Poetry

was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period

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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

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He was a Shaivite Brahmin scholar and a court poet

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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.