LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Dannie Abse	Novelist	22-Sep-1923		Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Diane Ackerman	Author	7-Oct-1948		A Natural History of the Senses
Charles Follen Adams	Poet	21-Apr-1842	8-Mar-1918	Leedle Yawcob Strauss
Léonie Adams	Poet	9-Dec-1899	27-Jun-1988	Those Not Elect
Agathias	Historian	536 AD	582 AD	On the Reign of Justinian
James Agee	Poet	27-Nov-1909	16-May-1955	A Death in the Family
Conrad Aiken	Poet	5-Aug-1889	17-Aug-1973	Earth Triumphant
Anna Akhmatova	Poet	11-Jun-1889	5-Mar-1966	Poem Without a Hero
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Poet	11-Nov-1836	19-Mar-1907	The Story of a Bad Boy
Vicente Aleixandre	Poet	26-Apr-1898	14-Dec-1984	Spanish surrealist poet
Hervey Allen	Poet	8-Dec-1889	28-Dec-1949	Ballads of the Border
William Allingham	Poet	19-Mar-1824	18-Nov-1889	Day and Night Songs
Washington Allston	Painter	5-Nov-1779	9-Jul-1843	The Dead Man Revived
Moniza Alvi	Poet	2-Feb-1954		The Country at My Shoulder
Nicholas Amhurst	Author	16-Oct-1697	12-Apr-1742	The Craftsman
Henri Frédéric Amiel	Critic	27-Sep-1821	11-May-1881	Journal Intime
A. R. Ammons	Poet	18-Feb-1926	25-Feb-2001	Sphere
Anacreon	Poet	c. 560 BC	c. 485 BC	Greek lyric poet
Maya Angelou	Poet	4-Apr-1928		I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
David Antin	Artist	1-Feb-1932		Improv artist, talk poet
Guillaume Apollinaire	Poet	26-Aug-1880	9-Nov-1918	Alcools, Calligrammes
Louis Aragon	Poet	3-Oct-1897	24-Dec-1982	Communistic French poet
Ludovico Ariosto	Poet	8-Sep-1474	6-Jul-1533	Orlando Furioso
Matthew Arnold	Poet	24-Dec-1822	15-Apr-1888	Culture and Anarchy
Juana de Asbaje	Poet	12-Nov-1651	17-Apr-1695	America's first feminist poet
John Ashbery	Poet	28-Jul-1927		Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Margaret Atwood	Author	18-Nov-1939		The Handmaid's Tale
W. H. Auden	Poet	21-Feb-1907	29-Sep-1973	The Age of Anxiety
Hartmann von Aue	Poet	c. 1170	c. 1210	Der arme Heinrich
Ausonius	Poet	c. 310 AD	c. 395 AD	Roman poet and rhetorician
Alfred Austin	Poet	30-May-1835	2-Jun-1913	Poet Laureate of England, 1892-1913
Kofi Awoonor	Poet	13-Mar-1935		Rediscovery
Jean-Antoine de Baïf	Poet	1532	Oct-1589	Pléiade poet
Joanna Baillie	Playwright	11-Sep-1762	23-Feb-1851	Family Legend
Evgeny Baratynsky	Poet	19-Feb-1800	29-Jun-1844	Russian Golden Age poet
George Barker	Poet	26-Feb-1913	27-Oct-1991	Calamiterror
Joel Barlow	Poet	25-Mar-1754	24-Dec-1812	The Hasty Pudding
Djuna Barnes	Novelist	12-Jun-1892	18-Jun-1982	Modernist poet, Nightwood
Charles Baudelaire	Poet	9-Apr-1821	31-Aug-1867	Les Fleurs du Mal
Joachim du Bellay	Poet	c. 1522	1-Jan-1560	French Pléiade poet
Andrés Bello	Poet	29-Nov-1781	15-Oct-1865	South American intellectual, poet
Hilaire Belloc	Author	27-Jul-1870	16-Jul-1953	The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Stephen Vincent Benét	Author	22-Jul-1898	13-Mar-1943	John Brown's Body
William Rose Benét	Poet	2-Feb-1886	4-May-1950	The Dust Which Is God
Gottfried Benn	Poet	2-May-1886	7-Jul-1956	Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot
Steven Jesse Bernstein	Poet	4-Dec-1950	22-Oct-1991	Grunge poet and punk rocker
John Berryman	Poet	25-Oct-1914	7-Jan-1972	Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
John Betjeman	Poet	28-Aug-1906	19-May-1984	Summoned By Bells
Hayyim Nahman Bialik	Poet	9-Jan-1873	4-Jul-1934	Foremost Hebrew poet
Frank Bidart	Poet	1939		The Book of the Body
Elizabeth Bishop	Poet	8-Feb-1911	6-Oct-1979	North & South
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Playwright	8-Dec-1832	26-Apr-1910	Synnöve Solbakken
William Blake	Poet	28-Nov-1757	12-Aug-1827	English romantic poet and artist
Steen Steensen Blicher	Author	11-Oct-1782	26-Mar-1848	Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk
Blind Harry	Poet	fl. 1470-92	fl. 1470-92	Acts and Deeds of William Wallace
Alexander Blok	Poet	16-Nov-1880	7-Aug-1921	Russian Silver Age poet
Edmund Blunden	Poet	1-Nov-1896	20-Jan-1974	Undertones of War
Robert Bly	Poet	23-Dec-1926		Iron John: A Book About Men
Louise Bogan	Poet	11-Aug-1897	4-Feb-1970	The New Yorker poetry critic
Nicolas Boileau	Poet	1-Nov-1636	13-Mar-1711	Satires du Sieur D...
Arrigo Boito	Composer	24-Feb-1842	10-Jun-1918	Mefistofele
George Henry Boker	Playwright	6-Oct-1823	2-Jan-1890	Francesca da Rimini
Eavan Boland	Poet	24-Sep-1944		In a Time of Violence
Arna Bontemps	Novelist	13-Oct-1902	4-Jun-1973	God Sends Sunday
Tadeusz Borowski	Author	12-Nov-1922	1-Jul-1951	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Edgar Bowers	Poet	2-Mar-1924	4-Feb-2000	For Louis Pasteur
Anne Bradstreet	Poet	c. 1612	16-Sep-1672	The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Richard Brautigan	Author	30-Jan-1935	14-Oct-1984	So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Robert Bridges	Poet	23-Oct-1844	21-Apr-1930	Prometheus the Firegiver
Francisco Brines	Poet	1932		Generation of 1950
Joseph Brodsky	Poet	24-May-1940	28-Jan-1996	Social parasite turned Poet Laureate
Rupert Brooke	Poet	3-Aug-1887	23-Apr-1915	1914 and Other Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks	Poet	7-Jun-1917	3-Dec-2000	Annie Allen
George Mackay Brown	Poet	17-Oct-1921	13-Apr-1996	Time in a Red Coat
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poet	6-Mar-1806	29-Jun-1861	Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning	Poet	7-May-1812	12-Dec-1889	Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
Dennis Brutus	Poet	28-Nov-1924		Sirens, Knuckles and Boots
William Cullen Bryant	Poet	3-Nov-1794	12-Jun-1878	Editor, The New York Evening Post
Charles Bukowski	Author	16-Aug-1920	09-Mar-1994	Love is a Dog from Hell
Ivan Bunin	Author	10-Oct-1870	8-Oct-1953	Russian short story writer, Light Breathing
Gottfried August Bürger	Poet	31-Dec-1747	8-Jun-1794	Lenore
Gelett Burgess	Cartoonist	30-Jan-1866	17-Sep-1951	Has never seen a purple cow
Robert Burns	Poet	25-Jan-1759	21-Jul-1796	Most beloved Scottish poet
Samuel Butler	Poet	8-Feb-1612	25-Feb-1680	Hudibras
Lord Byron	Poet	22-Jan-1788	19-Apr-1824	English romantic poet
Luís de Camões	Poet	c. 1524	10-Jun-1580	Os Lusíadas
Ernesto Cardenal	Poet	20-Jan-1925		Liberation theologist, important Nicaraguan poet
Giosuè Carducci	Poet	27-Jul-1835	16-Feb-1907	Odi barbare
Thomas Carew	Poet	1595	22-Mar-1639	A Rapture
Hayden Carruth	Poet	3-Aug-1921		Brothers, I Loved You All
Raymond Carver	Author	25-May-1938	2-Aug-1988	Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Giovanni Battista Casti	Poet	29-Aug-1724	5-Feb-1803	Novelle Galanti
António Feliciano de Castilho	Poet	18-Jan-1800	18-Jun-1875	A noite de Castello
Cristóbal de Castillejo	Poet	1490	12-Jun-1556	Spanish poet, disliked Italian forms
Catullus	Poet	c. 84 BC	c. 54 BC	Ancient Roman poet
Guido Cavalcanti	Poet	c. 1250	27-Aug-1300	Canzone d'Amore
Felice Cavallotti	Politician	6-Oct-1842	6-Mar-1898	Italian radical politician
Paul Celan	Poet	23-Nov-1920	20-Apr-1970	Todesfuge
Luis Cernuda	Poet	21-Sep-1902	5-Nov-1963	Generation of '27
Miguel de Cervantes	Novelist	29-Sep-1547	22-Apr-1616	Don Quixote
Aimé Césaire	Poet	25-Jun-1913	17-Apr-2008	Return to My Native Land
Pablo de Céspedes	Poet	1538	26-Jul-1608	Spanish poet, painter, sculptor, etc.
