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.

Jewish poet, author of the legendary Partisan Hymn

Maurice De Guerin

American songwriter

Gisella Lachman

Russian poetess, bibliographer

Odysseas Elytis

Greek poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1979

Elza Rosenberg-Plekshan (Aspazija)

Latvian poetess, playwright, wife of Jan RAINIS

Ingeborg Bachmann

Austrian writer.

Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup

Danish lyric poet

Ukrainian poet, lyricist.

Lawrence Ferlengetty

American poet, artist

Else Lasker-Schuler

German poet and writer

Azerbaijani emigrant poet.

American writer and poet

Finnish poet who wrote poems of national romantic content in Swedish.

Stefan Mallarme

French symbolist poet

Kurdish poet, founder of modern Kurdish literature.

Ilyas Dzhansugurov

Kazakh Soviet poet, classic of Kazakh literature

Salvador Espriu

Catalan poet, prose writer, playwright, wrote in Catalan.

Danish and Norwegian poet

Jose de Espronceda

Spanish poet of the Romantic era

Henriette Roland Holst

Dutch poet, writer and politician

Armenian poet, musician and ashugh

Belgian poet, author of about 60 collections of poems

Ada Vladimirova

Russian poetess, translator

Aliakbar Zhumataev

Kazakh akyn, zhyrau, poet

Shakarim Kudaiberdiev

Philosopher, thinker, historian

Natalya Khatkina

Spanish poet, translator, essayist.

The greatest French poet of the 20th century

Aloiziy Felinskiy

Polish poet, playwright, translator, literary theorist.

German humanist poet, translator, satirist, teacher.

Julia Ward Howe

Prominent American abolitionist, social activist and poet

Georgian Soviet poet

Irina Ivanchenko

Ukrainian poetess

Hungarian poet-commoner.

Israeli poet, literary scholar, translator, critic

Edward Kammings

American poet, writer, artist, playwright.

Lithuanian poet and translator

Christian Morgenstern

German poet, writer and translator, classic of German literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries

12th century Norman poet

Russian poetess, daughter of the poet Stanislav Minakov, musician and artist

French avant-garde writer, film director, actor and artist.

Swiss and French poet, translator, essayist

Timofey Belozerov

Soviet poet, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR

Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist

Great English poet