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Quentin James Reynolds
Quentin James Reynolds (April 11, 1902 New York City – March 17, 1965 San ...

R. T. Smith
R.T. Smith is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and editor. The author of ...

Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also ...

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) is considered one of the...

Ralph Hodgson
Ralph Hodgson (September 9, 1871 – November 3, 1962) was an English poet, very ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, ...

Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 15, 1965), ...

Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short...

Raymond Knister
Raymond Knister (1899-1932) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet, ...

Raymond Souster
Raymond Holmes Souster (born 15 January 1921) is a Canadian poet. ...

Reginald Heber
Reginald HeberReginald Heber (April 21, 1783 - April 3, 1826) was an English ...

Richard Barnfield
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627), English poet, was born at Norbury, Staffordshire,...

Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – September 14, 1984) was an ...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
R.B. Sheridan was born in Dublin on October 30, 1751 at 12 Dorset Street, a ...

Richard Corbett
Richard Corbett (born January 6, 1955, Southport, Merseyside) is a Member of the...

Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 - August 25, 1649), English poet, styled "the divine," ...

Richard Edwards
Richard Edwardes (1523? - 1566) was an English poet and playwright; he was made ...

Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett (February 27, 1835 – April 13, 1906) was a scholar, librarian, ...

Richard Harris Barham
Richard Harris Barham (December 6, 1788–June 17, 1845), ...

Richard Hovey
Richard Hovey (1864-1900) was an American composer, poet and playwright. ...

Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (1618–1659) was one of the Cavalier poets and a nobleman, born ...

Richard Thompson
Richard John Thompson (born 3 April 1949 in Notting Hill Gate, West London) is a...

Richard Wilbur
Wilbur was born in New York City and grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey.[1]. ...

Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American ...

Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is an American poet...

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a ...

Robert Wever
Robert Wever was an English poet of the sixteenth century (floruit c. 1550) ...

Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907–May 8, 1988) was one of ...

Robert Blair
Robert Blair (1699 - February 4, 1746) was a Scottish poet. ...

Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English ...

Robert Browning
Robert Browning (May 7, 1812–December 12, 1889) was a British poet and ...

Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, ...

Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an ...

Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos (July 4, 1900 - June 8, 1945), was a French surrealist poet who ...

Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley (1703 - September 23, 1764) was an English bookseller and ...

Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a classic American ...

Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson (September 5, 1750 - October 16, 1774), Scottish poet, son of W...

Robert Francis
Robert Francis (1901-1987) was an American poet who lived much of his life in ...

Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His ...

Robert Fuller Murray
Robert Fuller Murray was born Dec. 26, 1863, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, of John ...

Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, ...

Robert Greene
Robert Greene (born in Los Angeles in May 14, 1959) is an American author known ...

Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980) was an American poet, ...

Robert Henryson
Robert Henryson (or Robert Henderson) (c. 1425 – c. 1500) was a Scottish poet. ...

Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (baptized August 24, 1591- October 1674) was a 17th century Engli...

Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead lyricist, c.1982Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, ...

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a ...

Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence ...

Robert Lowry
Robert Lowry American politician. For the American ...

Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was ...

Robert Southey
Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the ...

Robert Southwell, SJ
Saint Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595) was an English Jesuit priest...

Robert Stanley Weir
Robert Stanley Weir, FRSC, (November 15, 1856 – August 20, 1926) was a Montreal,...

Robert Stephen Hawker
Robert Stephen Hawker (3 December 1803 – 15 August 1875), often known as Stephen...

Robert W. Service
Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) ...

Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, ...

Roger McGough
Roger Joseph McGough CBE (born November 9, 1937) is a well-known English perform...

Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English rock musician; singer,...

Roger Woddis
Roger Woddis (c1917-July 1993) was a writer and humorous poet. One of his most ...

Rolf Jacobsen
Rolf Jacobsen (March 8, 1907-1994) could be said to be the first modernist ...

Romesh Chunder Dutt
Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE (Calcutta August 13, ...

Ronald Stuart Thomas
Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March, 1913 – 25 September, 2000) (published as R. S. ...

Rosanna Eleanor (Mullins) Leprohon
Rosanna Eleanor Mullins was born in Montreal and educated at the Convent of the ...

Rosemarie Rowley
Rosemarie Rowley was born in Dublin on October 7, 1942. After a spell working in...

Rosemary Dobson
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson (b. 18 June 1920) is an award winning Australian ...

Rosemary Sullivan
Rosemary Sullivan (born 1947) is a Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist. ...

Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English ...

Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle-name sometimes given as ...

Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He was ...

