LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Dannie Abse	Poet	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
Mark Akenside	Poet	9-Nov-1721	23-Jun-1770	The Pleasures of the Imagination
Anna Akhmatova	Poet	11-Jun-1889	5-Mar-1966	Poem Without a Hero
Richard Aldington	Poet	8-Jul-1892	27-Jul-1962	Death of 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
Antonin Artaud	Playwright	4-Sep-1896	4-Mar-1948	Theater of Cruelty
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
Michael J. Astrue	Government	c. 1956		Social Security Commissioner
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
Matsuo Basho	Poet	1644	12-Oct-1694	Haiku master
Charles Baudelaire	Poet	9-Apr-1821	31-Aug-1867	Les Fleurs du Mal
Arnold Bax	Composer	8-Nov-1883	3-Oct-1953	Symphonist, Tone Poet
Samuel Beckett	Playwright	13-May-1906	22-Dec-1989	Waiting for Godot
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
Ted Berrigan	Poet	15-Nov-1934	4-Jul-1983	The Sonnets
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
Matteo Maria Boiardo	Poet	c. 1434	20-Dec-1494	Orlando Innamorato
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
Yves Bonnefoy	Poet	24-Jun-1923		Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
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
Bertolt Brecht	Playwright	10-Feb-1898	14-Aug-1956	Mother Courage and Her Children
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
Branwell Brontë	Poet	26-Jun-1817	24-Sep-1848	The Brontë sisters' brother
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	26-Dec-2009	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	9-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
Thomas Campion	Composer	12-Feb-1567	1-Mar-1620	English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres
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	29-Sep-2008	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
Constantine P. Cavafy	Poet	29-Apr-1863	29-Apr-1933	Greek poet in Alexandria
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.
John Jay Chapman	Essayist	2-Mar-1862	4-Nov-1933	Essayist, founder of The Nursery
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	13-Feb-2010	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	Rime 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
Samuel Daniel	Poet	1562	14-Oct-1619	The First Four Books of the Civil Wars
Roy Daniells	Poet	6-Apr-1902	13-Apr-1979	The Chequered Shade
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
W. H. Davies	Poet	3-Jul-1871	26-Sep-1940	Tramp-Poet, 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
Michael Drayton	Poet	1563	23-Dec-1631	Poly-Olbion
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	Author of "The Waste Land"
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
Kenneth Fearing	Novelist	28-Jul-1902	26-Jun-1961	The Big Clock
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	3-Feb-2011	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
John Gower	Poet	c. 1330	Oct-1408	Confessio Amantis
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
Ivor Gurney	Poet	28-Aug-1890	26-Dec-1937	War's Embers
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
Joy Harjo	Poet	9-May-1951		The Last Song
Frances E. W. Harper	Poet	24-Sep-1825	22-Feb-1911	Abolitionist, temperance activist
Michael S. Harper	Poet	18-Mar-1938		Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Jim Harrison	Novelist	11-Dec-1937		Legends of the Fall
Moritz Hartmann	Poet	15-Oct-1821	13-May-1872	German patriotic poet
Robert Hass	Poet	1-Mar-1941		US Poet Laureate, 1995-97
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
