Famous Poets - Biography, Life, Interesting Facts

• Henrik Ibsen

  Playwright

  Norway

• Stephane Mallarme

  Poet

  France

• Robert Frost

  Educator

  California, United States of America

• Thomas Moore

  Journalist

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Andrew Marvell

  Poet

  United Kingdom

• Miguel De Unamuno

  Author

  Spain

• Walt Whitman

  Journalist

  New York, United States of America

• Oscar Milosz

  Poet

  Belarus

• Howard Nemerov

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Seamus Heaney

  Academic

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Kazi Nazrul Islam

  Poet

  West Bengal, India

• John M. Ford

  Writer

  Indiana, United States of America

• Peyo Yavorov

  Poet

  Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

• Omar Khayyam

  Poet

  Iran

• David Wagoner

  Poet

  Ohio, United States of America

• Helene Cixous

  Professor

  Algeria

• Jean Cocteau

  Artist

  France

• Gwendolyn Brooks

  Poet

  Kansas, United States of America

• Anthony Burgess

  Author

  United Kingdom

• Andre Breton

  Author

  Normandy, France

• Ray Bradbury

  Author

  Illinois, United States of America

• Boris Pasternak

  Author

  Russia

• Alice Walker

  Novelist

  Georgia, United States of America

• Alfred Noyes

  Poet

  West Midlands, United Kingdom

• Robert Burns

  Folk Hero

  Ayr, Scotland

• John Keats

  Poet

  United Kingdom

• William Blake

  Artist

  London, United Kingdom

• Khalil Gibran

  Author

  Bsharri, Lebanon

• Amy Levy

  Poet

  United Kingdom

• Anne Sexton

  Poet

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Alexander Pope

  Academic

  England, United Kingdom

• Claudia Lars

  Poet

  Sonsonate, El Salvador

• Brendan Francis Behan

  Poet

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Hristo Botev

  Poet

  Plovdiv, Bulgaria

• Rabindranath Tagore

  Poet

  West Bengal, India

• Allen Tate

  Poet

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Kingsley Amis

  Novelist

  England, United Kingdom

• Robert Browning

  Poet

  London, United Kingdom

• Adrian Mitchell

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Maya Angelou

  Poet

  Missouri, United States of America

• Phillis Wheatley

  Poet

  Senegal

• Michelangelo

  Architect

  Tuscany, Italy

• Henry David Thoreau

  Journalist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Dylan Thomas

  Poet

  Swansea, Wales

• Ezra Pound

  Journalist

  Idaho, United States of America

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Author

  Maine, United States of America

• Edward Young

  Poet

  New Mexico, United States of America

• Barbara Kingsolver

  Novelist

  Maryland, United States of America

• Jack Kerouac

  Author

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Leonard Cohen

  Singer

  Québec, Canada

• Michael Morpurgo

  Librettist

  England, United Kingdom

• Amy Clampitt

  Poet

  Iowa, United States of America

• Shahabuddin Nagari

  Poet

  Bangladesh

• Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Politician

  Thiès Region, Senegal

• Doris Lessing

  Novelist

  Iran

• Blaže Koneski

  Poet

  Petagonia, Macedonia

• Robert Louis Stevenson

  Author

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Roque Dalton

  Poet

  El Salvador

• Karel Appel

  Painter

  North Holland, Netherlands

• Anne Bradstreet

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Chairil Anwar

  Poet

  Sumatra, Indonesia

• Joyce Carol Oates

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Amiri Baraka

  Writer

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Charles Bukowski

  Author

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Jose Saramago

  Author

  Ribatejo, Portugal

• Francis Scott Key

  Lawyer

  Maryland, United States of America

• W. H. Auden

  Poet

  North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Ben Okri

  Author

  Niger, Nigeria

• Serj Tankian

  Activist

  Lebanon

• Virgil

  Poet

  Lombardy, Italy

• Jafar Jabbarly

  Playwright

  Azerbaijan

• Rainer Maria Rilke

  Author

  Czech Republic

• Manuel Ortiz Guerrero

  Poet

  Guaira Department, Paraguay

• Camille Saint-Saens

  Composer

  Île-de-France, France

• Wallace Stevens

  Poet

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Miljenko Jergovic

  Poet

  Bosnia And Herzegovina

• Mariela Griffor

  Poet

  Bío Bío, Chile

• Berthold Auerbach

  Poet

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Petrarch

  Scholar

  Tuscany, Italy

• George Herbert

  Poet

  Wales, United kingdom

