Poets, A - B

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 There are many ways to classify poetry, and we chose the most unpoetical: the poets are listed in alphabetical order. But look how even the alphabet can become part of a poem in "The Spell" by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.


Aemilia Lanyer
Emilia Lanier, also spelled Aemilia Lanyer, (15...

Amy Levy
Amy Levy (1861 – 1889) was a British poet and novelist. ...

Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first American female wr...

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790 ...

Barron Field
Born October 23, 1786, Barron Field married Jane Carncroft in 1816 and became ...

Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dra...

By Philip Larkin
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Swinburne, sketch by RossettiAlgernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 ...

ANONYMOUS
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Brian Patten
Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946, ...

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 September 1824–20 March 1906) was an American ...

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President...

Bob Dylan
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Bliss Carman
Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929) was a ...

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Wedgwood cameo of Barbauld from 1775 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ...

Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American fiction writer. She has ...

Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (22 September 1847 - 27 November ...

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was a German poet, playwrig...

Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts – October 4, 1974, Weston, ...

Andrew Marvell
A statue of Andrew Marvell, located in King Street, Kingston upon Hull, UKAndrew...

Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest...

Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë's grave at ScarboroughAnne Brontë (January 17, 1820 ...

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859–7 July 1930) was a British ...

Ai
Ai's poems are in copyright and cannot be reproduced without the permission of ...

Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and ...

Barbara Pescan
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Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor (June 30, 1782 - December 20, 1866), later Mrs Joseph Gilbert, was, ...

Basavanna
Basava (also known as Basaveshwara (1134–1196) was a philosopher and a social re...

Ben Okri
Ben Okri (born on March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Having spent ...

Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman FRSC (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet...

Adela Florence Nicolson Cory
Poetry is perhaps the one creation that certified we humans have souls. A good p...

Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Cole's Hill, Birmingham, ...

Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949, New Delhi - 8 December 2001, ...

A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne(January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), ...

Augustus Montague Toplady
Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740 – August 11, 1778), ...

Billy Collins
William A. ("Billy") Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who ...

Benjamin Franklin King
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Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger (June 22, 1888 – July 4, 1916) was an American poet. ...

A. K. Ramanujan
Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-1993) was a scholar of Indian literature ...

A. H. Reginald Buller
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (August 19, 1874 – July 3, 1944) was a ...

Bill Watterson
William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist, ...

A. P. Herbert
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A.P.H.) ...

Angel Gonzalez
Ángel González (September 3, 1925 in Oviedo, Spain) is a major Hispanic poet ...

Alice Mary Buckton
Although not a South African, but rather educated at Haslemere, Alice Mary ...

Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Rest...

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet ...

Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell (born 24 October 1932, Haywards Heath, West Sussex) is an ...

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914(?)) was an American editorialist, ...

Albert Frank Moritz
Albert Frank Morirtz (born 15 April 1947) is a poet, teacher, and scholar. ...

Arthur Guiterman
Arthur Guiterman (November 20, 1871 - January 11, 1943) ...

Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 - July 28, 1667), English poet, was born in the City of Lon...

Aline Murray Kilmer
Aline Murray Kilmer (1 August 1888 – 1 October 1941), was an American poet, ...

Anna Letitia Waring
Anna Letitia Waring was born at Plas-y-Velin, Neath, on April 19, 1823. She left...

Anon
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Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878–October 8, 1914), was an American poet. Born...

Adelaide Procter
Adelaide Anne Procter (October 30, 1825 – February 2, 1864), an English poet, ...

Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights ...

Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (March 14, 1844–January 30, 1881) was a ...

bpNichol
Barrie Phillip Nichol (September 30, 1944 - September 25, 1988), was a ...

Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861) was an ...

Anne Killigrew
Anne Killigrew (1660 – 1685) was an English poet. Born in London, Killigrew is ...

Annie Louisa Walker
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Arthur Clement Hilton
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A. E. Housman
Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children of a ...

Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk – July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire)...

