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.

Japanese poetess

Aleksey Mateevich

Moldovan poet and translator

Chernorizets Hrabr

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

Francois Villon

Petar Hektorovic

Croatian humanist poet

Richard Brotigan

American writer and poet, an iconic figure of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s.

Russian poet, prose writer, memoirist

Yury Andruhovich

Ukrainian poet, prose writer, translator, essayist.

Kosta Hetagurov

Dante Alighieri

Italian poet, author of The Divine Comedy.

Gabdiman Igensartov

Kazakh Soviet poet

Tomas Transtromer

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

Abid Al Memalik

In 1906, he was the editor of the Persian newspaper Majlis. Adib al-Memalik was one of the first Persian poets of realistic creativity.

Nikolay Rubtsov

Tatyana Gnedych

Russian translator and poet.

Yanis Sudrabkalns

Latvian Soviet poet.

Russian and Ukrainian poetess and translator

Tatiana Galushko

Japanese writer

Jose Iglesias De las Casas

One of the greatest poets of Croatia

French poet and essayist.

Aloiziy Felinskiy

Polish poet, playwright, translator, literary theorist.

Eslyam Zikibaev

Famous Kazakh poet and writer.

Heinrich Seidel

German poet, copper engraver, engineer by profession

Yaroslav Smelyakov

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

Christine De Pizan

French medieval writer of Italian origin

Poet, translator

Sholpan Imanbayeva

Kazakh Soviet poetess.

Novella Matveeva

Soviet poetess and translator

Ovanes Tumanian

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

Japanese poet of the 18th century, master of the haiku genre

Irina Ivanchenko

Ukrainian poetess

American poet and critic

Finnish writer and poet.

Elza Rosenberg-Plekshan (Aspazija)

Latvian poetess, playwright, wife of Jan RAINIS

Vladimir Gippius

Russian poet of the Silver Age, literary scholar

Kalman Kalocsay

Poet and translator in Esperanto

William Allingham

19th century English poet.

Mirra Lohvitskaya

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

Georgian writer and poet of the 19th century

Vladimir Pecherin

Russian religious thinker, poet

Djoomart Bokonbaev

Kyrgyz Soviet poet

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German poet, novelist and playwright