List of poets

This is a list of poets. It lists notable poets.

Alphabetical list

A

Ab-Ak

• Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
• Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
• Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
• Ryan Adams (born 1974), singer-songwriter with Whiskeytown and The Cardinals who had his first book Infinity Blues published in 2009
• Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
• Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
• Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Lucius Afranius (poet) (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
• Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
• James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
• Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
• Ai (born 1947), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
• Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
• Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
• Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
• Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet

Al-Am

• Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
• Yahya Alavi fard, (born 1973 ),Iranian Poet of kids and youth / Writer / Journalist from 1997
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
• Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
• Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
• Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890), Romanian poet
• Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
• Vicente Aleixandre, (1898–1984), 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
• James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
• William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
• Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
• Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
• Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
• Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
• Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
• Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
• A. R. Ammons (1926–2001) American author and poet

An-Aq

• Anacreon (570 BC-488 BC), Greek lyric poet
• Alfred Andersch, (1914–1980)
• Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet (1805–1875)
• Jon Anderson, (born 1944), English rock music vocalist and lyricist
• Mário de Andrade, (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
• Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
• Maya Angelou, (born April 4, 1928), American Poet
• Antler (poet), (b.1946), American poet
• Brother Antoninus
• Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922–1949)
• Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880–1918)
• Apollo Poetry (1983)
• Apollonius of Rhodes (270-after 245 BC)
• Maja Apostoloska, (born 1976), Macedonian poetess
• Pawlu Aquilina, (1929-2009), Maltese poet

Ar-Au

• Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
• Archilochus, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843-1925)
• Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
• Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967), Romanian poet
• Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
• Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt, (1769-1860), German patriotic author and poet
• 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)
• Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
• Farid al-Din 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

• Margaret Avison (1918-2007)
• Gennady Aygi (1934-2006), Russian poet
• Robert Ayton (1570-1638)

B

Ba

Bab-Bal

• Ken Babstock, Canadian
• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, Indonesian Poet
• George Bacovia, Romanian poet
• Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
• Julio Baghy
• Bai Juyi
• Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
• Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
• Jesse Ball American poet
• Konstantin Balmont, Russian poet

Bar-Bax

• Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
• Porfirio Barba-Jacob
• John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
• George Barker, (1913-1991)
• Les Barker
• Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
• William Barnes, (1801-1886)
• Elizabeth Barrett(March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)
• Matsuo Bashō, (1644-1694), renku and haiku poet
• Michael Basinski(b.1950)
• Ellen Bass
• Charles Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
• James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)

Be

• Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
• Joshua Beckman
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
• Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
• Marvin Bell, (1937-?)
• Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
• Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
• Hilaire Belloc
• Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
• Gottfried Ben
• Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
• William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
• Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
• Bo Bergman (1869-1967)
• Ilhan Berk
• Daniel Berrigan
• Wendell Berry
• John Berryman
• John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
• Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi-Bl

• Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943)
• Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
• Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet (1895-1961)
• Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
• William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
• Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
• Edmund Blunden
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• Robert Bly

Bo

• Jean Bodel
• Louise Bogan
• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)
• Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
• Nozawa Bonchō, (c.1640-1714), Japanese haikai poet
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
• Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

Br

Bra-Bri

• Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Richard Brautigan, (1935–1984)
• Bertolt Brecht, (1898–1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
• Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
• Christopher Brennan, (1870–1932), Australian
• Joseph Payne Brennan, (1918–1990)
• Clemens Brentano, (1778–1842)
• André Breton, (1896–1966)
• Nicholas Breton, (1542–1626)
• Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
• Robert Bridges, (1844–1930)

Bro-Bry

• James Brock, (born 1958)
• Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
• Wladyslaw Broniewski
• William Bronk, (died 1999)
• Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
• Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
• Gwendolyn Brooks, (1917-2000)
• Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
• Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
• Flora Brovina
• Petrus Brovka (1905-1980), Soviet poet
• Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
• George Mackay Brown
• Sterling Brown, (1901-1989)
• William Browne, (1588-1643)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
• Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
• William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
• Bryher
• Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic

Bu-By

• Georg Büchner
• Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
• David Budbill, (born 1940)
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994) poet, novelist
• Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) Russian poet and novelist
• Basil Bunting
• Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
• Stanley Burnshaw
• Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
• William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
• Edwin G. Burrows
• Andrzej Bursa
• Yosa Buson, (1716-1784), Japanese haikai poet and painter
• Raegan Butcher
• Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
• Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
• Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
• Lord Byron, (1788-1824)

C

Ca

Cab-Cap

• Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
• Caedmon (old English)
• Alison Calder, Canadian poet
• Cali Xuseen Xirsi
• Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
• Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
• Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
• Luís de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
• Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
• Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
• Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
• 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 (187-29, 226), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei, and poet
• Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD), warlord, poet
• Cao Zhi, (192-232), Chinese poet

Car-Cav

• Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
• Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
• Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
• Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
• Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
• Jim Carroll, (1949-2009)
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
• Hayden Carruth
• Anne Carson, (born 1950)
• Jared Carter (born 1939)
• William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
• Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
• 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)
• Mário Cesariny, (1923-2006)
• Ashok Chakradhar, (born 1951)
• 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)
• Billy Childish
• Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
• Chiyo-ni, (1703 - 1775)
• Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
• Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
• Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
• John Ciardi, Italian-American poet

Cl

• Amy Clampitt
• John Clare, (1793-1864)
• George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
• Elizabeth Clark (1918-1978)
• Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
• Matthias Claudius
• Brian P. Cleary
• Michelle Cliff
• Lucille Clifton,
• Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)

Co

Coc-Cos

• Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
• Wanda Coleman, African-American poet
• Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
• William Collins, (1721-1759)
• William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
• Paul Conneally, (born 1959)
• Robert Conquest, historian and poet
• Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
• Clark Coolidge
• Wendy Cope
• Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
• Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
• Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
• Jayne Cortez
• George Cosbuc (1866-1918), Romanian poet

Cot-Cow

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

Cr-Cz

• George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
• Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
• 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
• Aleister Crowley, (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
• Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
• Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
• Necati Cumalı
• e e cummings, (1894-1962)
• Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
• Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
• Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker

D

Da

• Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
• Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
• David Daniels, (1933- ) Visual Poet
• Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
• Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
• Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
• Jibanananda Das,(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author
• René Daumal, (1908-1944)
• Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
• Alan Davies, American poet
• 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

• James Deahl
• Aurora de Albornoz, (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
• Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
• Daniel Defoe, (1659/61? - 1731)
• Walter de la Mare, author, poet
• Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, (1651-1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
• Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
• François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
• Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
• Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
• Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530-1606)
• Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
• Evariste de Parny, 18th century French poet
• Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
• Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
• Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
• Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet

Di-Do

• Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Canadian poet
• Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
• Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
• Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
• Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
• James Dickey, (1923-1997)
• Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
• Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
• Blaga Dimitrova
• Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
• Thomas M. Disch, (1940-2008), American poet, novelist
• Tim Dlugos, (1950-1990), American poet
• Henry Austin Dobson
• Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
• Pete Doherty, (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
• John Donne, (1572-1631)
• Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
• Gavin Douglas
• Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
• Rita Dove
• Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)

Dr

• Jane Draycott
• Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
• 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. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
• Du Fu, the Poet Saint
• Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
• Alan Dugan
• Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
• 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

• Richard Eberhart
• Russell Edson
• Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
• T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
• Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
• Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
• Paul Éluard, French poet
• Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
• Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
• Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (1850-1889)
• William Empson, (1906-1984)
• Yunus Emre
• Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
• Paul Engle
• Ennius
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
• Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
• Haydar Ergülen
• Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
• Mehmet Erte

Es-Ew

• Maggie Estep, American slam poet
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
• Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
• Martin Espada, American poet and teacher
• Florbela Espanca, poet
• Salvador Espriu, writer
• Jill Alexander Essbaum, Christian erotic poet
• Claude Esteban (1935-2006), French poet
• Euripides (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Mari Evans
• William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
• Gavin Ewart

