Poets are masters of using words to create beautiful literally constructs that convey certain emotions. Here’s a list of famous poets.
| List of Famous Poets | ||
|---|---|---|
| Maya Angelou | ||
| Margaret Atwood | ||
| W. H. Auden | ||
| Matthew Arnold | ||
| Yehuda Amichai | ||
| Anna Akhmatova | ||
| Ai | ||
| John Ashbery | ||
| A. R. Ammons | ||
| Jane Austen | ||
| Guillaume Apollinaire | ||
| Dante Alighieri | ||
| Louisa May Alcott | ||
| Richard Aldington | ||
| Lascelles Abercrombie | ||
| Sarah Flower Adams | ||
| Delmira Agustini | ||
| William Allingham | ||
| Deborah Ager | ||
| Conrad Aiken | ||
| Catherine Anderson | ||
| Maggie Anderson | ||
| Ralph Angel | ||
| Kingsley Amis | ||
| Jean Hans Arp | ||
| Kelli Russell Agodon | ||
| Julie Hill Alger | ||
| W. Jude Aher | ||
| Alfred Austin | ||
| Tiel Aisha Ansari | ||
| Siddharth Anand | ||
| Elizabeth Bishop | ||
| Charles Bukowski | ||
| Gwendolyn Brooks | ||
| William Blake | ||
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| Robert Burns | ||
| Robert Browning | ||
| Charles Baudelaire | ||
| Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| John Berryman | ||
| Lord Byron | ||
| Hilaire Belloc | ||
| Matsuo Basho | ||
| Richard Brautigan | ||
| Andre Breton | ||
| Eavan Boland | ||
| Stephen Vincent Benet | ||
| Louise Bogan | ||
| Ambrose Bierce | ||
| Anne Bradstreet | ||
| Wendell Berry | ||
| Yosa Buson ( | ||
| Rupert Brooke | ||
| William Cullen Bryant | ||
| David Berman | ||
| Bertolt Brecht | ||
| Emily Bronte | ||
| Charlotte Bronte | ||
| Imamu Amiri Baraka | ||
| Thomas Edward Brown | ||
| Gelett Burgess | ||
| Joseph Brodsky | ||
| Aleksandr Blok | ||
| Robert Seymour Bridges | ||
| Anne Bronte | ||
| Marvin Bell | ||
| William Barnes | ||
| Laurence Binyon | ||
| Erin Belieu | ||
| April Bernard | ||
| D. C. Berry | ||
| Frank Bidart | ||
| Arna Bontemps | ||
| William Bronk | ||
| Ellis Parker Butler | ||
| Ingeborg Bachmann | ||
| John Betjeman | ||
| Thomas Blackburn | ||
| Yves Bonnefoy | ||
| Edgar Bowers | ||
| William Lisle Bowles | ||
| George Bradley | ||
| Edwin Brock | ||
| John Burnside | ||
| Alex Boyd | ||
| William Browne | ||
| John Bodenham | ||
| Carlos Barbarito | ||
| Joel Barlow | ||
| William Rose Benet | ||
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge | ||
| Ros Barber | ||
| Jonathan Bohrn | ||
| Laure-Anne Bosselaar | ||
| Luis Benitez | ||
| Cecilia Borromeo | ||
| Alain Bosquet | ||
| Robert Bly | ||
| Michael Burch | ||
| Bhaskar Roy Barman | ||
| E. E. Cummings | ||
| Billy Collins | ||
| Lucille Clifton | ||
| John Clare | ||
| Lewis Carroll | ||
| Countee Cullen | ||
| Stephen Crane | ||
| Samuel Coleridge | ||
| Robert Creeley | ||
| Leonard Cohen | ||
| Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| Aleister Crowley | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | ||
| Gregory Corso | ||
| Hart Crane | ||
| William Cowper | ||
| Raymond Carver | ||
| Thomas Campbell | ||
| Amy Clampitt | ||
| Richard Crashaw | ||
| Arthur Hugh Clough | ||
| Thomas Chatterton | ||
| Li Ching Chao | ||
| G. K. Chesterton | ||
| Jean Cocteau | ||
| Lady Mary Chudleigh | ||
| Jim Carroll | ||
| Hayden Carruth | ||
| Martha Collins | ||
| Geraldine Connolly | ||
| Thomas Carew | ||
| Constantine P. Cavafy | ||
| Paul Celan | ||
| Andree Chedid | ||
| Austin Clarke | ||
| Abraham Cowley | ||
| Andrew Crumey | ||
| Eliza Cook | ||
| Peter Conners | ||
| Bliss Carman | ||
| Willa Cather | ||
| Craig Erick Chaffin | ||
| Ivan Donn Carswell | ||
| Anastasia Clark | ||
| Emily Dickinson | ||
| Roald Dahl | ||
| John Donne | ||
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | ||
| Hilda Doolittle | ||
| Rita Dove | ||
| Henry Van Dyke | ||
