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.

Kostas Karyotakis

Nikolay Burlyuk

Russian poet and prose writer

South African poetess

South African poet and translator

Christopher Brennan

Australian poet

A German poet who wrote in the Thuringian dialect.

Ukrainian poet, writer, blogger.

Gustave Benedit

French poet and music critic.

Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty

William Wellington G'oba

South African poet, translator and journalist, of Xhosa descent

Eduard Mezhelaitis

People's Poet of Lithuania, Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin Prize laureate

Ukrainian literary critic, poet - master of sonnets

Eugenio De Signoribus

Alexander Velichansky

Russian poet and translator. Author of the lyrics to the song "To the Music of Vivaldi".

Naftaly Hertzs-Imber

Hartley Coleridge

Imants Ziedonis

Ellie Greenwich

Musician, songwriter

12th century Norman poet

Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

Jewish liturgical poet

German poetess of Jewish origin

Gabdiman Igensartov

Kazakh Soviet poet

Famous French-speaking librettist and author of song lyrics.

Jakob van Hoddis

German expressionist poet of Jewish origin

Feodosiy Osmachka

Ukrainian writer, prose writer, poet, translator.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

A late Latin poet who was called in modern times "the first French poet" (for his local patriotism), although he wrote in Latin

Petar Hektorovic

Croatian humanist poet

Charles Calverley

An English poet nicknamed the "king of parodists"

Jewish poet. Wrote in Yiddish.

Hamit Ergaliyev

Kazakh poet, People's Writer of the Kazakh SSR

Polish poet, the second poet of his doomed generation after Baczyński.

Luis de Gongora

Spanish Baroque poet.

Jewish poet, author of the legendary Partisan Hymn

Heinrich Seidel

German poet, copper engraver, engineer by profession

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".

Edouard D'Anglemont

French poet of the 19th century

Famous French playwright.

Chernorizets Hrabr

Medieval Bulgarian writer, worked at the Preslav book school at the end of the 9th - beginning of the 10th centuries.

Natalka Belotserkovets

Poetess, author of several poetry collections.

French poet and writer

Stepan Shipachov

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