.

    Octavio Paz

    [ranking: 248]
    The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer.

    Rafael Cadenas

    [ranking: 249]

    Poesías, Antologia, La Caricia Perdida   Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Argentine and Latin-American poets of the modernist period.

    Alfonsina Storni

    [ranking: 250]
    Poesías, Antologia, La Caricia Perdida Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Argentine and Latin-American poets of the modernist period.

    Hermann Allmers was a German poet.

    Hermann Allmers

    [ranking: 251]
    Hermann Allmers was a German poet.

    Nicolás Guillén

    [ranking: 252]

    The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon   Aquiles Nazoa was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, poet and humorist.

    Aquiles Nazoa

    [ranking: 253]
    The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon Aquiles Nazoa was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, poet and humorist.

    La noche de los feos, La Tregua, Borra del Cafe   Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia, known as Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del...

    Mario Benedetti

    [ranking: 254]
    La noche de los feos, La Tregua, Borra del Cafe Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia, known as Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del...

    Kobzar, Haidamaky, Song out of darkness   The Person who inspires millions of ukrainians to fight for freedom Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.

    Taras Shevchenko

    [ranking: 255]
    Kobzar, Haidamaky, Song out of darkness The Person who inspires millions of ukrainians to fight for freedom Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.

    Un libro rojo para Lenin, Ultimos Poemas - Roque Dalton, Clandestine Poems   Roque Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet and journalist.

    Roque Dalton

    [ranking: 256]
    Un libro rojo para Lenin, Ultimos Poemas - Roque Dalton, Clandestine Poems Roque Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet and journalist.

    Fables and aphorisms, Virshi, pisni   Gregory Skovoroda, also Hryhorii Skovoroda, or Grigory Skovoroda was a Ukrainian and Russian philosopher, poet, teacher and composer.

    Hryhorii Skovoroda

    [ranking: 257]
    Fables and aphorisms, Virshi, pisni Gregory Skovoroda, also Hryhorii Skovoroda, or Grigory Skovoroda was a Ukrainian and Russian philosopher, poet, teacher and composer.

    Sonia Chocrón

    [ranking: 258]

    Vanguardia en Chile, Mirror of a mage, Breve Antologia Poesia Latinoamer Vang 1920-30   Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family.

    Vicente Huidobro

    [ranking: 259]
    Vanguardia en Chile, Mirror of a mage, Breve Antologia Poesia Latinoamer Vang 1920-30 Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family.

    Diwan-e-Ghalib, Sāz-i Avadhī men̲ nag̲h̲mah-yi G̲h̲ālib, Jāgīr-i G̲h̲ālib   Ghalib born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, on 27 December 1797 – died 15 February 1869, was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.

    Mirza Ghalib

    [ranking: 260]
    Diwan-e-Ghalib, Sāz-i Avadhī men̲ nag̲h̲mah-yi G̲h̲ālib, Jāgīr-i G̲h̲ālib Ghalib born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, on 27 December 1797 – died 15 February 1869, was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.

    Zikr-i Mir   Meer Taqi Meer, whose takhallus was Mir, was the leading Urdu poet of the 18th century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself.

    Mir Taqi Mir

    [ranking: 261]
    Zikr-i Mir Meer Taqi Meer, whose takhallus was Mir, was the leading Urdu poet of the 18th century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself.

    Pedro Shimose is a poet, journalist, professor and essayist from Bolivia. He has been based in Madrid, Spain since 1971.

    Pedro Shimose

    [ranking: 262]
    Pedro Shimose is a poet, journalist, professor and essayist from Bolivia. He has been based in Madrid, Spain since 1971.

    AE in the Irish Theosophist, Homeward: Songs by the Way, The living torch   World renowned poet, painter and philosopher. Known as AE, he wrote over 400 poems, led the Irish literary revival along with his lifelong friend WB Yeats, and is referred to as 'the father of three generations of Irish writers. Joyce included a warm tribute to AE when he wrote in Ulysses - AEIOU. AE was known as the sage of Ireland during his life and was dearly loved by everyone who knew him. Lived - 1867-1935. George William Russell who wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist.

