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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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