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.

Thoger Larsen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish poet and translator

Gai Catullus
Italy
ItalyThe very first Roman poet

Adolf Heyduk
Czech
CzechCzech poet and writer.

Molla Panah Vagif
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani poet

Vitaliy Kalashnikov
Russia
RussiaRussian poet, prose writer, translator

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

Giacomo Leopardi
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Pshavela Vazja
Georgia
GeorgiaWriter

Yosl Lerner
Israel
IsraelJewish poet. Wrote in Yiddish.

Frans Cort
Belgium
BelgiumFlemish poet.

Domingos Caldas Barbosa
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian poet.

Chernorizets Hrabr
Bulgaria
BulgariaMedieval Bulgarian writer, worked at the Preslav book school at the end of the 9th - beginning of the 10th centuries.

Alphonse Lamartine
France
FranceFrench poet and statesman.amartine

Loeb
Poetess

Michael Kolpachkevich
Translator and poet.

Edwin Arnold
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, journalist and publisher of the Victorian era.

Karl Friedrich Kretschmann
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Julia Alvarez
Dominican r.
Dominican r.American writer of Dominican descent

Theobald Kerner
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, son of Justinus Kerner

Mary Gilmore
Australia
AustraliaAustralian poetess.

Petr Orlov
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, translator

Natalya Khatkina
Ukraine
UkrainePoetess

Gulnazar Keldiev
Tajikistan
TajikistanPeople's poet of Tajikistan, member of the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan, member of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan.

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

Grigor Tutunnik
Ukrainian writer and prose writer. Younger brother of the writer Grigory Tyutyunnik.

William Combe
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and poet.

Alfred De Vigny
France
FranceFrench poet and romantic writer. Goems: "Moses", "Flood", psychological drama "Chatterton", books of poems "Diary of a Poet"/

Arkady Shteinberg
Russia
RussiaPoet

Juan Jimenez
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, Nobel laureate 1956

Dmitriy Lazutkin
Ukraine
UkraineRussian and Ukrainian poet living in Ukraine

Vasiliy Jukovski
Russia
RussiaRussian poet and translator

Nicolas Guillen
Cuba
CubaCuban poet

Salah Abd Al-Sabur
Egypt
EgyptEgyptian poet, playwright, literary critic, one of the founders of modern Arabic poetry, graduate of Cairo University, publisher of the magazine "Al-Katib"

David Guramishvili
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian poet

Meysey Goto
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Richard Corbet
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet.

Eleonor Roosevelt
USA
USADiplomat, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Victor Hugo
France
FranceFrench writer, poet and playwright

Heinrich Anacker
Switzerland
SwitzerlandGerman writer and poet

Johann Andreas Cramer
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, theologian

Friedrich Schiller
Germany
GermanyGerman poet and playwright

Heinrich Heine
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Yves Bonnefoy
France
FranceFrench poet, prose writer, essayist, translator.

Jacob Cats
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch poet.

Hartley Coleridge
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet

Vitezslav Nezval
Czech
CzechCzech poet

Gabriella Zmihovskaya
Poland
PolandPolish writer and poetess.

Paul Celan
Romania
RomaniaPoet, translator

Margit Kaffka
Hungary
HungaryHungarian writer and poetess.

Yuriy Grunin
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanRussian and Kazakh poet