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A poet is a person who writes poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
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Etymology
From the ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 : p????, poieo : "I make or compose" ; p???t??, poïêtes : "artisan
Artisan

An artisan is a skilled manual labor worker who crafts items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewelry, household items, and tools....
, creator, maker (also makar
Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as noble court poet, although the term can be more generally applied....
), author, poet" > Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 : poeta : "poet, author" > Old French
Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
 : (1200-1400) poëte or poète > Used (poet) in 14th. century, in classical English language, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature.






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A poet is a person who writes poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
.

Etymology


From the ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 : p????, poieo : "I make or compose" ; p???t??, poïêtes : "artisan
Artisan

An artisan is a skilled manual labor worker who crafts items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewelry, household items, and tools....
, creator, maker (also makar
Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as noble court poet, although the term can be more generally applied....
), author, poet" > Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 : poeta : "poet, author" > Old French
Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
 : (1200-1400) poëte or poète > Used (poet) in 14th. century, in classical English language, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. The term makar
Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as noble court poet, although the term can be more generally applied....
, which is another older term for poet, is a calque
Calque

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-for-root translation....
 from the Greek.

List of many poets classed by language in alphabetical order

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  • The Ancient Greek
    Ancient Greek

    Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
     language has some of the richest poetry in ancient history
    Ancient history

    Ancient history is the history from the History of writing until the Early Middle Ages in Europe, the Qin Dynasty in China, the Chola Empire in India, and some less defined point in the rest of the world ....
    , including that of Homer
    Homer

    Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
    , Sappho
    Sappho

    Sappho...
    , Pindar
    Pindar

    Pindar , was an Ancient Greek Lyric poetry poet.Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is by far the best preserved, and critics in antiquity tended to regard him as the greatest....
    , Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon
    Anacreon

    Anacreon was a Greece lyric poem poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets....
    , Apollonius of Rhodes
    Apollonius of Rhodes

    Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius , early 3rd century BCE - after 246 BCE, was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria....
    , Aratus
    Aratus

    Aratus was a Greeks didactic poet, known for his technical poetry....
    , Archilochus
    Archilochus

    Archilochus was a Ancient Greece poet and supposed mercenary....
    , Arctinus of Miletus
    Arctinus of Miletus

    Arctinus of Miletus or Arctinus Milesius was a Cyclic poets whose reputation is purely legendary, as none of his works survive. Traditionally dated between 775 BC and 741 BC, he was said to have been a pupil of Homer....
    , Arion
    Arion

    Arion was a legendary kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysus poet credited with inventing the dithyramb. The islanders of Lesbos Island claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth....
    , Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comedy playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete....
    , Aeschylus
    Aeschylus

    Aeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides....
    , Euripides
    Euripides

    Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
    , Epicharmus of Kos
    Epicharmus of Kos

    Epicharmus is considered to have lived within the hundred year period between c. 540 and c. 450 BC. He was a Greek people dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comedy writers, having originated the Dorians or Sicily comedic form....
    , Epimenides
    Epimenides

    Epimenides of Knossos was a semi-Greek mythology 6th century BC Greeks prophet and philosopher-Poetry, who is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy....
    , Herodotus
    Herodotus

    Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
    , Hesiod
    Hesiod

    Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
    , Mimnermus
    Mimnermus

    Mimnermus of Colophon was a Ancient Greece elegiac poet, who flourished about 630 BC-600 BC....
    , Philitas of Cos
    Philitas of Cos

    Philitas or Philetas of Cos was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. A Greek associated with Alexandria, he flourished in the second half of the 4th century BC and was appointed tutor to the heir to the throne of Ptolemaic Egypt....
    , Simonides of Ceos
    Simonides of Ceos

    Simonides of Ceos , Greek Lyric poetry poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea . He was included, along with Sappho and Pindar, in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria....
    , Solon
    Solon

    Solon was an Athens statesman, lawmaker, and lyric poetry. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Archaic period in Greece Athens....
    , Sophocles
    Sophocles

    Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
    , Terpander
    Terpander

    Terpander , of Antissa in Lesbos Island, was a Ancient Greece poet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC.About the time of the Messenian Wars, he settled in Sparta, whither, according to some accounts, he had been summoned by command of the Delphic Oracle, to compose the differences which had arisen between diff...
    , Theognis of Megara
    Theognis of Megara

    Theognis of Megara was an ancient Greece poet. More than half of the extant elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the 1,400 verses ascribed to Theognis....
    , Tyrtaeus
    Tyrtaeus

    Tyrtaeus was a ancient Greece elegiac poet who lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century BC.According to the older tradition he was a native of the Attic deme of Aphidnae, and was invited to Sparta at the suggestion of the Delphic oracle to assist the Spartans in the Messenian Wars....
     and Xenophanes
    Xenophanes

    of Colophon was a Greece philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Our knowledge of his views comes from fragments of his poetry, surviving as quotations by later Greek writers....
    .


  • The Ancient Tamil language
    Tamil language

    Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has Official language in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore....
     has a rich and long literary tradition since the ancient period. Famous poets include Tiruvalluvar
    Tiruvalluvar

    Thiruvalluvar was a celebrated Tamil language poet who wrote the Thirukkural, a work on ethics in Tamil literature. He is claimed by both the Tamils who practice Hinduism and the Tamils who practice Jainism as their own....
    , Agastya
    Agastya

    Agastya was a Historical Vedic religion sage or rishi. Agastya and his clan are also credited to have "authored" many mantras of the Rig Veda, the earliest and most revered Hindu scripture, in the sense of first having the mantras revealed in his mind by the Supreme Brahman....
    , Nakkirar
    Nakkirar

    Nakkirar was a medieval Tamil poet from Madurai. He is renown for his most famous work TirumurukarruppataiThe Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago By V....
    , Seethalai Saathanar, Peyalvar
    Peyalvar

    Payalvar was one of the twelve Alvars and was a Hindu saint. He belonged to the Vaishnavite faith.Payalvar was born in Tirumayilai Tiruk Kanden Pon Meni Kanden- Thigazhum ...
    , Ilango Adigal
    Ilango Adigal

    Ilango Adigal was a Tamil poet, who was instrumental in the creation of Silappathikaram, one of the The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature of South India....
    , Arunagirinathar
    Arunagirinathar

    Arunagirinathar was a Tamil language poet who lived during the 15th century in Tamil Nadu, India. He was the creator of Tiruppugazh, a book of poems in Tamil in praise of the Hinduism god Murugan....
    ,Appar, Manikkavacakar, Tirumular, Karaikkal Ammeiyar
    Karaikkal Ammeiyar

    Karaikkal Ammaiyar , one of the few females amongst the sixty three Nayanmars, is one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature. Her birth name was Punithavathi, born at Karaikkal, South India, and lived during the 6th century....
    , Sekkizhar
    Sekkizhar

    Sekkizhar is a revered poet and Saiva scholar of Tamil language Shaiva Siddhanta. He compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam or the Great Purana, who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai, and was later himself canonised and the work became part of the sacred canon....
    , Thirunavukarasar, Avvaiyar, Ramalinga Adigal, Subramanya Bharathi, Bharathidasan
    Bharathidasan

    Bharathidasan was a twentieth century Tamil language poet and rationalist whose literary works handled mostly socio-political issues. His writings served as a catalyst for the growth of the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu....
    , Kalki Krishnamurthy
    Kalki Krishnamurthy

    Kalki was the pen name of R. Krishnamurthy , an Indian freedom fighter, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, satirist, travel writer, script-writer, poet, critic, and connoisseur of the arts....
    , Kannadasan
    Kannadasan

    Kannadasan was a Tamil people poet and lyricist, heralded as one of the greatest and most important writer in the Tamil language. Frequently called Kaviarasu , Kannadasan was most familiar for his song lyrics in Tamil films and contributed around 5000 lyrics besides 6000 poems and 232 books, including novels, epics, plays, essays,...
    , Vairamuthu
    Vairamuthu

    Vairamuthu is an award-winning Tamil language poet and lyricist.Debuting in the film 'Nizhalgal' with the lyrics for `Ponmalai Pozhudhu', he has now about 5600 songs to his credit.....
    , Vaali
    Vaali

    Vaali is a national award winning blockbuster Tamil language film directed by S.J. Suryah. The film stars Ajith, Simran Bagga, Vivek and Balaji....


  • In Arabic
    Arabic language

    Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
    , the most notable poets include Al-Ma`arri, Al-Mutanabbi, Abu Nuwas
    Abu Nuwas

    Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani Al-Hakami , known as Abu-Nuwas , was one of the greatest of classical Arabic poetry and Persian poetry poets....
    , Ahmed Shawqi
    Ahmed Shawqi

    Ahmed Shawqi was an Arabic Language Poetry and dramatist who pioneered the modern Egyptian literature movement, most notably introducing the genre of poetic epics to the Arabic literary tradition....
    , Khalil Gibran
    Khalil Gibran

    Khalil Gibran , was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon , as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career....
    , Mahmoud Darwish
    Mahmoud Darwish

    Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian people poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet....
    .


  • The Bengali language
    Bengali language

    Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-European languages language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages....
     has been used by many poets including Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore

    , also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali people mystic, Brahmo poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and Music of Bengal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
     and Kazi Nazrul Islam
    Kazi Nazrul Islam

    For the Bangladeshi politician, see Syed Nazrul IslamKazi Nazrul Islam was a Bengali people Bengali poetry, Music of Bengal, Revolutionary movement for Indian independence, and philosopher who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against orthodoxy and oppression....
    .


  • The Bulgarian language
    Bulgarian language

    Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin...
     has been used by poets like Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev

    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarians poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero....
    , Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov

    Ivan Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Sopol, Bulgaria, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....
    , Pencho Slaveikov, Peyo Yavorov
    Peyo Yavorov

    Peyo Yavorov was a Bulgarian Symbolism . He was considered to be one of the finest poetic talents in the fin de si?cle History of Independent Bulgaria....
    , Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov

    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and then onto Sofia in 1904....
    , Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski

    File:Hrsmirnenski.jpgHristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population....
    , Geo Milev
    Geo Milev

    Geo Milev , born Georgi Kasabov Milev , was a Bulgarians poet and author....
    , Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev

    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarians poet, critic and translator. He is author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems....
    , Elisaveta Bagriana
    Elisaveta Bagriana

    Elisaveta Bagryana , born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva , was a Bulgarians poet who wrote her first verses while living with her family in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907-08....
     and many others.


  • In the Chinese language
    Chinese language

    Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
     there have been such poets as Li Bai
    Li Bai

    Li Bai or Li Po was a List of Chinese language poets. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu....
    , Du Fu
    Du Fu

    Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty.Along with Li Bai , he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.His own greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations....
    , Wang Wei, Li Qingzhao
    Li Qingzhao

    Li Qingzhao was a Zhonghua Minzu List of Chinese authors and List of Chinese language poets of the Song Dynasty, regarded by many as the premier woman poet in the Chinese language....
    , Qu Yuan
    Qu Yuan

    Qu Yuan was a Chinese people scholar and minister to the King from the southern Chu during the Warring States Period. His works are mostly found in an anthology of poetry known as Chu Ci....
    , Shitao
    Shitao

    Yuanji Shih T'ao, born Zhu Ruoji was a China artist.Born in Quanzhou County in Guangxi province, Shih T'ao was a member of the Ming Dynasty royal house....
    , Bei Dao
    Bei Dao

    Bei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude....
    , Xue Tao
    Xue Tao

    Xue Tao , courtesy name Hongdu , together with Yu Xuanji and Li Ye was one of the three best-known female China List of Chinese language poetss from the Tang Dynasty, though there were many others....
    , Yu Xuanji
    Yu Xuanji

    Yu Xuanji , courtesy names Youwei and Huilan , was a China List of Chinese language poets born in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty....
    , Su Xiaoxiao
    Su Xiaoxiao

    Su Xiaoxiao , also known as Su Xiaojun and sometimes by the appellation "Little Su", was a famous courtesan and List of Chinese language poets from Qiantang city in the Southern Qi Dynasty ....
    , Lu You
    Lu You

    Lu You , was a List of Chinese language poets of the southern Song dynasty....
    , Ouyang Xiu
    Ouyang Xiu

    Ouyang Xiu , was a China statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty . He is also known by his courtesy name of Yongshu, and was also self nicknamed The Old Drunkard ??, or The Retired Scholar of the One of Six ???? in his old age....
    , Mei Yaochen
    Mei Yaochen

    Mei Yaochen was a List of Chinese language poets of the Song dynasty. He was one of the pioneers of the "new subjective" style of poetry which characterised Song poetry....
    , Gu Cheng
    Gu Cheng

    Gu Cheng was a famous Han Chinese modern poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets....
    , Li He
    Li He

    Li He , courtesy name Changji , was a short-lived Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginative style....
    , Bai Juyi
    Bai Juyi

    Bai Juyi was a List of Chinese language poets of the Tang dynasty. His poems are not cheerful, they were themed around his responsibilities as a governor of several small provinces to sympathise with his people....
    , Su Shi
    Su Shi

    Su Shi was a List of Chinese authors, List of Chinese language poets, artist, East Asian calligraphy, pharmacologist, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era....
    , Yang Lian
    Yang Lian

    Yang Lian is a China poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school....
    , Qiu Jin
    Qiu Jin

    Qiu Jin was a China anti-Qing Empire revolutionary, feminist and writer. She was executed after a failed uprising and today is considered a hero in China....
    , Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
    , and Cao Zhi
    Cao Zhi

    Cao Zhi was a China poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. His poetry style, greatly revered during the Jin Dynasty and Southern and Northern Dynasties, came to be known as the jian'an style....
    .


  • The Czech language
    Czech language

    Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
     has been used by many poets, such as Karel Hynek Mácha
    Karel Hynek Mácha

    File:Jan Vil?mek - Karel Hynek M?cha.jpgKarel Hynek M?cha was a Czech people Romanticism poet....
    , Jaroslav Seifert
    Jaroslav Seifert

    Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize winning Czechs writer, poet and journalist.Born in ?i?kov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921....
    , Egon Bondy
    Egon Bondy

    Egon Bondy, born Zbynek Fi?er, was a Czechs philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground .In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group....
    , Otokar Brezina
    Otokar Brezina

    Otokar or Otakar Brezina ; pen name of V?clav Jebav?.; was an Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakian poet and essayist, considered the greatest of Czech people Symbolism ....
    , Antonín Sova
    Antonín Sova

    Anton?n Sova was a Czech language poet. He was one of the foremost representatives of the literary Impressionism and Symbolism in Czech literature....
    , Vítezslav Nezval
    Vítezslav Nezval

    File:Vitezslav Nezval bust by Otakar Svec 782.jpgV?tezslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia....
    , Jaroslav Durych
    Jaroslav Durych

    Jaroslav Durych was a Czech Republic prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and military surgeon. Prior to World War II, perhaps the only Czech author beside Karel Capek with works translated into more than one foreign language....
    , Viktor Dyk
    Viktor Dyk

    Viktor Dyk was a well-known Czech people poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer.Viktor Dyk studied at a Gymnasium in Prague and then at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague....
    , Jirí Grossmann
    Jirí Grossmann

    Jir? Grossmann was a Czechoslovakia theatre actor, poet, and composer....
    , Adolf Heyduk
    Adolf Heyduk

    Adolf Heyduk was a distinguished Czech people poet and writer. Many of his poems were later adapted by Anton?n Dvor?k....
    , Vladimír Holan
    Vladimír Holan

    Vladim?r Holan was a Czech people poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimist views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s....
    , Josef Jungmann
    Josef Jungmann

    Josef Jungmann was a Bohemian poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef Dobrovsk?, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language....
    , Karel Kryl
    Karel Kryl

    Karel Kryl was a popular Czech people songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist regime in his home country....
    , Rio Preisner
    Rio Preisner

    Rio Preisner was a Czechs poet, philosopher, translator, and scholar of Czech and German literature....
    , Václav Renc
    Václav Renc

    V?clav Renc was a Czech poet, dramatist and translator. Like other catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside....
     and Frána Šrámek
    Frána Šrámek

    Fr?na ?r?mek was a Czech people Anarchism, Impressionism, and Vitalism poet, novelist, and playwright.In the 1885 his family removed to P?sek, where he lived for long time and some of his game are situated to this town....
    .


  • In the Danish language
    Danish language

    Danish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the status of minority language....
     we can read the poetry of Johannes Secundus
    Johannes Secundus

    Johannes Secundus was a Renaissance Latin poet of Netherlands nationality....
    , Jens Immanuel Baggesen
    Jens Immanuel Baggesen

    Jens Immanuel Baggesen was a Denmark poet.Baggesen was born at Kors?r. His parents were very poor, and before he was twelve he was sent to copy documents at the office of the clerk of the district....
    , Jens Fink-Jensen
    Jens Fink-Jensen

    Jens Fink-Jensen is a Denmark poet, author, photographer, composer and architect....
    , Piet Hein
    Piet Hein (Denmark)

    Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tomb stone"....
    , Ambrosius Stub
    Ambrosius Stub

    Ambrosius Christoffersen Stub was a Denmark poet....
    , Jeppe Aakjær
    Jeppe Aakjær

    Jeppe Aakj?r was a Denmark poetry and novelist. A regionalist, much of his writings were about his native Jutland. He was known for writings that reflected his concern for the poverty and for describing rural existence....
    , Hans Christian Andersen
    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
    , Steen Steensen Blicher
    Steen Steensen Blicher

    Steen Steensen Blicher was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark....
    , Holger Drachmann
    Holger Drachmann

    Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann , was a Denmark poet and dramatist. He is an outstanding figure of the Modern Break-Through.The son of Dr AG Drachmann, whose family was of German extraction, he was born in Copenhagen....
    , Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
    Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig

    Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig , most often referred to as simply N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Denmark teacher, writer, poet, philosopher, historian, pastor, and politician....
    , Johan Ludvig Heiberg
    Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet)

    Johan Ludvig Heiberg , Denmark poet and critic, son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg , and of the novelist, afterwards the Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensv?rd, was born in Copenhagen....
    , Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
    Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

    Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, was a Denmark author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century....
    , Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
    Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger

    Adam Gottlob Oehlenschl?ger was a Denmark poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature....
     and Johan Herman Wessel
    Johan Herman Wessel

    Johan Herman Wessel was a well known poet in Norway and Denmark literature . Some of his satirical poems are still popular. The traditional restaurant Wesselstuen in Bergen, Norway contains many of his works as decorations....
    .


  • The Dutch language
    Dutch language

    Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
     has been used by poets such as Piet Paaltjens
    Piet Paaltjens

    Fran?ois Haverschmidt was a Netherlands minister and writer, who wrote prose under his own name but remains best known for the poetry published under the pen name of Piet Paaltjens....
    , Paul van Ostaijen
    Paul van Ostaijen

    File:Paul van Ostaijen.jpgPaul van Ostaijen was a Flanders poet and writer.His nickname was Mister 1830, because of his habit of walking along the streets of Antwerp clothed as a dandy from that year....
    , Guido Gezelle
    Guido Gezelle

    Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle was an influential Dutch language writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium.He was born in Bruges in the province of West Flanders, where he also spent most of his life....
    , Hugo Claus
    Hugo Claus

    Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian literature author, writing primarily in Dutch . Prominent as a novelist, poet, playwright, Painting and film director, he was a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize in literature while he was alive....
    , P.C. Hooft.


  • In the English language, poets generally considered to be the most influential include Geoffrey Chaucer
    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, Bureaucracy, Noble court and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales....
    , Christopher Marlowe
    Christopher Marlowe

    Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an Kingdom of England Playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost English Renaissance theatre tragedy next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death....
    , William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
    , Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser

    Edmund Spenser was an important England poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem celebrating, through fantastical allegory, the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I....
    , Thomas Wyatt
    Thomas Wyatt

    Thomas Wyatt may refer to:* Thomas Henry Wyatt , British architect* Thomas Wyatt , English poet* Thomas Wyatt the younger , rebel leader* Thomas Wyatt Turner , American civil rights activist, biologist and educator...
    , George Byron, Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope

    Alexander Pope is generally regarded as the greatest England poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer....
    , John Milton
    John Milton

    John Milton II was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his Epic poetry Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
    , William Blake
    William Blake

    William Blake was an English people English poetry, Painting, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both poetry and the visual arts of the Romanticism....
    , E. e. cummings
    E. E. Cummings

    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an Poetry of the United States, painter, essayist, author, and playwright....
    , Emily Dickinson
    Emily Dickinson

    Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life....
    , Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman

    Walter Whitman was an United States Poetry of the United States, essayist, journalism, and humanism. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and literary realism, incorporating both views in his works....
    , William Wordsworth
    William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth was a major England Romantic poetry poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
    , Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
    , John Keats
    John Keats

    John Keats was an England poetry who became one of the principal poets of the English Romanticism movement during the early nineteenth century....
    , Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti
    Christina Rossetti

    Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem "Remember", and for her Christmas poem "In the Bleak Midwinter"....
    , Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
    , W. B. Yeats
    William Butler Yeats

    File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpgWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish people poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature....
    , Robert Browning
    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian literature poets....
    , Isaac Rosenberg
    Isaac Rosenberg

    Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the World War I who was considered to be one of the greatest of all British war poets. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War....
    , Lewis Carroll
    Lewis Carroll

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an England author, mathematics, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer....
    , Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
    , Marianne Moore
    Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore was a Modernism American poet and writer....
    , Elizabeth Bishop
    Elizabeth Bishop

    Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956....
    , Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein

    Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and Modernist literature....
    , Mina Loy
    Mina Loy

    Mina Loy born Mina Gertrude Lowy was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurism , actress, Christian Science, designer of lamps and Bohemianism extraordinaire....
    , Hart Crane
    Hart Crane

    Harold Hart Crane was an United States poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote poetry that was traditional in form, difficult and often Archaism in language, and which sought to express something more than the ironic despair that Crane found in Eliot's poetry....
    , Emma Lazarus
    Emma Lazarus

    Emma Lazarus was an USA poet born in New York City.She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its final lines were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912....
    , Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens

    Wallace Stevens was a United States Modernism poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life working for an insurance company in Connecticut....
    , H.D.
    H.D.

    H.D. was an American poetry, novelist and memoirist best known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagism group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington....
    , Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyric poetry and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, Bohemianism lifestyle and her many love affairs....
    , T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot

    'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
    , Ezra Pound
    Ezra Pound

    Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an United States expatriate poetry, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist poetry movement in the first half of the 20th century....
    , Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas

    Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh people poet who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself....
    , W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden

    Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century....
    , Philip Larkin
    Philip Larkin

    Philip Arthur Larkin, Order of the Companions of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , was a UK poet, novelist and jazz critic....
    , William Empson
    William Empson

    Sir William Empson was an England literary critic and poet.He is sometimes praised as the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt, and widely influential for his practice of close reading literary works, fundamental to the New Critics....
    , Langston Hughes
    Langston Hughes

    James Mercer Langston Hughes, was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance....
    , Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath

    Sylvia Plath was an United States poet, novelist and short story writer.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas....
    , Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks

    Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985....
    , Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg

    Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" , celebrating his friends who were members of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States....
    , Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
    , Bob Dylan, John Ashbery
    John Ashbery

    John Ashbery is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets....
    , Adrienne Rich
    Adrienne Rich

    Adrienne Cecile Rich is an United States poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the [20th] century" ....
    , William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams

    William Carlos Williams was an list of American poets closely associated with Modernist poetry and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine....
    , Robert Frost
    Robert Frost

    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech....
    , Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott

    Derek Alton Walcott is a West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English language. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992....
    , Henry Lawson
    Henry Lawson

    Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet . Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period, and is often called Australia's "greatest writer"....
    , Shel Silverstein
    Shel Silverstein

    Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein was an United States poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books....
    , Banjo Patterson, Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's....
    , Don West
    Don West

    Don West may refer to:*Don West *Don West *Don West, Jr. See also*Donald West Harward...
     and Geoffrey Hill
    Geoffrey Hill

    For the British aeronautical engineer and professor, see Geoffrey T. R. HillGeoffrey Hill is an English people poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University....
    .


  • The Finnish language
    Finnish language

    Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
     has been used by poets such as Aaro Hellaakoski
    Aaro Hellaakoski

    Aaro Hellaakoski was a Finnish people poet whose work includes some of the earliest examples of modernist literature in Finnish literature....
    , Martti Haavio
    Martti Haavio

    Martti Haavio was a Finland poet, folklorist and mythologist, writing poetry under the name "P. Mustap??". He was born on 22 January, 1899 in Temmes, and died 4 February, 1973....
    , Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
    Veikko Antero Koskenniemi

    Veikko Antero Koskenniemi was a Finnish literature born in Oulu. In 1921 he took the title of Professor of Literary History in University of Turku, Finland....
    , Joel Lehtonen
    Joel Lehtonen

    Joel Lehtonen was a Finland author, translator, critic and journalist. Born in S??minki, close by to Savonlinna he committed suicide in November 1934....
    , Eino Leino
    Eino Leino

    Eino Leino was a Finland poet and journalist and is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements....
    , Larin Paraske
    Larin Paraske

    Larin Paraske was a Finland oral poetry. She is considered a key figure in Finnish folk poetry and has been called the "Finnish Mnemosyne". Her frequent listeners included several romantic nationalism artists, such as Jean Sibelius, seeking inspiration from her interpretations of Kalevala, an epic poetry compiled from Finnish folklore by El...
    , Aale Tynni
    Aale Tynni

    Aale Maria Tynni-Haavio was a Finland poet and translator and wife of fellow Finnish poet Martti Haavio.She is best known for editing and translating European poetry ranging from the Middle Ages into Finnish in a comprehensive anthology of entitled Tuhat Laulujen Vuotta in ....
    , Katri Vala
    Katri Vala

    Katri Vala Vala died in Eksj? sanatorium, Sweden, on April 28, 1944.External links* at Pegasos literature site...
     and Julius Krohn
    Julius Krohn

    Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn was a Finland folk poetry researcher, a professor of Finnish literature, a poet, a hymn writer, a translator and a journalist....
    .


