Poetry

was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period

was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist

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was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood

was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director

was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist

was a poet and scholar-official, widely acclaimed as one of the most important writers of Vietnamese literature

was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist

He is also an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children.

was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor

was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat

He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories.

He was a Shaivite Brahmin scholar and a court poet

is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas

is a class of poetic forms that employ a 5-line pattern

was a Korean novelist, poet, and politician during the Joseon period

was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes

was a French poet, writer and critic

Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form

was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet

best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883, March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (24 May 1940-28 January 1996), anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the best and most important poets of the Tang dynasty

was a French poet and critic

was a classical Arabic poet

was a Pakistani poet and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature

was an English poet and cultural critic.

was a noted Māori New Zealand poet.

He continued his literary career by writing Vernon Sullivan novels, and also published poetry collections: Barnum's Digest (1948) and Cantilènes en gelée (Cantelinas in Jelly, 1949).

was an American poet

prize-winning poet and essayist

creation of the modern poetic form of the décima

was a Filipino poet

He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet

was a German poet, essayist, and physician

was a French poet of the Parnassian movement

was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets

As a poet, she is well known for technical mastery

was a second generation modernist American poet

was a French poet who was one of the leading voices

Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation

Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet

Propertius's fame rests on his four books of elegies

was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure

15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint

was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist

was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet and actor

She is also a novelist, playwright, poet, and actress.

was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst

was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic

was an Indian poet and writer

He published several volumes of poetry in his lifetime

His final works were an autobiography in Latin verse in 1672

was a Chinese novelist, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty

was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet

He wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas.

was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist

was an Indian Urdu poet

was a French author, politician, poet and critic

was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade

was a Medieval Norman poet

I wrote both poetry and prose fairly early

art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts

a movement in early-20th-century poetry

is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States

a loose group of 17th-century English poets

was a school of English poets of the 17th century

a group of French poets

modernist transient poetic school

literary association of Russian poets of the Silver Age

group of second-generation Modernist poets

postmodern poets based at Black Mountain College

an avant-garde group or tendency in United States poetry

literary movement that took place primarily in poetry

group of 20th-century Chinese poets

in Hindi literature, particularly poetry

is a genre of Arabic poetry

is a genre of Arabic poetry

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a recognisable subgenre of poetry

a genre of poetry

was a genre of ancient Greek poetry

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is a style of poetry

is a genre of poetry in Old Gujarati language

is a type of improvised sung poetry

a genre of medieval Latin poetry

is a genre of poetry

is a genre of poetry

is a significant genre of Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi poetry

is a form of Urdu feminist poetry

is a genre of oral poetry

is a genre of improvised oral poetry

is a genre of Marathi poetry

is a type of poetry

is a fixed-rhythm form of Classical Chinese poetry

Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century

His poems include

was a British novelist, playwright, and poet

was an English novelist and poet

the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837

His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura

is an ancient style of Arabic poetry

refers to a genre of Classical Chinese poetry

is a traditional form of Malagasy oral literature and poetry

Spoken word is a catch-all term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, pianologues, musical readings, and hip hop music, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues.

Akhyana was a traditional musical theatre as well as medieval genre of Gujarati poetry and Rajasthani poetry.

Micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse including tweetku (also known as twihaiku, twaiku, or twitter poetry) and captcha poetry, which is characterized by text generated through CAPTCHA anti-spamming software.

The piscatorial eclogue is a genre of poetry from Renaissance Italy.

This form of poetry has several key features, including the invocation of the Muse, expression of the shepherd's, or poet's, grief, praise of the deceased, a tirade against death, a detailing of the effects of this specific death upon nature, and eventually, the poet's simultaneous acceptance of death's inevitability and hope for immortality.

Kanshi was the most popular form of poetry during the early Heian period in Japan among Japanese aristocrats and proliferated until the modern period.

Jazz poetry is poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" or poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject, and is designed to be performed.

Children's poetry is poetry written for, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children.

Collaborative or collective poetry is an alternative and creative technique for writing poetry by more than one person.

An idyll (, UK also ; from Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidullion) 'short poem'; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια).

An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject.

An epithalamium (; Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos "nuptial chamber") is a poem written specifically to celebrate the bride on the way to her marital chamber.

Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect.

The long poem is a literary genre including all poetry of considerable length.

War poetry is poetry on the topic of war.

Political poetry brings together politics and poetry.

Feminist poetry is inspired by, promotes, or elaborates on feminist principles and ideas.

Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous.

Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references.

An epistolary poem, also called a verse letter or letter poem, is a poem written in the form of an epistle or letter.

Poetry published in newspapers, known as newspaper poetry or sometimes magazine verse, was a common feature of 19th- and early 20th-century Anglo-American literary culture.

Persona poetry is poetry that is written from the perspective of a 'persona' that a poet creates, who is the speaker of the poem.

A conversation poem is a genre in English poetry growing out of the close co-operation between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in the late 1790s.

A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house.

Anagrammatic poetry is poetry with the constrained form that either each line or each verse is an anagram of all other lines or verses in the poem.

Poetical testament is a poem genre, somewhat similar to a brief autobiography or last will in verse, in which the poet usually conveys his or her ideologies and beliefs, as well as wishes and hopes.

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Sentimental poetry is a melodramatic poetic form.

Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary.

Bardic poetry is the writings produced by a class of poets trained in the bardic schools of Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland, as they existed down to about the middle of the 17th century or, in Scotland, the early 18th century.