Charles, duc d'Orléans	Poet	24-Nov-1394	4-Jan-1465	Medieval French courtly poet
Alain Chartier	Poet	c. 1392	1449	La Belle Dame sans merci
Thomas Chatterton	Poet	20-Nov-1752	24-Aug-1770	Fabricated as Thomas Rowley
André de Chénier	Poet	30-Oct-1762	25-Jul-1794	Greatest 18th c. French poet
Chrétien de Troyes	Poet	fl. 1165-80	fl. 1165-80	Author of Arthurian romances
Christine de Pizan	Poet	1364	c. 1430	Le Livre des trois vertus
Charles Churchill	Poet	1731	4-Nov-1764	Rosciad
John Ciardi	Poet	24-Jun-1916	30-Mar-1986	How Does a Poem Mean?
Colley Cibber	Playwright	6-Nov-1671	11-Dec-1757	Apology
John Clare	Poet	13-Jul-1793	20-May-1864	Northamptonshire Peasant Poet
Paul Claudel	Poet	6-Aug-1868	23-Feb-1955	French poet and diplomat
Lucille Clifton	Poet	27-Jun-1936		Good Woman
Jean Cocteau	Poet	5-Jul-1889	11-Oct-1963	La Belle et la Bête
Andrei Codrescu	Author	20-Dec-1946		Exquisite Corpse
Robert P. Tristram Coffin	Poet	18-Mar-1892	20-Jan-1955	Strange Holiness
Leonard Cohen	Singer/Songwriter	21-Sep-1934		Everybody Knows
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Poet	21-Oct-1772	25-Jul-1834	Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
William Congreve	Playwright	24-Jan-1670	19-Jan-1729	The Way of the World
Wendy Cope	Poet	21-Jul-1945		If I Don't Know
Cid Corman	Poet	29-Jun-1924	12-Mar-2004	Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Pierre Corneille	Playwright	6-Jun-1606	1-Oct-1684	Le Cid
Gregory Corso	Poet	26-Mar-1930	17-Jan-2001	Beat poet, Gasoline
Charles Cotton	Poet	28-Apr-1630	16-Feb-1687	Translator of Montaigne
William Cowper	Poet	26-Nov-1731	25-Apr-1800	The Task
Hart Crane	Poet	21-Jul-1899	27-Apr-1932	Industrial and urban poet
Stephen Crane	Novelist	1-Nov-1871	5-Jun-1900	The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Creeley	Poet	21-May-1926	30-Mar-2005	Founded Black Mountain Review
Critias	Politician	c. 460 BC	c. 403 BC	Athenian orator and poet
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva	Poet	1731	5-Oct-1799	Hyssope
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz	Poet	17-Nov-1733	28-Jan-1805	Dorottya
Countee Cullen	Poet	30-May-1903	9-Jan-1946	Harlem Renaissance poet
e. e. cummings	Poet	14-Oct-1894	3-Sep-1962	Majuscule-challenged American poet
Ivor Cutler	Poet	15-Jan-1923	3-Mar-2006	Glasgow Dreamer
Isaac da Costa	Poet	14-Jan-1798	28-Apr-1860	De Verlossing van Nederland
Simon Dach	Poet	29-Jul-1605	15-Apr-1659	German lyrical poet
Dante	Poet	1265	14-Sep-1321	La Divina Commedia
Bei Dao	Poet	2-Aug-1949		Exiled Chinese poet of the Misty School
Rubén Darío	Poet	18-Jan-1867	6-Feb-1916	Cantos de vida y esperanza
George Darley	Poet	1795	23-Nov-1846	Nepenthe
Erasmus Darwin	Naturalist	12-Dec-1731	18-Apr-1802	English naturalist, very bad poet
Jean Daurat	Poet	1508	1-Nov-1588	French Pléiade poet
Sir William Davenant	Poet	1606	7-Apr-1668	Gondibert
Donald Davidson	Poet	8-Aug-1893	25-Apr-1968	Agrarian, Southern American poet
Sir John Davies	Poet	16-Apr-1569	8-Dec-1626	Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing
William Henry Davies	Poet	3-Jul-1871	26-Sep-1940	The Soul's Destroyer
Cecil Day-Lewis	Poet	27-Apr-1904	22-May-1972	UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72
Walter de la Mare	Poet	25-Apr-1873	22-Jun-1956	Memoirs of a Midget
Casimir Delavigne	Poet	4-Apr-1793	11-Dec-1843	La Parisienne
Jacques Delille	Poet	22-Jun-1738	1-May-1813	French translator of Virgil