    George William Russell

    [ranking: 263]
    AE in the Irish Theosophist, Homeward: Songs by the Way, The living torch World renowned poet, painter and philosopher. Known as AE, he wrote over 400 poems, led the Irish literary revival along with his lifelong friend WB Yeats, and is referred to as 'the father of three generations of Irish writers. Joyce included a warm tribute to AE when he wrote in Ulysses - AEIOU. AE was known as the sage of Ireland during his life and was dearly loved by everyone who knew him. Lived - 1867-1935. George William Russell who wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist.

    Desert Mermaid, Angel's Kite, La Hora Y La Neblina   Alberto Blanco is considered one of Mexico's most important poets.

    Alberto Blanco

    [ranking: 264]
    Desert Mermaid, Angel's Kite, La Hora Y La Neblina Alberto Blanco is considered one of Mexico's most important poets.

    The nine guardians, Oficio de tinieblas, Le Christ des ténèbres   Rosario Castellanos Figueroa was a Mexican poet and author.

    Rosario Castellanos

    [ranking: 265]
    The nine guardians, Oficio de tinieblas, Le Christ des ténèbres Rosario Castellanos Figueroa was a Mexican poet and author.

    The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Dr. Holme's remarks, Robinson of Leyden   Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! / Long has it waved on high, / And many an eye has danced to see / That banner in the sky... from Old Ironsides... see also The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay" Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    [ranking: 266]
    The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Dr. Holme's remarks, Robinson of Leyden Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! / Long has it waved on high, / And many an eye has danced to see / That banner in the sky... from Old Ironsides... see also The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay" Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston.

    The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham   Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist.

    Dr. Seuss

    [ranking: 267]
    The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist.

    Andreas Kalvos

    Andreas Kalvos

    [ranking: 268]
    Template:Πληροφορίες καλλιτέχνηAndreas Kalvos was a Greek poet of the Romantic school.

    Abdul-Qādir Bēdil

    Abdul-Qādir Bēdil

    [ranking: 269]
    Mawlānā Abul-Ma'āni Mirzā Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, also known as Bīdel Dehlavī, was a famous representative of Persian poetry and Sufism in India.

    mixael garpushkin

    mixael garpushkin

    [ranking: 270]

    Elvira Sastre Sanz

    [ranking: 271]

    The Wizard of Oz, The Feminine Touch, One Touch of Venus   Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse.

    Ogden Nash

    [ranking: 272]
    The Wizard of Oz, The Feminine Touch, One Touch of Venus Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse.

    Jon Jorgenson

    [ranking: 273]

    Isabel Carlota Roby

    [ranking: 274]

    I am Cuba, Stolen Apples, Pre-Morning   Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet.

    Yevgeniy Yevtushenko

    [ranking: 275]
    I am Cuba, Stolen Apples, Pre-Morning Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet.

    Selected poetry, Şiirler, It's great to be alive   Nâzım Hikmet Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist.

    Nâzım Hikmet

    [ranking: 276]
    Selected poetry, Şiirler, It's great to be alive Nâzım Hikmet Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist.

    Risâlat al-nushiyya ve dîvân, Le divan, Das Kummerrad =   Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present.

    Yunus Emre

    [ranking: 277]
    Risâlat al-nushiyya ve dîvân, Le divan, Das Kummerrad = Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present.

    Karacaoğlan

    Karacaoğlan

    [ranking: 278]
    Karacaoğlan is a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish folk poet and ashik.

    Otar Chiladze

    Otar Chiladze

    [ranking: 279]
    Otar Chiladze was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era.

    Fazâ'ilü'l-Cihad, Dîvan, Fazâil'i-Mekke   Bâḳî was the pen name of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî.