F

• U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-), British poet and CBE
• Christian Falster (1690-1752), Danish poet and philologist
• J.P. Farrell, (1968-), American poet and musician

Fe-Fo

• Fenggan
• Ferdowsi, (935–1020), Persian poet
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (1925-2006)
• Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
• Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
• Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
• 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.
• John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet.
• Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
• Hristo Fotev, (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet
• Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

Fr-Fu

• Janet Frame, (born 1924)
• Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
• Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
• Naim Frashëri (1846—1900)
• Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
• Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
• Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
• Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet
• Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
• Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
• Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

G

Ga-Gl

• James Galvin (poet), (1951 - )
• Karina Galvez, (1964- ), Ecuadorian Poet
• Asadulla Khan Ghalib, (1796-1869) Urdu & Persian Poet
• Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808-1876)
• Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
• Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
• George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
• David Gascoyne (1916 - 2001)
• Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
• John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
• Stefan George, (1868-1933)
• Dan Gerber, (born 1940)
• Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
• Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
• Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
• Khalil Gibran, (The Prophet) (1883-1931)
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
• Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
• Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
• Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
• Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
• Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
• Louise Glück, (1943 - ) Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Go

• Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
• Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet
• Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
• Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
• Ziya Gökalp
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
• Pavel Golia (1887-1959)
• Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
• Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
• Eva Gore-Booth notable activist poet sister of Countess Markievicz
• Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-1967)
• Hedwig Gorski, (born 1949), first Performance poet, American avant-garde literature
• Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet

Gr

Gra-Gri

• Anders Abraham Grafström, (1790-1870), Swedish poet
• 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, (1558-1592)
• Horace Gregory
• Eamon Grennan
• Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
• Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
• Franz Grillparzer
• Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Charlotte Forten Grimke

Gro-Gy

• Stanisław Grochowiak
• Philip Gross
• Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
• Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
• Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
• Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
• Guido Guinizelli
• Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
• Gül Baba
• Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
• Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
• Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
• Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
• Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)

H

Ha

• Marilyn Hacker
• Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
• Hafez, (1315-1390), Persian poet
• Hai Zi
• Han Yu
• Han-Shan
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
• Jim Harrison, (born 1937)
• Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
• Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
• David Harsent
• Peter Härtling
• Gwen Harwood
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Ahmet Haşim
• Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
• 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)
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
• Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
• Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
• Essex Hemphill, (1957–1995)
• William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
• Adrian Henri
• Robert Henryson, (died c.1500) Scottish poet
• George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
• Zbigniew Herbert
• Johann Gottfried Herder, (1744-1803)
• Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
• Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
• Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English poet
• Hesiod, ancient Greek 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

• William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
• Dick Higgins, (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
• Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
• Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
• Nazım Hikmet
• Ellen Hinsey, poet
• H.L. Hix, American poet
• Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
• 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 (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Roman lyric poet
• George Moses Horton
• Joan Houlihan
• A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
• Richard Howard
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe

Hu-Hy

• Mohammad Nurul Huda, a modern poet from Bangladesh
• Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
• Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
• Richard Hugo
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
• Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
• Lynda Hull, (1954-1994)
• Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
• James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
• Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)

I

• Avetik Isahakyan, (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet

J

Ja-Ju

• FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
• Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
• Clive James
• Randall Jarrell
• Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
• Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Jia Dao
• John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet
• Edmund John
• 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
• Richard Jones (poet)
• Ryan Jones (author)
• Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
• June Jordan, (1936-2002), American poet and educator
• Anthony Joseph
• Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
• James Joyce, (1882-1941)
• Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
• Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
• Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
• Juvenal (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist

K

Ka-Kh

• Kabir, Indian social reformer.
• Kālidāsa'Sanskrit poet
• Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rebel poet of Bengal
• Jim Kacian (born 1953)
• Uuno Kailas (1901-1933), Finnish
• Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
• Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
• Orhan Veli Kanik
• Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
• Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
• Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
• Shirley Kaufman (born 1923)
• Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
• John Keats, (1795-1821)
• Weldon Kees
• Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
• X. J. Kennedy
• Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
• Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
• Keorapetse Kgositsile
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
• Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
• Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
• Nikos Kavvadias, (1910-1975), Greek poet
• Jan Pêt Khorto, Kurdish Poet