A grook (Danish: gruk) is a form of short aphoristic poem or rhyming aphorism created by the Danish poet, designer, inventor, and scientist Piet Hein.

two historical types of poetry as wisdom poetry

those genres which typify the traditional Chinese poems

French language poet, playwright

He is generally considered the last Greek philosopher to have recorded his ideas in verse.

is a philosophical poem in dactylic hexameter verse

was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri

was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer

was a French poet and dramatist

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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517-19 January 1547), was an English nobleman, politician and poet.

Léopold Sédar Senghor ( song-GOR, French: [leɔpɔl sedaʁ sɑ̃ɡɔʁ], Wolof: Léwopóol Sedaar Seŋoor; 9 October 1906-20 December 2001) was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980.

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; French: [ɛme fɛʁnɑ̃ david sezɛʁ]; 26 June 1913-17 April 2008) was an Afro-Martinican poet, author, and politician.

Léon-Gontran Damas (March 28, 1912, January 22, 1978) was a French poet and politician.

Georg Trakl (Austrian German: [ˈtraːkl̩]; 3 February 1887-3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl.

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: [ˈrobind̪ɾonat̪ʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ] ; 7 May 1861-7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance.

A prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is also best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

Maya Angelou ( AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928, May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799-10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

John Milton (9 December 1608-8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875-29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ; 10 November 1759-9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian.

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890-30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.

The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.

Complete Tang Poems (or Quan Tangshi) is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 poems by more than 2200 poets.

Beowulf ( ; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːo.wuɫf]) is an Old English poem, an epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines, contained in the Nowell Codex.

The Nibelungenlied (German pronunciation: [ˈniːbəlʊŋən-], [ˈnɪbəlʊŋən-] or [ˌniːbəˈlʊŋənˌliːt] ; Middle High German: Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German.

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Arabic: منطق الطير, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem, in the mathnawi form, by Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.

Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri (Persian: فریدالدین ابوحامد محمد عطار نیشابوری; c. 1145, c. 1221), better known by his pen-names Faridoddin (فریدالدین) and Attar of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری), or simply Attar (meaning apothecary), was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry, on poet Rumi, and on Sufism.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון \ שְׁמוּאֵל יוֹסֵף עַגְנוֹן shmuél yoséf agnón; August 8, 1887, February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture.

Thiruvalluvar (commonly known as Valluvar) was an Indian Tamil poet and philosopher.

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK: , US: , Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785-22 May 1873) was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist.

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The Ramayana (; Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam), also known as the Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a Hindu smriti epic poem (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India.

El Cantar de mio Cid, or El Poema de mio Cid ("The Song of My Cid"; "The Poem of My Cid"), is an anonymous 12th-century cantar de gesta and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem.

The Georgics ( JOR-jiks; Latin: Georgica [ɡeˈoːrɡɪka]) is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE.

The Man'yōshū (万葉集, literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves") is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.

The Epic of Sundiata (; Manding languages: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ Sònjàdà, also referred to as Sundiata or Son-Jara; Arabic: ملحمة سوندياتا; French: L'épopée de Soundjata) is an epic poem of the Malinke people that tells the story of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire in West Africa, who ruled from 1235 C.E. until his death in 1255 C.E.

His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

Cao Xueqin ([tsʰǎʊ ɕɥètɕʰǐn] tsow sh'weh-chin; 4 April 1710-10 June 1765) was a Chinese novelist and poet during the Qing dynasty.

Christine de Pizan or Pisan (French: [kʁistin də pizɑ̃] , Middle French: [krisˈtinə də piˈzã]; born Cristina da Pizzano; September 1364, c. 1430), was an Italian-born court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French royal dukes, in both prose and poetry.

She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Feng Menglong (1574-1646), courtesy names Youlong (猶龍), Gongyu (公魚), Ziyou (子猶), or Eryou (耳猶), was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty.

Ferenc Molnár (US: FERR-ents MOHL-nar, -⁠ənts -⁠, -⁠ MAWL-, Hungarian: [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈmolnaːr]; born Ferenc Neumann; January 12, 1878, April 1, 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet.

Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age.

Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813-19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819-22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828-24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 1562-27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492-1659) of Baroque literature.

Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature.

Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao (UK: , US: ; Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo kaldeˈɾon de la ˈβaɾka]; 17 January 1600-25 May 1681) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.

Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC, 278 BC) was a Chinese poet and political figure of the State of Chu during the Warring States period.

Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895-7 December 1985), whose second name is sometimes given as von Ranke, was an English poet, novelist and critic.

Song Yu (Chinese: 宋玉; Wade-Giles: Sung Yü; fl. 298-263 BC) was a Chinese poet from the late Warring States period, and is known as the traditional author of a number of poems in the Verses of Chu (Chu ci).

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888-4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

Wu Cheng'en (traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn; Wade-Giles: Wu2 Ch‘êng2-ên1; Jyutping: Ng4 Sing4 Jan1, c. 1500-1582 or 1505-1580), courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), was a Chinese novelist, poet, and politician during the Ming dynasty.

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist.

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858-4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882-13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Alan Alexander Milne ( ; 18 January 1882-31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry.

The Gulistan is a collection of poems and stories.

It is an epic poem written in Old French and is the first example of the chanson de geste, a literary form that flourished between the 11th and 16th centuries in Medieval Europe and celebrated legendary deeds.

It is a popular poem praising their love story.

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817, May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819, March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821-31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic.

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885-1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802-22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 - 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924, December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges ( BOR-hess; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ; 24 August 1899-14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet.

Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 - 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898-14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 - 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 - 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic.

Elias Lönnrot (Finnish: [ˈeliɑs ˈlønruːt]; 9 April 1802 - 19 March 1884) was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839-29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.

Cesare Pavese (UK: pav-AY-zay, -⁠zee, Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare paˈveːze, ˈtʃɛː-, -eːse]; 9 September 1908-27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist.