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.

Nicolae Labis
Romania
RomaniaRomanian poet.

Vazha-Pshavela
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian writer and poet of the 19th century

Josephine von Knorr
Austria
AustriaAustrian poet and translator

Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer and playwright, classic of Belarusian literature.

Neringa Abrutyte
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet and translator.

Alexander Irvanets
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, translator.

Thomas Hood
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, humorist and satirist.

Ewald Christian von Kleist
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Rene Depestre
Haiti
HaitiHaitian poet, prose writer, public figure, communist.

Salomea Neris
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poetess

Catherine Des Roches
France
FranceFrench writer and poet of the Renaissance period

Edmund Blunden
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, writer and critic

Gabriello Chiabrera
Italy
ItalyAlong with Marino, one of the most famous Italian poets of the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Odysseas Elytis
Greece
GreeceGreek poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1979

Karl Friedrich Kretschmann
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Gyula Baghy
Hungary
HungaryHungarian Esperantist, famous poet and prose writer in Esperanto

Hugo Hofmannsthal
Austria
AustriaAustrian poet, playwright, prose writer, essayist.

Cesare Caporali
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Robert Berns
Great Britain
Great BritainPoet

Strassburg Gottfried
Germany
GermanyMedieval German poet, famous for his poem Tristan

Valeriy Levenko
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian Russian-speaking poet, journalist, publicist

Geoffrey Chaucer
Great Britain
Great BritainThe most prominent of the English poets of the Middle Ages, the largest figure in English literature.

Omar Khayyam
Tajikistan
TajikistanTajik poet of the beginning of the millennium

Alfred Bruce Douglas
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet and translator

Iosif Grishashvili
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian Soviet poet

Yaroslav Seyfert
Czech poet, Nobel laureate in 1984.

Victor Kordun
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet

Dimitrie Anghel
Romania
RomaniaRomanian poet.

Katya Kapovich
Moldova
MoldovaRussian and American poet.

Kazis Puyda
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, prose writer, playwright, translator.

William Cowper
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet

Malcolm de Chazal
France
FranceEast African poet and artist, wrote in French

Simon Dach
Germany
GermanyGerman Prussian poet

Alexander Ginger
Russian poet

Shalkiiz Tlenshi-Uly
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanPoet

Mikhail Kulesh
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer

Brone Buivydaite
Lithuanian poetess and prose writer.

Lado Asatiani
Georgian Soviet poet

France Preseren
Slovenia
SloveniaOutstanding Slovenian poet

Petr Gorskiy
Russia
RussiaRussian poet and writer, essayist.

Lea Goldberg
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet, literary scholar, translator, critic

Alphonse Lamartine
France
FranceFrench poet and statesman.amartine

Naevius Gnaeus
Italy
ItalyRoman poet

Igor Zhivagin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Russian-speaking lyric poet

Mikel Laboa
Spain
SpainPoet-songwriter

Daniil Ratgauz
Czech
CzechRussian poet, author of the words of several famous romances.

Alexander Zharov
Russian Soviet poet

Natalia Astafieva
Poland
PolandRussian and Polish poet, translator.

Vitaliy Kalashnikov
Russia
RussiaRussian poet, prose writer, translator

Vladimir Gippius
Russian poet of the Silver Age, literary scholar