Ki-Kn

• Takarai Kikaku, (1661-1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
• 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
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
• Eila Kivikk'aho (1921-2004)
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
• Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob-Ky

• Kobayashi Issa, (1763 - 1828), Japanese haikai poet
• Jan Kochanowski (1530-84)
• Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
• Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
• Faik Konica
• Ted Kooser
• Srecko Kosovel (1904-1926)
• Dezső Kosztolányi Hungarian poet
• Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
• Dimitris P. Kraniotis (born 1966), Greek poet
• Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
• Ruth Krauss
• Miroslav Krleža (1589-1638), poet, novelist
• Marilyn Krysl
• Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet, novelist
• Maxine Kumin
• Stanley Kunitz
• Tuli Kupferberg (born 1923)
• Onat Kutlar
• Stephen Kuusisto
• Kusumagraj - Eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist

L

La

• Pierre Labrie poet from Quebec (1972- )
• Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
• Philip Lamantia
• Alphonse de Lamartine
• Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
• Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
• James Laughlin
• Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
• Jan Lauwereyns (born 1969)
• D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
• Layamon
• Irving Layton, Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
• Lalitha Lenin

Le

• Edward Lear (1812-1888)
• Jan Lechon
• Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
• David Lee (poet)
• Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
• Eino Leino (1878-1926), Finnish
• Sue Lenier English poet and playwright
• John Leonard (1965- ) Australian
• Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
• Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, novelist
• Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
• Boleslaw Lesmian
• Rika Lesser
• Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
• Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
• Philip Levine
• Larry Levis
• 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)
• Tim Liardet
• Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
• Li Qiao
• Li Qingzhao
• Li Shangyin
• Tim Lilburn
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
• Sarah Lindsay
• Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
• Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
• Federico García Lorca
• Audre Lorde, (1934-1992) American poet
• Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
• Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), American
• James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891), American
• Robert Lowell, (1917-1977), American
• Mina Loy (Dada)
• Lu You
• Gherasim Luca
• Lucilius
• Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
• Lucan, (39-65), Roman
• Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
• Luo Binwang
• Mario Luzi
• John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
• John Lyly, (1553-1606)
• George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)

M

Ma

Mac-Mak

• Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
• 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
• Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
• Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
• Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
• Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), general and poet
• G. D. Madgulkar (1919-Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
• Majeed Amjad (Pakistani poet)

Mal-Mar

• Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
• David Mallet, (c.1705–1765)
• Sir Thomas Malory
• Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
• Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
• James Clarence Mangan
• Bill Manhire (born 1946)
• Marcus Manilius (1st century)
• Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
• Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
• Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
• Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895-1988)
• Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
• Chris Mansell (1953-)
• Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
• Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
• Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
• Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
• Edwin Markham
• Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
• Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
• José Martí, (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer.
• Martial (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
• Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
• Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)

Mas-Maz

• John Masefield, (1878-1967)
• Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
• Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
• Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet

Mc

• Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
• John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders Fields
• Bryant H. McGill
• Elvis McGonagall
• William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
• Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
• Campbell McGrath
• Wendy McGrath
• Thomas McGrath, (1916-1990)
• Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
• James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as the worst poet in Canadian history
• Claude McKay
• Don McKay
• Rod McKuen
• James McMichael (born 1939)

Me

• Norman MacCaig
• Mei Yaochen
• Meng Haoran
• George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
• Kersti Merilaas, (1913-1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
• Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
• James Merrill, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
• Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
• W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
• Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
• Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)
• Henry Meyer, (1840-1925)

Mi-Ml

• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Henri Michaux, poet and painter
• Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
• Veronica Micle (1850–1889)
• Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
• Josephine Miles
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
• Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
• Leslie Adrienne Miller
• Tim Miller, poet and publisher
• Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
• Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911-2004)
• Alice Duer Miller
• Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
• John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
• Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
• Adrian Mitchell
• S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
• Ndre Mjeda

