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Aaron Fogel (3) (1947 - curent) Aaron Fogel is a poet who takes humor seriously. His work is laced with wit and irony, yet drives deep when the reader fully absorbs it.	Abraham Cowley (9) (1618 - 1667) English poet. He was one of the leading English poets of the seventeenth century with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.
Adelaide Anne Procter (7) (1825 - 1864) An English poet, was the eldest daughter of the poet Bryan Procter.	Aeschylus (6) (525 - 455) Was an ancient Greek playwright.
Alden Nowlan (4) (1933 - 1983) Was a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist.	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (9) (1880 - 1921) Aleksandr Blok (Alexander Blok ), was a Russian poet and dramatist, the principal representative of Russian Symbolism.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (3) (1817 - 1875) Was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist.	Alexander MacGregor Rose (3) (1846 - 1898) Journalist and poet.
Alexander Pope (11) (1688 - 1744) Is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century	Alfonsina Storni (6) (1892 - 1938) Was one of the most important Ibero-American poets of the postmodernism movement.
Alfred Comyn Lyall (4) (1835 - 1911) Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall was a British civil servant, literary historian and poet.	Alfred Lord Tennyson (15) (1809 - 1892) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets.
Alfred Noyes (7) (1880 - 1958) Was an English poet, best known for his ballads The Highwayman and The Barrel Organ.	Amelia Opie (11) (1769 - 1853) English author.
Amy Clampitt (9) (1920 - 1994) Amy Clampitt was an American poet and author.	Amy Levy (11) (1861 - 1889) Was a British poet and novelist.
Amy Lowell (14) (1874 - 1925) Was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.	Andre Marie de Chenier (3) (1762 - 1794) A French poet and is associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim.
Ann Taylor (10) (1782 - 1886) Ann Taylor, later Mrs Joseph Gilbert, was, in her youth, a writer of verse for children that achieved enormous and long-lasting popularity.	Anna Laetitia Barbauld (9) (1743 - 1825) Was a prominent eighteenth-century British poet, essayist, and children's author.
Anna Swirszczynska (5) (1909 - 1984) A Polish poet whose works deal with a variety of themes.	Anne Bradstreet (9) (1612 - 1672) Was a writer and the first notable American poet and the first woman to have her works published in Colonial America.
Anne Bronte (12) (1820 - 1849) Was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.	Anne Glenny Wilson (2) (1848 - 1930) Was an Australian poet and novelist.
Antar (2) (525 - 615) Was a pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet famous both for his poetry and his adventurous life.	Anthony Munday (2) (1560 - 1633) Anthony Munday was an English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator.
Antonio Machado (8) (1875 - 1939) Was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.	Aphra Behn (9) (1640 - 1689) Was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers.
Arabella Eugenia Smith (1) (1844 - 1916) American poet.	Archibald Lampman (9) (1861 - 1899) Was a Canadian poet.
Arthur Albert Dawson Bayldon (6) (1865 - 1958) A freelance journalist and a Bulletin poet.	Arthur O'Shaughnessy (7) (1844 - 1881) Was a British poet, born in London to Irish parents
August Strindberg (2) (1849 - 1912) Was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter.

Banjo Paterson (23) (1864 - 1941) Was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas.	Barron Field (3) (1786 - 1846) Was an English-born Australian judge and poet.
Barry Cornwall (8) (1787 - 1874) Bryan Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet.	Benjamin Franklin King (5) (1857 - 1894) American poet and parodist known more familiarly as Ben King.
Benjamin Tompson (6) (1642 - 1714) Anglo-American poet.

Caedmon (8) (600 - 680) Caedmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known.	Carl Sandburg (26) (1878 - 1967) Carl August Sandburg was an American film critic, poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist.
Cecil Frances Alexander (2) (1818 - 1895) Was a hymn-writer and poet.	Cesar Vallejo (6) (1892 - 1938) Was a Peruvian poet.
Charles Baudelaire (13) (1821 - 1867) Was an influential nineteenth century French poet, critic and acclaimed translator.	Charles d'Orleans (2) (1394 - 1465) Last, and one of the greatest, of the courtly poets of France, who during exile in England also earned a reputation for his poems in English.
Charles Lamb (5) (1775 - 1834) Was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.	Charlotte Bronte (6) (1816 - 1855) Was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature.
Christina Walsh (1) (1750 - 1800) Very little is known of this poet other than her lifespan and her famous poem 'A Woman To Her Lover'	Conrad Aiken (15) (1889 - 1973) Was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and poet.
Coventry Patmore (7) (1823 - 1896) Was an English poet and critic.

