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 | ||
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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 |