Mo

• Harold Monro
• Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
• Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
• Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
• Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
• Dom Moraes
• Merrill Moore, (1903-1957), Sonneteer
• Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
• John Morgan, (1688-1733)
• Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914)
• William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
• Jim Morrison (poet, songwriter)
• Stephen Morse (1945 - ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
• Valzhyna Mort (born 1981)
• Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
• Howard Moss
• Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-2009)
• Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)

Mu

• Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
• Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
• Lale Müldür, (born 1956)
• Laura Mullen, American poet
• Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
• Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
• Les Murray, (born 1938)
• Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
• Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
• Susan Musgrave, Poet.
• Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani poet and scholar
• George Murnu, aromanian poet

N

Na-Nj

• Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977)
• Ogden Nash, (1902-1971)
• Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
• Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
• John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
• Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
• Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
• Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
• Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
• Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
• Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
• John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
• Nezami, (1141–1209), Persian poet
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
• B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
• John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
• Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970)
• Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
• Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
• Noon Meem Rashid (Pakistani poet)

No-Ny

• Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
• Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965)
• Nolla, Olga (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
• Caroline Norton (1808 - 1877)
• Cyprian Kamil Norwid
• Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
• Alfred Noyes
• Julia Nyberg (1784-1854)
• Naomi Shihab Nye

O

• Ron Offen (1930-)
• Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
• Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
• George Oppen
• Peter Orlovsky (beat)
• Gregory Orr (poet)(born 1947)
• Öser
• Alice Oswald
• Ouyang Xiu
• Ovid, (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet
• Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
• Ismet Özel

P

Pa

• Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
• Ron Padgett
• Grace Paley
• Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
• Palladas
• Michael Palmer, (1943-)
• Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
• Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
• Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
• Nicanor Parra, Chile
• Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
• Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
• Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
• Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
• Don Paterson
• Coventry Patmore
• Brian Patten
• Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet

Pe-Pl

• Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
• Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
• Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
• Kathleen Peirce, (born 1956)
• Sam Pereira
• Lucia Perillo
• Persius (34-62), Roman poet
• Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
• Robert Peters, (1924-) American poet
• Pascale Petit
• Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), (1304-1374)
• Ambrose Philips
• Tanwir Phool,(born 1948) English & Urdu Pakistani poet
• Pindar (522-443 BC), Theban lyric poet
• Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
• Ruth Pitter
• Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963),
• Shmuel Plavnik(1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer

Po-Pu

• Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
• Edward Pollock, (1823-1858), California poet
• Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
• Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
• Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet
• Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (Imagist movement leader)
• Halina Poswiatowska
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed
• E.J. Pratt Canadian poet
• France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
• Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
• Robert Priest Canadian poet
• Richard Price (poet) (born 1966)
• Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
• Bryan Waller Proctor
• Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45-15 BCE), Latin Poet
• Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
• Luigi Pulci
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet

Q

• Nizar Qabbani

R

Ra-Re

• Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
• Shamsur Rahman, 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
• Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
• Samina Raja, Pakistani poet
• Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
• Dudley Randall
• Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
• Agnes Rapai, (1952- Hungarian poet
• John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
• Tom Raworth
• Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
• Wayne Ray, 1950 -
• Angela Readman
• Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
• Ishmael Reed
• James Reaney
• Abraham Regelson, (1896-1981)
• Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
• Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
• Kenneth Rexroth
• Charles Reznikoff
• Pi Rixiu

Ri

• Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001)Sufi, poet & author
• Stan Rice, (1943-2002), poet and artist
• Adrienne Rich
• Lola Ridge, (1873-1941)
• Laura Riding, (1901-1981)
• Anne Ridler
• James Whitcomb Riley, (1853-1916)
• Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926)
• Arthur Rimbaud, (1854-1891), symbolist poet

Ro

• Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
• Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
• Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
• Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
• Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
• Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
• Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
• Penelope Rosemont
• Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
• Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
• Nicholas Rowe
• Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
• Susanna Roxman
• Tadeusz Różewicz