Dame Edith Sitwell (9) (1887 - 1964) Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic.	Daniel Henry Deniehy (2) (1828 - 1865) Daniel Henry Deniehy was an Australian journalist, orator and politician; and early advocate of democracy in colonial New South Wales.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (13) (1828 - 1882) Was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.	David Bates (3) (1809 - 1870)
David Gascoyne (9) (1916 - 2001) David Gascoyne was a British poet associated with the Surrealist movement.	David Ignatow (2) (1914 - 1997) David Ignatow was a noted US poet.
David McKee Wright (5) (1869 - 1928) Was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia.	Deborah Ager (10) (1971 - curent) Deborah Ager is an American poet.
Delmore Schwartz (13) (1913 - 1966) Was an American poet from Brooklyn, New York.	Dinah Craik (6) (1826 - 1887) Was an English novelist and poet.
Donald Hall (9) (1928 - curent) Donald Hall is an American poet and the 14th U.S. Poet Laureate.	Dorothea Mackellar (5) (1885 - 1968) Was an Australian poet and fiction writer.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (6) (1856 - 1947) Douglas Sladen was an English author.	Dowell O'Reilly (4) (1865 - 1914) Was an Australian poet, short story writer and politician.
Dylan Thomas (14) (1914 - 1953) Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos.

Edmund Spenser (20) (1552 - 1599) Was an important English poet and Poet Laureate best known for "The Faerie Queene".	Edmund Waller (9) (1606 - 1687) Edmund Waller was an English poet and politician.
Edward Fitzgerald (5) (1809 - 1883) An English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.	Edward Harrington (3) (1895 - 1966) The soldier poet.
Edward Lear (8) (1812 - 1888) Was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose.	Edwin Arlington Robinson (19) (1869 - 1935) Was an American poet, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
Eileen Myles (1) (1949 - curent) Eileen Myles is an American poet. Her latest book is Sorry, Tree in which she describes "some nature" as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west.	Elinor Wylie (11) (1885 - 1928) Was an American poet and novelist who was popular before World War II.
Elizabeth Jennings (9) (1926 - 2001) Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach.	Ellis Parker Butler (9) (1869 - 1937) Ellis Parker Butler was an American author.
Emily Bronte (14) (1818 - 1848) Was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature.	Emily Dickinson (52) (1830 - 1886) American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. With Walt Whitman, Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets.
Emily Pauline Johnson (15) (1861 - 1913) Was a Canadian writer and performer.	Enid Derham (8) (1882 - 1941) Was an Australian poet and academic
Erik Johan Stagnelius (3) (1793 - 1823) He was a Romantic poet from Sweden.	Erin Belieu (8) (1965 - curent) She is the author of two collections of poetry - 'Infanta' and 'One Above and One Below'(won the Ohioana Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award).
Ernest Favenc (1) (1845 - 1908) Was an explorer of Australia, a journalist and historian.	Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1) (1863 - 1940) Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat".
Ethel Turner (5) (1872 - 1958) Ethel Turner was an Australian novelist and children's writer.

Farid ad-Din Attar (2) (1145 - 1221) Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer.	Flexmore Hudson (1) (1913 - 1988) Australian poet.
Frances Cornford (2) (1886 - 1960) Frances Crofts Cornford was an English poet. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.	Francis Ernley Walrond (3) (1875 - 1948) South African poet, who brought out 'The Gods of Africa and other Poems' in London in 1912 and whose later poem, "Eve," was first published for a centenary collection of South African verse in 1925.
Francis Thompson (6) (1859 - 1907) Was an English poet and ascetic.	Franco Sacchetti (1) (1335 - 1400) Was an Italian poet and novelist.
Frank Dalby Davison (2) (1893 - 1970) Also known as F.D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer.	Frank O'Hara (12) (1926 - 1966) Was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry.
Franklin P. Adams (20) (1881 - 1960) Newspaper columnist, translator, poet, and radio personality.	Frederic Manning (1) (1882 - 1935) Was an Australian poet and novelist.
Frederick George Scott (9) (1861 - 1944) Frederick George Scott, known as "the poet of the Laurentians."	FW Harvey (2) (1888 - 1957) Was an English poet, known for poems composed in prisoner-of-war camps at Krefeld and Gütersloh that were sent back to England, during World War I.
Fyodor Tyutchev (8) (1803 - 1873) Is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia, following Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.