  • The French language
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
     has been used by such illustrious poets as Chrétien de Troyes
    Chrétien de Troyes

    Chr?tien de Troyes was a France poet and trouv?re who flourished in the late 12th century in poetry. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1172 he served at the court of his patroness Count of Champagne Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquit...
    , Adam de la Halle
    Adam de la Halle

    Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a France-born trouv?re, poet and musician, who broke with the long-established tradition of writing liturgy poetry and music to be an early founder of secular theater in France....
    , Béroul
    Béroul

    B?roul was a Normans poet of the 12th century. He wrote Tristan, a Norman language version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult of which a certain number of fragments have been preserved; it is the earliest representation of the so-called "vulgar" version of the legend ....
    , Thomas d'Angleterre, Marie de France
    Marie de France

    Marie de France was a poet evidently born in France and living in England during the late 12th century. Virtually nothing is known of her early life, though she wrote a form of Old French that was copied by Anglo-Norman scribes....
    , Jean Bodel
    Jean Bodel

    Jean Bodel, who lived in the late twelfth century, was an Old French poet who wrote a number of chanson de geste as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras....
    , Robert Wace, Rutebeuf
    Rutebeuf

    Rutebeuf, or Rustebuef , a trouv?re, was born in the first half of the 13th century, possibly in Champagne ; he was evidently of humble birth, and he was a Parisian by education and residence....
    , Charles d'Orléans, François Villon
    François Villon

    Fran?ois Villon was a France poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison....
    , Clément Marot
    Clément Marot

    Cl?ment Marot , was a French poet of the Renaissance period....
    , Joachim du Bellay
    Joachim du Bellay

    Joachim du Bellay was a France poet, critic, and a member of the La Pl?iade....
    , Pierre de Ronsard
    Pierre de Ronsard

    Pierre de Ronsard was a France poet and "prince of poets" ....
    , Maurice Scève
    Maurice Scève

    Maurice Sc?ve , France poet, was born at Lyon, where his father practised law.He was the centre of the Lyonnese c?terie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch....
    , Agrippa d'Aubigné
    Agrippa d'Aubigné

    Th?odore-Agrippa d'Aubign? was a France poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques is widely regarded as his masterpiece....
    , Jean de Sponde
    Jean de Sponde

    Jean de Sponde was a baroque France poet....
    , Vincent Voiture
    Vincent Voiture

    Vincent Voiture , French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions....
    , Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, Jean de La Fontaine
    Jean de La Fontaine

    Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous France Fable and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Victor Hugo....
    , Pierre Corneille
    Pierre Corneille

    File:Pierre Corneille 3.jpgPierre Corneille was a French tragedy who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Moli?re and Jean Racine....
    , Jean Racine
    Jean Racine

    Jean Racine was a France dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition....
    , Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
    , André Chénier
    André Chénier

    Andr? Marie Ch?nier was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romanticism movement....
    , Alfred de Vigny
    Alfred de Vigny

    Alfred Victor de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.LifeAlfred de Vigny was born in Loches into an aristocratic family....
    , Alphonse de Lamartine
    Alphonse de Lamartine

    Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a France writer, poet and politician.Born in M?con, Burgundy into French provincial nobility, he spent his youth at the family property at Milly-Lamartine....
    , Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo

    Victor-Marie Hugo was a France poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romanticism movement in France....
    , Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand
    Aloysius Bertrand

    File:Aloysius Bertrand -po?te fr..JPGLouis-Jacques-Napol?on ?Aloysius? Bertrand . He wrote a collection of poems entitled Gaspard de la nuit, after which composer Maurice Ravel wrote a suite of the same name, based on the poems "Scarbo", "Ondine", and "Le Gibet"....
    , Gérard de Nerval
    Gérard de Nerval

    G?rard de Nerval was the nom-de-plume of the France poet, essayist and translator G?rard Labrunie, one of the most essentially Romanticism French poets....
    , Alfred de Musset
    Alfred de Musset

    Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a France dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du si?cle from 1836....
    , Théophile Gautier
    Théophile Gautier

    Pierre Jules Th?ophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic.While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassian poets, Symbolism, decadent movement and Modernism....
    , Charles Baudelaire
    Charles Baudelaire

    Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a nineteenth century French poetry, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic Decadent movement....
    , Leconte de Lisle, Sully Prudhomme
    Sully Prudhomme

    Ren?-Fran?ois-Armand Prudhomme was a France poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but was to turn to philosophy and later to poetry....
    , François Coppée
    François Coppée

    Fran?ois Edouard Joachim Copp?e , was a France poet and novelist....
    , José-Maria de Heredia, Paul Verlaine
    Paul Verlaine

    Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolism movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de si?cle in international and French poetry....
    , Tristan Corbière
    Tristan Corbière

    Tristan Corbi?re , born ?douard-Joachim Corbi?re, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean, near Morlaix in Brittany, where he lived most of his life and where he died....
    , Arthur Rimbaud
    Arthur Rimbaud

    Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French people poet, born in Charleville-M?zi?res. As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive....
    , Charles Cros
    Charles Cros

    Charles Cros was a France poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France, 35 km to the East of Carcassonne.Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer....
    , Comte de Lautréamont
    Comte de Lautréamont

    Comte de Lautr?amont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse , an Uruguayan-born French poet.His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Po?sies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealism and the Situationist International....
    , Pierre Louÿs
    Pierre Louÿs

    Pierre Lou?s was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."...
    , Jean Lorrain
    Jean Lorrain

    Jean Lorrain , born Paul Duval, was a French language poet and novelist of the Symbolism school.Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism, and openly gay....
    , Georges Rodenbach
    Georges Rodenbach

    Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolism poet and novelist....
    , Jean Moréas
    Jean Moréas

    Jean Mor?as , was a Greece poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote in the French language.Mor?as was born in Athens, into a distinguished Greek family; he was the son of a judge....
    , Stéphane Mallarmé
    Stéphane Mallarmé

    St?phane Mallarm? , whose real name was ?tienne Mallarm?, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolism poet, and his work antecipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism ....
    , Anna de Noailles, Emile Verhaeren
    Emile Verhaeren

    Emile Verhaeren was a Belgium poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism .He was born in a Flemish, but French-speaking, middle-class family in Sint-Amands....
    , Jules Laforgue
    Jules Laforgue

    Jules Laforgue was an innovative France poet, often referred to as a Symbolism poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist"....
    , Paul Claudel
    Paul Claudel

    Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculpture Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith....
    , Paul Valéry
    Paul Valéry

    Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Val?ry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath....
    , Guillaume Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire

    Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
    , Victor Segalen
    Victor Segalen

    Victor Segalen was a France naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.He was born in Brest, France....
    , Blaise Cendrars
    Blaise Cendrars

    Fr?d?ric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized France in 1916. A writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement....
    , André Breton
    André Breton

    Andr? Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism....
    , Paul Éluard
    Paul Éluard

    Paul ?luard was the pen name of Eug?ne ?mile Paul Grindel , a France poet who was one of the founders of the surrealism movement....
    , Jacques Prévert
    Jacques Prévert

    Jacques Pr?vert was a French poet and screenwriter. ...
    , Robert Desnos
    Robert Desnos

    Robert Desnos , was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day....
    , Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau

    Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
    , Gaston Miron
    Gaston Miron

    Gaston Miron, National Order of Quebec was an important poetry, writer, and edition of the Quebec post Quiet Revolution. His masterpiece, L'homme rapaill? has sold over 100 000 copies, in Quebec and overseas, insuring Miron as one of the mostly read author of Literature of Quebec ....
    , Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse

    Saint-John Perse was a France poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."...
    , Antonin Artaud
    Antonin Artaud

    Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud was a France playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine , and was among a long list of names which Artaud used throughout his life....
    , Maurice Maeterlinck
    Maurice Maeterlinck

    Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 in literature....
    , Henri Michaux
    Henri Michaux

    Henri Michaux was a highly idiosyncratic Belgium poet, writer and Painting who wrote in the French language. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, Travel literature, and art criticism....
    , Francis Ponge
    Francis Ponge

    Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a France essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two ? essay and poem ? into a single artform....
    , Gherasim Luca
    Gherasim Luca

    Gherasim Luca was a Surrealism theorist and Romanian poet, frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari....
    , Aimé Césaire
    Aimé Césaire

    Aim? Fernand David C?saire was an Black peopleMartinique francophone poet, author and politician....
    , Edmond Jabès
    Edmond Jabes

    Edmond Jab?s was a Jewish writer and poet, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II....
    , René Char
    René Char

    Ren? Char was a 20th century French poet....
    , Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy

    Yves Bonnefoy is a France poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire.His works have been of great importance in post-war French literature, at the same time poetic and theoretical, examining the meaning of the spoken and written word....
    , Jacques Dupin
    Jacques Dupin

    Jacques Dupin is a France poet.He has lived in Paris since 1943 and written essays on Modern Art....
    , Claude Esteban
    Claude Esteban

    Claude Esteban was a France poet.Author of a major poetic work of this last half-century, Claude Esteban wrote numerous essays on art and poetry and was the French translator, inter alia, of Jorge Guill?n, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Federico Garc?a Lorca, or Francisco de Quevedo....
    , André du Bouchet
    André du Bouchet

    Andr? du Bouchet was a France poet....
     and Philippe Jaccottet
    Philippe Jaccottet

    Philippe Jaccottet is a poet and translator who publishes in French.After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived several years in Paris....
    .


  • The German language
    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
     carries the great works of Angelus Silesius
    Angelus Silesius

    Angelus Silesius was a Germany mysticism and poet.LifeSilesius was born in Wroclaw, Silesia as son of Polish noble and German mother....
    , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
    , Gottfried August Bürger, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

    was a 19th century Germany author, and one of the most important German poets....
    , Peter Rosegger
    Peter Rosegger

    Peter Rosegger was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria . He was a son of a farmer and grew up in the forests and fields. Rosegger went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary....
    , August Silberstein, Gotthold Lessing, Friedrich Schlegel, August Schlegel, Heinrich Heine
    Heinrich Heine

    Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
    , Friedrich Nietzsche
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
    , Novalis
    Novalis

    Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism....
    , Friedrich von Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist
    Heinrich von Kleist

    Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him....
    , Friedrich Holderlin, Christian Morgenstern
    Christian Morgenstern

    Christian Morgenstern was a Germany author and poet from Munich.Morgenstern's poetry, much of which was inspired by English literary nonsense, is immensely popular, even though he enjoyed very little success during his lifetime....
    , Georg Trakl
    Georg Trakl

    Georg Trakl was a preeminent Austrian poet....
    , Theodor Storm
    Theodor Storm

    Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm studied and practiced law in Schleswig-Holstein and - emigrated under Danish rule - to Thuringia. He also wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas....
    , Rainer Maria Rilke
    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety ? themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets....
    , Erich Kästner
    Erich Kästner

    Erich K?stner was one of the most famous German language literature, screenplay writers, and Satire of the 20th century. His popularity in Germany is primarily due to his humorous and perceptive children's literature and his often satirical poetry....
    , Adalbert Stifter
    Adalbert Stifter

    Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, poet, Painting, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German language-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English language readers....
    , Karl Kraus
    Karl Kraus

    Karl Kraus was an Austrian German literature and journalism, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorism, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, Germany culture, and German and Austrian politics....
    , Ernst Toller
    Ernst Toller

    Ernst Toller was a Germany Communism playwright, best known for his expressionist plays....
    , Franz Werfel
    Franz Werfel

    Franz Werfel was an Austrian people-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet....
    , Else Lasker-Schüler
    Else Lasker-Schüler

    Else Lasker-Sch?ler was a Jewish Germany poet and playwright famous for her Bohemianism lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement....
    , Nelly Sachs
    Nelly Sachs

    Nelly Sachs, was a German language poet and dramatist whose Nazism experience transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews....
    , Hermann Hesse
    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann Hesse was a German-Switzerland poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society....
    , Paul Celan
    Paul Celan

    Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of the romanian jew Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era....
    , Till Lindemann
    Till Lindemann

    Till Lindemann is a Germany musician and poet who is most notable as being the frontman and Singer for the German metal band Rammstein....
    , Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht

    was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
     and Günter Grass
    Günter Grass

    G?nter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Germany author and playwright.He was born in the Free City of Danzig . Since 1945, he has lived in West Germany , but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood....
    .


  • The Modern Greek language
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
     has been used by a line of poets including Constantine P. Cavafy
    Constantine P. Cavafy

    Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes was one of the most renowned modern Modern Greek poets....
    , Kostis Palamas
    Kostis Palamas

    Kostis Palamas was a Greece poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek Literature generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis and Nikos Kampas....
    , Dionysios Solomos
    Dionysios Solomos

    Dionysios Solomos was a Greece poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty , of which the first two stanzas became the Greek national anthem He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece - not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also beca...
    , Odysseas Elytis
    Odysseas Elytis

    Odysseas Elytis is a Greece poetry regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature....
    , Giorgos Seferis
    Giorgos Seferis

    Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Georgios Seferi?des was one of the most important Greece poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize laureate....
    , Yiannis Ritsos
    Yiannis Ritsos

    Yiannis Ritsos was a Greece poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek resistance during World War II....
    , Kostas Karyotakis
    Kostas Karyotakis

    Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece....
    , Angelos Sikelianos
    Angelos Sikelianos

    Angelos Sikelianos was a modern Greece poet and playwright. One of Greece's most important 20th-century lyric poets, he emphasized national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance....
    , Alexandros Panagoulis
    Alexandros Panagoulis

    Alexandros Panagoulis was a Greece politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator George Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture that he was subjected to during his detention....
    , Nikos Kavvadias
    Nikos Kavvadias

    Nikos Kavvadias was a Greece poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who, used his travels around the world as a sailor, and the idealised life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality....
    , Andreas Embirikos
    Andreas Embirikos

    Andreas Embirikos was a Greece surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst....
    , Nikos Engonopoulos
    Nikos Engonopoulos

    Nikos Engonopoulos was a modern Greece painting and poetry. He is one of the most important members of the Greek Generation of the '30s as well as a major representative of the surrealism movement in Greece....
    , Kiki Dimoula
    Kiki Dimoula

    Life Kiki Dimoula is an acclaimed Greece poet. She worked as a clerk for the Bank of Greece. She was married to the poet Athos Dimoulas , with whom she had two children....
     and Dimitris P. Kraniotis
    Dimitris P. Kraniotis

    Dimitris P. Kraniotis is a Greece poet. Born in 1966 in Stomio , Greece - Larissa, a coastal town in central Greece....
    .


