List of poets

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This is a list of poets. People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.

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Alphabetical list

Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Ab-Ak

• Joze Abram, (1875-1938)
• Dannie Abse, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
• Milton Acorn, (1923-1986)
• Leonie Adams, (High Falcon - 1929)
• Fleur Adcock, (born 1934)
• Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)
• Endre Ady, (1877-1919)
• Lucius Afranius (poet), Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
• Patience Agbabi, (born 1965)
• Dritëro Agolli born 1931
• James Agree
• Ai (born 1947), pseudonym of Florence Anthony
• Sin Ai
• Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973)
• Mark Akenside, (1721-1770)
• Bella Akhmadulina, (born 1957)
• Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966)

Al-Am

• Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556)
• Fran Albreht, (1889-1965)
• Ivan Albreht
• Vera Albreht
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
• Richard Aldington
• Claribel Alegria
• Vicente Aleixandre, (1989-1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
• Josip Murn Aleksandrov, (1879-1901)
• Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
• Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet
• Alisoun
• James Alexander Allan (1889-1956), Australian poet
• Donald Allen (New American Poetry)
• William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
• Damaso Alonso
• Natan Alterman
• Al Alvarez
• Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Ambrose the poet
• Yehuda Amichai
• Kingsley Amis, born 1922
• A. R. Ammons

An-Ap

• Anacreon
• Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
• Jon Anderson, (born 1944)
• Jorge Carrera Andrade, (1903-1978)
• Miha Andreas, (1762-1821)
• Aneirin, medieval epic poet
• Maya Angelou, (born 1928)
• Antler, (1946-)
• Brother Antoninus
• Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
• Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
• Apuleius

Ar-Au

• Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
• The Archpoet (Medieval)
• Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)
• Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
• Bonaventura Carles Aribau, (1798-1862)
• Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
• Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt
• Achim von Arnim, (1781-1831)
• Bettina von Arnim, (1785-1859)
• Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)
• Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
• Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
• John Ashbery, (born 1927)
• Thomas Ashe, (1836-1889)
• Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
• Douglas Asper
• Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230)
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• W. H. Auden, (1907-1973)
• Ausiàs March, (1397-1459)
• Ausonius, (c. 310-395)

Av-Ay

• Miha Avanzo, (born 1949)
• Margaret Avison, (born 1918)
• Robert Ayton, (1570-1638)

B

Ba

Bab-Bal

• Esad Babacic, (born 1965)
• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
• Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881)
• George Bacovia, Romanian poet
• Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
• Robert Bagg
• Julio Baghy
• Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
• France Balantic, (1921-1943)
• Christianne Balk (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)
• Jesse Ball (1978-) American poet.

Bar-Bax

• Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
• John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
• Porfirio Barba-Jacob
• George Barker, (1913-1991)
• Les Barker
• Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
• William Barnes, (1801-1886)
• Elizabeth Barrett
• Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
• Judith Baumel (The Weight of Numbers - Whitman award)
• James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)

Be

• Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
• Joshua Beckman
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
• Beddoes (English writer in Germany)
• Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
• Ben Belitt
• Marvin Bell
• Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
• Hilaire Belloc
• Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
• William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
• Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
• Gottfried Ben
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
• Nejc Bernard, (born 1970)
• Daniel Berrigan
• Wendell Berry
• John Berryman
• John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
• Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi-Bl

• Bing & Cohen (Greek & Roman erotic verse)
• Miron Bialoszewski
• Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
• Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
• John Bishop Peale
• Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
• Don Blanding
• William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
• Andrej Blatnik, (born 1963)
• Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• Michael Blumenthal
• Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
• Edmund Blunden
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• Robert Bly

Bo

• Jean Bodel
• Louise Bogan
• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, (1636-1711)
• Berta Bojetu, (1946-1997)
• Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Philip Booth
• Matej Bor, (1913-1956)
• Rado Bordon, (1915-1992)
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Edgar Bowers
• Mark Boyd Alexander, (1563-1601 - sonnets)
• Marx Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
• Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

Br

Bra-Bri

• William Braithwaite, (1878-1962)
• Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
• Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch poet and playwright
• Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
• Christopher Brennan, (1870-1932), Australian
• Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
• André Breton, (1896-1966)
• Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
• Vida Brest, (born 1925)
• Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
• Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)
• John Malcolm Brinnin

Bro-Bry

• Daniel Louis Brodsky
• Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
• Wladyslaw Broniewski
• William Bronk, (died 1999)
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
• Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
• Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
• Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
• Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
• Flora Brovina
• Sterling A. Brown
• Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
• George Mackay Brown
• William Browne, (1588-1643)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
• Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
• William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
• Andrej Brvar, (born 1945)
• Bryher
• Ernest Bryll
• Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic

Bu-By

• Georg Büchner
• Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
• Andrej Budal, (1889-1972)
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994)
• Basil Bunting
• Ronnie Burk, (1955-2003)
• Michael Burkard
• Stanley Burnshaw
• Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
• Edwin G. Burrows
• William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
• Andrzej Bursa
• Ignazio Buttitta, (sicilian dialect)
• Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
• Lord Byron, (1788-1824)

C

Ca

Cab-Cap

• Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
• Dilys Cadwaladr
• Caedmon (old English)
• Andon Zako Çajupi
• Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
• Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
• Luis de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
• Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
• Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
• Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
• Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844)
• Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980)
• Ivan Cankar, (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
• Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893-1973)
• Edip Cansever
• Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD)
• Cao Pi
• Cao Zhi, (192-232)
• Andrej Capuder, (born 1942)

Car-Cav

• Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
• Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
• Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
• Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
• Will Carleton
• Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
• Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942)
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
• Hayden Carruth
• Anne Carson, (born 1950)
• William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
• Gaius Valerius Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
• Charles Causley
• C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)

Ce-Ci

• Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
• Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
• Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
• John Chalkhill
• Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674)
• Arthur Chapman, (1873-1935)
• George Chapman, (1560-1634)
• René Char, (1907-1998)
• Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
• Thomas Chatterton
• Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
• Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
• Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
• John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
• Franc Cimperman, (1852-1873)
• Josip Cimperman, (1847-1893)

Cl

• Amy Clampitt
• John Clare, (1793-1864)
• George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
• Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
• Matthias Claudius
• Michelle Cliff
• Lucille Clifton,
• Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)

Co

Coc-Cor

• Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Stan Cohen
• Wanda Coleman
• Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
• Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
• William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
• William Congreve (playwright), (1670-1729), English poet
• Evan S. Jr. Connell
• Leo Connellan (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
• Robert Conquest, historian and poet
• Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
• Clark Coolidge
• Wendy Cope
• Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
• Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
• James D. Corrothers
• Jayne Cortez

Cou-Cow

• Jeni Couzyn
• Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
• Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
• William Cowper, (1731-1800)

Cr-Cz

• George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
• Christopher Pearce Cranch, (19th c. American)
• Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
• Douglas Crase
• Richard Crashaw, (1613-1649)
• Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
• Octave Crémazie
• Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
• Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
• Marij Cuk, (born 1952)
• Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
• E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
• Valentin Cundric, (born 1938)
• Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
• J. V. Cunningham
• Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
• Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
• Leona Czwartkowski

D

Da

• Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
• Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
• Kate Daniels
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
• Jia Dao
• Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
• Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
• René Daumal, (1908-1944)
• Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
• W. H. Davies
• William Davenant, (1606-1668)
• Donald Davidson, (1893-1968)
• John Davies, (1569-1626), historian
• Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
• Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
• Denis Davydov, (1784-1839)
• Cecil Day-Lewis

De

• Ales Debeljak, (born 1961)
• Anton Debeljak, (1887-1952)
• Tine Debeljak, (born 1913)
• Walter de la Mare, author, poet
• DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, poet & editor (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
• Madeline DeFrees
• Marie de France
• Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
• Milan Dekleva, (born 1946)
• Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
• François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
• Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
• Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
• Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
• Jeronim De Rada
• Jure Detela, (1951-1992)
• Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
• Aubrey de Vere
• Feliks Dev, (1732-1786)
• William F. DeVault, (1955-), American Author
• Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet

Di-Do

• Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
• Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
• James Dickey, (1923-1997)
• Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
• Henry Austin Dobson
• Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
• Alenka Jenstrle Dolezal, (born 1959)
• John Donne, (1572-1631)
• Maura Dooley
• Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
• Ivan Dornik, (1892-1968)
• Gavin Douglas
• Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
• Rita Dove
• Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)

Dr

• Leah B. Drake
• Jane Draycott
• Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
• Ciril Drekonja, (1896-1944)
• Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
• John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
• William Drummond, (1585-1649)
• William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
• John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright

Du-Dy

• Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
• W.E.B. DuBois
• W.E.N. Du Bois
• Joze Dular, (1915-2000)
• Du Fu, the Poet Saint
• Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
• W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
• Alan Dugan
• Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
• Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906)
• William Dunbar, (1465-1520)
• Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
• Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
• Stephen Dunn
• Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
• Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
• Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
• Stuart Dybek
• Bob Dylan, born 1941