Giovanni Della Casa	Poet	28-Jun-1503	14-Nov-1556	Galateo
Sir John Denham	Poet	1615	10-Mar-1669	Cooper's Hill
Gavriil Derzhavin	Poet	3-Jul-1743	8-Jul-1816	Greatest Russian 18th-century poet
Eustache Deschamps	Poet	c. 1346	c. 1406	L'Art de Dictier
Antoinette Deshoulières	Poet	1-Jan-1638	17-Feb-1694	French poet-socialite
João de Deus	Poet	8-Mar-1830	11-Jan-1896	Flores do Campo
James Dickey	Poet	2-Feb-1923	19-Jan-1997	Deliverance
Emily Dickinson	Poet	10-Dec-1830	15-May-1886	Perplexing American poet
John Donne	Poet	1572	31-Mar-1631	Anniversaries
Timothy Donnelly	Poet	1969		Twenty-Seven Props
Rita Dove	Poet	28-Aug-1952		7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95
Ernest Dowson	Poet	2-Aug-1867	23-Feb-1900	English Decadent poet
John Dryden	Poet	19-Aug-1631	1-May-1700	Absalom and Achitophel
Carol Ann Duffy	Poet	23-Dec-1955		Mean Time
Alan Dugan	Poet	12-Feb-1923	3-Sep-2003	Poems
Georges Duhamel	Novelist	30-Jun-1884	13-Apr-1966	Civilisation
Paul Laurence Dunbar	Poet	27-Jun-1872	9-Feb-1906	Lyrics of a Lowly Life
William Dunbar	Poet	c. 1460	c. 1520	The Thrissil and the Rois
Robert Duncan	Poet	7-Jan-1919	3-Feb-1988	Bending the Bow
Lawrence Durrell	Novelist	27-Feb-1912	7-Nov-1990	The Alexandria Quartet
Richard Eberhart	Poet	5-Apr-1904	9-Jun-2005	Collected Poems
Dietrich Eckart	Playwright	23-Mar-1868	25-Dec-1923	Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
Günter Eich	Poet	1-Feb-1907	20-Sep-1972	Züge im Nebel
T. S. Eliot	Poet	26-Sep-1888	4-Jan-1965	The Hollow Men
Paul Éluard	Poet	14-Dec-1895	18-Nov-1952	La Capitale de la Douleur
Odysseas Elytis	Poet	2-Nov-1911	18-Mar-1996	Axion Esti
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essayist	25-May-1803	27-Apr-1882	Essayist, wrote Nature
Mihai Eminescu	Poet	15-Jan-1850	15-Jun-1889	The greatest Romanian poet
William Empson	Critic	27-Sep-1906	15-Apr-1984	Seven Types of Ambiguity
Quintus Ennius	Poet	c. 239 BC	c. 170 BC	Founder of Roman literature
Epimenides	Poet	fl. 6th c. BC	fl. 6th c. BC	Deep-sleep prophet of Crete
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga	Poet	7-Aug-1533	29-Nov-1594	La Araucana
Richard Fanshawe	Poet	1608	16-Jun-1666	Translator of Camões
Ferdowsi	Poet	3-Jan-940 AD	1020 AD	Greatest Persian Poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poet	24-Mar-1919		A Coney Island of the Mind
Eugene Field	Journalist	2-Sep-1850	4-Nov-1895	A Little Book of Western Verse
Dudley Fitts	Scholar	28-Apr-1903	10-Jul-1968	Translator of Greek literature
Carolyn Forché	Poet	28-Apr-1950		The Country Between Us
Ugo Foscolo	Playwright	6-Feb-1778	10-Sep-1827	The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Robert Frost	Poet	26-Mar-1874	29-Jan-1963	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Cornelius Gallus	Poet	c. 70 BC	c. 26 BC	Roman poet and orator
Federico García Lorca	Poet	5-Jun-1898	18-Aug-1936	Lament for a Bullfighter
Robert Garioch	Poet	9-May-1909	26-Apr-1981	Scots dialect poet
Robert Garnier	Poet	c. 1545	20-Sep-1590	Bradamante
João Batista de Almeida Garrett	Playwright	4-Feb-1799	9-Dec-1854	Frei Luís da Sousa
Théophile Gautier	Poet	30-Aug-1811	23-Dec-1872	The Hashish-Eaters' Club
John Gay	Poet	30-Jun-1685	4-Dec-1732	The Beggar's Opera
Stefan George	Poet	12-Jul-1868	4-Dec-1933	Algabal
Khalil Gibran	Poet	6-Jan-1883	10-Apr-1931	The Prophet
Allen Ginsberg	Poet	3-Jun-1926	5-Apr-1997	Howl!
Nikki Giovanni	Poet	7-Jun-1943		Black Feeling, Black Talk
Karl Gjellerup	Author	2-Jun-1857	11-Oct-1919	The Pilgrim Kamanita
Édouard Glissant	Poet	21-Sep-1928		L'Intention Poétique
Goethe	Author	28-Aug-1749	22-Mar-1832	Most influential German writer
Albert Goldbarth	Poet	31-Jan-1948		The most prolific modern poet
Luís de Góngora y Argote	Poet	11-Jul-1561	23-May-1627	Soledades
Rémy de Gourmont	Poet	4-Apr-1858	27-Sep-1915	Promenades Littéraires
Jorie Graham	Poet	9-May-1951		The Dream of the Unified Field
Robert Graves	Poet	24-Jul-1895	7-Dec-1985	I, Claudius
Thomas Gray	Poet	26-Dec-1716	30-Jul-1771	An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Horace Gregory	Poet	10-Apr-1898	11-Mar-1982	Chelsea Rooming House
Julian Grenfell	Poet	30-Mar-1888	26-May-1915	Into Battle
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset	Poet	29-Aug-1709	16-Jun-1777	Vert Vert
Fulke Greville	Poet	3-Oct-1554	30-Sep-1628	Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney
Nicholas Grimald	Poet	1519	1559	Songes and Sonettes
Tommaso Grossi	Poet	20-Jan-1791	10-Dec-1853	The Lombards in the First Crusade
Edgar Guest	Poet	20-Aug-1881	5-Aug-1959	A Heap o' Livin'
Louise Imogen Guiney	Poet	7-Jan-1861	2-Nov-1920	A Roadside Harp
Thom Gunn	Poet	29-Aug-1929	25-Apr-2004	The Man with Night Sweats
Dafydd ap Gwilym	Poet	c. 1340	1400	Greatest medieval Welsh poet
William Habington	Poet	4-Nov-1605	30-Nov-1654	Castara
Marilyn Hacker	Poet	27-Nov-1942		Presentation Piece
Hafez	Poet	1326	1389	Prominent Persian poet
Friedrich von Hagedorn	Poet	23-Apr-1708	28-Oct-1754	German Anacreontic poet
Judah ben Samuel Halevi	Poet	c. 1085	c. 1140	Hebrew Poet of the Middle Ages
Donald Hall	Poet	20-Sep-1928		The One Day
Albrecht von Haller	Doctor	16-Oct-1708	12-Dec-1777	Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani
Robert Hamerling	Poet	24-Mar-1830	13-Jul-1889	Ahasver in Rom
Thomas Hardy	Novelist	2-Jun-1840	11-Jan-1928	Far from the Madding Crowd
Moritz Hartmann	Poet	15-Oct-1821	13-May-1872	German patriotic poet
Robert Hass	Poet	1-Mar-1941		U.S. Poet Laureate, 1995-7
André van Hasselt	Poet	5-Jan-1806	1-Dec-1874	Quatre Incarnations du Christ
Signe Hasso	Actor	15-Aug-1910	7-Jun-2002	A Double Life
Johannes Carsten Hauch	Poet	12-May-1790	4-Mar-1872	Valdemar Seir
Wilhelm Hauff	Poet	29-Nov-1802	18-Nov-1827	Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
Stephen Hawes	Poet	c. 1474	c. 1523	The Passetyme of Pleasure
Robert Hayden	Poet	4-Aug-1913	25-Feb-1980	Words in the Mourning Time
H. D.	Poet	10-Sep-1886	27-Sep-1961	Imagist poet, Sea Garden
Seamus Heaney	Poet	13-Apr-1939		The Spirit Level
Friedrich Hebbel	Playwright	18-Mar-1813	13-Dec-1863	Die Niebelungen Trilogie
Anthony Hecht	Poet	16-Jan-1923	20-Oct-2004	The Hard Hours
Verner von Heidenstam	Author	6-Jul-1859	20-May-1940	The Charles Men
Heinrich Heine	Poet	13-Dec-1797	17-Feb-1856	Buch der Lieder
Richard Hell	Musician	2-Oct-1949		Blank Generation
George Herbert	Poet	3-Apr-1593	1-Mar-1633	The Temple
Johann Gottfried Herder	Philosopher	25-Aug-1744	18-Dec-1803	Sturm und Drang movement
José María de Heredia	Poet	22-Nov-1842	2-Oct-1905	Les Trophées
Oliver Herford	Poet	3-Dec-1863	5-Jul-1935	Cupid's Encyclopedia
Miguel Hernández	Poet	30-Oct-1910	28-Mar-1942	El rayo que no cesa
Robert Herrick	Poet	1591	Oct-1674	Hesperides
Hesiod	Poet	fl. 700 BC	fl. 700 BC	Works and Days
John Hewitt	Poet	28-Oct-1907	22-Jun-1987	No Rebel Word
Georg Heym	Poet	30-Oct-1887	16-Jan-1912	Der ewige Tag
Hildegard von Bingen	Religion	16-Sep-1098	17-Sep-1179	Scivias seu Visiones
Ralph Hodgson	Poet	9-Sep-1871	3-Nov-1962	The Skylark
James Hogg	Poet	1770	21-Nov-1835	The Queen's Wake
Friedrich Hölderlin	Poet	20-Mar-1770	7-Jun-1843	Hyperion