  • In the Gujarati language
    Gujarati language

    Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan languages, and part of the greater Indo-European languages language family. It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, and is its chief language, as well as of the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
    , Harilal Upadhyay
    Harilal Upadhyay

    Shri Harilal Upadhyay was a Gujarati people author, considered as one of the all-time great authors in the Gujarati language. He wrote more than a hundred books, including historical novels, social novels, short story collections, biographies, the great Mahabharat series, children's literature, poetry and Plays....
     was a respected poet known as Haribhai Kavi ("Kavi" means poet in Gujarati
    Gujarati language

    Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan languages, and part of the greater Indo-European languages language family. It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, and is its chief language, as well as of the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
    ).


  • The Hebrew language
    Hebrew language

    Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
     has been used by many poets such as Abraham ibn Ezra
    Abraham ibn Ezra

    Rabbi Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Islamic Spain, and died c. 1164 .. .He was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages....
    , Yehuda Amichai
    Yehuda Amichai

    Yehuda Amichai was an Israelis poet. He is considered one of Israel's leading poets in modern times, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew language....
    , Hayyim Nahman Bialik
    Hayyim Nahman Bialik

    Hayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew language. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet....
    , Haim Gouri
    Haim Gouri

    Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary film director ....
    , Solomon ibn Gabirol
    Solomon ibn Gabirol

    Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah was an al-Andalus Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher. He was born in M?laga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia ....
    , Leah Goldberg
    Leah Goldberg

    Leah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew language poet, and a translator and researcher of Hebrew literature....
    , Yehuda Halevi
    Yehuda Halevi

    Judah Halevi, in full Judah ben Shemuel Ha-Levi, also Yehuda Halevi, or Yehuda ben Samuel Halevi was a Sephardic philosopher and poet....
    , Ahimaaz ben Paltiel
    Ahimaaz ben Paltiel

    Ahimaaz ben Paltiel was an History of the Jews in Italy liturgical poet and author of a family chronicle. He was born in Capua, Italy, in 1017 and died about 1060 in Oria, Italy....
    , Hanoch Levin
    Hanoch Levin

    Hanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he was best known for his plays....
    , Rachel Bluwstein
    Rachel Bluwstein

    Rachel Bluwstein Sela was a Hebrew language lyric poet who immigrated to Palestine#Ottoman_rule_.281841-1917.29 in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, or as Rachel the poetess ....
    , Avraham Shlonsky
    Avraham Shlonsky

    Avraham Shlonsky was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editing born in the Ukraine. He was influential in the development of modern Hebrew language and its literature in Israel through his many acclaimed translations of literary classics, particularly from Russian, as well as his own original Hebrew children's classics....
    , Shaul Tchernichovsky
    Shaul Tchernichovsky

    Shaul Tchernichovsky , , was a Russian-born Hebrew language poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece....
    , Natan Yonatan
    Natan Yonatan

    Natan Yonatan was a much-loved Israelis poet who received almost every prize and honor given to poets in Israel.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....
     and David Edelstadt
    David Edelstadt

    David Edelstadt was a Jewish-Russian-United States anarchism poet of Yiddish language....
    .


  • The Hungarian language
    Hungarian language

    Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
     has been used by poets such as Endre Ady
    Endre Ady

    Endre Ady was a Hungary poet. He was one of the most important poets not only in the corpus of Hungarian literature but also in world literature....
    , János Arany
    János Arany

    J?nos Arany , was a Hungary journalist, writer, poet, and translator. He is often said to be the "William Shakespeare of ballads" ? he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy, to mention his most famous works....
    , Bálint Balassa, Attila József
    Attila József

    Attila J?zsef was one of the most outstanding Hungarian poets in the 20th century....
    , József Katona
    József Katona

    J?zsef Katona was a Hungarian people playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian drama: author of the legendary historical tragedy: B?nk b?n....
    , Ágoston Pável
    Ágoston Pável

    File:P?vel ?goston 1930 k?r?l.jpg?goston P?vel, also known in slovenian language as Avgust Pavel was a Hungarian Slovenes writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian....
    , Sándor Petofi
    Sándor Petofi

    S?ndor Petofi was a national poet of Hungary, author of the Nemzeti dal and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848....
    , Mihály Vörösmarty
    Mihály Vörösmarty

    Mih?ly V?r?smarty , Hungarians poet, was born at Puszta-Ny?k, of a nobility Roman Catholic family.His father was a steward of the N?dasdys. Mih?ly was educated at Sz?kesfeh?rv?r by the Cistercians and at Pest by the Piarists....
    , Albert Wass
    Albert Wass

    Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege was a Hungarian people Nobility, forest engineer, Hungarian literature, poet, member of the Wass de Czege family....
     and Miklós Zrínyi.


  • In the Italian language
    Italian language

    Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
     there have been such poets as Dante
    DANTE

    DANTE is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various National Research and Education Networks in Europe and surrounding regions....
    , Giovanni Boccaccio
    Giovanni Boccaccio

    Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italy author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanism and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular....
    , Vittorio Alfieri
    Vittorio Alfieri

    Count Vittorio Alfieri , was an Italy dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."...
    , Guido Cavalcanti
    Guido Cavalcanti

    Guido Cavalcanti was an Italians poet who was a role model for and a very close friend of Dante Alighieri. He was born in Florence and was the son of the Guelphs and Ghibellines Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, whom Dante condemns to torment in the sixth circle of The Inferno, where the heretics are punished....
    , Ludovico Ariosto
    Ludovico Ariosto

    Ludovico Ariosto was an Italians poet. He is best known as the author of the romance Epic poetry Orlando Furioso . The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Roland, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracen with divergents into many side plots....
    , Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale

    Eugenio Montale was an Italy poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975....
    , Gabriele D'Annunzio
    Gabriele D'Annunzio

    Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
    , Giuseppe Ungaretti
    Giuseppe Ungaretti

    Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italy Modernism poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the Experimental literature trend known as ermetismo, he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature....
    , Ugo Foscolo
    Ugo Foscolo

    Ugo Foscolo was a Greece-born Italy writer, revolutionary and poet. On the death of his father, a physician in Split /Spalato, today Croatia , the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school....
    , Petrarch
    Petrarch

    Francesco Petrarca , known in English language as Petrarch, was an Italy scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanism. Petrarch is often popularly called the "Father of Humanism"....
    , Salvatore Quasimodo
    Salvatore Quasimodo

    Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italy author. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times." Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century....
    , Giovanni Pascoli
    Giovanni Pascoli

    Giovanni Pascoli was an Italy poet and classical scholar....
    , Giambattista Basile
    Giambattista Basile

    Giambattista Basile was an Italy poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector....
    , Torquato Tasso
    Torquato Tasso

    Torquato Tasso was an Italy poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem ....
    , Cesare Pavese
    Cesare Pavese

    Cesare Pavese was an Italy poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country....
    , Umberto Saba
    Umberto Saba

    Umberto Saba was the pseudonym of Italy poet and novelist Umberto Poli. His creative work was hampered by a life-long struggle with mental illness....
    , Alessandro Manzoni
    Alessandro Manzoni

    Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italy poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , one of the major works of Italian literature....
    , Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
     and Giacomo Leopardi
    Giacomo Leopardi

    Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist....
    .


  • In the Japanese language
    Japanese language

    IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
     we can read the poetry
    Poetry

    Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
     of Matsuo Basho
    Matsuo Basho

    was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Basho was recognized for his works in the collaborative Renku form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku....
    , Fujiwara no Shunzei
    Fujiwara no Shunzei

    was a noted Japanese Japanese poetry and nobleman, son of Fujiwara no Toshitada. He was also known as Fujiwara no Toshinari or Shakua ; younger days , he gave his name as Akihiro , but in 1167, changed to Shunzei....
    , Fujiwara no Teika
    Fujiwara no Teika

    Fujiwara no Teika , also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie or Sada-ie, was a Japanese people Waka poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe, and scholar of the late Heian period and early Kamakura periods....
    , Sakutaro Hagiwara
    Sakutaro Hagiwara

    was a writer of free-style verse, active in Taisho period and early Showa period Japan. He liberated Japanese free verse from the grip of traditional rules, and he is considered the ?father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan?....
    , Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
    Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

    Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a Japanese poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period. He was the most prominent of the poets included in the Man'yoshu, and was particularly represented in volumes 1 and 2....
    , Ikkyu
    Ikkyu

    was an Eccentricity , iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhism priest and poet. He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals.....
    , Izumi Shikibu
    Izumi Shikibu

    was a mid Heian period Japanese people poet. She is a member of the . She was the contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu and Akazome Emon at the court of Joto Mon'in, and was perhaps the greatest poet of her time....
    , Kambara Ariake, Kamo no Chomei
    Kamo no Chomei

    was a Japanese author, poet , and essayist. He experienced a series of disasters in his life, was passed over for promotion within his shrine, and lost his political backing as a result....
    , Hakushu Kitahara, Kitamura Tokoku
    Kitamura Tokoku

    ; was the pen-name of a poet, essayist and one of the founders of the modern Japanese romanticism in late Meiji period Japan. His real name was Kitamura Montaro....
    , Kukai
    Kukai

    Kukai , also known posthumously as , 774–835, was a Japanese people bhikshu, scholar, poet, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism....
    , Masao Kume, Kunikida Doppo
    Kunikida Doppo

    was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese Naturalism .Early life...
    , Masaoka Shiki
    Masaoka Shiki

    was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist in Meiji period Japan. His real name was Masaoka Tsunenori , but as a child he was called Tokoronosuke ....
    , Yukio Mishima
    Yukio Mishima

    was the pseudonym of , a Japanese people author, poet and playwright....
    , Kenji Miyazawa
    Kenji Miyazawa

    was a poet and author of children's literature in early Showa period Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian and social activist....
    , Tatsuji Miyoshi
    Tatsuji Miyoshi

    was a Japanese poetry, literary critic, and literary editing active in Showa period Japan. He is known for his rather lengthy free verse poetry, which often portray loneliness and isolation as part of contemporary life, but which are written in a complex, highly literary style reminiscent of classical Japanese poetry....
    , Mori Ogai
    Mori Ogai

    was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. is considered his major work....
    , Murasaki Shikibu
    Murasaki Shikibu

    Murasaki Shikibu , or Lady Murasaki as she is often known in English, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and a maid of honor of the Emperor of Japan during the Heian Period....
    , Saneatsu Mushanokoji, Chuya Nakahara, Natsume Soseki
    Natsume Soseki

    ' was the pen name of ', who is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era . He is commonly referred to as Soseki....
    , Nishiwaki Junzaburo
    Nishiwaki Junzaburo

    was a contemporary Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Showa period Japan....
    , Yone Noguchi
    Yone Noguchi

    Yone Noguchi, born Yonejiro Noguchi , was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese....
    , Okamoto Kanoko
    Okamoto Kanoko

    was the pen-name of a Japanese author, Waka poet, and Buddhism scholar active during Taisho period and early Showa period period Japan....
    , Ono no Komachi
    Ono no Komachi

    was a famous Japanese Waka poet, one of the Rokkasen?the Six best Waka poets of the early Heian period. She was noted as a rare beauty; Komachi is a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan....
    , Ryokan
    Ryokan

    was a quiet and eccentric Soto Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit. Ryokan is remembered for his Waka and calligraphy, which present the essence of Zen life....
    , Saigyo Hoshi, Santo Kyoden
    Santo Kyoden

    was a poet, writer and artist in the Edo period. His real name was , and he was also known popularly as . He is the brother of Santo Kyozan....
    , Sei Shonagon
    Sei Shonagon

    Sei Shonagon , was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi /Empress Sadako around the year 1000 during the middle Heian Period, and is best known as the author of The Pillow Book ....
    , Sugawara no Michizane
    Sugawara no Michizane

    Sugawara no Michizane , also known as Kan Shojo , a grandson of Sugawara no Kiyotomo , was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian Period of Japan....
    , Ueda Akinari
    Ueda Akinari

    Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shusei was a Japanese author, scholar and Waka poet, and perhaps the most prominent literary figure in eighteenth century Japan....
     and Takuboku Ishikawa.


  • The Korean language
    Korean language

    Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
     has been used by poets such as Choe Chiwon
    Choe Chiwon

    Choe Chiwon was a noted Korean Korean Confucianism official, philosopher, and poet of the late Unified Silla period . He studied for many years in Tang Dynasty, passed the Tang imperial examination, and rose to high office there before returning to Silla, where he made ultimately futile attempts to reform the governmental apparatus of a decl...
    , Ko Un
    Ko Un

    Ko Un is a Korean poet....
    , Hwang Jin-i
    Hwang Jin-i

    Hwang Jin-i , also known by her gisaeng name Myeongwol , is the most legendary gisaeng of the Joseon Dynasty who lived during the reign of Jungjong of Joseon....
    , Chon Sang-pyong
    Chôn Sang-Pyông

    Chon Sang-pyong was a Korean poet.Born in early 1930 in Japan, Chon returned to Korea with his family in 1945 and resumed his interrupted schooling at Masan....
     and Seo Jeong-ju.


  • The Latin
    Latin

    Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
     language has been used by such great poets as Ausonius
    Ausonius

    Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Latin literature poet and rhetorician, born at Burdigala ....
    , Catullus
    Catullus

    Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His work remains widely studied, and continues to influence poetry and other forms of art....
    , Ennius
    Ennius

    Quintus Ennius was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry. He was of Greeks descent....
    , Horace
    Horace

    This article is about the Roman poet Horace. For other uses, see Horace .Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English language world as Horace, was the leading Roman Empire Lyric poetry during the time of Augustus....
    , Juvenal
    Juvenal

    The Satires are a collection of satire poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries A.D.Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five scroll; all are in the Roman genre of Satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and soc...
    , Lucretius
    Lucretius

    Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman Republic poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem on Epicureanism De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things....
    , Martial
    Martial

    Marcus Valerius Martialis , was a Latin language poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Ancient Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the Roman emperor Domitian, Nerva and Trajan....
    , Ovid
    Ovid

    Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
    , Sextus Propertius
    Sextus Propertius

    Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegy poet who was born around 50?45 BCE in Mevania and died shortly after 15 BCE.Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of elegy. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus....
    , Statius
    Statius

    Publius Papinius Statius was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, born in Naples, Italy. Besides his poetry, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatorio section of Dante Alighieri epic poem The Divine Comedy....
    , Terence
    Terence

    Publius Terentius Afer , better known as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC, and he died young probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome....
    , Tibullus
    Tibullus

    Albius Tibullus was a Latin poet and writer of elegy.Little is known about his life. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to Tibullus are of questionable origins....
     and Virgil
    Virgil

    Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
    .