• Alphonse de Lamartine

  Poet

  Burgundy, France

• William Cowper

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• John Reed

  Journalist

  Oregon, United States of America

• Arthur Rimbaud

  Poet

  Grand Est, France

• Charles Baudelaire

  Poet

  Île-de-France, France

• Bret Harte

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Friedrich Schiller

  Poet

  Baden Wurttemberg, Germany

• Ralph Waldo Emersion

  Lecturer

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Willa Cather

  Author

  Virginia, United States of America

• John Galsworthy

  Author

  London, United Kingdom

• Brassaï

  Poet

  Transylvania, Hungary

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Aviator

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Poet

  Maine, United States of America

• John Donne

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Vikram Seth

  Poet

  West Bengal, India

• John Ashbery

  Poet

  New York, United States of America

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Poet

  Wisconsin, United States of America

• Aleksa Santic

  Poet

  Bosnia And Herzegovina

• Carl Sandburg

  Poet

  Illinois, United States of America

• Nizar Qabbani

  Diplomat

  Syria

• Matthew Arnold

  Poet

  Surrey, United Kingdom

• Mahmoud Darwish

  Poet

  Palestine

• Alfred de Musset

  Dramatist

  France

• A. R. Ammons

  Poet

  North Carolina, United States of America

• Lorenzo Thomas

  Poet

  Panama

• Lord Byron

  Poet

  Kent, United Kingdom

• Endre Ady

  Poet

  Hungary

• Ogden Nash

  Poet

  New York, United States of America

• John Greenleaf Whittier

  Poet

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Rumi

  Poet

  Balkh Province, Afghanistan

• Miguel Angel Asturias

  Poet

  Guatemala

• Allen Ginsberg

  Poet

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Poet

  Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

• Alfred de Vigny

  Poet

  Indre-et-Loire, France

• William Morris

  Novelist

  London, United Kingdom

• Wilfred Owen

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Paul Valery

  Poet

  Occitanie, France

• Tomas Transtromer

  Poet

  Sweden

• Fan S. Noli

  Writer

  Edirne, Turkey

• Ted Hughes

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• William Wordsworth

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Nero

  Emperor

  Italy

• Emily Dickinson

  Poet

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Poet

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• Jim Morrison

  Singer

  Florida, United States of America

• Ahmad Javad

  Poet

  Shamkir, Azerbaijan

• Langston Hughes

  Playwright

  Missouri, United States of America

• Joseph Addison

  Essayist

  England, United Kingdom

• Gertrude Stein

  Art Collector

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Victor Hugo

  Author

  Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

• Saul Williams

  Rapper

  New York, United States of America

• Horace

  Poet

  Italy

• Rita Dove

  Poet

  Ohio, United States of America

• Adrienne Rich

  Poet

  Maryland, United States of America

• Robert Hayden

  Poet

  Michigan, United States of America

• Elizabeth Bishop

  Evangelist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Billy Corgan

  Musician

  Illinois, united states of America

• William Shakespeare

  Writer

  England, United Kingdom

• Ruben Dario

  Poet

  Matagalpa, Nicaragua

• Novalis

  Poet

  Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• Theodore Roethke

  Poet

  Michigan, United States of America

• Rupert Brooke

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Judith Wright

  Poet

  New South Wales, Australia

• Ruth Graham

  Author

  Jiangsu, China

• Alphonse Daudet

  Novelist

  Occitanie, France

• W B Yeats

  Poet

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Abraham Valdelomar

  Narrator

  Ica Region, Peru

• Charles Lamb

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Banjo Paterson

  Poet

  New South Wales, Australia

• Herman Melville

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Shel Silverstein

  Author

  Illinois, United States of America

• Ovid

  Poet

  L'Aquila, Italy

• C. Day Lewis

  Poet

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Ivan Cankar

  Poet

  Vrhnika, Slovenia

• Louise Gluck

  Poet

  New York, United States of America

• Maksim Bahdanovi

  Poet

  Belarus

• Oliver Goldsmith

  Novelist

  Connacht, Republic of Ireland

• Pablo Neruda

  Senator

  Linares, Chile

• Allan Cunningham

  Poet

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Czes?aw Mi?osz