| John Dryden | ||
| Mark Doty | ||
| William Henry Davies | ||
| Stephen Dunn | ||
| Mahmoud Darwish | ||
| Keith Douglas | ||
| Michael Drayton | ||
| Alan Dugan | ||
| John Davidson | ||
| Robert Desnos | ||
| Mark van Doren | ||
| Annie Dillard | ||
| Stephen Dobyns | ||
| Norman Dubie | ||
| Denise Duhamel | ||
| Regina Derieva | ||
| Michael Donaghy | ||
| Ernest Dowson | ||
| William Drummond | ||
| Carol Ann Duffy | ||
| Helen Dunmore | ||
| William Dunbar | ||
| James Dickey | ||
| Edward Dorn | ||
| Robert Duncan | ||
| T. S. Eliot | ||
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| Paul Eluard | ||
| Marriott Edgar | ||
| Russell Edson | ||
| Cornelius Eady | ||
| James A. Emanuel | ||
| Maggie Estep | ||
| Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff | ||
| George Eliot | ||
| Gerald England | ||
| Ian Emberson | ||
| Rebecca Elson | ||
| Robert Frost | ||
| Tu Fu | ||
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | ||
| Robert Francis | ||
| Edward Field | ||
| Nick Flynn | ||
| Edward Fitzgerald | ||
| Anne Kingsmill Finch | ||
| Jean de La Fontaine | ||
| Carolyn Forche | ||
| Philip Freneau | ||
| Daisy Fried | ||
| Thomas Flatman | ||
| John Fletcher | ||
| Eugene Field | ||
| John Gould Fletcher | ||
| Raymond A. Foss | ||
| Jessie Redmon Fauset | ||
| Annie Finch | ||
| Gary R. Ferris | ||
| Allen Ginsberg | ||
| Khalil Gibran | ||
| Nikki Giovanni | ||
| Louise Gluck | ||
| Robert Graves | ||
| Edgar Albert Guest | ||
| Jack Gilbert | ||
| Thomas Gray | ||
| Thom Gunn | ||
| Judy Grahn | ||
| Eamon Grennan | ||
| Oliver Goldsmith | ||
| Dame Mary Gilmore | ||
| Patricia Goedicke | ||
| Jorie Graham | ||
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ||
| Rafael Guillen | ||
| Adam Lindsay Gordon | ||
| Maria Mazziotti Gillan | ||
| Sidney Godolphin | ||
| Thomas Godfrey | ||
| Adrian Green | ||
| R.George | ||
| Bernadette Geyer | ||
| Godfrey Mutiso Gorry | ||
| Rg Gregory | ||
| Langston Hughes | ||
| Ted Hughes | ||
| Thomas Hardy | ||
| Robert Hayden | ||
| Seamus Heaney | ||
| Robert Herrick | ||
| Donald Hall | ||
| Alec Derwent Hope | ||
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | ||
| Nazim Hikmet | ||
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | ||
| Tony Harrison | ||
| A. E. Housman | ||
| George Herbert | ||
| Tony Hoagland | ||
| James Henry Leigh Hunt | ||
| Edward Hirsch | ||
| Hermann Hesse | ||
| William Ernest Henley | ||
| Anthony Hecht ( | ||
| Ho Xuan Huong | ||
| Richard Hugo | ||
| Bob Hicok | ||
| Geoffrey Hill | ||
| Thomas Hood | ||
| Andrew Hudgins | ||
| Marilyn Hacker | ||
| Victor Hugo | ||
| Kimiko Hahn | ||
| Forrest Hamer | ||
| Mac Hammond | ||
| Brooks Haxton | ||
| Mark Hillringhouse | ||
| Peter Huchel | ||
| Jupiter Hammon | ||
| Bret Harte | ||
| Julia Ward Howe | ||
| William Dean Howells | ||
| Dale Harcombe | ||
| Billy Jno Hope | ||
| Joy Harjo | ||
| Sophie Hannah | ||
| Suheir Hammad | ||
| Eileen Carney Hulme | ||
| Robert M. Hensel | ||
| Kobayashi Issa | ||
| David Ignatow | ||
| Mark Irwin | ||
| Henrik Ibsen | ||
| Randall Jarrell | ||
| Elizabeth Jennings | ||
| James Joyce | ||
| Erica Jong | ||
| Robinson Jeffers | ||
| Jenny Joseph | ||
| Richard Jones | ||
| Laura Riding Jackson | ||
| James Lee Jobe | ||
| Ted Kooser | ||
| Jack Kerouac | ||
| Stanley Kunitz | ||
| Patrick Kavanagh | ||
| Yusef Komunyakaa | ||
| Bob Kaufman | ||
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| Federico Garcia Lorca | ||
| Philip Larkin | ||
| Denise Levertov | ||
| C. S. Lewis | ||
| Amy Lowell | ||
| David Herbert Lawrence | ||
| Vachel Lindsay | ||
| Richard Lovelace | ||
| Giacomo Leopardi | ||
| Primo Levi | ||
| Larry Levis | ||
| Walter Savage Landor | ||