  • The (modern Slavic) Macedonian language
    Macedonian language

    Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages....
     has been used by poets like Bogomil Gjuzel
    Bogomil Gjuzel

    Bogomil Gjuzel is a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator....
    , Blaže Koneski
    Blaže Koneski

    Bla?e Koneski was one of the most distinguished Macedonians poets. He received his education in Sofia, Prilep, Skopje, Kragujevac and Belgrade...
     and Mateja Matevski
    Mateja Matevski

    Mateja Matevski is a renowned Macedonians poet, literary and theatre critic, essayist, and translator....
    .


  • Maltese
    Maltese language

    Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....
     poetry
    Maltese literature

    The term Maltese literature may be used to refer to any literature originating from Malta or by Maltese People writers. However, it more often refers to literature written in the Maltese language....
     features such poets as Dun Karm Psaila
    Dun Karm Psaila

    Dun Karm was a Malta writer and poet, sometimes called 'the bard of Malta' He was educated at the Seminary between the years 1885 and 1894 and then proceeded to study philosophy in 1888 and theology in 1890 the University of Malta....
    , Pietro Caxaro, Ruzar Briffa
    Ruzar Briffa

    Ruzar Briffa was a Malta poet and dermatologist, and a major figure in Maltese literature.?I never thought of publishing these poems in a book....
    , Anton Buttigieg
    Anton Buttigieg

    Anton Buttigieg [IPA: ant?n butigi:g] was a Malta political figure and poet. He served as president of Malta from 1976 until 1981.Anton Buttigieg was born in Qala, Gozo, on February 19, 1912, the third child of Salvatore and Concetta ....
    , Francis Ebejer
    Francis Ebejer

    Francis Ebejer was a Malta dramatist and novelist. Ebejer studied medicine at the University of Malta between 1942 and 1943 before abandoning the course to work as an English-Italian interpreter with the 8th Army of the British Forces in Tripolitania, North Africa ....
    , Emilio Lombardi
    Emilio Lombardi

    Emilio Lombardi was a Malta author. At the age of 15 years Lombardi started to write stories, and at the age of 19 years he published his first book....
    , Mikiel Anton Vassalli
    Mikiel Anton Vassalli

    Mikiel Anton Vassalli was a Malta writer and Linguistics. He studied oriental languages at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and went on to publish important Maltese language books, including a Maltese-Italian language dictionary, a Maltese grammar book and, towards the end of his life, a book on Maltese proverbs....
     and Gioacchino Navarro
    Gioacchino Navarro

    Gioacchino Navarro , was the Conventional Parish Priest of the Order of St. John, Malta. He studied both Latin and Greek. He is known in Malta for It-Tliet Ghanjiet bil-Malti , that come to public for the first time by F....
    .


  • The Norwegian language
    Norwegian language

    Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
     has been used by many poets including Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

    Bj?rnstjerne Martinus Bj?rnson was a Norway writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bj?rnson is considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland....
    , Jens Bjørneboe
    Jens Bjørneboe

    Jens Ingvald Bj?rneboe was a Norway writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a school teacher. Bj?rneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western culture on the whole....
    , Hans Børli
    Hans Børli

    Hans B?rli was a Norwegian poet and writer, who besides his writings worked as a lumberjack all his life. He was born in Eidskog, in South-Eastern Norway, close to the Norwegian border to Sweden....
    , Olaf Bull
    Olaf Bull

    Olaf Jacob Martin Luther Breda Bull or Olaf Bull was a Norwegian poet. He was born on November 10, 1883 in Kristiania , Norway, and died on June 29, 1933....
    , Kolbein Falkeid
    Kolbein Falkeid

    Kolbein Falkeid is one of the most widely read contemporary Norwegian poets. He is known for a lyrical poet's voice that is at once philosophical and approachable....
    , Olav H. Hauge
    Olav H. Hauge

    Olav H?konson Hauge was a Norwegian poet. He was born in Ulvik and lived his whole life there, working as a gardener in his own orchard.Aside from writing his own poems, he was internationally oriented, and translated poems by Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, Stephane Mallarm?, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, Friedric...
    , Gunvor Hofmo
    Gunvor Hofmo

    Gunvor Hofmo was a Norway writer, often considered one of Norway's most influential Modernist poetry poets.....
    , Johan Herman Wessel
    Johan Herman Wessel

    Johan Herman Wessel was a well known poet in Norway and Denmark literature . Some of his satirical poems are still popular. The traditional restaurant Wesselstuen in Bergen, Norway contains many of his works as decorations....
    , Rolf Jacobsen
    Rolf Jacobsen

    Rolf Jacobsen could be said to be the first modernism writer in Norway. Jacobsen's career as a writer spanned more than fifty years. He is one of Scandinavia?s most distinguished poets, who launched poetic modernism in Norway with his first book, Jord og jern in 1933....
    , Jonas Lie
    Jonas Lie

    Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norway novelist, considered to be one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature....
    , Henrik Wergeland
    Henrik Wergeland

    Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland Oslo was a Norway writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist....
    , Herman Wildenvey
    Herman Wildenvey

    Herman Wildenvey , born Herman Theodor Portaas, was one of the most prominent Norway poetrys of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he published 44 books of his own poetry, in addition to translations of William Shakepeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Heinrich Heine....
     and Henrik Ibsen
    Henrik Ibsen

    Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Nineteenth-century theatre Norway playwright of realism drama and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre....
    .


  • In the Portuguese language
    Portuguese language

    Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
     you can find the masterworks of Bocage
    Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

    Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage , Portugal poet, was a native of Setubal. His father had held important judicial and administrative appointments, and his mother, from whom he took his last surname, was the daughter of a Portuguese vice-admiral of France birth who had fought at the Battle of Matapan....
    , Cesário Verde
    Cesário Verde

    Ces?rio Verde was a 19th-century Portugal poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime and not well known outside of the country?s borders even today, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools....
    , Florbela Espanca
    Florbela Espanca

    Florbela Espanca , Portugal poet . Precursor of the feminism movement in Portugal, she had a tumultuous and eventful life that shaped her erotic and feminine writings....
    , Sophia de Mello Breyner, Antero de Quental
    Antero de Quental

    Antero Tarqu?nio de Quental , old spelling Anthero, , Portugal poet, was born in Ponta Delgada on S?o Miguel Island, in the Azores, into one of the oldest families of the provincial captaincies on the island, his parents being Fernando de Quental , a veteran from Portuguese Liberal Wars who took part in the Landing of Mindelo and, in his li...
    , Fernando Pessoa
    Fernando Pessoa

    Fernando Ant?nio Nogueira Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda....
    , Luís de Camões
    Luís de Camões

    Lu?s Vaz de Cam?es Family is considered Portugal's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, and Dante Alighieri....
    , Carlos Drummond de Andrade
    Carlos Drummond de Andrade

    Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Literature of Brazil poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Can??o Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note....
    , Augusto dos Anjos, Gregório de Matos Guerra, Gonçalves Dias, Álvares de Azevedo
    Álvares de Azevedo

    Manuel Ant?nio ?lvares de Azevedo was a writer of Brazilian's romantic second generation, author of short stories, dramas, poetry and essays Brazilian, son of In?cio Manuel ?lvares de Azevedo and Maria Lu?sa Mota Azevedo....
    , Mário Quintana
    Mario Quintana

    Mario de Miranda Quintana , was a Brazilian writer. Born in Alegrete, state of Rio Grande do Sul.----Auto-BiographyI was born in Alegrete, on the 30th of July 1906....
    , Clarice Lispector
    Clarice Lispector

    Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian Brazilian Literature. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist and a translator....
    , Vinícius de Morais, Cruz e Sousa, Décio Pignatari
    Décio Pignatari

    D?cio Pignatari is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words....
    , João Cabral de Melo Neto
    João Cabral de Melo Neto

    Jo?o Cabral de Melo Neto was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.He is often quoted saying "I try not to perfume the flower"....
     and Manuel Bandeira
    Manuel Bandeira

    Manuel Bandeira was a Brazilian poet. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from S?o Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather....
    .


  • The Persian language
    Persian language

    name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
     has been used by such world famous poets as Rumi, Hafez
    Hafez

    Khwaja ?amsu d-Din Mu?ammad Hafez-e ?irazi , known by his pen name Hafez was the most celebrated Persian lyric poet and is often described as poet's poet....
    , Ferdowsi
    Ferdowsi

    Hakim Abu'l-Qasim Firdawsi Tusi , more commonly transliterated as Ferdowsi , was a highly revered Persian people poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran as well as other Persian communities in other countries....
    , Saadi
    Saadi (poet)

    Abu Mu?li? bin Abdallah Shirazi , better known by his pen-name as Sa'adi , was one of the major Persian poetry of the medieval period. He is recognized not only for the quality of his writing, but also for the depth of his social thoughts....
    , Khayyam
    Omar Khayyám

    Omar Khayyam was a Persian peoples polymath: Islamic mathematics, Iranian philosophy, Islamic astronomy and above all Persian literature.He has also become established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period....
    , Nezami
    Nezami

    Nezami-ye Ganjavi , or Nezami , whose formal name was Nizam ad-Din Abu Mu?ammad Ilyas ibn-Yusuf ibn-Zaki ibn-Mu?ayyad, is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic....
    , Rudaki
    Rudaki

    Abdullah Jafar Ibn Mohammad Rudaki, also written as Rudagi or Rudhagi, was a Persian people poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the Perso-Arabic alphabet or "New Persian" script....
    , Naser Khosrow, Sanai Ghaznavi
    Sanai

    Hakim Abul-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i Ghaznavi was a Persian people Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan between the 11th century and the 12th century....
    , Jami
    Jami

    Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami was one of the greatest Persian language poets in the 15th century and one of the last great Sufi poets....
    , Asadi Tusi
    Asadi Tusi

    Abu Mansur Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi is arguably the second most important Persian language poet of Iranian national epics, after Ferdowsi who also happens to come from the same town of Tus....
    , Amir Khosravi Dehlavi
    Amir Khusro

    Ab'ul Hasan Yamin al-Din Khusrow , better known as Amir Khusrow Dehlawi , was an Indian musician, scholar and a poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent....
    , Sheikh Bahaii, Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, Abusaeid Abolkheir
    Abusaeid Abolkheir

    Abusa'id Abolkhayr or Abu-Sa'id Abulkhayr , also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed, was a famous Persian empire Sufi who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition....
    , Farid al-Din Attar, Muhammad Iqbal
    Muhammad Iqbal

    Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a Muslim poet, philosopher and politician born in Sialkot, British raj , whose poetry in Urdu language, Arabic and Persian language is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era, and whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan....
    , Asad Gorgani
    Asad Gorgani

    Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani, was a 11th century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Ramin, , a story from the Parthia period....
    , Farrukhi Sistani
    Farrukhi Sistani

    Abul Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani was a 10th century and 11th century royal poet of Ghaznavids.He was one of the brightest masters of the panegyric school of poetry in the court of Mahmud of Ghazni....
    , Baba Tahir Oryan, Anvari
    Anvari

    Anvari , full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud was one of the greatest Persian poets....
    , Nesîmî
    Nesîmî

    ?Ali ?Imadu d-Din Nasimi , often known as Nesimi, was a 14th-century Turkic people Hurufism poet. Known mostly by his pen name of Nes?m?, he composed one Diwan in Azerbaijani language, one in Persian language, and a number of poems in Arabic language....
    , Manuchihri
    Manuchihri

    Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri , a.k.a Manuchehri Damghani, was a royal poet of the 11th century in Persia.He was from Damghan in Iran and he is said to invent the form of musammat in Persian poetry and has the best ones too....
    , Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlou
    Ahmad Shamlou

    Ahmad Shamlou was a Persian people poet, writer, and journalist. His poetry was initially very much influenced by and was in the tradition of Nima Youshij....
    , Parvin E'tesami
    Parvin E'tesami

    Parvin E'tesami , also Parvin Etesami was a 20th century Persian language poet of Iran. According to Dehkhoda, her given name was Rakhshanda....
    , Forough Farrokhzad
    Forough Farrokhzad

    Forugh Farrokhzad was an Iranian poet and film director.Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably Iran's most significant female poet of the twentieth century....
    , Sohrab Sepehri
    Sohrab Sepehri

    Sohrab Sepehri was a notable modern Persian language poet and a painter.He was born in Kashan in Isfahan Province province.He is considered one of the five most famous modern Persian poets who have practiced "New Poetry" ....
    , Khwaju Kermani
    Khwaju Kermani

    Khwaju Kermani was a famous poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.His expertise was in the ghazal.He is buried in Shiraz, Iran, and his tomb is a popular tourist attraction today....
    , Khaqani Shirvani, Abdol-Qader Bidel Dehlavi and Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.