Augusta (Davies) Webster
Augusta Webster (Davies) (30 January 1837 - 5 September 1894), was an English ...

Amelia Opie
Amelia Opie (November 12, 1769 - December 2, 1853), English author, daughter of ...

Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 - 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was ...

Arthur Christopher Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925), British essayist, ...

Blind Harry
Blind Harry (c. 1440 – 1492), also known as Harry or Henry the Minstrel, is ...

Anthony Munday
Anthony Munday (or Monday) (1560? – August 10, 1633), was an English dramatist ...

Anthony Dey Hoagland
Anthony Dey Hoagland (born 1953) is an American poet and writer. ...

A. P. Bowen
Notes on Life and Works ...

Annie Finch
Annie Finch (b. 1956) is an American poet, librettist, and critic, translator, ...

Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of ...

Anthony Raftery
Antoine Ó Raifteiri (also Antoine Ó Reachtabhra, English: Anthony Raftery) (1784...

Arun Kolatkar
Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932–2004) is one of the most important and ...

Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 – January 7, 1758) was a Scottish poet. ...

Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an ...

Barry Cornwall
Bryan Waller Procter in an 1830 portrait by William Brockedon.Born at Leeds, ...

Becky Dennison Sakellariou
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Alec Derwent Hope
Alec Derwent Hope (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000) was an Australian poet and ...

Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French ...

Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American ...

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (February 17, 1864 – February 5, 1941) was a ...

Anne Askew
Anne Askew (1521 - 16 July 1546) was an English poet and member of ...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), English poetAlfred Noyes (September 16, 1880 – June ...

by Wislawa Szymborska
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (June 6 ...

A. C.Swinburne
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Anne Hecht
Nothing is known about the life of Anne Hecht, except that she appears well ...

Arabella Eugenia Smith
Arabella Eugenia Smith was born in 1844 in Lichfield, Ohio, and resided from ...

Bill Holm
Bill Holm (born 1925 in Roundup, Montana) is a U.S. artist, author and art ...

Alfred Tennyson
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Anna Wickham
Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1884 -1947), a ...

Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (James) (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) U.S. poet and ...

Alexander MacGregor Rose
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Alistair Campbell
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM, (born 25 June 1925) is a poet and novelist. ...

Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova (Russian: (June 23 [O.S. June 11]1889 — March 5, 1966) ...

Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1890 – May 30, 1960) ...

Andrei Voznesensky
Andréi Andréievich VoznesenskyAndrey Andreyevich Voznesensky (May 12, 1933, Mosc...

Alden Nowlan
Alden Albert Nowlan (January 25, 1933 - June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, ...

Allan Ginsberg
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Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion, FRSL, (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and ...

Ann Taylor Jane Taylor
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Alfredo Lepera
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Amanda Townsend
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Bhartrihari
Bharthari was a philosopher-poet of the fifth century A.D. and the author of a ...

A. S. Byatt
Was educated at The Mount School, York, Newnham College Cambridge, Bryn Mawr in ...

Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred KreymborgAlfred Francis Kreymborg (1883–1966) was an American poet, ...

Alfred Perceval Graves
One page of a letter bearing Graves' signature.Alfred Perceval Graves (July 22, ...

Ann Drysdale
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Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892–April 20, 1982) was an ...

Arthur Yap
Arthur Yap (1943-June 19, 2006) was arguably the finest poet to ...

A. S. J. Tessimond
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (Birkenhead, July 19, 1902 - Chelsea, London May ...

Anne Ridler
Anne Barbara Ridler (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British ...

Bhaskaracharya
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Anise
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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. (April 1661 in Sydmonton, Hampshire – 5 Augu...

Antipater of Sidon
Antipatros or Antipatros Sidonios in the Anthologies, was an ancient Greek poet ...

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon - Melbourne monumentAdam Lindsay Gordon (October 19, 1833 – ...

Alex Pascall
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aily Paper -- Norman Rowland Gale
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