W. E. Henley	Poet	23-Aug-1849	11-Jul-1903	Invictus
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
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
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
Miroslav Holub	Poet	13-Sep-1923	14-Jul-1998	Immunologist, important Czech poet
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-Oct-1998	Crow
T. E. Hulme	Poet	16-Sep-1883	28-Sep-1917	Modernist poet and critic
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
Edmond Jabès	Poet	6-Apr-1912	2-Jan-1991	The Book of Resemblances
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	1-Jul-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 satiric 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	16-Jan-1955		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
Rudyard Kipling	Author	30-Dec-1865	18-Jan-1936	The Jungle Book
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
Tuli Kupferberg	Singer/Songwriter	28-Sep-1923	12-Jul-2010	The Fugs
Jean de la Fontaine	Poet	8-Jul-1621	13-Apr-1695	Fables and Contes
Jules Laforgue	Poet	16-Aug-1860	20-Aug-1887	Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Alphonse de Lamartine	Poet	21-Oct-1790	28-Feb-1869	Bland French poet, 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	A Hero of Our Time
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
John Lydgate	Poet	c. 1370	c. 1451	Troy Book
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
John Marston	Playwright	7-Oct-1576	25-Jun-1634	The Malcontent
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
James McAuley	Poet	12-Oct-1917	15-Oct-1976	Australian poet, Ern Malley hoaxer
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	10-Jan-1970	The Maximus Poems
Elder Olson	Critic	9-Mar-1909	25-Jul-1992	Critics and Criticism
Michael Ondaatje	Novelist	12-Sep-1943		The English Patient
George Oppen	Poet	24-Apr-1908	7-Jul-1984	Objectivist proponent and poet
Peter Orlovsky	Poet	8-Jul-1933	30-May-2010	Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Otway	Playwright	3-Mar-1652	14-Apr-1685	Venice Preserved
Sir Thomas Overbury	Poet	18-Jun-1581	15-Sep-1613	The Wife
Ovid	Poet	20-Mar-43 BC	17 AD	Metamorphoses
Wilfred Owen	Poet	18-Mar-1893	4-Nov-1918	Dulce Et Decorum Est
Luis Palés Matos	Poet	20-Mar-1898	23-Feb-1959	Tuntún de pasa y griferia
Grace Paley	Author	11-Dec-1922	22-Aug-2007	The Little Disturbances of Man
Francis Turner Palgrave	Critic	28-Sep-1824	24-Oct-1897	Golden Treasury
Giuseppe Parini	Poet	22-May-1729	15-Aug-1799	Il Mattino
Dorothy Parker	Author	22-Aug-1893	7-Jun-1967	Constant Reader known for acerbic quips
Thomas Parnell	Poet	1679	1718	The Hermit
Jean Passerat	Poet	18-Oct-1534	14-Sep-1602	Satyre ménippée
Boris Pasternak	Author	10-Feb-1890	30-May-1960	Doctor Zhivago
Kenneth Patchen	Poet	13-Dec-1911	8-Jan-1972	Journal of Albion Moonlight
Coventry Patmore	Poet	23-Jul-1823	26-Nov-1896	The Unknown Eros
Cesare Pavese	Poet	9-Sep-1908	27-Aug-1950	La luna e i falò
Octavio Paz	Poet	31-Mar-1914	19-Apr-1998	The Labyrinth of Solitude
Thomas Love Peacock	Novelist	18-Oct-1785	23-Jan-1866	Nightmare Abbey
James Gates Percival	Poet	15-Sep-1795	2-May-1856	Clio
Cristina Peri Rossi	Author	12-Nov-1941		Los Museos Abandonados
Bonaventure des Périers	Poet	1500	1544	Nouvelles récréations
Saint-John Perse	Poet	31-May-1887	20-Sep-1975	Exile
Fernando Pessoa	Author	13-Jun-1888	30-Nov-1935	Heteronymous author, The Book of Disquiet
Petrarch	Scholar	20-Jul-1304	19-Jul-1374	Father of Humanism
Phanocles	Poet	fl. 4th c. BC	fl. 4th c. BC	Greek elegiac poet
Philemon	Poet	c. 361 BC	c. 263 BC	Greek poet of the New Comedy
Manuel Philes	Poet	c. 1275	1345	Byzantine poet and flatterer