  • The Polish language
    Polish language

    Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
     poets are represented by Jan Kochanowski
    Jan Kochanowski

    Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance List of Polish language poets who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish Polish literature language ....
    , Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski
    Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski

    Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski was a Poland poet.Born in Warsaw, he moved to Moscow at an early age and upon returning to Poland studied classical and English language at the University of Warsaw, submitting a dissertation on a non-existent nineteenth-century English poet, Morris Gordon Cheats....
    , Maria Konopnicka
    Maria Konopnicka

    Maria Konopnicka was a Poland poet, novelist, translator and essayist. She sometimes used pen names, often "Jan Sawa."Konopnicka was a representative poet of the Positivism in Poland period in Polish literature....
    , Boleslaw Lesmian
    Boleslaw Lesmian

    Boleslaw Lesmian was a Poland poet, artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century in Poland, one of the best poets of 20th century and cousin of another notable poet of the epoch - Jan Brzechwa and a nephew of famous poet and writer of Young Poland - Antoni Lange....
    , Adam Mickiewicz
    Adam Mickiewicz

    Adam Bernard Mickiewicz is generally regarded as the greatest Polish Romanticism poet. He ranks as one of Poland's Three Bards alongside Zygmunt Krasinski and Juliusz Slowacki....
    , Czeslaw Milosz
    Czeslaw Milosz

    Czeslaw Milosz ; was a Poles poet, prose and translator. From 1961 to 1978 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley....
    , Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Leon Pasternak
    Leon Pasternak

    Leon Pasternak was a Poland poet and satirist. He was Jewish and related to Boris Pasternak the famous Russian poet.In the 1920's Leon was a young idealist and committed communist....
    , Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
    Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

    Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, n?e Kossak , was a Poles poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyrical poetry" of History of Poland ....
    , Juliusz Slowacki
    Juliusz Slowacki

    Juliusz Slowacki was a noted Poles Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature. His works often feature elements of Slavic mythology, mysticism, and Orientalism....
    , Leopold Staff
    Leopold Staff

    Leopold Staff was a Polish poet and one of the greatest artists of Europe modernism honored two times by honorary degrees . He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature....
    , Halina Poswiatowska
    Halina Poswiatowska

    Halina Poswiatowska - Poland poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature.She is famous for her lyrical poetry and for her intellectual and passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death, love, existence, famous historical personages, especially women, as well as her mordant treatment of life,...
    , and Wislawa Szymborska
    Wislawa Szymborska

    Wislawa Szymborska is a Poland poetry, essayist and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors—although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" [Niekt?rzy lubia poezje] that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the a...
    .


  • The Romanian language
    Romanian language

    Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
     has been used by many poets such as Tudor Arghezi
    Tudor Arghezi

    Tudor Arghezi was a major Romanian writer, noted for his contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest , he explained that his pen name was related to Argesis, the Latin name for the Arges River....
    , Ana Blandiana
    Ana Blandiana

    Ana Blandiana is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vintu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village....
    , George Cosbuc
    George Cosbuc

    George Cosbuc was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy....
    , Mihai Eminescu
    Mihai Eminescu

    Mihai Eminescu , was a late Romanticism poet, novelist and journalist. He is the best-known and most influential Romanian language poet. Famous poems include Luceafarul , Oda ?n metru antic , and the five Letters ....
    , and Nicolae Labis
    Nicolae Labis

    Nicolae Labis was a Romanian poet....
    .


  • The Russian language
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
     can be represented by Bella Akhmadulina
    Bella Akhmadulina

    Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina is a Russian poet who has been cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language....
    , Anna Akhmatova
    Anna Akhmatova

    Anna Akhmatova was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, a Russian poet credited with a large influence on Russian literature.Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as , her tragic masterpiece about the Great Purge....
    , Innokenty Annensky
    Innokenty Annensky

    Innokentiy Fyodorovich Annensky was a poet, critic and translator, representative of the first wave of Russian Symbolism. Sometimes cited as a Slavic counterpart to the poete maudit, Annensky managed to render into Russian language the essential intonations of Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, while the subtle music, ominous allusions, arc...
    , Evgeny Baratynsky
    Evgeny Baratynsky

    Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russia elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought....
    , Alexander Blok
    Alexander Blok

    Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok was one of the most gifted lyrical poets produced by Russia after Alexander Pushkin....
    , Joseph Brodsky
    Joseph Brodsky

    Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991....
    , Ivan Bunin, Sasha Cherny
    Sasha Cherny

    Sasha Chorny , real name Alexander Mikhailovich Glickberg, was a Russian poet, satirist and children's writer....
    , Gavrila Derzhavin, Afanasy Fet
    Afanasy Fet

    Afanasy Afanasievich Fet , or Foeth, later changed his name to Shenshin , was a poet who dominated Russian literature during the last quarter of the 19th century....
    , Nikolay Gumilyov
    Nikolay Gumilyov

    Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was an influential Russian poet who founded the Acmeist poetry movement.Variants of spelling include: Goumilev, Gumilev, Goumilov, Goemilov, Goemiljow, Goumileff, Gumileff, Gumiliovas....
    , Velimir Khlebnikov
    Velimir Khlebnikov

    Velimir Khlebnikov , pseudonym of Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov , was a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it....
    , Ivan Krylov
    Ivan Krylov

    Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best known Fable. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine, later fables were original work....
    , Mikhail Lermontov
    Mikhail Lermontov

    Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , , a Russian language Romanticism writer and poet, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death....
    , Osip Mandelstam
    Osip Mandelstam

    Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist poetry school of poets....
    , Peretz Markish
    Peretz Markish

    Peretz Markish was a Jewish Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder and was singing in the choir of the local synagogue....
    , Samuil Marshak
    Samuil Marshak

    Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories....
    , Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolay Nekrasov, Boris Pasternak
    Boris Pasternak

    Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago , a tragedy whose events span the last period of Tsarist Russia and the early days of the Soviet Union....
    , Alexander Pushkin, David Samoylov
    David Samoylov

    David Samoylov , pseudonym of David Samuilovich Kaufman . He is a notable poet of War generation of Russian poets, and considered one of the most important Russian poets of the post-World War II era....
    , Konstantin Simonov
    Konstantin Simonov

    Konstantin Simonov was a Soviet Union/Russian author. His full name was Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov. He was a well-known war poet who wrote a popular poem called "Wait for me ", about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return....
    , Arseny Tarkovsky
    Arseny Tarkovsky

    Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky was a prominent Russian poet and translator. His poems appeared in the films The Mirror and Stalker , directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, his son....
    , Marina Tsvetayeva, Fyodor Tyutchev
    Fyodor Tyutchev

    Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia, following Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov....
    , Maximilian Voloshin
    Maximilian Voloshin

    Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin was a Russian poet. He was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolism in Russian culture and literature....
    , Andrey Voznesensky
    Andrey Voznesensky

    Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky is a Russian language poet and writer who has been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He lives and works in Moscow....
    , Sergei Yesenin
    Sergei Yesenin

    Sergei Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet.Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in the Ryazan region of the Russian Empire to a peasant family....
    , Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Russian language List of poets. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, and editor....
     and Vasily Zhukovsky
    Vasily Zhukovsky

    Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s.He is credited with introducing the Romanticism to Russian literature....
    .


  • The Spanish language
    Spanish language

    Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
     is vibrant with the words of Gonzalo de Berceo
    Gonzalo de Berceo

    Gonzalo de Berceo was a Spain poet born in the La Rioja n village of Berceo, close to the major Benedictine monastery of San Mill?n de la Cogolla, La Rioja....
    , Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita
    Juan Ruiz

    Juan Ruiz , known as the Archpriest of Hita, Spain , was a Middle Ages Spain poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor ....
    , Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara
    Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara

    Juan Rodr?guez de la C?mara , also known as Juan Rodr?guez del Padr?n, was a Galicia writer and poet, considered the last poet of the Galician school....
    , Jorge Manrique
    Jorge Manrique

    Jorge Manrique was a major Spain poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre , is still read today. He was a supporter of the great Spanish queen, Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated on her side in the civil war that broke out against her half-brother, Enrique IV, when the latter attempted to make his daughter,...
    , The Marquis of Santillana
    Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana

    Don ??igo L?pez de Mendoza y de la Vega, Marquis of Santillana was a Castile poet who held an important position in society and Literature during the reign of John II of Castile....
    , Gómez Manrique
    Gómez Manrique

    G?mez Manrique , G?mez Manrique y de Castilla was a Spain poet, soldier, politician and dramatist born in Amusco. The fifth son of Pedro Manrique de Lara y Mendoza , , adelantado mayor of Leon....
    , Garcilaso de la Vega
    Garcilaso de la Vega

    Garcilaso de la Vega , was a Spain soldier and poet. The prototypical "Renaissance man," he was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain....
    , Juan Boscán, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Cristóbal de Castillejo
    Cristóbal de Castillejo

    Crist?bal de Castillejo was a Spanish poet, contemporary of Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Bosc?n, who championed the use of traditional forms of Spain poetry and criticized the use of Italy forms such as the sonnet....
    , fray Luis de León
    Luis Ponce de León

    Fray Luis Ponce de Le?n was a Spain Lyric poetry poet and an friar, of the Spanish Golden Age....
    , Jorge de Montemayor, Fernando de Rojas
    Fernando de Rojas

    Fernando de Rojas was a Castilian author about whom little information is known. He possibly attended the University of Salamanca. Although his family was of Jewish ancestry, they were conversos, or Jews who had converted to Christianity under pressure from the Spanish crown....
    , Fernando de Herrera
    Fernando de Herrera

    Fernando de Herrera called "El Divino" was a 16th-century Spanish poetry and man of letters. He was born in Seville. Much of what is known about him comes from the book Libro de descripci?n de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones , which was written in 1599 by Francisco Pacheco....
    , Lope de Rueda
    Lope de Rueda

    Lope de Rueda was a Spain dramatist and author, regarded by some as the best of his era. A very versatile writer, he also wrote comedy, farces, and pasos....
    , Juan del Encina
    Juan del Encina

    Juan del Encina . His actual name was Juan de Fermoselle, and was one of at least 7 known children. Fermoselle was a composer, poet and playwriter, often called the founder of Spain drama....
    , Antonio de Guevara
    Antonio de Guevara

    Antonio de Guevara , was a Spain chronicler and moralist....
    , Feliciano de Silva
    Feliciano de Silva

    Feliciano de Silva was a Spain writer.de Silva was born in Ciudad Rodrigo to a powerful family, Silva wrote ?sequels? to Celestina and Amadis de Gaula....
    ,Francisco de Rioja
    Francisco de Rioja

    Francisco de Rioja was a Spanish poet. Rioja was a canon of Seville Cathedral and a member of the Supreme Inquisition....
    , Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
    Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola

    Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola , Spain dramatist and poet, was baptized at Barbastro on December 14, 1559.He was educated at the universities of Huesca and Saragossa, becoming secretary to the duke de Villahermosa in 1585....
    , Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel de Cervantes

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel by many, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written....
    , Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar
    Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar

    ----Juan Mart?nez de J?uregui y Aguilar , Spain poet, scholar and painter in the Spanish Golden Age.Juan Mart?nez de J?uregui y Hurtado de la Sal was born and baptized in Seville, Andalusia....
    , Baltasar del Alcázar
    Baltasar del Alcázar

    Baltasar del Alc?zar , was a Spain poet from Seville, Spain. His poetry was about life and love, most of it spiced with a keen sense of humor....
    , Francisco de Quevedo
    Francisco de Quevedo

    Francisco G?mez de Quevedo y Santib??ez Villegas was a nobleman, politician and writer of the Siglo de Oro. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de G?ngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age....
    , Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca

    Pedro Calder?n de la Barca y Henao , was a dramatist of the Spain Spanish Golden Age....
    , Lope de Vega
    Lope de Vega

    Lope de Vega was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish language letters is second only to that of Miguel de Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled:...
    , Luis de Góngora
    Luis de Góngora

    Luis de G?ngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque literature lyric poet. G?ngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, were the most prominent Spanish poets of their age....
    , The Count of Villamediana
    Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana

    Don Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana, , was a Spanish poet. In Spain he is simply known as Conde de Villamediana.He was born at Lisbon towards the end of 1582....
    , Juan Pérez de Montalbán
    Juan Pérez de Montalbán

    Juan P?rez de Montalb?n , Spain dramatist, poet and novelist, was born at Madrid.At the age of eighteen he became a licentiate in theology, was ordained priest in 1625 and appointed notary to Spanish Inquisition....
    , Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
    Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

    Juan Ruiz de Alarc?n y Mendoza , one of the greatest Spanish-American dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age, was born in New Spain ....
    , Alonso de Ercilla
    Alonso de Ercilla

    Alonso de Ercilla y Z??iga , was a Spanish people nobleman, soldier and epic poet. While in Chile he fought against the Mapuche, and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered the greatest Spanish historical poem....
    , Tirso de Molina
    Tirso de Molina

    Tirso de Molina was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature dramatist and poet.Originally Gabriel T?llez, he was born in Madrid. He studied at University of Alcal?, joined the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy on November 4 1600, and entered the Monastery of San Antol?n at Guadalajara, Spain on January 21 1601....
    , Gabriel Bocángel
    Gabriel Bocángel

    Gabriel Boc?ngel y Unzueta was a playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Age. Born in Madrid, he studied at Alcal? de Henares and then served as librarian to Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand....
    , Teresa of Ávila
    Teresa of Ávila

    Saint Teresa of ?vila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystics, Carmelites nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation....
    , John of the Cross
    John of the Cross

    Saint John of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystics, and Carmelites friar and Priesthood , born at Fontiveros, a small village near ?vila....
    , Juana Inés de la Cruz, Antonio Mira de Amescua
    Antonio Mira de Amescua

    Antonio Mira de Amescua , Spain dramatist, was born at Guadix about 1578. He is said, but doubtfully, to have been the illegitimate son of one Juana Perez....
    , Luís Vélez de Guevara
    Luís Vélez de Guevara