| Michael Lally | ||
| David Lehman ( | ||
| Major Henry Livingston, Jr. | ||
| Roddy Lumsden | ||
| Claude McKay | ||
| Roger McGough | ||
| Spike Milligan | ||
| Walter de la Mare | ||
| Marianne Moore | ||
| Antonio Machado | ||
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | ||
| A. A. Milne | ||
| W. S. Merwin | ||
| John Masefield | ||
| Edgar Lee Masters | ||
| Louis MacNeice | ||
| Thomas Moore | ||
| Christopher Marlowe | ||
| Archibald MacLeish | ||
| Katherine Mansfield | ||
| Lisel Mueller | ||
| William Morris | ||
| Andrew Marvell | ||
| John McCrae | ||
| William Topaz McGonagall | ||
| Herman Melville ( | ||
| Edwin Morgan | ||
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | ||
| Heather McHugh | ||
| Osip Mandelstam | ||
| Chris Mansell | ||
| James Merrill | ||
| William Vaughn Moody | ||
| Dorothea MacKellar | ||
| Edwin Markham | ||
| Pablo Neruda | ||
| Alfred Noyes | ||
| Naomi Shihab Nye | ||
| Sarojini Naidu | ||
| Howard Nemerov | ||
| Anais Nin | ||
| John Frederick Nims | ||
| Sir Henry Newbolt | ||
| Edith Nesbit | ||
| Claire Nixon | ||
| Nimah Nawwab | ||
| Sharon Olds | ||
| Wilfred Owen | ||
| Michael Ondaatje | ||
| Peter Orlovsky | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| Sylvia Plath | ||
| Dorothy Parker | ||
| Octavio Paz | ||
| Andrew Barton Paterson | ||
| Marge Piercy | ||
| Alexander Pope | ||
| Linda Pastan | ||
| Boris Pasternak | ||
| Vasko Popa | ||
| Katherine Anne Porter | ||
| P. K. Page | ||
| Christina Rossetti ( | ||
| Salvatore Quasimodo | ||
| Nizar Qabbani | ||
| Rainer Maria Rilke | ||
| Adrienne Rich | ||
| Theodore Roethke | ||
| Isaac Rosenberg | ||
| Sir Walter Raleigh | ||
| Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi | ||
| George William Russell | ||
| Arthur Rimbaud ( | ||
| Susan Rich | ||
| Jennifer Reeser | ||
| John Crowe Ransom | ||
| John Ruskin | ||
| Shel Silverstein | ||
| William Shakespeare | ||
| Carl Sandburg | ||
| Gary Soto | ||
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | ||
| May Swenson | ||
| Wallace Stevens | ||
| Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| Stevie Smith | ||
| William Stafford ( | ||
| Siegfried Sassoon | ||
| Karl Shapiro | ||
| Edmund Spenser | ||
| Kenneth Slessor | ||
| Robert William Service | ||
| Mark Strand | ||
| Charles Simic | ||
| Robert Southey | ||
| Gertrude Stein | ||
| Sir Philip Sidney | ||
| James Stephens | ||
| Delmore Schwartz | ||
| Dame Edith Sitwell | ||
| Gary Snyder | ||
| Sir John Suckling | ||
| Christopher Smart | ||
| Alfonsina Storni | ||
| Vita Sackville-West | ||
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | ||
| Vernon Scannell | ||
| Edward Thomas | ||
| Georg Trakl | ||
| Ann Taylor | ||
| James Tate | ||
| Jane Taylor | ||
| Tristan Tzara | ||
| Ernest Lawrence Thayer | ||
| Francis Thompson | ||
| Katharine Tynan | ||
| Natasha Trethewey | ||
| James Thomson | ||
| Marilyn L. Taylor | ||
| Jean Valentine | ||
| Francois Villon | ||
| Andrei Voznesensky | ||
| Dimitris Varos ( | ||
| Walt Whitman | ||
| William Carlos Williams | ||
| William Wordsworth | ||
| Alice Walker | ||
| Richard Wilbur | ||
| Phillis Wheatley | ||
| Judith Wright | ||
| Oscar Wilde | ||
| Isaac Watts ( | ||
| Derek Walcott | ||
| James Weldon Johnson | ||
| James Whitcomb Riley | ||
| Annie Louisa Walker | ||
| David Wagoner | ||
| Diane Wakoski | ||
| Connie Wanek | ||
| Charles Webb | ||
| John Wheelwright | ||
| Nancy Willard | ||
| John Williams | ||
| Eleanor Wilner | ||
| Liam Wilkinson | ||
| Michael Wigglesworth | ||
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | ||
| William Butler Yeats | ||
| Lisa Zaran | ||
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