Philetas of Cos	Poet	fl 4th. c. BC	fl. 4th c. BC	Very thin Alexandrian poet, critic
Ambrose Philips	Poet	c. 1675	18-Jun-1749	Pastorals
John Philips	Poet	30-Dec-1676	15-Feb-1708	The Splendid Shilling
Katharine Philips	Poet	1-Jan-1631	22-Jun-1664	Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
Marge Piercy	Novelist	31-Mar-1936		Gone to Soldiers
Robert Pinsky	Poet	20-Oct-1940		US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000
Sylvia Plath	Poet	27-Oct-1932	11-Feb-1963	Daddy
Edgar Allan Poe	Author	19-Jan-1809	7-Oct-1849	The Raven
Politian	Scholar	14-Jul-1454	28-Sep-1494	Humanist under Lorenzo de Medici
Alexander Pope	Poet	21-May-1688	30-May-1744	The Dunciad
Ezra Pound	Poet	30-Oct-1885	1-Nov-1972	The Cantos
E. J. Pratt	Poet	4-Feb-1883	26-Apr-1964	Newfoundland Verse
Frederic Prokosch	Novelist	17-May-1908	6-Jun-1989	The Skies of Europe
Aleksandr Pushkin	Poet	26-May-1799	10-Feb-1837	Russia's greatest poet
Salvatore Quasimodo	Poet	20-Aug-1901	14-Jun-1968	Acque e terre
Raymond Queneau	Novelist	21-Feb-1903	25-Oct-1976	Zazie dans le métro
Kathleen Raine	Poet	14-Jun-1908	6-Jul-2003	Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake
John Crowe Ransom	Poet	30-Apr-1888	4-Jul-1974	God Without Thunder
Ishmael Reed	Novelist	22-Feb-1938		The Free-Lance Pallbearers
Lizette Woodworth Reese	Poet	9-Jan-1856	17-Dec-1935	A Handful of Lavendar
Kenneth Rexroth	Poet	22-Dec-1905	6-Jun-1982	Disenchanted beat poet
Bernardim Ribeiro	Author	c. 1482	Oct-1552	Menina e Moça
Adrienne Rich	Poet	16-May-1929	27-Mar-2012	An Atlas of the Difficult World
I. A. Richards	Critic	26-Feb-1893	7-Sep-1979	The Meaning of Meaning
Laura Riding	Poet	16-Jan-1901	2-Sep-1991	A Survey of Modernist Poetry
James Whitcomb Riley	Poet	7-Oct-1849	22-Jul-1916	The Hoosier Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke	Poet	04-Dec-1875	29-Dec-1926	Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
Arthur Rimbaud	Poet	20-Oct-1854	10-Nov-1891	Une Saison en Enfer
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts	Poet	10-Jan-1860	26-Nov-1943	Earth's Enigmas
Elizabeth Madox Roberts	Author	30-Oct-1881	13-Mar-1941	The Great Meadow
Edwin Arlington Robinson	Poet	22-Dec-1869	6-Apr-1935	The Man Against the Sky
Theodore Roethke	Poet	25-May-1908	1-Aug-1963	The Waking
Pierre de Ronsard	Poet	11-Sep-1524	27-Dec-1585	Lead Pléiade poet
Christina Rossetti	Poet	5-Dec-1830	29-Dec-1894	Goblin Market and Other Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Painter	12-May-1828	9-Apr-1882	English pre-Raphaelite painter
Muriel Rukeyser	Poet	15-Dec-1913	12-Feb-1980	The Book of the Dead
Mário de Sá-Carneiro	Poet	19-May-1890	26-Apr-1916	Dispersão
Nelly Sachs	Poet	10-Dec-1891	12-May-1970	O the Chimneys
Thomas Sackville	Aristocrat	1536	19-Apr-1608	Earl of Dorset
Vita Sackville-West	Author	9-Mar-1892	2-Jun-1962	The Land
Pedro Salinas	Poet	27-Nov-1891	4-Dec-1951	Generation of '27
Carl Sandburg	Author	6-Jan-1878	22-Jul-1967	Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer
Sapphire	Novelist	4-Aug-1950		Push
Sappho	Poet	fl. c. 610 BC	fl. c. 580 BC	The Tenth Muse
May Sarton	Poet	3-May-1912	16-Jul-1995	Plant Dreaming Deep
Siegfried Sassoon	Poet	8-Sep-1886	1-Sep-1967	War Poems
Richard Savage	Poet	c. 1697	1-Aug-1743	Poet-subject of Life of Savage
Friedrich von Schiller	Playwright	10-Nov-1759	9-May-1805	Wallenstein
James Schuyler	Poet	9-Nov-1923	12-Apr-1991	Freely Espousing
Delmore Schwartz	Poet	8-Dec-1913	11-Jul-1966	Summer Knowledge
Sir Walter Scott	Author	15-Aug-1771	21-Sep-1832	Ivanhoe
Gil Scott-Heron	Poet	1-Apr-1949	27-May-2011	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Giorgos Seferis	Poet	1-Mar-1900	20-Sep-1971	Imerolóyion katastrómatos