E

Ea-Er

• Charles F. Easton
• Richard Eberhart
• Russell Edson
• Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
• T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
• Fran Eller, (1873-1956)
• Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
• Paul Eluard, French poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
• Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
• William Empson, (1906-1984)
• Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
• R.M. Engelhardt, (born 1964), American poet
• Paul Engle
• Ennius
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
• Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
• Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)

Es-Ew

• Maggie Estep, American slam poet
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
• Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
• Florbela Espanca, (poet)
• Salvador Espriu, writer
• Abbie Huston Evans
• Mari Evans
• William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
• Richard Everswine
• Gavin Ewart

F

Fe-Fo

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
• Thomas Ferril
• Afanasiy Fet, (1812-1892)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
• Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
• Robert Fitzgerald
• Lawrence Fixel
• John Fletcher, (1579-1625)
• John Gould Fletcher, (1886-1950), Imagist poet
• F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
• Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898)
• John Forbes, (1950-1998), Australian poet
• Carolyn Forché, born 1950
• Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
• John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
• France Forstneric, (born 1958), mathematician.
• Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)

Fr-Fu

• Janet Frame, (born 1924)
• Robert Francis
• Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
• Naim Frashëri
• Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
• Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
• Ervin Fritz, (born 1940)
• Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
• Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
• Anton Funtek, (1862-1932)

G

Ga-Gl

• Jean Garrigue
• Samuel Garth
• George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
• David Gascoyne
• Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
• John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
• Albert Gazeley,(1937), poet and writer
• Stefan George, (1868-1933)
• Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
• Lapo Gianni
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson
• Richard Gilder
• Gary Gildner (Letters from Vicksburg)
• Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997), US eccentrical writer
• Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
• Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
• Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
• Janko Glazer, (1893-1975)
• Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
• Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
• Goran Gluvi&, (born 1957)

Go

• Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
• Cvetko Golar, (1879-1965)
• Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
• Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
• Pavel Golia, (1887-1959)
• Eugen Gomringer
• Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
• Ray Gonzalez, (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s)
• Lorna Goodison
• Vojko Gorjan, (1949-1975)
• Sergei Gorodetsky

Gr

Gra-Gri

• Alojz Gradnik, (1882-1968)
• Niko Grafenauer, (born 1940)
• Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
• Richard Graves, (1715-1804), British poet and essayist
• Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
• Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
• Robert Greene, (1560-1592)
• Simon Gregorcic, (1844-1906)
• Pankracij Gregorec, (1867-1920)
• Barbara Gregoric, (born 1964)
• Horace Gregory
• Eamon Grennan
• Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
• Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
• Franz Grillparzer
• Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
• Uri Tsvi Grinberg
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Charlotte Forten Grimke

Gro-Gru

• Stanislaw Grochowiak
• Philip Gross
• Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)

Gu-Gy

• Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
• Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
• Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
• Louise Imogen Guiney
• Guido Guinizzelli
• Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
• Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
• Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
• Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
• Ramon Guthrie
• Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)

H

Ha

• Rachel Hadas
• Hafez
• Judith Hall
• Suheir Hammad, Palestinan-American poet and political activist
• Walter Hampson,1864-1932 Yorkshire dialect author and poet.
• Han-Shan
• Hanson, Brant (born 1993)
• Matjaz Hanzek, (born 1949)
• Jerzy Harasymowicz
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
• Frances E. W. Harper, poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
• Michael S. Harper
• Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
• Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
• Milka Hartman, (born 1902)
• Gwen Harwood
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
• Fany Hausmann, (1818-1862)
• Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
• Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
• Robert Hayden

He

• Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
• John Heath-Stubbs
• Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
• Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
• John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
• Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
• Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
• Essex Hemphill
• William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
• Adrian Henri
• George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
• Zbigniew Herbert
• Johann Gottfried Herder
• Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803)
• Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
• Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
• Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English poet
• Phoebe Hesketh, (1909-2005), English poet
• Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
• Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
• Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)

Hi-Hr

• Rita Ann Higgins, poet, member of Aosdána
• Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
• Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
• Branko Hofman, (born 1929)
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
• James Hogg, (1770-1835)
• Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
• John Hollander, born 1929
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
• Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
• Thomas Hood, (1798-1845)
• A. D. Hope
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus
• George Moses Horton
• Jurij Houdlin, (born 1973)
• A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe
• Ivan Hribovsek, (1923-1945)

Hu

• Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
• Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
• Richard Hugo
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
• Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
• Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
• James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
• Constantijn Huyghens

I

• Jean Ingelow

J

Ja-Je

• Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
• Clive James
• Gustav Janus, (born 1939)
• Miran Jarc, (1900-1942)
• Urban Jarnik, (1784-1844)
• Randall Jarrell
• Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
• Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Vida Jeraj, (1875-1932)
• Luka Jeran, (1818-1896)
• Marjetka Jersek
• Milan Jesih, (born 1950)

