List of Slovak poets
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The following is a list of the most important poets of Slovak literature, for a list of Slovak authors of prose and drama see Slovak prose:
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Middle Ages (800 – 1500)
- Constantine (827-869) – born in Thessaloniki
- Maurus (?-1070)
- Leonard z Uničova (15th century)
Renaissance (1500-1650)
- Martin Rakovský (1535-1579)
- Ján Silván (1493-1573)
- Pavel Kyrmezer (?-1589)
- Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier (Laurentio Benedictino Nudozierino) (1555-1615)
- Ján Filický (?-1623)
- Ján Bocatius (1569-1621)
- Jakub Jakobeus (1591-1645) – born in Bohemia
- Martin Bošňák (?-1566)
- Štefan Komodický (16th century)
- Eliáš Láni (1570-1618)
- Daniel Pribiš (1580-1645)
Baroque (1650-1780)
- Juraj Tranovský (1592-1637)
- Benedikt Szőllősi (1609-1656)
- Daniel Sinapius Horčička I (1640-1688)
- Jób Trusius (17th century)
- Ján Sekáč (?-1818)
- Dionýz Kubík (1749-1811)
- Štefan Ferdinand Selecký (1675-?)
- Peter Benický (1606-1664)
- Hugolín Gavlovič (1712-1787)
- Štefan Pilárik I (1615-1693)
Classicism (1780-1840)
- Augustín Doležal (1737-1802)
- Bohuslav Tablic (1769-1832)
- Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795-1861)
- Ján Kollár (1793-1852)
- Ján Hollý (1785-1849)
- Karol Kuzmány (1806-1866)
Romantism (1840-1850)
- Ľudovít Štúr (1815-1856)
- Samo Chalupka (1812-1883)
- Andrej Sládkovič (1820-1872)
- Janko Kráľ (1822-1876)
- Ján Botto (1829-1881)
- Janko Matúška (1821-1877)
- Samo Vozár (1823-1850)
- Petőfi Sándor - a Hungarian poet of Slovak-Serbian origin (he wrote in Hungarian)
- Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811-1870)
- Viliam Paulíny-Tóth (1826-1877)
Between Romantism and Realism (1850-1875)
- Ľudovít Kubáni (1830-1869)
Realism (1875-1905)
- Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847-1916)
- Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849-1921)
- Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1842-1951)
Modernism (1905-1918)
- Ivan Krasko (1876-1958)
- Janko Jesenský (1874-1945)
- Vladimír Roy (1885-1936)
- Ivan Gall (1885-1955)
Between the World Wars (1918-1948)
- Štefan Krčméry (1892-1955)
- Martin Rázus (1888-1937)
- Emil Boleslav Lukáč (1900-1979)
- Ján Smrek (1898-1982)
- Ján Poničan (1902-1978)
- Fraňo Kráľ (1903-1955)
- Laco Novomeský (1904-1976)
Surrealism
- Rudolf Fabry (1915-1982)
- Vladimír Reisel (1919-?)
- Július Lenko (1914-?)
- Štefan Žáry (1918-?)
- Ján Brezina (1917-?)
- Pavel Bunčák (1915-?)
- Ján Rak (1916-1969)
Catholic Modernism
- Rudolf Dilong (1905-1986)
- Pavol Gašparovič Hlbina (1908-1977)
- Janko Silan (1914-1984)
- Karol Strmeň (1921-1994)
- Ján Haranta (1909-1983)
- Svetoslav Veigl (1915-?)
- Pavol Ušák-Oliva
- Mikuláš Šprinc
- Gorazd Zvonický
Literature after World War II (1948-1960's)
- Ján Kostra (1910-1975)
- Pavol Horov (1914-1975)
- Andrej Plávka (1907-1982)
- Ivan Kupec (1922)
- Vojtech Mihálik (1926)
Current literature (since the 1960's )
- Milan Rúfus (1928)
- Miroslav Válek (1927-1991)
- Mikuláš Kováč (1934-1992)
- Ľubomír Feldek (1936)
- Jozef Mihalkovič (1935)
- Ján Šimonovič (1939-1994)
- Ján Stacho (1936-1995)
- Ján Ondruš (1932)
- Ján Buzássy (1935)
- Vlastimil Kovalčík (1939)
- Lýdia Vadkerti-Gavorníková (1932)
- Štefan Strážay (1940)
- Ivan Laučík (1944)
- Peter Repka (1944)
- Ivan Štrpka (1944)
- Štefan Moravčík (1943)
- Mila Haugová (1944)
- Ján Švantner (1949)
- Rudolf Čižmárik (1949)
- Jana Kantorová Báliková (1951)
- Eva Kováčová (1951)
- Anna Ondrejková (1954)
- Daniel Hevier (1955)
- Kamil Peteraj (1945)
- Jozef Urban (?)
- Pavol Hudák (1959)
See also: List of national poetries