Jaroslav Seifert	Poet	23-Sep-1901	10-Jan-1986	The Nightingale Sings Out of Tune
Léopold Senghor	Head of State	9-Oct-1906	20-Dec-2001	President of Senegal, 1960-80
Robert W. Service	Poet	16-Jan-1874	11-Sep-1958	Bard of the Yukon
Anne Sexton	Poet	9-Nov-1928	4-Oct-1974	Live or Die
William Shakespeare	Playwright	23-Apr-1564	23-Apr-1616	Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
Karl Shapiro	Poet	10-Nov-1913	14-May-2000	Person, Place and Thing
Percy Bysshe Shelley	Poet	4-Aug-1792	8-Jul-1822	Prometheus Unbound
William Shenstone	Poet	18-Nov-1714	11-Feb-1763	The Schoolmistress
Carol Shields	Novelist	2-Jun-1935	16-Jul-2003	The Stone Diaries
Alan Sillitoe	Novelist	4-Mar-1928	25-Apr-2010	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Shel Silverstein	Poet	25-Sep-1930	10-May-1999	Where the Sidewalk Ends
Charles Simic	Poet	9-May-1938		The World Doesn't End
Simonides of Amorgos	Poet	fl. 7th c. BC	fl. 7th c. BC	Greek iambic poet
Simonides of Ceos	Poet	c. 556 BC	c. 468 BC	Greek lyric poet
Louis Simpson	Poet	27-Mar-1923		At The End of the Open Road
Edith Sitwell	Poet	7-Sep-1887	9-Dec-1964	Façade
John Skelton	Poet	c. 1460	21-Jun-1529	Why come ye nat to courte
W. D. Snodgrass	Poet	5-Jan-1926	13-Jan-2009	Heart's Needle
Gary Snyder	Poet	8-May-1930		Turtle Island
Robert Southey	Poet	12-Aug-1774	21-Mar-1843	A Vision of Judgment
Robert Southwell	Religion	c. 1561	21-Feb-1595	Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Stephen Spender	Poet	28-Feb-1909	16-Jul-1995	The Destructive Element
Edmund Spenser	Poet	c. 1552	13-Jan-1599	The Faerie Queene
Carl Spitteler	Poet	24-Apr-1845	29-Dec-1924	The Olympic Spring
William Stafford	Poet	17-Jan-1914	28-Aug-1993	Traveling Through the Dark
Statius	Poet	c. 45 AD	96 AD	Silvae and Thebais
Mattie Stepanek	Poet	17-Jul-1990	22-Jun-2004	Muscular-dystrophic boy-poet
Wallace Stevens	Poet	2-Oct-1879	2-Aug-1955	Harmonium
Douglas Stewart	Playwright	6-May-1913	14-Feb-1985	Fire in the Snow
Theodor Storm	Poet	14-Sep-1817	4-Jul-1888	Schimmelreiter
Mark Strand	Poet	11-Apr-1934		U.S. Poet Laureate 1990-91
Sir John Suckling	Poet	1609	1642	Fragmenta Aurea
Sully Prudhomme	Poet	16-Mar-1839	7-Sep-1907	Parnassian poet
Aleksandr Sumarokov	Playwright	14-Nov-1717	12-Oct-1777	Founder of Russian classical drama
Susarion	Poet	fl. 6th c. BC	fl. 6th c. BC	Greek comic poet
May Swenson	Poet	28-May-1913	4-Dec-1989	Another Animal
Algernon Charles Swinburne	Poet	5-Apr-1837	10-Apr-1909	Masochist Victorian poet
Joshua Sylvester	Poet	1563	28-Sep-1618	Essay of the Second Week
John Addington Symonds	Critic	5-Oct-1840	19-Apr-1893	Renaissance in Italy
Arthur Symons	Poet	28-Feb-1865	22-Jan-1945	English symbolist poet
Wislawa Szymborska	Poet	2-Jul-1923	1-Feb-2012	Polish poet
Genevieve Taggard	Poet	28-Nov-1894	8-Nov-1948	Travelling Standing Still
Rabindranath Tagore	Poet	7-May-1861	7-Aug-1941	Gitanjali
Amber Tamblyn	Actor	14-May-1983		Joan of Arcadia
Tannhäuser	Poet	c. 1200	c. 1270	13th c. German Minnesinger
Torquato Tasso	Poet	11-Mar-1544	25-Apr-1595	Gerusalemme Liberata
Alessandro Tassoni	Poet	28-Sep-1565	25-Apr-1635	The Rape of the Bucket
Allen Tate	Poet	19-Nov-1899	9-Feb-1979	Mr. Pope and Other Poems
James Tate	Poet	8-Dec-1943		The Lost Pilot
Nahum Tate	Poet	1652	30-Jul-1715	Imitative British playwright
John Taylor	Poet	24-Aug-1580	Dec-1653	The Water-Poet
Sara Teasdale	Poet	8-Aug-1884	29-Jan-1933	Strange Victory
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poet	6-Aug-1809	6-Oct-1892	The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ernest Thayer	Poet	14-Aug-1863	21-Aug-1940	Casey at the Bat
Theocritus	Poet	c. 310 BC	c. 250 BC	Inventor of bucolic poetry
