Poetry

Discover a world of poetic brilliance with our curated list of celebrated poets. Explore the works of literary giants, from Shakespeare to Maya Angelou, and delve into the minds of those who have shaped the art of verse. Find inspiration, emotion, and timeless expression in the words of these renowned poets.

An outstanding poet and playwright of the Netherlands

Johann Andreas Cramer

German poet, theologian

Hartmann von Aue

Epic and lyric poet of the German Middle Ages

Mirza Asadullah-khan Ghalib

Mirra Lohvitskaya

A talented poetess (1869-1905), daughter of the famous scientist and lawyer A. V. Lokhvitsky.

Fransua Arman Sulli-Prudom

French poet, first Nobel laureate in literature

Nikolos Baratashvili

Georgian romantic poet

American singer and songwriter

Philippe Jaccottet

Swiss poet, essayist, translator, writes in French.

Stanislav Grohovyak

Porfiry Korenitsky

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr

12th century Welsh poet

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian poet and writer; founder, leader and theorist of futurism

Mirza Shafi Vazeh

Azerbaijani poet and thinker, educator and teacher

Publius Vergilius

Ancient Roman poet

Bernardino Baldi

Italian poet and scholar.

Nikolay Ribalko

Ukrainian poet.

Elizabeth Carter

English poet and translator.

Federico Romero

Spanish poet and essayist

The very first Roman poet

English poet and writer

Cuban poet, the greatest representative of modernism

Andrey Malushko

Ukrainian Soviet poet, translator

Latvian poet and patriot.

Magjan Jumabaev

An outstanding Kazakh writer, publicist, one of the founders of new Kazakh literature.

Timofey Belozerov

Soviet poet, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR

Swiss and French poet, translator, essayist

Omelian Ogonovskiy

Alfred Edward Housman

Hurshudbanu Natavan

Gisella Lachman

Russian poetess, bibliographer

Rainer Maria Rilke

Diogenes Laertius

Robert Bloomfield

English folk poet

Ruslan Akhtakhanov

Poet and educator

Tomas Transtromer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator, winner of the Neustadt Literary Prize in 1990 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.

Hungarian poet, writer and translator

Vladimir Sollogub

Brone Buivydaite

Lithuanian poetess and prose writer.

France Preseren

Outstanding Slovenian poet

Yumiko Kuraxasi

Japanese writer

Szymon Zimorowic

One of the greatest poets of Poland. The founder of realism in Polish literature. He gained European fame with his poetry in Latin, and in his homeland he received the name of "the Polish Pindar".

Jose Maria Gabriel y Galan

Spanish poet, wrote in Spanish

People's poet of Belarus

George Gordon Byron

English romantic poet

French poet, essayist, critic

Eduard Veydenbaum