Ruth Sophia Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel (born 8 May 1946) is a British classical scholar, poet and ...

Sabine Baring-Gould
The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an ...

Salman Rushdie
Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( Nastaliq:ÓáãÇä ÑÔÏی; born ...

Sam Hunt
'Sam Hunt (born in Auckland on 4 July 1946) is a New Zealand performance ...

Sam Walter Foss
Sam Walter Foss, June 19, 1858 - February 26, 1911, was a ...

Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer, ...

Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (4 December 1612 – 18 June 1680) was born in ...

Samuel Daniel
Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the ...

Samuel Foote
Samuel Foote (January, 1720 – October 21, 1777) was an English dramatist, actor ...

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1709 – 13 December 1...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) ...

Sant Tukaram
Sant Tukaram (c.1608-c.1650), also Shri Tukaram, and colloquially ...

Sappho
Sappho (Attic Greek , Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω ) was an ...

Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933), ...

Sarah Binks
Sarah Binks is the novel by University of Manitoba professor Paul Hiebert. ...

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (February 22, 1805 – August 14, 1848) was an English ...

Sarah Fyge Egerton
Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723), poet, was born in London. She is best known for ...

Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Hale (October 23, 1788 - April 30, 1879) was an American writer. ...

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (born outside of Lexington, ...

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959) was a miniaturist poet associated with the ...

Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 - March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila ...

Seamus Justin Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish ...

Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a "hellfire ...

Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950 in Birmingham) is a British poet, novelist and ...

Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an ...

Shirley Brooks
Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816 - 1874), journalist and novelist, born in ...

Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician ...

Sigerson Clifford
Sigerson Clifford (1913 - 1985) was an Irish poet and playwright. ...

Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (born in Huddersfield on May 26, 1963) is a British poet, ...

Simon Joseph Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz, poet, writer, storyteller, and Doctor of Letters , is author of ...

Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (January 4, 1835 - April 11, 1911) was a British civil ...

Sir Charles Sedley
Sir Charles Sedley (portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller)Sir Charles Sedley (March ...

Sir Edward Dyer
Sir Edward Dyer (October 1543 – May 1607) was an English courtier and poet. ...

Sir George Etherege
Sir George Etherege (1635?, Maidenhead, Berkshire–c. May 10, 1692, Paris) ...

Sir Henry Newbolt
Sir Henry Newbolt is an early 20th century English poet. He is best known for ...

Sir Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - December, 1639) was an English author and diplomat. ...

Sir John Davies
Sir John Davies (April 16, 1569 – December 8, 1626) was an English poet and ...

Sir John Denham
Sir John Denham (1615 - 10 March 1669), poet, son of the Chief Baron of ...

Sir John Suckling
Sir John Suckling as painted by VanDyckSir John Suckling (February 10, 1609–June...

Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) became ...

Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – October 13, 1542) was born at Allington Castle, near ...

Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618), was a famed English wr...

Sonnet L'Abbé
Born in Toronto, Ontario L'Abbé received a BFA in film and vide...

Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah (born 1971, Manchester, England) is an award-winning English-born ...

Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Sean Milligan KBE (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known ...

St. Jean de Brébeuf
Saint Jean de Brébeuf (25 March 1593 – 16 March 1649) was a Jesuit missionary, ...

Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius
Little is known about this poet, who appears to have been a World War I soldier ...

Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted ...

Statius
Publius Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin...

Steely Dan
Steely Dan is a Grammy-Award winning American jazz rock band centered on core ...

Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (French March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898), whose real name w...

Stephen C. Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as ...

Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, poet ...

Stephen Hawes
Stephen Hawes (d. 1523), was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who ...

Stephen J. Dobyns
Stephen J. Dobyns (born February 19, 1941) is an American poet and novelist born...

Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (b. September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 ...

Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22, 1930) is an American stage musical and ...

Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909, London – July 16, 1995) was ...

Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, ...

Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith (September 20, 1902–March 7, 1971) was a British poet and novelist....

Su Shi
Su Shi (1037–1101) was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and...

Sue Townsend
Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend (born April 2, 1946) is the author of the Adrian ...

Sujata Bhatt
Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet, a native speaker of Gujarati. ...

Sukumar Ray
Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) ...

Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie, née Strickland (6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was a ...

Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega (born Suzanne Nadine Vega, 11 July 1959, Santa Monica, California) ...

Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (June 3, 1771, Woodford, Essex, England– February 22, 1845 London),...

Sydney Thompson Dobell
Sydney Thompson Dobell (April 5, 1824 - August 22, 1874), English poet and ...

Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, ...