Ru-Ry

• Friedrich Rückert
• Muriel Rukeyser, (1913-1980)
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877)
• Rumi
• Ryōkan, (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

S

Sa

• Umberto Saba
• Sa'di, (1184 – 1283/1291), Persian poet
• Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491-1558)
• Farida Samerkhanova, Canadian poet of Tatar descent
• Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
• Satsvarupa Das Goswami (1939-)
• Sonia Sanchez
• Michal Šanda, (1965- ), Czech poet
• Sappho, ancient Greek poet
• Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
• Taneda Santōka, (1882 - 1940), Japanese free-verse haiku poet
• William Saroyan, (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
• Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924-1995), Indonesian poet

Sc-Se

• Genrikh Sapgir, (1928-1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
• Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
• Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
• Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
• Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
• Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), inventor of historical novel
• Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
• George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920-1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
• Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin poet
• Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
• Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
• Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
• Vikram Seth
• Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)

Sh-Si

• Thomas Shadwell
• William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
• Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996), Artist and black activist
• Otep Shamaya, (born 1979), poet and songwriter
• Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
• Jo Shapcott
• Karl Shapiro
• Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)
• William Shenstone
• Bhupi Sherchan, Nepal poet
• Taras Shevchenko
• Masaoka Shiki, (1867 - 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
• James Shirley, (1596-1666)
• Avraham Shlonsky
• Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
• Eli Siegel, (1902-1978)
• Ron Silliman (born 1946)
• Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
• Simeon Simev
• Charles Simic
• Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
• Lemn Sissay
• Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
• Marilyn Singer

Sk-Sn

• John Skelton, (1460-1529)
• Sasha Skenderija
• Kenneth Slessor
• Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
• Juliusz Slowacki
• Boris Slutsky, (1919-1986), Russian poet
• Christopher Smart
• Charlotte Turner Smith, (1749-1806)
• Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
• Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
• Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
• Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
• William Jay Smith
• Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
• Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)

So-Sp

• Edith Södergran
• Sōgi (1421-1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
• Nishiyama Sōin, (1605-1682), Japanese haikai poet
• David Solway, (born 1941)
• William Somervile, (1675-1742)
• Sophocles, (c.496-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
• Natsume Sōseki, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
• Gary Soto
• Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
• Robert Southwell, (1561-1595)
• Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
• Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599)

St

Sta-Sto

• Leopold Staff
• William Stafford
• Harold Standish, (1919-1972), Canadian poet
• George Starbuck
• Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
• Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
• Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
• Eric Stenbock
• Mattie Stepanek, (1990-2004), American poet and advocate
• Gerald Stern
• Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
• Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
• James Still
• Donna J. Stone (1933-1994), American poet and philanthropist
• Ruth Stone, (born 1915)
• Theodor Storm, (1817-1888)
• Alfonsina Storni, (1892-1938)

Str-Stu

• Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
• Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
• Joseph Stroud (poet), (born 1943)
• Jesse Stuart

Su-Sz

• Su Shi
• Su Xiaoxiao
• Sir John Suckling
• Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
• Cemal Süreya
• Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
• Paul Summers poet (b. 1967)
• Robert Sward poet (b. 1933)
• Cole Swensen poet (b. 1955), awareded Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
• May Swenson
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
• Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
• Lőrinc Szabó Hungarian poet
• Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996

T

Ta-Te

• Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913
• Tao Qian
• Jovica Tasevski - Eternijan, Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
• Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
• Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
• James Tate
• Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
• Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
• Telesilla (fl. 510BC), Greek poet
• Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
• Lucy Terry
• A.S.J. Tessimond
• Neyzen Tevfik

Th-To

• Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
• Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
• Jan Theuninck, (born 1954)
• Dylan Thomas, (1914-1953)
• Edward Thomas, (1878-1917)
• Lorenzo Thomas, (1944-2005)
• R. S. Thomas, (1913-2000)
• John Thompson, (1845-1913), Canadian writer
• Francis Thompson, (1859-1907)
• James Thomson, (1700-1748)
• James Thomson, (1834-1882)
• Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
• Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
• Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
• Thomas Tickell
• Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
• Melvin B. Tolson
• Jean Toomer