    Luis V?lez de Guevara , Spanish people dramatist and novelistHe was born at ?cija and was of Jewish converso descent. See Antonio Dominiguez Ortiz, "Los judeoconversos en Espa?a y Am?rica." Madrid, 1971....
    , Bernardo de Balbuena
    Bernardo de Balbuena

    Bernardo de Balbuena was a Latin American poet. He was the first of a long series of Latin American poets who extolled the special beauties of the New World....
    , Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
    Nicolas Fernández de Moratín

    Nicol?s Fern?ndez de Morat?n was the father of one of the most important Spain writers and dramatists of the Neoclassicism era, Leandro Fern?ndez de Morat?n....
    , Leandro Fernández de Moratín
    Leandro Fernández de Moratín

    Leandro Fern?ndez de Morat?n was a Spain dramatist, translator and Spanish Enlightenment literature poet.He was the son of Nicol?s Fern?ndez de Morat?n , who was a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780....
    , Félix María de Samaniego
    Felix Maria de Samaniego

    F?lix Mar?a de Samaniego was a Spain Spanish Enlightenment literature fable, educated at Valladolid. A government appointment was secured for him by his uncle the Count de Pe?aflorida....
    , Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa
    Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa

    Tom?s de Iriarte y Oropesa , was a Spain Spanish Enlightenment literature poet....
    , José Cadalso
    José Cadalso

    Jos? de Cadalso y V?zquez , Spain, Colonel of the Royal Spanish Army, author, poet, playwright and essayist, one of the canonical producers of Spanish Enlightenment literature....
    , Juan Meléndez Valdés
    Juan Meléndez Valdés

    Juan Mel?ndez Vald?s was a Spain Spanish Enlightenment literature poet.He was born at Ribera del Fresno, Badajoz. Destined by his parents for the priesthood, he graduated in law at Salamanca, where he became indoctrinated with the ideas of the French philosophical school....
    , Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
    Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

    Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos , Spanish Spanish Enlightenment literature statesman, author, philosopher and main figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain, was born at Gij?n in Asturias, Spain....
    , José de Espronceda
    José de Espronceda

    File:Jose de espronceda.jpgJos? de Espronceda, baptised Jos? Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnaci?n de Espronceda y Delgado was among the most important Spain Spanish Romance literature poets of the 19th century....
    , Carolina Coronado
    Carolina Coronado

    Carolina Coronado Romero de Tejada was a Spain author considered the equivalent of contemporary Romance authors like Rosal?a de Castro. She became so popular as to merit the title "the female Gustavo Adolfo B?cquer."...
    , Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
    Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

    Gertrudis G?mez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was a Cuban writer of the 19th century....
    , Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
    Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

    Gustavo Adolfo Dom?nguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo B?cquer, His best known works are the Rhymes and the Legends, usually published together as Rimas y leyendas....
    , Augusto Ferrán, Rosalía de Castro
    Rosalía de Castro

    Rosal?a Castro de Murgu?a better known as Rosal?a de Castro was a Galician language writer and poet.A native of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region of northwest Spain, she wrote in both Galician language and Spanish language....
    , Ventura Ruiz Aguilera
    Ventura Ruiz Aguilera

    Ventura Ruiz Aguilera , Spanish poet, was born in 1820 at Salamanca, where he graduated in medicine.He moved to Madrid in 1844, engaged in journalism and won considerable popularity with a collection of poems entitled Ecos Nacionales ....
    , Gaspar Núñez de Arce
    Gaspar Núñez de Arce

    Gaspar N??ez de Arce was a Spain poet, dramatist and statesman.He was born at Valladolid, where he was educated for the priesthood. He had no vocation for the ecclesiastical state, plunged into literature, and produced a play entitled Amor y Orgullo which was acted at Toledo, Spain in 1849....
    , Ramón de Campoamor, Luis Cernuda
    Luis Cernuda

    Luis Cernuda , was a Spain poet and literary criticism.The son of a military man, Cernuda received a strict education as a child, and then studied law at the University of Seville, where he met the poet and literature professor Pedro Salinas....
    , Juan Ramón Jiménez
    Juan Ramón Jiménez

    Juan Ram?n Jim?nez Mantec?n was a Spain List of poets, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. One of Jim?nez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."...
    , Ramón del Valle-Inclán
    Ramón del Valle-Inclán

    Ram?n Mar?a del Valle-Incl?n y de la Pe?a , Spain dramatist, novelist and member of the Spanish Generation of 98, is considered perhaps the most noteworthy and certainly the most radical dramatist working to subvert the traditionalism of the Spanish theatrical establishment in the early part of the 20th century....
    , Federico García Lorca
    Federico García Lorca

    Federico Garc?a Lorca was a Spain poet, dramatist and theatre director. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was abducted and murdered by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War....
    , Jorge Guillén
    Jorge Guillén

    Jorge Guill?n y ?lvarez was a Spain poet, a member of the Generation of '27....
    , Vicente Aleixandre
    Vicente Aleixandre

    Vicente P?o Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spain poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977....
    , Pedro Salinas
    Pedro Salinas

    Pedro Salinas y Serrano was a Spain poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was also a scholar and Literary criticism of Spanish literature, teaching at universities in Spain, England, and the United States....
    , Rafael Alberti
    Rafael Alberti

    Rafael Alberti Merello was a Mexican poet, a member of the Generation of '27.Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra , La Amante and El alba del alhel? ....
    , Manuel Altolaguirre
    Manuel Altolaguirre

    Manuel Altolaguirre was a Spanish people poet, an editor, publisher, and printer of poetry, and a member of the Generation of '27....
    , Dámaso Alonso
    Dámaso Alonso

    D?maso Alonso y Fern?ndez de las Redondas was a Spain poet, Philology and Literary Criticism. Though a member of the Generation of '27, his best-known work dates from the 1940s onwards....
    , Gerardo Diego
    Gerardo Diego

    Gerardo Diego was a Spain poet and member of the Generation of '27.Diego was born in the Cantabrian city of Santander, Cantabria. He taught language and literature at institutes of learning in Soria, Gij?n, Santander, Spain, and Madrid.He was also a literature and music critic for several newspapers....
    , Jorge Luis Borges
    Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentina writer born in Buenos Aires. He was brought up bilingual in Spanish and English. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, then traveled around Spain....
    , Blas Infante
    Blas Infante

    Blas Infante P?rez de Vargas . Blas Infante was a politician, writer, historian and musicologist, known as the "Father" of Andalusian nationalism ....
    , León Felipe
    León Felipe

    Le?n Felipe Camino Galicia was a Spanish people poet.Felipe was born in T?bara, Zamora , Spain, while his parents were on travel. His father was a notary public, and consequently very well off....
    , Miguel Hernández
    Miguel Hernández

    Miguel Hern?ndez was born in Orihuela to a poor family and given little formal education, published his first book of poetry at 23, and gained considerable fame before his death....
    , Rubén Darío
    Rubén Darío

    F?lix Rub?n Garc?a Sarmiento also known as Rub?n Dar?o was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated Spanish-American literary movement known as Modernismo , flourishing at the end of the 19th century....
    , Jorge Guillén
    Jorge Guillén

    Jorge Guill?n y ?lvarez was a Spain poet, a member of the Generation of '27....
    , José Lezama Lima
    José Lezama Lima

    Jos? Lezama Lima was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature.Born in the Columbia Military Encampment close to Havana in the city of Marianao where his father was a colonel, Lezama lived through the most turbulent times of Cuba's history, fighting first against the Gerardo...
    , Antonio Machado
    Antonio Machado

    Antonio Cipriano Jos? Mar?a y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado was a Spain poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98....
    , Gabriela Mistral
    Gabriela Mistral

    Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de Mar?a del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean Poetry, educator, diplomat, and Feminism who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945....
    , Pablo Neruda
    Pablo Neruda

    Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftal? Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation....
    , Jaime Sabines
    Jaime Sabines

    Jaime Sabines Guti?rrez is arguably Mexico's most influential contemporary poet. Known as ?the sniper of Literature? as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages....
    , Julio Herrera y Reissig
    Julio Herrera y Reissig

    Julio Herrera y Reissig, was a Uruguayan poet who began his career during the late romanticism period and later became an early proponent of Modernism....
    , Emilio Prados
    Emilio Prados

    Emilio Prados was a Spain poet and editing, a member of the Generation of '27....
    , Nicanor Parra
    Nicanor Parra

    Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet often considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced since Pablo Neruda. He describes himself as an "antipoet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function....
    , Octavio Paz
    Octavio Paz

    Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomacy, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature....
    , César Vallejo
    César Vallejo

    C?sar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century....
    , Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Giannina Braschi
    Giannina Braschi

    Poet and novelist Giannina Braschi is credited with writing the first Spanglish novel YO-YO BOING! and the poetry trilogy Empire of Dreams , which chronicles the Latin American immigrant's experiences in the United States....
    , Pedro Figueredo, Chantal Maillard
    Chantal Maillard

    Chantal Maillard Belgian writer who lives in M?laga and Barcelona.She moved to M?laga in 1963 and she received Spanish nationality in 1968....
    , Ernesto Cardenal
    Ernesto Cardenal

    Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Mart?nez is a Nicaraguan Roman Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theology of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left....
     and Camilo José Cela
    Camilo José Cela

    Don Camilo Jos? Cela Trulock, Marquis of Iria Flavia was an influential Spain writer and member of the Generation of 1950....
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  • Modern Scottish Gaelic poets include Sorley Maclean
    Sorley MacLean

    Sorley MacLean was one of the most significant Scottish poets of the 20th century....
    .


  • Scots language
    Scots language

    Scots or Lowland Scots refers to the Germanic Variety derived from Middle English spoken in parts of Lowland Scotland, Northern Ireland and the border areas of the Republic of Ireland....
     poets include John Barbour
    John Barbour

    John Barbour , was a Scotland poet and the first major literary voice to write in Scots language, the vernacular language of Lowland Scotland....
    , James I
    James I of Scotland

    James I was nominal King of Scots from 4 April 1406, and reigning King of Scots from May 1424 until 21 February 1437....
    , Robert Henryson
    Robert Henryson

    Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460?1500. Counted among the Scots language makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the northern renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities....
    , Walter Kennedy
    Walter Kennedy

    Walter Kennedy was a Scotland makar associated with the renaissance court of James IV of Scotland. He is perhaps best known as the defendant against William Dunbar in The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie, but his surviving works clearly show him to have been an accomplished "master" in many genres....
    , William Dunbar
    William Dunbar

    William Dunbar , Scotland poet, was probably a native of East Lothian. This is assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie , where, too, it is hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar....
    , Gavin Douglas
    Gavin Douglas

    Gavin Douglas was a Scotland bishop, makar and translator.Douglas was a prolific writer in Middle Scots. His principal work is the Eneados, a complete translation of the Aeneid of Virgil, which was completed in 1513....
    , Alexander Montgomerie
    Alexander Montgomerie

    Alexander Montgomerie was a Scotland poet....
    , Allan Ramsay
    Allan Ramsay

    Allan Ramsay may refer to:*Allan Ramsay , also known as Allan Ramsay the Elder, a Scottish poet*Allan Ramsay , also known as Allan Ramsay the Younger, a Scottish portrait painter...
    , Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson

    Robert Fergusson , Scotland poet, son of William Fergusson, a clerk in the British Linen Bank, was born in Edinburgh....
    , Robert Louis Stevenson
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
    , Hugh MacDiarmid
    Hugh MacDiarmid

    Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve , a significant Scotland poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century....
    , Robert Garioch
    Robert Garioch

    Robert Garioch Sutherland, , was a Scotland poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots language, he was a key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century....
     and Robert Burns
    Robert Burns

    Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland....
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  • The Swedish language
    Swedish language

    Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
     has been used by notable poets such as Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
    Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

    Carl Jonas Love Almqvist , was a Romantic Poetry, early feminist, Literary realism, composer, social critic and traveler. Some of his views may be considered surprisingly modern; for example his thoughts about the equality of men and women would be considered radical even by modern standards....
    , Dan Andersson
    Dan Andersson

    Daniel "Dan" Andersson, born April 6 1888 in Skattl?sberg, Grang?rde parish , Dalarna, died September 16 1920 in Stockholm, was a Swedish author and poet....
    , Carl Michael Bellman
    Carl Michael Bellman

    was a Sweden poet and composer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish ballad tradition and remains a very important influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature in general, to this day....
    , Bo Bergman
    Bo Bergman

    Bo Bergman was a Swedish writer, Literary criticism and member of the Swedish Academy, sitting in Seat 12 from 1925 until his death. His works form the inspiration for works by several major Swedish composers, including: Wilhelm Stenhammar, Ture Rangstr?m, and Karin Rehnqvist....
    , Karin Boye
    Karin Boye

    was a Sweden poet and novelist....
    , Olof von Dalin
    Olof von Dalin

    Olof von Dalin , the Swedish poet, was born on 29 August 1708 in the parish of Vinberg in Halland, where his father was the minister. He was closely related to Andreas Rydelius, the philosophical bishop of Lund, and he was sent at a very early age to be instructed by him – Linnaeus being one of his fellow-pupils....
    , Elmer Diktonius
    Elmer Diktonius

    Elmer Rafael Diktonius was a Finland poet and composer, who wrote in both Finland-Swedish and Finnish language.External links...
    , Nils Ferlin
    Nils Ferlin

    was a Sweden poetry.Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, V?rmland, where his father worked at the Nya Wermlands-Tidningen newspaper. 1908 the family moved to Filipstad and the father started his own paper....
    , Gustaf Fröding
    Gustaf Fröding

    was a Sweden poet and writer, born in Alster, Sweden outside Karlstad in V?rmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later studied at Uppsala University and worked as a journalist in Karlstad....
    , Lars Gustafsson
    Lars Gustafsson

    Lars Gustafsson is a Sweden, poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in V?ster?s, completed his secondary education at the V?ster?s gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in 1960 and was awarded his Ph.D....
    , Ola Hansson
    Ola Hansson