Jo-Ju

• Edmund John
• Fenton Johnson
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Helene Johnson
• James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
• Lionel Johnson
• Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784)
• David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
• Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
• James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
• Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
• Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
• James Joyce, (1882-1941)
• Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
• Juvenal

K

Ka-Kh

• Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
• Ivana Kampus, (born 1945)
• Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
• Miha Kastelic, (1796-1868)
• Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
• Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
• Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
• John Keats, (1795-1821)
• Weldon Kees
• Harry Kemp
• X. J. Kennedy
• Jozef Kenda, (1859-1929)
• Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
• Dragotin Kette, (1876-1899)
• Keorapetse Kgositsile
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• Omar Khayyam, (1048-1122)
• Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
• Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
• Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)

Ki-Kn

• Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
• Amy King
• Henry King, (1592-1669)
• William King, (1663-1712)
• Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882)
• Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
• John Kinsella (born 1963)
• Thomas Kinsella
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories
• Milan Klec, (born 1954)
• Marjan Klinar, (1922-1983)
• Mile Klopcic, (1905-1984)
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
• Nikolai Klyuev
• Majda Kne, (born 1954)
• Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob-Kor

• Fran Kobal, (1881-1937)
• Josip Kobal, (1870-1888)
• Andrej Kocbek
• Edvard Kocbek, (1904-1981)
• Matjaz Kocbek, (born 1946)
• Jan Kochanowski, (born 1530)
• Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
• Anton Koder, (1851-1918)
• Andrej Kokot, (born 1936)
• Miklavz Komelj, (born 1970)
• Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
• Faik Konica
• Ted Kooser
• Sonja Koranter, (born 1948)
• Barbara Korun

Kos-Koz

• Jovan Koseski, (1798-1884)
• France Kosmac, (1922-1974), poet, film director, publicist.
• Srecko Kosovel, (1904-1926)
• Miroslav Kosuta, (born 1936)
• Vladimir Kos, (born 1924)
• Jure Kovic
• Kajetan Kovic, (born 1931)
• Barbara Kozak

Kr-Ku

• Lojze Krakar, (1929-1995)
• Taja Kramberger, (born 1970)
• Ruth Krauss
• Marko Kravos, (born 1943)
• Miroslav Krleža, (1589-1638), poet, novelist, etc
• Ernest Kroll
• Maxine Kumin
• Stanley Kunitz

L

La

• Aquiles La Grave
• Philip Lamantia
• Alphonse de Lamartine
• Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
• Steven Curtis Lance (http://mind-brain.com/poemdirectory/stevelance/comment.php), romantic poet
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
• Joseph Langland
• Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
• James Laughlin
• Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
• Lawes
• D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
• Layamon
• Irving Layton, (born 1912), sex machine poet!

Le

• Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
• Jan Lechon
• Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
• Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
• William Ellery Leonard
• Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
• Eleanor Lerman
• Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
• Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
• Boleslaw Lesmian
• Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
• Anton Levec
• Peter Levec, (born 1923)
• Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
• Jernej Levicnik, (1808-1883)
• Philip Levine
• Larry Levis
• Zlatka Levstek, (born 1944)
• D. A. Levy, (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
• William Levy
• Saunders Lewis, (1893-1985)
• Wyndham Lewis, (1884-1957)

Li

• Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
• José Lezama Lima (Cuban poet)
• Tim Liardet
• Ewa Lipska
• Florjan Lipus, (born 1937), author.
• Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
• Li Qingzhao
• Li Shanyin
• Li Yu
• Joseph C. Lincoln
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
• Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
• Alan Llwyd, (current)
• Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American poet
• Federico García Lorca
• Audre Lorde, (born 1934), black lesbian activist
• Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)
• Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
• Robert Lowell
• Amy Lowell, (1874-1925)
• Mina Loy (Dada)
• Gherasim Luca
• Lucilius
• Mihael Lotric, (born 1937)
• Joza Lovrencic, (1890-1952)
• Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), US poet
• Lucan
• Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
• Mario Luzi
• John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
• John Lyly, (1553-1606)
• George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)

M

Ma

Mac-Mak

• Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
• Cynthia MacDonald
• George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
• Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
• Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
• Compton Mackenzie
• Nathaniel Mackey
• Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
• Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• France Magajna, (born 1957)
• John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
• Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
• Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.
• Clarence Major
• Svetlana Makarovic, (born 1939)
• Peter Makuck

Mal-Mar

• Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
• David Mallet
• Sir Thomas Malory