John Hollander	Poet	28-Oct-1929		Powers of Thirteen
Karl von Holtei	Poet	24-Jan-1798	12-Feb-1880	German proto-Vaudevillian
Homer	Poet	fl. 8th c. BC	fl. 8th c. BC	Iliad and the Odyssey
Thomas Hood	Poet	23-May-1799	3-May-1845	Odes and Addresses to Great People
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft	Poet	16-Mar-1581	21-May-1647	Dutch History
Gerard Manley Hopkins	Poet	28-Jul-1844	8-Jun-1889	Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter
Horace	Poet	65 BC	27-Nov-8 BC	Satirae
George Moses Horton	Poet	c. 1797	c. 1883	The Hope of Liberty
A. E. Housman	Poet	26-Mar-1859	30-Apr-1936	A Shropshire Lad
Richard Howard	Poet	13-Oct-1929		Untitled Subjects
Hrosvitha	Playwright	c. 935 AD	c. 1000 AD	Female medieval dramatist
Langston Hughes	Poet	1-Feb-1902	22-May-1967	The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Ted Hughes	Poet	16-Aug-1930	28-Aug-1998	Crow
Leigh Hunt	Poet	19-Oct-1784	28-Aug-1859	Story of Rimini
Ulrich von Hutten	Poet	21-Apr-1488	29-Aug-1523	Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
David Ignatow	Poet	7-Feb-1914	17-Nov-1997	Rescue the Dead
Helen Hunt Jackson	Poet	15-Oct-1830	12-Aug-1885	Ramona
Max Jacob	Poet	12-Jul-1876	5-Mar-1944	Le Cornet à dés
Richard Jago	Poet	1715	8-May-1781	The Blackbirds
Randall Jarrell	Poet	6-May-1914	14-Oct-1965	The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Jacques Jasmin	Poet	6-Mar-1798	4-Oct-1864	Provençal poet
Robinson Jeffers	Poet	10-Jan-1887	20-Jan-1962	Tamar and Other Poems
Elizabeth Jennings	Poet	18-Jul-1926	26-Oct-2001	Song for a Birth or a Death
Johannes V. Jensen	Author	20-Jan-1873	25-Nov-1950	The Long Journey
Juan Ramón Jiménez	Poet	24-Dec-1881	29-May-1958	Pastorales
Denis Johnson	Novelist	1949		Jesus' Son
Pauline Johnson	Poet	10-Mar-1860	7-Mar-1913	Mohawk Canadian poet and actress
Eugene Jolas	Editor	26-Oct-1894	26-May-1952	transition
June Jordan	Poet	9-Jul-1936	14-Jun-2002	Who Look At Me
Donald Justice	Poet	12-Aug-1925	6-Aug-2004	The Summer Anniversaries
Juvenal	Poet	c. 60 AD	c. 140 AD	Greatest Roman satyric poet
Chester Kallman	Poet	7-Jan-1921	18-Jan-1975	Librettist, translator
Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Poet	20-Jul-1864	8-Apr-1931	Songs of the wilderness and love
Mary Karr	Author	1954		The Liars' Club
Bob Kaufman	Poet	18-Apr-1925	12-Jan-1986	Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
John Keats	Poet	31-Oct-1795	23-Feb-1821	English romantic poet
X. J. Kennedy	Poet	21-Aug-1929		Juvenile poet, Brats
Jack Kerouac	Novelist	12-Mar-1922	21-Oct-1969	On The Road
Francis Scott Key	Poet	1-Aug-1779	11-Jan-1843	The Star-Spangled Banner
Omar Khayyam	Mathematician	18-May-1048	4-Dec-1131	Rubaiyat
Joyce Kilmer	Poet	6-Dec-1886	30-Jul-1918	Trees
Galway Kinnell	Poet	1-Feb-1927		Selected Poems
Carolyn Kizer	Poet	10-Dec-1925		Yin: New Poems
August Kleinzahler	Poet	1949		A Calendar of Airs
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	Poet	2-Jul-1724	14-Mar-1803	Messias
Etheridge Knight	Poet	19-Apr-1931	10-Mar-1991	Poems from Prison
Kenneth Koch	Poet	27-Feb-1925	6-Jul-2002	On the Great Atlantic Rainway
Yusef Komunyakaa	Poet	29-Apr-1947		Neon Vernacular
Ted Kooser	Poet	25-Apr-1939		Poet Laureate of the United States
Maxine Kumin	Poet	6-Jun-1925		Up Country
Stanley Kunitz	Poet	29-Jul-1905	14-May-2006	US Poet Laureate, 2000
Jean de la Fontaine	Poet	8-Jul-1621	13-Apr-1695	Fables and Contes
Alphonse de Lamartine	Poet	21-Oct-1790	28-Feb-1869	Bland French poet and failed politician
Sidney Lanier	Poet	3-Feb-1842	7-Sep-1881	Important Southern lyrical poet
Victor de Laprade	Poet	13-Jan-1812	13-Dec-1883	Les Muses d'État
Philip Larkin	Poet	9-Aug-1922	2-Dec-1985	The Whitsun Weddings
