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.

Indian and Tajik-Persian poet, scholar, musician

Caecilius Statius

Was a Roman comic poet

English Chartist poet

The greatest Scottish poet of the 16th century.

Kamal Ad-Din Binoi

Tajik poet and thinker

Valerian Gaprindashvili

Georgian poet, translator.

English poet and satirist

Edouard D'Anglemont

French poet of the 19th century

Lithuanian writer

Kosta Hetagurov

Japanese writer, representative of the literary group "third new".

Roman epic poet

Joachim Du Bellay

Luiza Sharly-Labe

Francisco Quevedo

Spanish poet and novelist

Konstantin Verenitsyn

Belarusian poet

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet and writer

Omelian Ogonovskiy

Dante Alighieri

Italian poet, author of The Divine Comedy.

Malcolm de Chazal

East African poet and artist, wrote in French

American writer, poet, translator, teacher

Spanish poet, literary critic, translator of English and Italian poetry

Dmitriy Lazutkin

Russian and Ukrainian poet living in Ukraine

English poet, journalist and publisher of the Victorian era.

Ilyas Dzhansugurov

Kazakh Soviet poet, classic of Kazakh literature

Belgian national poet

Mihail Pinchevski

Jewish poet, novelist, playwright

American poet and surrealist, representative of the Beat movement

Jewish poet who wrote in Yiddish.

Japanese writer

Poetess, prose writer

An outstanding Japanese writer, one of the largest modernist writers in Japan of the 20th century.

Livonian poet, prose writer, translator and journalist.

Uzbek Soviet poetess

Fransisko Brines

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

One of the greatest poets of Croatia

Hamit Ergaliyev

Kazakh poet, People's Writer of the Kazakh SSR

Willem Bilderdijk

Dutch poet, philologist, historian.

Gabriella Zmihovskaya

Polish writer and poetess.

Jewish poet. Wrote in Yiddish.

Johann Friedrich Kind

German lyricist

American poet and critic

Ukrainian Soviet poet