| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
|---|
| A. E. Housman |
English |
March 26, 1859 |
April 30, 1936 |
| A. R. Ammons |
American |
|
|
| Aaron Hill |
English |
February 10, 1685 |
February 8, 1750 |
| Abraham Cowley |
English |
1618 |
July 28, 1667 |
| Adela Florence Nicolson |
English |
April 9, 1865 |
October 4, 1904 |
| Adelaide Anne Procter |
English |
October 30, 1825 |
February 2, 1864 |
| Adelbert von Chamisso |
German |
January 30, 1781 |
August 21, 1838 |
| Adrian Mitchell |
British |
October 24, 1932 |
December 20, 2008 |
| Adrienne Rich |
American |
May 16, 1929 |
|
| Aeschylus |
Greek |
525 |
456 |
| Agathon |
Greek |
448 |
400 |
| Aime Cesaire |
French |
June 20, 1913 |
April 17, 2008 |
| Al Alvarez |
English |
August 5, 1929 |
|
| Al Purdy |
Canadian |
December 30, 1918 |
April 21, 2000 |
| Alcaeus |
Greek |
|
|
| Alden Nowlan |
Canadian |
January 25, 1933 |
June 27, 1983 |
| Alexander Brome |
English |
1620 |
1666 |
| Alexander Pope |
English |
May 21, 1688 |
May 30, 1744 |
| Alexander Smith |
Scottish |
December 31, 1830 |
January 5, 1867 |
| Alfred Austin |
English |
May 30, 1835 |
1913 |
| Alfred de Vigny |
French |
March 27, 1797 |
September 17, 1863 |
| Alfred Douglas |
English |
October 22, 1870 |
March 20, 1945 |
| Alfred Edward Housman |
English |
March 26, 1859 |
April 30, 1936 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
English |
August 6, 1809 |
October 6, 1892 |
| Alfred Noyes |
English |
September 16, 1880 |
June 28, 1958 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
English |
April 5, 1837 |
April 10, 1909 |
| Alice Cary |
American |
April 26, 1820 |
February 12, 1871 |
| Alice Duer Miller |
American |
July 28, 1874 |
August 22, 1942 |
| Alice Meynell |
English |
September 22, 1847 |
November 27, 1922 |
| Allan Cunningham |
Scottish |
December 7, 1784 |
October 30, 1842 |
| Allen Ginsberg |
American |
June 3, 1926 |
April 5, 1997 |
| Allen Tate |
American |
November 19, 1899 |
February 9, 1979 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine |
French |
October 21, 1790 |
February 28, 1869 |
| Ambrose Philips |
English |
1675 |
1749 |
| Amiri Baraka |
American |
October 7, 1934 |
|
| Amy Clampitt |
American |
June 15, 1920 |
September 10, 1994 |
| Amy Levy |
British |
1861 |
1889 |
| Amy Lowell |
American |
February 9, 1874 |
May 12, 1925 |
| Anacreon |
Greek |
|
|
| Andre Breton |
French |
February 18, 1896 |
September 28, 1966 |
| Andrew Lang |
Scottish |
March 31, 1844 |
July 20, 1912 |
| Andrew Motion |
English |
October 26, 1952 |
|
| Angelus Silesius |
German |
December 25, 1624 |
July 9, 1677 |
| Anna Akhmatova |
Russian |
June 23, 1889 |
March 5, 1966 |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld |
English |
June 20, 1743 |
March 9, 1825 |
| Anna Wickham |
British |
1884 |
1947 |
| Anne Bradstreet |
American |
1612 |
1672 |
| Anne Grant |
Scottish |
February 21, 1755 |
November 7, 1838 |
| Anne Sexton |
American |
November 9, 1928 |
October 4, 1974 |
| Anne Stevenson |
American |
|
|
| Anthony Hecht |
American |
January 16, 1923 |
October 20, 2004 |
| Antonio Gala |
Spanish |
|
|
| Antonio Machado |
Spanish |
July 26, 1875 |
February 22, 1939 |
| Antonio Porchia |
Italian |
November 13, 1886 |