  Poet

  K?dainiai, Lithuania

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Author

  Hesse, Germany

• Vladimir Nabokov

  Author

  Russia

• Muhammad Iqbal

  Poet

  Punjab, Pakistan

• Yanka Kupala

  Poet

  Belarus

• Joseph Brodsky

  Poet

  Russia

• John Gay

  Poet

  Devon, United Kingdom

• Margaret Atwood

  Poet

  Ontario, Canada

• Andrew Lang

  Poet

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Federico Garcia Lorca

  Poet

  Granada, Spain

• William Cullen Bryant

  Poet

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Anne Bronte

  Novelist

  England, United Kingdom

• Octavio Paz

  Poet

  Mexico

• Francesco Petrarch

  Scholar

  Tuscany, Italy

• Wis?awa Szymborska

  Poet

  Pozna?, Poland

• Jorge Luis Borges

  Author

  Argentina

• P B Shelley

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Giuseppe Ungaretti

  Poet

  Egypt

• Primo Levi

  Chemist

  Piedmont, Italy

• Salvatore Quasimodo

  Author

  Sicily, Italy

• Gustav Suits

  Poet

  Tartu, Estonia

• Charles Simic

  Poet

  Serbia

• Geoffrey Chaucer

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Philip Larkin

  Poet

  West Midlands, United Kingdom

• T. S. Eliot

  Poet

  Missouri, United States of America

• Bharathidasan

  Poet

  Puducherry, India

• Samuel Coleridge

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Leigh Hunt

  Essayist

  London, United Kingdom

• James Wright

  Poet

  Ohio, United States of America

• Malcolm Cowley

  Historian

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Dora Gabe

  Poet

  Dobrich, Bulgaria

• Khurshidbanu Natavan

  Poet

  Shushi, Azerbaijan

• Sonia Sanchez

  Poet

  Alabama, United States of America

• Uuno Kailas

  Poet

  Päijänne Tavastia, Finland

• Ana Castillo

  Novelist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Poet

  New York, United States of America

• William Butler Yeats

  Playwright

  Dublin, Republic of Ireland

• Claribel Alegria

  Poet

  Esteli, Nicaragua

• Julia Ward Howe

  Activist

  New York, United States of America

• Amy Lowell

  Journalist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Robert Bly

  Activist

  Minnesota, United States of America

• James Agee

  Author

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Sun Ra

  Pianist

  Alabama, United States of America

• Alice Sebold

  Author

  Wisconsin, United States of America

• Harriet Monroe

  Critic

  Illinois, United States of America

• Edward Lear

  Illustrator

  England, United Kingdom

• D.H. Lawrence

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Jose Marti

  Journalist

  La Habana, Cuba

• Arna Bontemps

  Author

  Louisiana, United States of America

• Michael McClure

  Author

  Kansas, United States of America

• Marianne Moore

  Poet

  Missouri, united states of America

• Nostradamus

  Poet

  Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France

• Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

  Author

  Moscow, Russia

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Pilot

  Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Hermann Hesse

  Author

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Edmund Spenser

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Emma Lazarus

  Poet

  New York, United States of America

• Filippo Emilio Marinetti

  Author

  Egypt

• Robert Penn Warren

  Activist

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Christine de Pisan

  Activist

  Veneto, Italy

• Thomas Lodge

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Mona Jane Van Duyn

  Poet

  Iowa, United States of America

• Solon

  Legal Professional

  Attica, Greece

• François Mauriac

  Author

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Lucy Terry Prince

  Poet

• Homer

  Poet

  Ionia, Turkey

• Jessie Fauset

  Author

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Anne Hathaway

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Du Fu

  Poet

  Henan, China

• W.H. Auden

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Sappho

  Poet

  North Aegean, Greece

• Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Poet

  Clarendon, Jamaica

• Sir Philip Sidney

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Ellen Gilchrist

  Author

  Mississippi, United States of America

• William Ernest Henley

  Editor

  England, United Kingdom

• Guillaume Apollinaire

  Poet

  Lazio, Italy

• Hilda Doolittle

  Poet

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Max Jacob

  Poet

  Brittany, France

• Grace Greenwood