G.E. Patterson (1) (0 - curent) G.E. Patterson is the author of 'Tug', which won the Minnesota Book Award.	Gabriela Mistral (3) (1889 - 1957) Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945.
Geoffrey Hill (3) (1932 - curent) Is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.	George Darley (10) (1795 - 1846) Was an Irish poet, novelist, and critic.
George Gordon McCrae (4) (1833 - 1927) Was an Australian poet.	George Santayana (9) (1863 - 1952) George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
George Wither (9) (1588 - 1667) Was an English poet and satirist.	Gertrude Stein (4) (1874 - 1946) An American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature.
Giacomo Leopardi (5) (1798 - 1837) Was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist.	Giles Fletcher the Elder (9) (1548 - 1611) Was an English poet and diplomat, member of the English Parliament.

Haniel Long (3) (1910 - 1956) An American poet, novelist, publisher and academic.	Harold Monro (2) (1879 - 1932) Harold Edward Monro was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public.
Harry Crosby (6) (1898 - 1929) Was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature.	Helen Hunt Jackson (11) (1830 - 1885) Helen Maria Hunt Jackson was an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
Henry Clay Work (13) (1832 - 1884) Was an American composer and songwriter.	Henry David Thoreau (9) (1817 - 1862) Henry David Thoreau was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, sage writer and philosopher.
Henry King (4) (1592 - 1669) Henry King was an English poet. King wrote many elegies on Royal persons and on his private friends, who included John Donne and Ben Jonson.	Henry Reed (9) (1914 - 1986) Henry Reed was a British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist.
Henry Vaughan (11) (1622 - 1695) Was a Welsh metaphysical poet and a Doctor.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (14) (1807 - 1882) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American educator and poet.
Hermann Hesse (9) (1877 - 1962) Was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.	Hew Ainslie (4) (1792 - 1878) Scottish-American poet.
Homer (10) (0 - curent) Homer was an ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Ihara Saikaku (1) (1642 - 1693) Was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose.	Isaac Rosenberg (6) (1890 - 1918) Was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all British war poets.
Isaac Watts (32) (1674 - 1748) Isaac Watts is recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns.

J Milton Hayes (7) (1884 - 1940) Was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue The Green Eye of the Yellow God, much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show.	Jack Spicer (5) (1925 - 1965) Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance.
Jacques Tahureau (2) (1527 - 1555) One of the more famous members of the group of humanist writers based in Poitiers(France).	James Clerk Maxwell (10) (1831 - 1879) James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. As a great lover of British poetry, Maxwell memorized poems and wrote his own.
James Hogg (4) (1770 - 1835) James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English.	James Joseph Sylvester (2) (1814 - 1897) Was an English mathematician.
James Kenneth Stephen (10) (1859 - 1892) James Kenneth Stephen was an English poet and tutor to Prince Albert, son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.	James Phillip McAuley (1) (1917 - 1976) An Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and prominent convert to Catholicism.
James Stephens (5) (1882 - 1950) Was an Irish novelist and poet.	James Thomson (5) (1700 - 1748) Was a Scottish poet and playwright.
James Thomson (B.V. ) (11) (1834 - 1882) Scottish Victorian poet who is best remembered for his sombre, imaginative poem "The City of Dreadful Night."	James Whitcomb Riley (9) (1849 - 1916) James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer and poet.
James Wright (7) (1927 - 1980) Was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.	Jean Valentine (5) (1934 - curent) Jean Valentine is an American poet.
Joel Barlow (1) (1754 - 1812) American poet and politician, born in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (56) (1749 - 1832) Was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth."
John Bunyan (18) (1628 - 1688) A Christian writer and preacher. He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably the most famous published Christian allegory.	John Burroughs (1) (1837 - 1921) Was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement.
John Davidson (6) (1857 - 1909) Scottish poet and playwright, best known for his ballads.	John Donne (16) (1572 - 1631) Was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period.
John Gillespie Magee (1) (1922 - 1941) John Gillespie Magee, Junior was an Anglo-American aviator and poet who died as a result of a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire during World War II.	John Greenleaf Whittier (9) (1807 - 1892) Was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
John Le Gay Brereton (8) (1871 - 1933) Was an Australian poet, critic and Professor of English at the University of Sydney.	John Lyly (9) (1554 - 1606) Was an English writer, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.
John Millington Synge (5) (1871 - 1909) Was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre.	John Milton (17) (1608 - 1674) Was an English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England.
John Trumbull (8) (1750 - 1831) American poet.	John Wilbye (1) (1574 - 1638) John Wilbye was an English madrigal composer.
Jose Asuncion Silva (1) (1865 - 1896) Was a Colombian poet. He is considered one of the founders of Spanish-American Modernism.	Joseph Addison (6) (1672 - 1719) Was an English essayist, poet, and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of Lichfield.
Joseph Blanco White (1) (1775 - 1841) Was a Spanish theologian and poet.	Joseph Rodman Drake (8) (1795 - 1820) Romantic poet who contributed to the beginnings of a US national literature by a few memorable lyrics before his early death.
Joseph Warton (5) (1722 - 1800) English critic and classical scholar who anticipated some of the critical tenets of Romanticism.	Joyce Kilmer (9) (1886 - 1918) Was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.
JRR Tolkien (10) (1892 - 1973) Was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.	Judy Grahn (1) (1940 - curent) Judy Rae Grahn is an American poet. She has written many feminist works.
Julia Ward Howe (5) (1819 - 1910) Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."	Juliusz Slowacki (1) (1809 - 1849) Was a noted Polish Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature.