    File:Hansson, Ola - portr?tt - AF.jpgOla Hansson was a Swedish poet, prose writer, and critic....
    , Verner von Heidenstam
    Verner von Heidenstam

    Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was a Sweden poet and novellist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912....
    , Harry Martinson
    Harry Martinson

    Harry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson....
    , Erik Axel Karlfeldt
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt

    Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Sweden poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918....
    , Johan Henrik Kellgren, Pär Lagerkvist
    Pär Lagerkvist

    P?r Fabian Lagerkvist was a Sweden author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poetry, Play , novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s....
    , Anna Maria Lenngren
    Anna Maria Lenngren

    Anna Maria Lenngren was a Sweden writer, poet, feminist and salon ....
    , Oscar Levertin
    Oscar Levertin

    Oscar Ivar Levertin was a Sweden poet, critic and literary history. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profile essays and reviews in the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet....
    , Lasse Lucidor, Ture Nerman
    Ture Nerman

    Ture "Ten Head" Nerman was a Sweden socialist. As a journalist and author, he was a well-known political activists in his time. He also wrote poems and songs....
    , Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
    Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht

    Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht was a Swedish people poet, feminism and Salon -hostess, often called the first self-supporting female writer in Sweden....
    , Johan Ludvig Runeberg
    Johan Ludvig Runeberg

    Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finland poet, and is the national poet of Finland. He wrote in the Swedish language.Runeberg studied first in the cities of Vaasa and Oulu, later on at the Royal Academy of Turku, where he befriended Johan Vilhelm Snellman and Zacharias Topelius....
    , Viktor Rydberg
    Viktor Rydberg

    Abraham Viktor Rydberg was a Sweden writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877-1895. ?Primarily a classical idealist,? ?Viktor Rydberg, poet, novelist, essayist, idealist philosopher and one of the prominent figures in Swedish intellectual life in the latter half of the nineteenth century?, has been described as "Sweden's last Romant...
    , Erik Johan Stagnelius
    Erik Johan Stagnelius

    Erik Johan Stagnelius was born October 14, 1793 in G?rdsl?sa, on the island ?land, and died on April 3, 1823 in Stockholm. He was a Romantic poetry from Sweden....
    , August Strindberg, Esaias Tegnér
    Esaias Tegnér

    Esaias Tegn?r , was a Sweden writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop. He was during the 19th century regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantique epos Frithjof's Saga....
    , Zacharias Topelius
    Zacharias Topelius

    Zacharias Topelius was a Swedish-speaking Finns Finland journalist, historian and author who wrote Finnish historical novels in Swedish language....
     and Tomas Tranströmer
    Tomas Tranströmer

    Tomas Transtr?mer is a Sweden writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been deeply influential in Sweden, as well as around the world.Transtr?mer received his secondary education at the S?dra Latin School in Stockholm and graduated as a psychologist from Stockholm University in 1956....
    .


  • The Turkish language
    Turkish language

    Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
     has been used by poets such as Yunus Emre
    Yunus Emre

    Yunus Emre was a Turkey Poetry and Sufism Mysticism. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present....
    , Mevlana, Bâkî
    Baki

    Baki can be:* Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan * Baki, Somalia, the capital of the Baki district of the Awdal region*Baki, Afghanistan* Baki, Sukoharjo, a subdistrict in Sukoharjo Regency, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia....
    , Hayâlî
    Hayâlî

    Hay?l? was the pen name of an Ottoman Empire poet....
    , Nâzim Hikmet
    Nazim Hikmet

    N?zim Hikmet Ran , commonly known as N?zim Hikmet , was a Turkish people poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements"....
    ,Rifat Ilgaz
    Rifat Ilgaz

    Rifat Ilgaz was a poet who was born in Cide, Kastamonu, Turkey. He was a teacher, poet, and writer. Ilgaz was one of Turkey?s best-known and most prolific poets and writers, having authored over sixty works....
    ,Nedîm
    Nedîm

    Ned?m was the pen name of one of the most celebrated Ottoman Empire poets. He achieved his greatest fame during the Ottoman Empire's 1718?1730 Tulip Era in the Ottoman Empire, and both his life and his work are often seen as being representative of the spirit of that time....
    , Nesâtî
    Nesâtî

    Nesa?i was the pen name of an Ottoman Empire poet. He was a Sufism, or Islam Mysticism, of the Mevlevi Tarika, and his poetry is often considered exemplary of the "Indian style" of Poetry of the Ottoman Empire, a movement which flourished beginning in the 17th century....
     and Pir Sultan Abdal
    Pir Sultan Abdal

    Pir Sultan Abdal , a legendary Turkish Alevi poet, whose direct and clear language as well as the richness of his imagination and the beauty of his verses led him to become a loved among the Turkic peoples....
    .


  • The Urdu language carries the classical, traditional and modern works of Amir Khusro
    Amir Khusro

    Ab'ul Hasan Yamin al-Din Khusrow , better known as Amir Khusrow Dehlawi , was an Indian musician, scholar and a poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent....
    , Mir Taqi Mir
    Mir Taqi Mir

    Khuda-e-Sukhan Mir Taqi Mir , whose original name was Mohammed Taqi and Pen name was Mir , was the leading Urdu poetry of the eighteenth century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself....
    , Ghalib, Faiz, Jalib, Iqbal, Ibn-e-Insha
    Ibn-e-Insha

    Ibn-e-Insha was an eminent Pakistani Leftist Urdu poet, humorist, Travelogue writer and Columnist. Along with his poetry, he was regarded one of the best humorists of Urdu....
    , Habib Jalib
    Habib Jalib

    Habib Jalib was one of the renowned Pakistani Urdu poets of 20th century....
    , Zauk, Hakim Momin Khan Momin, Noon Meem Rashid
    Noon Meem Rashid

    Nazar Mohammed Rashid , commonly known as Noon Meem Rashid or N.M. Rashid, was born as Raja Nazar Muhmmad Janjua, was an influential Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry....
    , Krishan Chander
    Krishan Chander

    Krishan Chander was an Urdu and Hindi afsaana nigaar, or short story writer. His full name was Krishan Chander Sharma, and he was a Kashmiri Brahmin by ethnic ancestry - however, he became a committed Communist in his youth, as many radical Indian writers & poets were in pre-partition India, and subsequently never used his caste name : S...
    , Ihsan Danish
    Ihsan Danish

    Ihsan Danish , was a prominent Urdu poet from Pakistan. His life marked the struggle of person who didn?t have more than a primary level of education, who worked as ordinary laborer for years in odd jobs, and finally became a poet of excellence....
    , Zamir Jafri
    Zamir Jafri

    Zamir Jafri was a Pakistani poet born in Jhelum. He became famous for his Urdu humorous poetry and also wrote humorous columns in the newspapers and periodicals....
    , Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Nasir Kazmi
    Nasir Kazmi

    Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi, was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He was one of the greatest poets of this era, especially in the use of "metaphors" and "Meter "....
    , Dilawar Figar
    Dilawar Figar

    Dilawar Figar, was a noted humorist, poet and scholar of the Pakistan. He is known as Shehansha-e-Zarafat and Akbar-e-Sani for his satirical and rich humor writings....
    , Jon Elia
    Jon Elia

    Jaun Elia was a notable Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar. He was widely praised for his unique style of writing. He was the brother of renowned journalist and psychoanalyst Rais Amrohvi and journalist and world-renowned philosopher Syed Muhammad Taqi, and husband of famous columnist Zahida Hina....
    , Shakeb Jalali
    Shakeb Jalali

    Shakeb Jalali was a Pakistani Urdu poet of a unique diction.Shakeb Jalali's real name was Syed Hassan Rizvi. His ancestors were from a small town, Saddat Jalali, near Aligarh, India....
    , Parveen Shakir
    Parveen Shakir

    Parveen Shakir, Pride of Performance was a Pakistani Urdu poetess, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.Biography...
     and others.


  • The Vietnamese language
    Vietnamese language

    Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
     has been used by some poets such as Nguy?n Trãi
    Nguy?n Trãi

    Nguy?n Tr?i , also known under his style name ?c Trai wikt:?wikt:? was an illustrious Vietnam Confucianism scholar, a noted poet, a skilled politician and a master tactician....
    , Nguy?n B?nh Khiêm
    Nguy?n B?nh Khiêm

    Nguy?n B?nh Khi?m was a Vietnamese Public administration, educator, poet, Wise Old Man and is a saint of the Cao Dai religion. He is referred to by several names: Hanh Phu, Bach Van cu si and Tr?ng Tr?nh....
    , Nguy?n Du
    Nguy?n Du

    Nguy?n Du is a celebrated Vietnamese people poet who wrote in Chu Nom, the ancient writing script of Vietnam. He is most known for writing the epic poem The Tale of Kieu....
    , H? Xuân Huong
    H? Xuân Huong

    H? Xu?n Huong was a Vietnamese people poet born at the end of the L? Dynasty who grew up in an era of political and social turmoil: the time of the T?y Son Dynasty rebellion and the reactionary rule of Nguyen Anh....
    , Nguy?n Ðình Chi?u, Hàn M?c T?, Xuân Di?u
    Xuân Di?u

    Ng? Xu?n Di?u more commonly known by the pen name Xu?n Di?u, was a prominent Vietnamese language poet. A colossal figure in modern Vietnamese literature, he wrote about 450 poems especially love poems, several short stories, and many notes, essays, and literary criticisms....
     and T? H?u.


  • The Yiddish language
    Yiddish language

    Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
     has been used by dozens of poets including : David Edelstadt
    David Edelstadt

    David Edelstadt was a Jewish-Russian-United States anarchism poet of Yiddish language....
    , Itzik Manger
    Itzik Manger

    Itzik Manger was a prominent Yiddish language poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and ?master tailor? of the written word....
    , Abraham Sutzkever
    Abraham Sutzkever

    Abraham Sutzkever is a Yiddish poetry and Second World War Soviet partisan.Sutzkever was born in Smorgon, Poland . During the First World War his family fled to seek refuge in Siberia, then in 1922 migrated to Vilnius ...
    , Srul Bronshtein
    Srul Bronshtein

    Srul Bronshtein was a Romanian and Soviet Union Yiddish-language poet....
    , Celia Dropkin
    Celia Dropkin

    Celia Dropkin was a Yiddish poet. . She was born in Bobruysk, Belarus to an assimilated Russian-Jewish family. Her father, a forestry, died of tuberculosis when Dropkin was young....
    , Itzhak Katzenelson, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
    Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

    Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a Yiddish poet and songwriter....
    , Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
    Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

    Yiddish-language poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1958. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child....
    , Yankev Shternberg.


See also


  • Language
    Language

    A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
  • Literature
    Literature

    Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
  • Poetry
    Poetry

    Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
  • History of poetry
    History of poetry

    Poetry as an art form may have predated literacy. Some of the earliest poetry is believed to have been orally recited or sung. Following the development of writing, poetry has since developed into increasingly structured forms, though much poetry since the late 19th century has moved away from traditional forms towards the more vaguely defi...
  • Buddhist poetry
    Buddhist art

    Buddhist art originated on the Indian subcontinent following the historical life of Gautama Buddha, 6th to 5th century BCE, and thereafter evolved by contact with other cultures as it spread throughout Asia and the world....
  • Biblical poetry
    Biblical poetry

    This article is concerned with Biblical poetry, specifically poetry in the Tanakh.The question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the ancient Hebrews themselves....
  • Tamil poetry
    Tamil literature

    Tamil literature refers to the literature in the Tamil language. Tamil literature has a rich and long literary tradition spanning more than two thousand years....
  • Ancient Greek poetry
    Ancient Greek literature

    Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language until the 4th century AD....
  • Latin poetry
    Latin poetry

    Latin poetry was a major part of Latin literature during the height of the Latin. During Latin literature's Golden Age of Latin Literature, most of the great literature was written in poetry, including works by Virgil, Catullus, and Horace....
  • Medieval poetry
    Medieval poetry

    Because most of what we have was written down by clerics, much of extant medieval poetry is Religion. The chief exception is the work of the troubadours and the minnes?nger, whose primary innovation was the ideal of courtly love....
  • Chinese poetry
    Chinese poetry

    Chinese poetry is the most highly regarded Chinese literature. Traditionally, it is divided into shi , ci and qu . There is also a kind of Prose poetry called Fu ....
  • Arabic poetry
    Arabic poetry

    Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Our present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that....
  • English poetry
    English poetry

    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in European culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe....
  • Japanese poetry
    Japanese poetry

    Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry when it was at its peak in the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry....
  • Korean poetry
    Korean poetry

    Korean poetry is poetry performed or written in the Korean language or by Korean people. Traditional Korean poetry is often sung in performance....
  • French poetry
    French poetry

    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone literature poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France....
  • Spanish poetry
    Spanish poetry

    Spanish poetry is the poetry tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Spanish language, such as Catalan literature....
  • Turkish poetry
  • Latin American poetry
    Latin American poetry

    Latin American poetry is the poetry of Latin America, mostly but not entirely written in Spanish or Portuguese. The unification of Indigenous and Spanish cultures produced a unique and extraordinary body of literature in Spanish America....
  • Persian poetry
    Persian literature

    Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources has been within historical greater Iran including present-day Iran as well as reigions of Central Asia where the Persian language has been the national language through history....
  • Epic poetry
    Epic poetry

    An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation....
  • Chanson de geste
    Chanson de geste

    The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds [or lineages]", are the epic poetry that appear at the dawn of French literature....
  • Bard
    Bard

    In Celts society, a bard was a professional poet, paid by a monarch to praise the sovereign's activities.The term acquired generic meanings of an epic author/singer/narrator or any poets, especially famous ones....


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