  Author

  New York, United States Of America

• Reinaldo Arenas

  Poet

  Oriente, Cuba

• Wendell Berry

  Author

  Kentucky, United States Of America

• Thom Gunn

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Michael Ondaatje

  Author

  Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Robert Lowell

  Anti-War Activist

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• Richard Blanco

  Poet

  Madrid, Spain

• Dante

  Philosopher

  Tuscany, Italy

• Gabriela Mistral

  Diplomat

  Elqui Province,, Chile

• Christopher Marlowe

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Vita Sackville-West

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Edward de Vere

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Patti Smith

  Poet

  Illinois, United States Of America

• Robert Creeley

  Educator

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• Thomas Campion

  Doctor

  England, United Kingdom

• Saint Hildegard

  Nun

  West Franconia, Germany

• Rudolfo A. Anaya

  Author

  New Mexico, United States Of America

• Mario Luzi

  Educator

  Tuscany, Italy

• Dorothy Wordsworth

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Charles Perrault

  Author

  ?Île-de-France, France

• Claude McKay

  Author

  Middlesex, Jamaica

• Nancy Cunard

  Activist

  Leicestershire, United Kingdom

• Grace Paley

  Activist

  New York, United States Of America

• Muriel Spark

  Academic

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Gregory Corso

  Poet

  New York, United States Of America

• Dorothy Parker

  Activist

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Richard Wright

  Author

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Antonin Artaud

  Actor

  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

• Jean Toomer

  Author

  D.C, United States of America

• William Carlos Williams

  Poet

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Lucille Clifton

  Educator

  New York, United States of America

• W.S. Merwin

  Editor

  New York, United States of America

• Sarah Josepha Hale

  Editor

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• Fernando Arrabal

  Director

  Spain

• Madeleine L'Engle

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Margaret Walker

  Author

  Alabama, United States of America

• Robert Pinsky

  Academic

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Dora Maar

  Artist

  Île-de-France, France

• Sarojini Naidu

  Activist

  Andhra Pradesh, India

• June Jordan

  Academic

  New York, United States of America

• John Clare

  Poet

  Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

• Edgar Lee Masters

  Author

  Kansas, United States of America

• James Dickey

  Author

  Georgia, United States of America

• Samuel Johnson

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Nelly Sachs

  Playwright

  Berlin, Germany

• Denise Levertov

  Activist

  London, United Kingdom

• Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Anatole France

  Author

  Île-de-France, France

• Gary Snyder

  Activist

  California, United States of America

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Literary Critic

  England, United Kingdom

• Katharine Lee Bates

  Poet

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• Su Shi

  Author

  Sichuan, China

• Bertolt Brecht

  Playwright

  Bavaria, Germany

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journalist

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• Lady Gregory

  Poet

  County Galway, Ireland

• E.J. Pratt

  Poet

  Newfoundland, Canada

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Author

  Massachusetts, united states of America

• Countee Cullen

  Poet

  New York, united states of America

• Julia Alvarez

  Poet

  New York, united states of America

• Christopher Fry

  Actor

  England, United Kingdom

• Richard Buckminster Fuller

  Architect

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Nikki Giovanni

  Poet

  Tennessee, united states of America

• Robert W. Service

  Poet

  Lancashire, England

• Rafael Alberti

  Poet

  Cádiz, Spain

• Thomas Hardy

  Author

  Dorset, United Kingdom

• John Milton

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Author

  Ohio, united states of America

• Henry Lawson

  Author

  New South Wales, Australia

• George Santayana

  Philosopher

  Spain

• Audre Lorde

  Writer

  New York, united states of America

• Rudyard Kipling

  Author

  Maharashtra, India

• A.E. Housman

  Scholar

  England, United Kingdom

• François Villon

  Poet

  Île-de-France, France