November 9, 1968 |
| Archibald MacLeish |
American |
May 7, 1892 |
April 20, 1982 |
| Archibald McLeish |
American |
May 7, 1892 |
April 20, 1982 |
| Archilochus |
Greek |
680 |
645 |
| Aristophanes |
Greek |
448 |
380 |
| Arna Bontemps |
American |
October 13, 1902 |
June 4, 1973 |
| Arrigo Boito |
Italian |
February 24, 1842 |
June 10, 1918 |
| Arthur Chapman |
American |
1873 |
1935 |
| Arthur Hugh Clough |
English |
January 1, 1819 |
November 13, 1861 |
| Arthur O'Shaughnessy |
British |
March 14, 1844 |
January 30, 1881 |
| Arthur Rimbaud |
French |
October 20, 1854 |
November 10, 1891 |
| Arthur Symons |
British |
February 28, 1865 |
January 22, 1945 |
| Aubrey de Vere |
Irish |
1788 |
1846 |
| Audre Lorde |
American |
February 18, 1934 |
1992 |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel |
German |
September 8, 1767 |
May 12, 1845 |
| Aulus Persius Flaccus |
Italian |
34 |
62 |
| Ausonius |
Roman |
310 |
395 |
| B. R. Hayden |
American |
1913 |
1980 |
| Barnabe Barnes |
English |
1569 |
1609 |
| Barry Cornwall |
English |
November 21, 1787 |
October 5, 1874 |
| Basil Bunting |
British |
March 3, 1900 |
1985 |
| Ben Jonson |
English |
June 11, 1572 |
August 6, 1637 |
| Ben Okri |
Nigerian |
March 15, 1959 |
|
| Bernard Barton |
American |
January 31, 1784 |
February 19, 1849 |
| Bertolt Brecht |
German |
February 10, 1898 |
August 14, 1956 |
| Bliss Carman |
Canadian |
April 15, 1861 |
June 8, 1929 |
| Bradley Chicho |
English |
February 5, 1895 |
|
| Bryant H. McGill |
American |
November 7, 1969 |
|
| C. Day Lewis |
English |
April 27, 1904 |
May 22, 1972 |
| C. S. Calverley |
English |
December 22, 1831 |
February 17, 1884 |
| Caecilius Statius |
Roman |
|
|
| Callimachus |
Greek |
305 |
240 |
| Carl Rakosi |
German |
November 6, 1903 |
June 24, 2004 |
| Carl Sandburg |
American |
January 6, 1878 |
July 22, 1967 |
| Carl Spitteler |
Swiss |
April 24, 1845 |
December 29, 1924 |
| Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
Brazilian |
October 31, 1902 |
August 17, 1987 |
| Carlos Wilcox |
American |
October 22, 1794 |
May 29, 1827 |
| Carol Ann Duffy |
British |
December 23, 1955 |
|
| Cesare Pavese |
Italian |
September 9, 1908 |
August 27, 1950 |
| Charles Baudelaire |
French |
April 9, 1821 |
August 31, 1867 |
| Charles Churchill |
English |
1731 |
1764 |
| Charles Cotton |
English |
April 28, 1630 |
1687 |
| Charles Mackay |
British |
1814 |
1889 |
| Charles Olson |
American |
December 27, 1910 |
January 10, 1970 |
| Charles Reznikoff |
American |
August 31, 1894 |
January 22, 1976 |
| Charles Simic |
American |
May 9, 1938 |
|
| Charles Stuart Calverley |
English |
December 22, 1831 |
February 17, 1884 |
| Charles Tennyson Turner |
English |
July 4, 1808 |
April 25, 1879 |
| Charles Wolfe |
Irish |
December 14, 1791 |
February 21, 1823 |
| Charlotte Smith |
English |
May 4, 1749 |
October 28, 1806 |
| Chilon |
Greek |
|
|
| Christian Furchtegott Gellert |
German |
July 4, 1715 |
December 13, 1769 |
| Christian Morgenstern |
German |
May 6, 1871 |
March 31, 1914 |
| Christina G. Rossetti |
English |
December 5, 1830 |
December 29, 1894 |
| Christina Rossetti |
British |
December 5, 1830 |
December 29, 1894 |
| Christoph Martin Wieland |
German |
September 5, 1733 |
January 20, 1813 |
| Christopher Anstey |
English |
October 31, 1724 |
August 3, 1805 |
| Christopher Smart |
English |
April 11, 1722 |
May 21, 1771 |
| Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
American |
January 27, 1945 |
|
| Comte de Lautreamont |
French |
April 4, 1846 |
November 24, 1870 |
| Countee Cullen |
American |
March 30, 1903 |
January 9, 1946 |
| Coventry Patmore |
English |
July 23, 1823 |
November 26, 1896 |
| Czeslaw Milosz |
|
June 30, 1911 |
August 14, 2004 |
| Dante Alighieri |
Italian |
June 1, 1265 |
September 13, 1321 |
| David Antin |
American |
February 1, 1932 |
|
| David Lehman |
American |
1948 |
|
| David McFadden |
Canadian |
October 11, 1940 |
|
| Delmore Schwartz |
American |
December 8, 1913 |
July 11, 1966 |
| Diane Ackerman |
American |
October 7, 1948 |
|
| Diane Glancy |
American |
1941 |
|
| Diane Wakoski |
American |
1937 |
|
| Don Marquis |
American |
July 29, 1878 |
December 29, 1937 |
| Donald Justice |
American |
August 12, 1925 |
August 6, 2004 |
| Douglas Dunn |
Scottish |
October 23, 1942 |
|
| Du Fu |
Chinese |
712 |
770 |
| Dylan Thomas |
Welsh |
October 27, 1914 |
November 9, 1953 |
| e. e. cummings |
American |
October 14, 1894 |
September 3, 1962 |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
American |
January 19, 1809 |
October 7, 1849 |
| Edgar Guest |
American |
August 20, 1881 |
August 5, 1959 |
| Edgar Lee Masters |
American |
August 23, 1868 |
March 5, 1950 |
| Edith Sitwell |
British |
September 7, 1887 |
December 9, 1964 |
| Edmond Rostand |
French |
April 1, 1868 |
December 2, 1918 |
| Edmund Blunden |
English |
November 1, 1896 |
January 20, 1974 |
| Edmund Spenser |
English |
1552 |
January 13, 1599 |
| Edmund Waller |
English |
March 3, 1606 |
October 21, 1687 |
| Edward Dyer |
English |
1543 |
1607 |
| Edward Fitzgerald |
English |
March 31, 1809 |
July 14, 1883 |
| Edward Rowland Sill |
American |
April 29, 1841 |
February 27, 1887 |
| Edward Young |
English |
July 3, 1683 |
April 5, 1765 |
| Edwin Arnold |
English |
June 10, 1832 |
March 24, 1904 |
| Edwin Markham |
American |
April 23, 1852 |
March 7, 1940 |
| Eino Leino |
Finnish |
July 6, 1878 |
January 10, 1926 |
| Elinor Wylie |
American |
September 7, 1885 |
December 16, 1928 |
| Eliza Cook |
English |
December 24, 1818 |
September 23, 1889 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
English |
March 6, 1806 |
June 29, 1861 |
| Elizabeth Bibesco |
British |
February 26, 1897 |
April 7, 1945 |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
American |
February 8, 1911 |
October 6, 1979 |
| Elizabeth Carter |
English |
December 16, 1717 |
February 19, 1806 |
| Elizabeth Jennings |
English |
July 18, 1926 |
October 26, 2001 |
| Emily Dickinson |
American |
December 10, 1830 |
May 15, 1886 |
| Emma Lazarus |
American |
July 22, 1849 |
November 19, 1887 |
| Ernest Dowson |
English |
August 2, 1867 |
February 23, 1900 |
| Ernst Moritz Arndt |
German |
December 26, 1769 |
January 29, 1860 |
| Eugene Field |
American |
September 2, 1850 |
November 4, 1895 |
| Eugenio Montale |
Italian |
October 12, 1896 |
September 12, 1981 |
| Euripides |
Greek |
480 |
406 |
| Eustache Deschamps |
French |
1346 |
1406 |