Richmond Lattimore	Poet	6-May-1906	26-Feb-1984	Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
James Laughlin	Publisher	30-Oct-1914	12-Nov-1997	Founder, New Directions Press
Comte de Lautréamont	Poet	4-Apr-1846	24-Nov-1870	Les Chants de Maldoror
Johann Kaspar Lavater	Paranormal	11-Nov-1741	2-Jan-1801	Essays on Physiognomy
Emma Lazarus	Poet	22-Jul-1849	19-Nov-1887	The New Colossus
Edward Lear	Poet	12-May-1812	29-Jan-1888	The Owl and the Pussycat
Francis Ledwidge	Poet	19-Aug-1887	31-Jul-1917	Songs of the Fields
John Lehmann	Poet	2-Jun-1907	7-Apr-1987	Thrown to the Woolfs
Charles Godfrey Leland	Poet	15-Aug-1824	20-Mar-1903	Hans Breitmann's Ballads
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz	Poet	12-Jan-1751	24-May-1792	Sturm und Drang movement
Giacomo Leopardi	Poet	29-Jun-1798	14-Jun-1837	Despairing Italian classical poet
Mikhail Lermontov	Poet	15-Oct-1814	27-Jul-1841	Russian romantic poet
Denise Levertov	Poet	24-Oct-1923	20-Dec-1997	With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
Philip Levine	Poet	10-Jan-1928		What Work Is
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Aviator	22-Jun-1906	7-Feb-2001	Wife of Charles Lindbergh
Vachel Lindsay	Poet	10-Nov-1879	5-Dec-1931	The Congo and Other Poems
Mikhail Lomonosov	Poet	19-Nov-1711	15-Apr-1765	Early father of Russian poetry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Poet	27-Feb-1807	24-Mar-1882	Evangeline
Richard Lovelace	Poet	1618	1658	To Althea from Prison
Amy Lowell	Poet	9-Feb-1874	12-May-1925	What's O'Clock
James Russell Lowell	Author	22-Feb-1819	12-Aug-1891	The Biglow Papers
Robert Lowell	Poet	1-Mar-1917	12-Sep-1977	Lord Weary's Castle
Malcolm Lowry	Novelist	28-Jul-1909	27-Jun-1957	Under the Volcano
Lucan	Poet	39 AD	65 AD	Pharsalia
Lucretius	Poet	c. 99 BC	c. 55 BC	On the Nature of Things
Raymond Lull	Religion	1232	29-Jun-1315	Catalan mystic
Luxorius	Poet	c. 496 AD	c. 534 AD	Roman epigrammatist
Hugh MacDiarmid	Poet	11-Aug-1892	9-Sep-1978	A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Cynthia Macdonald	Poet	2-Feb-1928		Amputations
José Agostinho de Macedo	Poet	11-Sep-1761	2-Oct-1831	Os Burros
Gwendolyn MacEwen	Poet	1-Sep-1941	29-Nov-1987	A Breakfast for Barbarians
Machado de Assis	Novelist	21-Jun-1839	29-Sep-1908	Dom Casmurro
Antonio Machado	Poet	26-Jul-1875	22-Feb-1939	Generation of '98
Percy MacKaye	Playwright	16-Mar-1875	31-Aug-1956	The Canterbury Pilgrims
Kenneth Mackenzie	Novelist	25-Sep-1913	19-Jan-1955	Dead Men Rising
Sorley Maclean	Poet	26-Oct-1911	24-Nov-1996	Scottish/Gaelic poet
Archibald Macleish	Poet	7-May-1892	20-Apr-1982	Conquistador
Louis MacNeice	Poet	12-Sep-1907	3-Sep-1963	Autumn Journal
James Macpherson	Hoaxer	27-Oct-1736	17-Feb-1796	So-called translations of Ossian
Jay Macpherson	Poet	13-Jun-1931		O Earth Return
Haki R. Madhubuti	Author	23-Feb-1942		Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
Maurice Maeterlinck	Playwright	29-Aug-1862	6-May-1949	Pelléas et Mélisande
Derek Mahon	Poet	23-Nov-1941		Night-Crossing
François de Malherbe	Poet	1555	16-Oct-1628	Larmes de Saint Pierre
Stéphane Mallarmé	Poet	18-Mar-1842	9-Sep-1898	A Throw of the Dice
Osip Mandelshtam	Poet	1891	27-Dec-1938	Acmeist Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan	Poet	1-May-1803	20-Jun-1849	O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire
Manilius	Poet	fl. 1st c. AD	fl. 1st c. AD	Astronomica
Frederic Manning	Poet	1887	22-Feb-1935	The Middle Parts of Fortune
Robert Mannyng	Poet	c. 1264	c. 1340	Handlyng Synne
Alessandro Manzoni	Poet	7-Mar-1785	22-May-1873	I Promessi Sposi
Marie de France	Poet	c. 1175	1190	Lais
Edwin Markham	Poet	23-Apr-1852	7-Mar-1940	The Man With the Hoe
Jeannette Marks	Poet	16-Aug-1875	1964	The Merry Merry Cuckoo