Kahlil Gibran (10) (1883 - 1931) Was a Lebanese American artist, poet, writer, philosopher and theologian.	Karle Wilson Baker (9) (1878 - 1960) Karle Wilson Baker was an American poet and author.
Katha Pollitt (1) (1949 - curent) Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic.	Katharine Lee Bates (9) (1859 - 1929) Katharine Lee Bates is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful".
Katharine Tynan (8) (1859 - 1931) Was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry.	Katherine Anne Porter (1) (1890 - 1980) Was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.
Katherine Philips (7) (1631 - 1664) Was an Anglo-Welsh poet.	Kathleen Raine (9) (1908 - 2003) Was a British poet, critic and independent scholar writing in particular on William Blake and W. B. Yeats.
Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie (1) (1913 - 1955) Was an Australian poet and novelist.	Kobayashi Issa (14) (1763 - 1827) Was a Japanese poet, and Buddhist priest, known for his haiku poems and his journals. He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan.
Konstantin Batyushkov (9) (1787 - 1855) Was an important precursor of Alexander Pushkin in the Russian poetry.

Lady Mary Chudleigh (4) (1656 - 1710) Was part of an intellectual circle that included Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and John Norris. In her later years, she published a book of poetry and two books of essays, all dealing with feminist themes.	Lawrence Durrell (4) (1912 - 1990) Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (3) (1802 - 1838) Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. than by Miss Landon or her married name, Mrs. Maclean.	Lewis Carroll (18) (1832 - 1898) Was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.
Linda Pastan (10) (1932 - curent) Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background.	Lord Brooke Fulke Greville (2) (1554 - 1628) Was a minor Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman.
Louis Macneice (7) (1907 - 1963) A British and Irish poet and playwright.	Louise Labe (1) (1522 - 1566) Was a female French poet of the Renaissance.

Mac Hammond (2) (1926 - 1997) Mac S. Hammond was a poet, a professor emeritus of English, and the director of the graduate program in creative writing at the university of New York at Buffalo.	Marianne Clarke Moore (5) (1887 - 1972) Was a Modernist American poet and writer.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (9) (1883 - 1922) Canadian poet.	Martin Peerson (2) (1571 - 1650) Was an English composer, organist and virginalist.
Mary Fullerton (2) (1868 - 1946) Mary Eliza Fullerton was an Australian writer.	Matthew Arnold (11) (1822 - 1888) Was an English poet, sage writer and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.
May Swenson (6) (1913 - 1989) Was an American poet and playwright.	Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (9) (1207 - 1273) Was a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, and theologian.
Michael Lally (1) (1942 - curent) He has published twenty-seven books of poetry and prose, written and directed several plays, acted in many movies.	Mirabai (9) (1498 - 1547) Was a Hindu mystical poetess whose compositions are popular throughout India.
Myra Morris (1) (1893 - 1966) A prolific author, she contributed poetry, serials and short stories to many Australian publications, notably the Bulletin.

Nancy Cato (1) (1917 - 2000) Was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry.	Nettie Palmer (3) (1885 - 1964) Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer was a poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic.
Nikolay Gumilyov (8) (1886 - 1921) Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement.	Norman Rowland Gale (9) (1862 - 1942) Norman Rowland Gale was a little known English poet.
Novalis (6) (1772 - 1801) Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.

Oliver Goldsmith (7) (1730 - 1774) Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician.	Omar Khayyam (1) (1048 - 1122) Omar Khayyám was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer who lived in Persia.
Osip Mandelstam (7) (1891 - 1938) Was a Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.

Patrick Edward Quinn (1) (1862 - 1926) Australian poet.	Patrick Kavanagh (11) (1904 - 1967) Was an Irish poet.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (13) (1792 - 1822) Was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language.	Phillis Wheatley (13) (1753 - 1784) Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American poet whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature.
Publius Papinius Statius (6) (45 - 96) Was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, born in Naples, Italy.

Queen Elizabeth I (7)
(1533 - 1603)
Was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.

Rabia al Basri (4) (717 - 801) Was a female muslim Sufi saint.	Ralph Hodgson (3) (1871 - 1962) Ralph Hodgson was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets.
Raymond Clevie Carver (6) (1938 - 1988) Was an American short story writer and poet.	Raymond Knister (4) (1899 - 1932) Was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and journalist who died in a swimming accident on Lake St. Clair at age 33.
Remy Belleau (1) (1528 - 1577) Remy (or Rémi) Belleau was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones.	Rene Daumal (3) (1908 - 1944) Was a French writer, philosopher and poet.
Richard Aldington (9) (1892 - 1962) Was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry.	Richard Brautigan (12) (1935 - 1984) Was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America.
Richard Chenevix Trench (9) (1807 - 1886) Richard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet.	Richard Lovelace (19) (1618 - 1657) Richard Lovelace was an English poet in the 17th century.
Richard Savage (1) (1697 - 1743) Was an English poet.	Roald Dahl (5) (1916 - 1990) Was a Welsh novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, who rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors.
Robert Blair (1) (1699 - 1746) Scottish poet remembered for a single poem.	Robert Burns (14) (1759 - 1796) Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.
Robert Francis (9) (1901 - 1987) Was an American poet who lived much of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived in a small house he built himself which he called Fort Juniper.	Robert Frost (17) (1874 - 1963) American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.
Robert Graves (16) (1895 - 1985) Robert Graves was an English poet, translator, and novelist.	Robert Greene (6) (1558 - 1592) Robert Greene was an English author.
Robert Hayden (8) (1913 - 1980) Was an American poet, essayist, and educator.	Robert Henryson (3) (1420 - 1506) Scottish poet, the finest of early fabulists in Britain.
Robert Herrick (25) (1591 - 1674) Was a 17th century English poet.	Robert Louis Stevenson (31) (1850 - 1894) Was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, and a representative of neo-romanticism in English literature.
Robert Southey (15) (1774 - 1843) Was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate.	Roger McGough (11) (1937 - curent) Roger Joseph McGough is a well-known English performance poet.
Roland Robinson (1) (1912 - 1992) Roland Edward Robinson was an Australian poet and writer.	Ruth Bedford (1) (1882 - 1963) Ruth Marjory Bedford was an Australian poet, playwright and novelist.

Sabine Baring-Gould (4) (1834 - 1924) Was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar.	Sara Teasdale (50) (1884 - 1933) Was an American lyrical poet.
Sarah Fyge (3) (1670 - 1723) Sarah Fyge, English poet, writer, and feminist.	Siegfried Sassoon (14) (1886 - 1967) Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English poet and author.
Sir Edward Dyer (9) (1543 - 1607) Sir Edward Dyer was an English courtier and poet.	Sir Henry Wotton (6) (1568 - 1639) Was an English author and diplomat.
Sir Philip Sidney (14) (1554 - 1586) Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier.	Sir Thomas Wyatt (11) (1503 - 1542) Was a 16th century English lyrical poet.
Sir Walter Raleigh (6) (1554 - 1618) Was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer.	Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (6) (1651 - 1695) Sor Juana, also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught Novohispana scholar, nun, poet, and a writer of the baroque school.
St John of the Cross (1) (1542 - 1591) Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature.	Stephen Collins Foster (7) (1826 - 1864) Known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.
Stephen Leacock (2) (1869 - 1944) Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian writer and economist.	Stephen Vincent Benet (9) (1898 - 1943) Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist.
Stevie Smith (7) (1902 - 1971) Was a British poet and novelist.	Susanna Strickland Moodie (5) (1803 - 1885) Was a British-Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada.
Sydney Thompson Dobell (9) (1824 - 1874) English poet and critic.

Ted Hughes (11) (1930 - 1998) Edward James Hughes was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes.	Theodor Storm (4) (1817 - 1888) German poet and novelist.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (9) (1800 - 1859) Was a nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh.	Thomas Blackburn (3) (1916 - 1977) English poet, novelist, and critic whose verse is notable for haunted self-examination and spiritual imagery.
Thomas Bracken (3) (1843 - 1898) Was a noted late 19th century poet.	Thomas Campbell (8) (1777 - 1844) Was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs.
Thomas Dekker (8) (1572 - 1632) Was an Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer.	Thomas Edward Brown (7) (1830 - 1897) Manx poet, scholar and theologian, was born at Douglas, Isle of Man and educated at King William's College.
Thomas Gray (7) (1716 - 1771) Was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.	Thomas Hardy (15) (1840 - 1928) Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, though he saw himself as a poet and wrote novels mainly for financial gain only.
Thomas Lord Vaux (2) (1510 - 1556) English poet, was the eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux.	Thomas Morley (2) (1557 - 1602) Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School.
Thomas Randolph (7) (1605 - 1635) Thomas Randolph was an English poet and dramatist.	Thomas Sturge Moore (1) (1870 - 1944) Thomas Sturge Moore was an English poet, author and artist.
Thomas Traherne (9) (1636 - 1674) Thomas Traherne was an English poet and religious writer.	Thomas William Heney (4) (1862 - 1928) Was an Australian journalist and poet.
Trumbull Stickney (9) (1874 - 1904) Joseph Trumbull Stickney was an American classical scholar and poet.

Vachel Lindsay (26) (1879 - 1931) Was an American poet.	Victoria Sackville-West (6) (1892 - 1962) Was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927.
Vyacheslav Ivanov (6) (1866 - 1949) Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the movement of Russian Symbolism. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic.

Wace (2) (1115 - 1183) Was an Anglo-Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy, ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.	Walt Whitman (26) (1819 - 1892) Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works.
Walter de la Mare (10) (1873 - 1956) Was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and "The Listeners".	Walter Porter (1) (1590 - 1659) English poet.
Wilfred Owen (19) (1893 - 1918) Was a poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War.	Wilfred Wilson Gibson (5) (1878 - 1962) Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (8) (1840 - 1922) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was an English poet and writer.	William Cowper (18) (1731 - 1800) Was an English poet and hymnodist.
William Cullen Bryant (12) (1794 - 1878) Was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.	William Ewart Gladstone Louw (1) (1913 - 1980) William Ewart Gladstone van Wyk Louw, who published as W.E.G. Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet.
William Gay (7) (1865 - 1897) Was a Scottish-born Australian poet.	William Gilmore Simms (6) (1806 - 1870) Was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South whose novels achieved great prominence during the 19th century
William Hamilton (1) (1704 - 1754) Was a Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement.	William Henry Drummond (7) (1854 - 1907) Was an Irish-born Canadian poet.
William Morris (11) (1834 - 1896) Was an English artist, writer, and socialist.	William Pember Reeves (1) (1857 - 1932) Was a New Zealand statesman, historian and poet, who promoted social reform.
William S Gilbert (28) (1836 - 1911) Was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator.	William Shakespeare (38) (1564 - 1616) William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
William Stevenson (2) (1530 - 1575) Sir William Stevenson was an English poet.	William Vaughn Moody (6) (1869 - 1910) William Vaughn Moody was a U.S. dramatist and poet.
Woodrow Wilson (1) (1856 - 1924) Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth President of the United States.