A List of Famous Poets includes Poems and Biographical information of the most Famous Poets.
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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 (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 (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 (1947–2010), 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, (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)
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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
* Charles Bernstein, (b.1950)
* 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)
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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
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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
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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
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Ga-Gl
* James Galvin, (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)
* Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco 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
* Ryan Jones
* 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 (1923-)
* Onat Kutlar
* Stephen Kuusisto
* Kusumagraj, eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist
L
La
* Pierre Labrie (1972- ), poet from Quebec
* 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)
* Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
* Layamon
* Irving Layton, Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
* Emma Lazarus
Le
* Edward Lear (1812-1888)
* Jan Lechon
* Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
* David Lee
* Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
* Eino Leino (1878-1926), Finnish
* Sue Lenier English poet and playwright
* Lalitha Lenin
* John Leonard (1965- ) Australian
* Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
* Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, novelist
* 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
My
* Lam Quang My, Vietnamese 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)
* Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni), (1911-1938)
* 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(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 (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
* Andrus Rõuk (born 1957)
* 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, (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)
[edit] W
Wa
* 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)
* Connie Wanek (born 1952)
* 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 (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)