    Bâkî

    [ranking: 280]
    Fazâ'ilü'l-Cihad, Dîvan, Fazâil'i-Mekke Bâḳî was the pen name of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî.

    Grigol Robakidze was a Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities.

    Grigol Robakidze

    [ranking: 281]
    Grigol Robakidze was a Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities.

    Garip, Nesir Yazıları, Karşı   Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet.

    Orhan Veli Kanık

    [ranking: 282]
    Garip, Nesir Yazıları, Karşı Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet.

    Murman Lebanidze

    Murman Lebanidze

    [ranking: 283]
    Poet, translator, essayist. Deid at 80 (1922-2002).  The laureate of Rustaveli Prize (1973).

    Shahnameh, Yûsuf and Zalîkhâ, Bihīnʹnāmah-i bāstān   Hakim Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi, or Firdawsi, was a highly revered Persian poet and the author of the epic of Shahnameh, which is the world's longest epic poetry created by a single poet, and...

    Ferdowsi

    [ranking: 284]
    Shahnameh, Yûsuf and Zalîkhâ, Bihīnʹnāmah-i bāstān Hakim Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi, or Firdawsi, was a highly revered Persian poet and the author of the epic of Shahnameh, which is the world's longest epic poetry created by a single poet, and...

    Georgian writer, prose, poet   Deid at 76 (1933-2009) In 1998, Chiladze was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature, with only five other writers from around the world.

    Otar Chiladze

    [ranking: 285]
    Georgian writer, prose, poet Deid at 76 (1933-2009) In 1998, Chiladze was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature, with only five other writers from around the world.

    Jemal Qarchxadze (ჯემალ ქარჩხაძე)

    Jemal Qarchxadze (ჯემალ ქარჩხაძე)

    [ranking: 286]
    Died at 62 (1936-1998)

    The pillar of fire and selected poems, Nikolai Gumilev on Russian poetry, Selected works of Nikolai S. Gumilev   Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was an influential Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer.

    Nikolay Gumilev

    [ranking: 287]
    The pillar of fire and selected poems, Nikolai Gumilev on Russian poetry, Selected works of Nikolai S. Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was an influential Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer.

    Prince Serebrenni, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Vampires: Stories of the Supernatural   Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K.

    Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

    [ranking: 288]
    Prince Serebrenni, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Vampires: Stories of the Supernatural Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K.

    Everyday miracles   Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella...

    Robert Rozhdestvensky

    [ranking: 289]
    Everyday miracles Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella...

    Wolfhound   Maria Vasilyevna Semyonova is a Russian writer of fantasy and historical fiction and a poet.

    Maria Semyonova

    [ranking: 290]
    Wolfhound Maria Vasilyevna Semyonova is a Russian writer of fantasy and historical fiction and a poet.

    The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1: The Formative Years: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk I: 1835-1854, Poems, Goblin Market and Other Poems   Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    [ranking: 291]
    The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1: The Formative Years: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk I: 1835-1854, Poems, Goblin Market and Other Poems Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.

    Master Breasts: Objectified, Aesthetisized, Fantasized   Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review.

    Charles Simic

    [ranking: 292]
    Master Breasts: Objectified, Aesthetisized, Fantasized Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review.

    Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters   Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer.

    Elizabeth Bishop

    [ranking: 293]
    Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer.

    The minus sign   Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century.

    Carlos Drummond de Andrade

    [ranking: 294]
    The minus sign Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century.

    A malebolge of 1400 books, A bibliography of modern prosody, A primer for poets   Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet.

    Karl Shapiro

    [ranking: 295]
    A malebolge of 1400 books, A bibliography of modern prosody, A primer for poets Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet.

    Long Life: Essays And Other Writings, Why I Wake Early: New Poems, White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems   Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019) was an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

    Mary Oliver

    [ranking: 296]
    Long Life: Essays And Other Writings, Why I Wake Early: New Poems, White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019) was an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

    The Highwayman, The prayer for peace, The Heart of Canada   Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".