Tr-Tz

• Thomas Traherne
• Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
• Elizabeth Treadwell (1967-)
• Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
• Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
• Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
• Quincy Troupe
• Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
• Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
• Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
• Hovhannes Tumanyan, (1869-1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
• Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
• Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
• Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886-1913), Tatar poet
• Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
• Julian Tuwim
• Jan Twardowski
• Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521-1605)
• Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803-1873)
• Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963), (Dada)

U

• Miguel de Unamuno
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
• Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
• John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
• Allen Upward, Imagist
• Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha

V

Va-Ve

• Mona Van Duyn
• Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
• Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
• Jean-Pierre Vallotton, (1955), French speaking Swiss poet and writer
• Varand, (Born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, translator, painter, professor of Armenian literature
• Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
• Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
• Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
• Vemana
• Helen Vendler
• Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
• Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
• Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
• Alfonso Vallejo, (born 1943) Spanish

Vi-Vr

• Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
• Peter Viereck
• François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
• Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
• Publius Vergilius Maro
• Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
• Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
• Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
• Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
• Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
• Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)

W

Wa

• Robert Wace (c. 1115-c. 1183)
• Sidney Wade (born 1951)
• Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
• Derek Walcott (born 1930)
• Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
• Arthur Waley (1889-1966)
• Alice Walker (born 1944)
• Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
• Wang Wei (698-759)
• Emily Warn
• Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
• Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
• Roger Waters (born 1943)
• Barrett Watten (born 1948)
• Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
• David Wayne (1914-1995)

We-Wh

• John Webster (c.1580-c.1634
• Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
• Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899 - 1946)
• Philip Whalen (1923-2002)
• Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
• Martin Walser (born 1927)
• Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
• Johan Herman Wessel (1742-1785)
• Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
• E.B. White (1899-1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
• James L. White (1936-1981), American poet, editor and teacher
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
• Isabella Whitney b. 1540s?
• Reed Whittemore b. 1919, American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet

Wi

• Les Wicks (1955-)
• Ulrika Widström (1764-1841)
• John Wieners (1934-2002)
• Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
• Jane Wilde, (1826-1896)
• Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900)
• John Wilkinson (born 1953)
• William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071-1126)
• Emmett Williams (1925-2007)
• Miller Williams (born 1930)
• Oscar Williams (1900-1964)
• Saul Williams (born 1972)
• Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999)
• Waldo Williams (1904-1971)
• William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
• William Williams Pantycelyn (1717-1791)
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
• Peter Lamborn Wilson
• Christian Wiman (born 1966)
• Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
• George Wither (1588-1667)

Wo-Wy

• Rafał Wojaczek (born 1945-1971)
• Christa Wolf (born 1929)
• Charles Wolfe, (1791-1823)
• Hans Wollschläger(1935-2007)
• George Woodcock (1912-1995)
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• Franz Wright (born 1953)
• Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835-1866)
• Charles Wright (born in 1935)
• C.D. Wright, (born 1949)
• James Wright (1927-1980)
• Judith Wright (1915-2000)
• Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
• Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
• Hedd Wyn (1887-1917)

X

• Emanuel Xavier, (born 1971)
• Xu Zhimo, (1897-1931)

Y

• Leo Yankevich (born 1961)
• Peyo Yavorov (1878-1914)
• William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
• Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
• Akiko Yosano, (1878-1942), Japanese author, poet, feminist and pacifist
• Marguerite Young (1908-1995)
• David Young (born 1946)
• Edward Young (1683-1765)
• Kevin Young (poet) (born 1970)
• A. W. Yrjänä (1967-)
• Yunus Emre (1238?-1320?)

Z

• Adam Zagajewski (born 1945)
• Andrea Zanzotto (born 1921)
• Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982)
• Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
• Calvin Ziegler (1854-1930)
• Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
• Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)