Martial	Poet	41 AD	104 AD	Roman epigrammatist
Harry Martinson	Poet	6-May-1904	11-Feb-1978	Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Andrew Marvell	Poet	31-Mar-1621	18-Aug-1678	English poet and member of Parliament
John Masefield	Poet	1-Jun-1878	12-May-1967	Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67
Edgar Lee Masters	Poet	23-Aug-1869	5-Mar-1950	Spoon River Anthology
Thomas May	Poet	1595	13-Nov-1650	The History of the Long Parliament
Michael McClure	Poet	20-Oct-1932		The Blossom; or Billy the Kid
Phyllis McGinley	Poet	21-Mar-1905	22-Feb-1978	A Pocketful of Wry
William McGonagall	Poet	1825	29-Sep-1902	The Tay Bridge Disaster
Claude McKay	Novelist	15-Sep-1890	22-May-1948	Home to Harlem
Rod McKuen	Poet	29-Apr-1933		A Boy Named Charlie Brown
George Meredith	Novelist	12-Feb-1828	18-May-1909	The Egoist
William Meredith	Poet	9-Jan-1919	30-May-2007	Partial Accounts
James Merrill	Poet	3-Mar-1926	6-Feb-1995	Nights and Days
W. S. Merwin	Poet	30-Sep-1927		The Carrier of Ladders
Metastasio	Poet	3-Jan-1698	12-Apr-1782	Italian librettist of the 18th century
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Poet	22-Feb-1892	19-Oct-1950	Renascence
Joaquin Miller	Poet	8-Sep-1837	17-Feb-1913	Songs of the Sierras
May Miller	Playwright	26-Jan-1899	8-Feb-1995	The Bog Guide
Richard Monckton Milnes	Poet	19-Jun-1809	11-Aug-1885	Poetry for the People
Czeslaw Milosz	Poet	30-Jun-1911	14-Aug-2004	Polish novelist and poet, The Captive Mind
John Milton	Poet	9-Dec-1608	8-Nov-1674	Paradise Lost
Frédéric Mistral	Poet	8-Sep-1830	25-Mar-1914	Provençal poet and ethnographer
Gabriela Mistral	Poet	7-Apr-1889	10-Jan-1957	Desolación
S. Weir Mitchell	Novelist	15-Feb-1829	4-Jan-1914	The Case of George Dedlow
Goenawan Mohammad	Journalist	29-Jul-1941		Muckraking Indonesian journalist
Harriet Monroe	Poet	23-Dec-1860	26-Sep-1936	Founder of Poetry magazine
Eugenio Montale	Poet	12-Oct-1896	12-Sep-1981	Ossi di seppia
Clement Clarke Moore	Poet	15-Jul-1779	10-Jul-1863	'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Marianne Moore	Poet	15-Nov-1887	5-Feb-1972	Collected Poems
Christopher Morley	Novelist	5-May-1890	28-Mar-1957	The Haunted Bookshop
William Morris	Artist	24-Mar-1834	3-Oct-1896	Arts and Crafts Movement
Jim Morrison	Singer/Songwriter	8-Dec-1943	3-Jul-1971	Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors
Sarah Wentworth Morton	Poet	1759	14-May-1846	Ouabi
Howard Moss	Poet	22-Jan-1922	16-Sep-1987	Finding Them Lost
Lisel Mueller	Poet	8-Feb-1924		The Need to Hold Still
Paul Muldoon	Poet	20-Jun-1951		Moy Sand and Gravel
Alfred de Musset	Poet	11-Dec-1810	2-May-1857	Les Caprices de Marianne
Ogden Nash	Poet	19-Aug-1902	19-May-1971	Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker
John G. Neihardt	Poet	8-Jan-1881	3-Nov-1973	A Cycle of the West
Howard Nemerov	Poet	1-Mar-1920	5-Jul-1991	US Poet Laureate, 1987-88
Pablo Neruda	Poet	12-Jul-1904	23-Sep-1973	Residencia en la Tierra
Gérard de Nerval	Poet	22-May-1808	26-Jan-1855	Unbalanced French romantic poet
Amado Nervo	Poet	27-Aug-1870	24-May-1919	Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna
E. Nesbit	Novelist	15-Aug-1858	4-May-1924	The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Nezahualcoyotl	Head of State	1402	1472	Texcoco philosopher-king, Aztec poet
Nicander	Poet	fl. 2nd c. BC	fl. 2nd c. BC	Greek physician and poet
Ken Nordine	Radio Personality	19-Jan-1920		Word Jazz
Frank O'Hara	Poet	27-Jun-1926	25-Jul-1966	Meditations in an Emergency
Ben Okri	Author	15-Mar-1959		The Famished Road
Sharon Olds	Poet	19-Nov-1942		The Dead and the Living
Mary Oliver	Poet	10-Sep-1935		American Primitive
Charles Olson	Poet	27-Dec-1910