    Alfred Noyes

    [ranking: 297]
    The Highwayman, The prayer for peace, The Heart of Canada Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".

    Black Zodiac, The Southern Cross, Chickamauga   Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac.

    Charles Wright

    [ranking: 298]
    Black Zodiac, The Southern Cross, Chickamauga Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac.

    Deliverance, Deliverance, The eye-beaters   James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist.

    James Dickey

    [ranking: 299]
    Deliverance, Deliverance, The eye-beaters James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist.

    Say uncle, Elephant rocks, The Niagara River   Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems.

    Kay Ryan

    [ranking: 300]
    Say uncle, Elephant rocks, The Niagara River Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems.

    Dark summer, Collected Poems, 1923-1953   Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945.

    Louise Bogan

    [ranking: 301]
    Dark summer, Collected Poems, 1923-1953 Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945.

    Near Changes, If it be not I, Letters from a father   Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet.

    Mona Van Duyn

    [ranking: 302]
    Near Changes, If it be not I, Letters from a father Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet.

    Native Guard, Bellocq's Ophelia, Thrall: Poems   Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June 2012; she began her official duties in September.

    Natasha Trethewey

    [ranking: 303]
    Native Guard, Bellocq's Ophelia, Thrall: Poems Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June 2012; she began her official duties in September.

    The Simple Truth, A walk with Tom Jefferson, What Work Is   Philip Levine (b.

    Philip Levine

    [ranking: 304]
    The Simple Truth, A walk with Tom Jefferson, What Work Is Philip Levine (b.

    Reed Whittemore

    Reed Whittemore

    [ranking: 305]
    Against the Grain, Little magazines., Whole lives Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor.

    Of poetry and poets, Collected poems, 1930-1960   Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total.

    Richard Eberhart

    [ranking: 306]
    Of poetry and poets, Collected poems, 1930-1960 Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total.

    British authors of the nineteenth century, The Wild Braid, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz   Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet.

    Stanley Kunitz

    [ranking: 307]
    British authors of the nineteenth century, The Wild Braid, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet.

    Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood, Literature and Society in the 1930s for Universities, T. S. Eliot   Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

    Stephen Spender

    [ranking: 308]
    Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood, Literature and Society in the 1930s for Universities, T. S. Eliot Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

    Jemal Said Mohammed-Awel

    Jemal Said Mohammed-Awel

    [ranking: 309]
    Deterministic and Stochastic Models of Development of Resistance to Genetically Modified Pesticidal Crops

    Later Poems, More Songs From Vagabondia, Ode On The Coronation Of King Edward   Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years.

    Bliss Carman

    [ranking: 310]
    Later Poems, More Songs From Vagabondia, Ode On The Coronation Of King Edward Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years.

    Süreyya Aylin Antmen

    Süreyya Aylin Antmen

    [ranking: 311]
    Süreyya Aylin Antmen is a contemporary Turkish poet, essayist and writer.

    One Day, Ox-Cart Man, Without   Donald Andrew Hall, Jr, known as Donald Hall is an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic.

    Donald Hall

    [ranking: 312]
    One Day, Ox-Cart Man, Without Donald Andrew Hall, Jr, known as Donald Hall is an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic.

    Averno, The Wild Iris, The Seven Ages   Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet.

    Louise Glück

    [ranking: 313]
    Averno, The Wild Iris, The Seven Ages Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet.

    Thomas and Beulah, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, American Smooth   Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993 to 1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

    Rita Dove

    [ranking: 314]
    Thomas and Beulah, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, American Smooth Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993 to 1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

    A ballad of remembrance, Words in the mourning time, Angle of ascent   Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator.

    Robert Hayden

    [ranking: 315]
    A ballad of remembrance, Words in the mourning time, Angle of ascent Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator.

    The Life of David, The Situation of Poetry, Illustra   Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

    Robert Pinsky

    [ranking: 316]
    The Life of David, The Situation of Poetry, Illustra Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

    Uzalud je budim, Krv koja svetli, Vatra i ništa   Branko Miljković was an iconic Serbian poet. He was best known across Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc for his influential writings.

    Branko Miljković

    [ranking: 317]
    Uzalud je budim, Krv koja svetli, Vatra i ništa Branko Miljković was an iconic Serbian poet. He was best known across Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc for his influential writings.

    Qeysar Aminpour

    Qeysar Aminpour

    [ranking: 318]

    Brotherly Love, Paul Bunyan, last of the frontier demigods   Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic.

    Daniel Hoffman

    [ranking: 319]
    Brotherly Love, Paul Bunyan, last of the frontier demigods Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic.

    Gennadiy Aygi

    Gennadiy Aygi

    [ranking: 320]
    Degree Gennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi was a Chuvash poet and a translator.

    Poetry and fiction: essays, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, Gnomes and Occasions Poems   Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.

    Howard Nemerov

    [ranking: 321]
    Poetry and fiction: essays, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, Gnomes and Occasions Poems Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.

    A knife all blade   João Cabral de Melo Neto was a Brazilian poet and diplomat under the aesthetics of modernism.

    João Cabral de Melo Neto

    [ranking: 322]
    A knife all blade João Cabral de Melo Neto was a Brazilian poet and diplomat under the aesthetics of modernism.

    The animal inside, Ionesco and Genêt, In the Crevice of Time   Josephine Jacobsen was an American poet, short story writer, and critic.

    Josephine Jacobsen

    [ranking: 323]
    The animal inside, Ionesco and Genêt, In the Crevice of Time Josephine Jacobsen was an American poet, short story writer, and critic.

    Sunrise trumpets   Joseph Auslander was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist.

    Joseph Auslander

    [ranking: 324]
    Sunrise trumpets Joseph Auslander was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist.

    Thunderweavers, Face Games, Half of the World in Light   Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.

    Juan Felipe Herrera

    [ranking: 325]
    Thunderweavers, Face Games, Half of the World in Light Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.

    Poems, Those not elect, High falcon & other poems   Léonie Fuller Adams was an American poet.

    Léonie Adams

    [ranking: 326]
    Poems, Those not elect, High falcon & other poems Léonie Fuller Adams was an American poet.

    Lorine Niedecker

    Lorine Niedecker

    [ranking: 327]
    New Goose, Blue chicory, The granite pail Lorine Faith Niedecker was a Wisconsin poet and the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets.

    A brief history of Brazilian literature   Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose.

    Manuel Bandeira

    [ranking: 328]
    A brief history of Brazilian literature Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose.

    Sebastian and the dragon, Quit Monks or Die!, The beach before breakfast   Maxine Kumin was an American poet and author.

    Maxine Kumin

    [ranking: 329]
    Sebastian and the dragon, Quit Monks or Die!, The beach before breakfast Maxine Kumin was an American poet and author.

    The lost lunar Baedeker, Lunar, Baedecker   Mina Loy, born Mina Gertrude Löwry, was a British artist, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, feminist, model, nurse, designer of lamps, and bohemian.

    Mina Loy

    [ranking: 330]
    The lost lunar Baedeker, Lunar, Baedecker Mina Loy, born Mina Gertrude Löwry, was a British artist, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, feminist, model, nurse, designer of lamps, and bohemian.

    The Odyssey, Mecanica de Materiales, Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution   Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was...

    Robert Fitzgerald

    [ranking: 331]
    The Odyssey, Mecanica de Materiales, Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was...

    Ted Kooser

    Ted Kooser

    [ranking: 332]
    Local wonders, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, The blizzard voices Ted Kooser is an American poet.

    The Four Questions of Melancholy, A Ballad for Metka Krasovec, The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun   Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and internationally acclaimed absurdist.

    Tomaz Salamun

    [ranking: 333]
    The Four Questions of Melancholy, A Ballad for Metka Krasovec, The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and internationally acclaimed absurdist.

    William Jay Smith

    William Jay Smith

    [ranking: 334]
    Life sentence, Hey diddle, a riddle William Jay Smith is an American poet.

    Selected Poems, Unframed Originals, Migration: New & Selected Poems   William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.

    W. S. Merwin

    [ranking: 335]
    Selected Poems, Unframed Originals, Migration: New & Selected Poems William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.

    Jennifer Wong

    Jennifer Wong

    [ranking: 336]
    Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.

    Saint-John Perse

    Saint-John Perse

    [ranking: 337]

    Gift from the Sea, Listen! the Wind, North to the Orient   Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the wife of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh

    [ranking: 338]
    Gift from the Sea, Listen! the Wind, North to the Orient Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the wife of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.

    The trial of Jesus, The Old Front Line, The Box of Delights   John Edward Masefield, OM was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967.

    John Masefield

    [ranking: 339]
    The trial of Jesus, The Old Front Line, The Box of Delights John Edward Masefield, OM was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967.

    Rigamarole, rigamarole. -, Springfield town is butterfly town   Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet.

    Vachel Lindsay

    [ranking: 340]
    Rigamarole, rigamarole. -, Springfield town is butterfly town Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet.

    Seance for a minyan, Death sauntering about, The pathetic fallacy   Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet.

    Anthony Hecht

    [ranking: 341]
    Seance for a minyan, Death sauntering about, The pathetic fallacy Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet.

    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The Making of Americans, Three Lives   Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays.

    Gertrude Stein

    [ranking: 342]
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The Making of Americans, Three Lives Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays.

    Makers of the Modern World, The Last Pirate, Treasury of Great Poems   Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor.

    Louis Untermeyer

    [ranking: 343]
    Makers of the Modern World, The Last Pirate, Treasury of Great Poems Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor.

    Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005, Sun Under Wood   Robert L.

    Robert Hass

    [ranking: 344]
    Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005, Sun Under Wood Robert L.

    The open sea, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, His students   William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator.

    William Morris Meredith, Jr.

    [ranking: 345]
    The open sea, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, His students William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator.

    I Would Also Like to Mention Aluminum, The rescued year, The animal that drank up sound   William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford.

    William Stafford

    [ranking: 346]
    I Would Also Like to Mention Aluminum, The rescued year, The animal that drank up sound William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford.

    The Works of 'Banjo' Paterson, Poems of Banjo Paterson, The Geebung Polo Club   Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson OBE was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author.

    Banjo Paterson

    [ranking: 347]
    The Works of 'Banjo' Paterson, Poems of Banjo Paterson, The Geebung Polo Club Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson OBE was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author.

    Espumas Flutuantes   Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his abolitionist and republican poems.

    Castro Alves

    [ranking: 348]
    Espumas Flutuantes Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his abolitionist and republican poems.

    Espectros, Romanceiro da Inconfidência, Mar Absoluto   Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet.

    Cecília Meireles

    [ranking: 349]
    Espectros, Romanceiro da Inconfidência, Mar Absoluto Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet.

    The End of the Story, The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose   Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

    Clark Ashton Smith

    [ranking: 350]
    The End of the Story, The Abominations of Yondo, Poems in Prose Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

    The poems of Ern Malley   Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax.

    Ern Malley

    [ranking: 351]
    The poems of Ern Malley Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax.

    Haroldo de Campos

    Haroldo de Campos

    [ranking: 352]
    Novas Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator.

    The Penguin Henry Lawson short stories, The fire at Ross's farm, Grandfather's courtship   Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet.

    Henry Lawson

    [ranking: 353]
    The Penguin Henry Lawson short stories, The fire at Ross's farm, Grandfather's courtship Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet.

    For the Birds, Composition In Retrospect, Empty Words   John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist.

    John Cage

    [ranking: 354]
    For the Birds, Composition In Retrospect, Empty Words John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist.

    The double tree, Going on talking, Vision   Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.

    Judith Wright

    [ranking: 355]
    The double tree, Going on talking, Vision Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.

    Kenneth Slessor

    Kenneth Slessor

    [ranking: 356]
    The war diaries of Kenneth Slessor, official Australian correspondent, 1940-1944 Kenneth Adolf Slessor OBE was an Australian poet, journalist and official War Correspondent in World War II.

    Fredy Neptune, Anthology, Learning Human   Leslie Allan Murray, AO, known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic.

    Les Murray

    [ranking: 357]
    Fredy Neptune, Anthology, Learning Human Leslie Allan Murray, AO, known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic.

    Voyage into solitude, Michael Dransfield, Drug poems   Michael Dransfield was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1,000 poems.

    Michael Dransfield

    [ranking: 358]
    Voyage into solitude, Michael Dransfield, Drug poems Michael Dransfield was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1,000 poems.

    I, Claudius, Goodbye to All That   Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, novelist, critic, and classicist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works.

    Robert Graves

    [ranking: 359]
    I, Claudius, Goodbye to All That Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, novelist, critic, and classicist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works.

    Terenti Kvirkvelia, well known with his pen-name Terenti Graneli was a noted Georgian poet. Born in Tsalenjikha, he was raised in the family of poor peasant.

    Terenti Graneli

    [ranking: 360]
    Terenti Kvirkvelia, well known with his pen-name Terenti Graneli was a noted Georgian poet. Born in Tsalenjikha, he was raised in the family of poor peasant.

    Orfeu da Conceição, Libro de sonetos/ Book of Sonnets, Historia Natural de Pablo Neruda   Marcus Vinicius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, also known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Vinicius de Moraes

    [ranking: 361]
    Orfeu da Conceição, Libro de sonetos/ Book of Sonnets, Historia Natural de Pablo Neruda Marcus Vinicius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, also known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Hound of the road, The disinherited, Poems for playtime   Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.

    Mary Gilmore

    [ranking: 362]
    Hound of the road, The disinherited, Poems for playtime Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.

    Hadaa Sendoo is an award-winning Mongolian poet and translator.

    Hadaa Sendoo

    [ranking: 363]
    Hadaa Sendoo is an award-winning Mongolian poet and translator.

    Gonzalo Millan

    Gonzalo Millan

    [ranking: 364]

    Augusto de Campos

    Augusto de Campos

    [ranking: 365]

    John Shaw Neilson

    John Shaw Neilson

    [ranking: 366]

    Bill Neidjie

    Bill Neidjie

    [ranking: 367]

    Duende: Poems, The body's question, Life on Mars   Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars.

    Tracy K. Smith

    [ranking: 368]
    Duende: Poems, The body's question, Life on Mars Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars.

    Prince Akaki Tsereteli was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.

    Akaki Tsereteli

    [ranking: 369]
    Prince Akaki Tsereteli was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.

    Davit Guramishvili

    Davit Guramishvili

    [ranking: 370]
    Prince Davit Guramishvili was a Georgian poet who wrote the finest pieces of pre-Romantic Georgian literature.

    Prince Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian writer, poet, journalist and lawyer who spearheaded the revival of the Georgian national movement in the second half of the 19th century, during the...

    Ilia Chavchavadze

    [ranking: 371]
    Prince Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian writer, poet, journalist and lawyer who spearheaded the revival of the Georgian national movement in the second half of the 19th century, during the...

    Titsian Tabidze

    Titsian Tabidze

    [ranking: 372]
    Titsian Tabidze, simply referred to as Titsiani was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement.

    The Boy's Percy, Music and poetry, The science of English verse   Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author.

    Sidney Lanier

    [ranking: 373]
    The Boy's Percy, Music and poetry, The science of English verse Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author.

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