Poetry

Read about notable figures in Poetry: books, literary careers, famous works and the cultural legacy of influential authors.

Persian thinker and writer

Tatiana Galushko

American writer, translator, poet, essayist, artist.

Veronica Gambara

Italian poet and statesman of the Renaissance

Molla Panah Vagif

Azerbaijani poet

Aleksey Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff

Poet, writer and scientist

Margarete Susman

German poet, essayist, literary scholar.

Elizabeth Browning

English poetess

Strassburg Gottfried

Medieval German poet, famous for his poem Tristan

Vladimir Burich

Russian poet, versifier, translator; theorist and promoter of free verse

Jose Maria Alvarez

Spanish poet, writer and translator

Franciszek Zyglinski

Krakow poet and artist.

Visente Alejksandre-i-Merlo

Spanish poet, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1977

Alexander Irvanets

Ukrainian writer, translator.

Novella Matveeva

Evgeniy Horvath

Russian poet, then German artist

Bogdan Chorazuk

Polish poet, lyricist.

Fransisko Brines

Habriela Mistral

Chilean poetess, Nobel laureate 1945.

Moldavian Soviet poet.

Kozma Jerusalem

Byzantine church poet of the 8th century.

Peter Gulak-Artemovsky

Ukrainian writer, poet, fabulist

The very first Roman poet

Indian and Tajik-Persian poet, scholar, musician

France Preseren

Outstanding Slovenian poet

Augustin-Mari Ximenes

Polish-American poet of Lithuanian origin, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1980.

Latvian writer, Honored Cultural Figure of the Latvian SSR

Valerian Gaprindashvili

Georgian poet, translator.

Awhadi Maraghai

Persian Sufi poet

Wilgelm Zorgenfrei

Boleslaw Lesmian

Polish poet of Jewish origin

Lithuanian poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, translator.

Juan de Tassis Villamediana

Spanish courtier, diplomat, and Baroque poet

Ukrainian writer, poet, publisher

Helene Ghitelman

Belgian poetess.

Giovanni Battista Casti

Wlodzimierzs Vysotskiy

Polish poet, photographer and artist

American singer and songwriter

Jan Jakob Lodewijk Ten Kate

Ovanes Tumanian

Armenian poet, publicist, public figure; his work is considered the pinnacle of Armenian poetry.

Irish poet, writer and teacher