Dylan Thomas	Poet	27-Oct-1914	9-Nov-1953	Most influential Welsh poet
Tomas Tranströmer	Poet	15-Apr-1931		Scandinavian poet
Fyodor Tyutchev	Poet	23-Nov-1803	15-Jul-1873	Russian Golden Age poet
Tristan Tzara	Poet	16-Apr-1896	24-Dec-1963	Founded the Dada movement
Miguel de Unamuno	Philosopher	29-Sep-1864	31-Dec-1936	El Cristo de Velázquez
Louis Untermeyer	Poet	1-Oct-1885	18-Dec-1977	Anthologist of poetry
Paul Valéry	Poet	30-Oct-1871	20-Jul-1945	La Jeune Parque
Mark Van Doren	Poet	13-Jun-1894	10-Dec-1972	The Happy Critic
Mona Van Duyn	Poet	9-May-1921	1-Dec-2004	To See, To Take
Henry Vaughan	Poet	17-Apr-1622	23-Apr-1695	Silex Scintillans
Lope de Vega	Playwright	25-Nov-1562	27-Aug-1635	Reformed Spanish comedy
Paul Verlaine	Poet	30-Mar-1844	8-Jan-1896	Leader of symbolist poetry movement
Jones Very	Poet	28-Aug-1813	8-May-1880	Religious mystic
Peter Viereck	Poet	5-Aug-1916	13-May-2006	Terror and Decorum
Alfred de Vigny	Poet	27-Mar-1797	17-Sep-1863	Chatterton
Virgil	Poet	15-Oct-70 BC	21-Sep-19 BC	The Aeneid
Walther von der Vogelweide	Poet	c. 1170	c. 1230	Medieval German lyric poet
Diane Wakoski	Poet	3-Aug-1937		Coins & Coffins
Derek Walcott	Poet	23-Jan-1930		In a Green Night
Margaret Walker	Novelist	7-Jul-1915	30-Nov-1998	Jubilee
Edmund Waller	Poet	3-Mar-1606	21-Oct-1687	Go, Lovely Rose
William Walsh	Poet	1663	1708	Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant
Mercy Otis Warren	Historian	25-Sep-1728	19-Oct-1814	History of the American Revolution
Robert Penn Warren	Poet	24-Apr-1905	15-Sep-1989	First US Poet Laureate
Thomas Warton	Poet	9-Jan-1728	21-May-1790	English Poet Laureate, 1785-90
Thomas Watson	Poet	c. 1557	26-Sep-1592	The Tears of Fancie
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin	Poet	15-Sep-1584	13-Feb-1653	Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte
Philip Whalen	Poet	20-Oct-1923	26-Jun-2002	Canoeing up Carbaga Creek
Phillis Wheatley	Poet	c. 1743	5-Dec-1784	First prominent African-American poet
Walt Whitman	Poet	31-May-1819	26-Mar-1892	Leaves of Grass
Reed Whittemore	Poet	11-Sep-1919	6-Apr-2012	Heroes & Heroines
John Greenleaf Whittier	Poet	17-Dec-1807	7-Sep-1892	American abolitionist poet
Michael Wigglesworth	Poet	18-Oct-1631	10-Jun-1705	The Day of Doom
Richard Wilbur	Poet	1-Mar-1921		Second U.S. Poet Laureate
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Poet	5-Nov-1850	30-Oct-1919	Poems of Passion
C. K. Williams	Poet	4-Nov-1936		Repair
Saul Williams	Rapper	29-Feb-1972		Slam
William Carlos Williams	Poet	17-Sep-1883	4-Mar-1963	Pictures from Brueghel
John Wilmot	Poet	1-Apr-1647	26-Jul-1680	Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
Yvor Winters	Poet	17-Oct-1900	25-Jan-1968	Primitivism & Decadence
Larry Woiwode	Novelist	30-Oct-1941		What I'm Going to Do, I Think
Wolfram von Eschenbach	Poet	c. 1170	c. 1220	Parzival
William Wordsworth	Poet	7-Apr-1770	23-Apr-1850	English romantic poet laureate
James Wright	Poet	13-Dec-1927	25-Mar-1980	The Branch Will Not Break
Judith Wright	Poet	31-May-1915	26-Jun-2000	The Moving Image
Sir Thomas Wyat	Poet	1503	6-Oct-1542	Introduced sonnet to England
Elinor Wylie	Poet	7-Sep-1885	16-Dec-1928	Nets to Catch the Wind
Xenophanes	Poet	c. 560 BC	c. 478 BC	Pre-Socratic, early monotheist
Nikolai Yazykov	Poet	16-Mar-1803	26-Dec-1846	Russian Golden Age poet
William Butler Yeats	Poet	13-Jun-1865	28-Jan-1939	The Land of Heart's Desire
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	Poet	18-Jul-1933		Babi Yar
Edward Young	Poet	1683	5-Apr-1765	Night Thoughts
Louis Zukofsky	Poet	23-Jan-1904	12-May-1978	Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement