Poet

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NameNationalityDate of BirthDate of Death
Lucan Roman 39 65
Lucille Clifton American June 27, 1936
Lucius Accius Italian
Lucretius Roman 94 55
Lucy Larcom American March 5, 1824 April 17, 1893
Ludovico Ariosto September 8, 1474 July 6, 1533
Ludwig Tieck German May 31, 1773 April 28, 1853
Luis Cernuda Spanish September 21, 1902 1963
Lydia Sigourney American September 1, 1791 June 10, 1865
Malcolm Lowry English July 28, 1909 June 26, 1957
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore French June 20, 1786 June 23, 1859
Marcus Valerius Martial Spanish 43 104
Margaret Sackville English 1881 1963
Margaret Walker American July 7, 1915 November 30, 1998
Mari Evans American July 16, 1923
Marianne Moore American November 15, 1887 February 5, 1972
Marie de France French
Marilyn Hacker American November 27, 1942
Marina Tsvetaeva Russian October 9, 1892 August 31, 1941
Mark Akenside English November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770
Mark Strand American April 11, 1934
Mark Van Doren American June 13, 1894 December 10, 1972
Mary Oliver American September 10, 1935
Matsuo Basho Japanese 1644 November 28, 1694
Matthew Arnold English December 24, 1822 April 15, 1888
Matthew Green British 1696 1737
Matthew Prior English July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721
Mattie Stepanek American July 17, 1990 June 22, 2004
Max Jacob French July 12, 1876 March 5, 1944
Maxwell Bodenheim American May 26, 1891 February 6, 1954
May Sarton American May 3, 1912 1995
Maya Angelou American April 4, 1928
Menander Greek 342 292
Michael Drayton English 1563 1631
Mikhail Lermontov Russian October 15, 1814 July 27, 1841
Muhammad Iqbal Pakistani November 9, 1877 April 21, 1938
Muhammed Iqbal Indian November 9, 1877 April 21, 1938
Muriel Rukeyser American December 15, 1913 February 12, 1980
Nahum Tate Irish 1652 1715
Nazim Hikmet Turkish November 20, 1901 June 3, 1963
Nelly Sachs German December 10, 1891 May 12, 1970
Nicholas Breton English 1545 1626
Nicolas Boileau French November 1, 1636 March 13, 1711
Nikki Giovanni American June 7, 1943
Norman MacCaig Scottish November 14, 1910 January 23, 1996
Novalis German May 2, 1772 March 25, 1801
Nubar Gulbenkian Armenian 1896 1972
Octavio Paz Mexican March 31, 1914 April 19, 1998
Ogden Nash American August 19, 1902 May 19, 1971
Oliver Goldsmith Irish November 10, 1730 April 4, 1774
Omar Khayyam May 18, 1048 December 4, 1131
Ovid Roman 43 17
Patrick Kavanagh Irish October 21, 1904 November 30, 1967
Paul Celan Romanian November 23, 1920 April 20, 1970
Paul Eluard French December 14, 1895 November 18, 1952
Paul Engle American 1908 1991
Paul Laurence Dunbar American June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906
Paul Muldoon English June 20, 1951
Paul Scarron French 1610 1660
Paul Valery French October 30, 1871 July 20, 1945
Paul Verlaine French March 30, 1844 January 8, 1896
Penelope Fitzgerald English December 17, 1916 April 28, 2000
Percy Bysshe Shelley English August 4, 1792 July 8, 1822
Petrarch Italian July 20, 1304 July 19, 1374
Phaedrus Roman 15 50
Philip James Bailey English April 22, 1816 September 6, 1902
Philip Larkin English August 9, 1922 December 2, 1985
Philip Levine American January 10, 1928
Philip Massinger British May 2, 1908 June 27, 1908
Phoebe Cary American September 4, 1824 1871
Pietro Aretino Italian April 20, 1492 October 21, 1556
Pindar Greek 552 433
Quintus Ennius Roman 239 169
Rabindranath Tagore Indian May 6, 1861 August 7, 1941
Radclyffe Hall English August 12, 1880 October 7, 1943
Rainer Maria Rilke German December 4, 1875 December 29, 1926
Ralph Hodgson English September 9, 1871 November 3, 1962
Ralph Waldo Emerson American May 25, 1803 April 27, 1882
Randall Jarrell American May 6, 1914 October 15, 1965
Raymond Queneau French February 21, 1903 October 25, 1976
Rene Char French June 14, 1907 February 19, 1988
Renee Vivien British June 11, 1877 November 18, 1909
Richard Armour American 1906 1989
Richard Barnfield English 1574 1627
Richard Blackmore English January 22, 1654 October 9, 1729
Richard Eberhart American April 5, 1904 June 9, 2005
Richard Henry Horne English January 1, 1803 March 13, 1884
Richard Howard American October 13, 1929
Richard Le Gallienne English 1866 1947
Richard Lovelace English June 6, 1908 July 16, 1908
Richard Owen Cambridge British February 14, 1717 September 17, 1802
Richard Savage English 1697 1743
Richard Wilbur American March 1, 1921
Rita Dove American August 28, 1952
Robert Bloomfield English December 3, 1766 August 19, 1823
Robert Bly American December 23, 1926
Robert Bridges English October 23, 1844 April 21, 1930
Robert Browning English May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889
Robert Burns Scottish January 25, 1759 July 21, 1796
Robert Creeley American May 21, 1926 March 30, 2005
Robert Frost American March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963
Robert Hass American March 1, 1941
Robert Herrick English 1591 1674
Robert Lloyd English 1733 1764
Robert Lowell American March 1, 1917 September 12, 1977
Robert Service Scottish January 16, 1874 September 11, 1958
Robert Southey English August 12, 1774 March 21, 1843
Robert W. Service Scottish January 16, 1874 September 11, 1958
Robert Williams Buchanan British August 18, 1841 June 10, 1901
Robinson Jeffers American January 10, 1887 January 20, 1962
Rod McKuen American April 29, 1933
Roger McGough British November 9, 1937
Ruben Dario Nicaraguan January 18, 1867 February 6, 1916
Rumi September 30, 1207 December 17, 1273
Rupert Brooke English August 3, 1887 April 23, 1915
Ryunosuke Satoro Japanese
Sa'Di
Saadi Iranian 1184 1283
Sam Walter Foss American June 19, 1858 February 26, 1911
Samuel Butler British December 4, 1835 June 18, 1902
Samuel Daniel English 1562 October 14, 1619
Samuel Rogers English July 30, 1763 1855
Samuel Taylor Coleridge English October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834
Samuel Ullman American 1840 1924
Sarah Williams 1837 1868
Saunders Lewis Welsh October 15, 1893 September 1, 1985
Seamus Heaney Irish April 13, 1939
Serge Gainsbourg French April 2, 1928 March 2, 1991
Sextus Propertius Roman 50 15
Sharon Olds American November 19, 1942
Shel Silverstein American September 25, 1930 May 10, 1999
Sidney Lanier American March 3, 1842 September 7, 1881
Siegfried Sassoon English September 8, 1886 September 1, 1967
Silius Italicus 25 101
Simon Dach German July 29, 1605 April 15, 1659
Solomon Ibn Gabirol Spanish 1021 1058
Sophocles Greek 496 406
Stanislaw Lec Polish March 6, 1909 May 7, 1996
Stanley Kunitz American July 29, 1905 May 14, 2006
Statius Roman 45 96
Stephane Mallarme French 1842 1898
Stephen Dunn American 1939
Stephen Phillips English July 28, 1864 December 9, 1915
Stephen Spender English September 28, 1909 July 16, 1995
Stephen Vincent Benet American July 22, 1898 March 13, 1943
Stevie Smith British September 20, 1902 March 7, 1971
Sydney Carter English May 6, 1915 March 13, 2004
Sylvia Plath American October 27, 1932 February 11, 1963
T. S. Eliot American September 26, 1888 January 4, 1965
Tahar Ben Jelloun French December 1, 1944
Taliesin Welsh 534 599
Ted Hughes English August 16, 1930 October 28, 1998
Theocritus Greek
Theodore Martin Scottish 1816 1909
Theodore Roethke American May 25, 1908 August 1, 1963
Theophile Gautier French August 30, 1811 October 23, 1872
Thom Gunn British August 29, 1929 April 25, 2004
Thomas Babington British August 25, 1800 December 28, 1859
Thomas Bailey Aldrich American November 11, 1836 March 19, 1907
Thomas Campbell Scottish July 27, 1777 June 15, 1844
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