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 World's greatest poets from different countries and different centuries are listed here. 17th century's William Shakespeare meets 20th century's Walt Whitman.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet...

Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, j...

William Allingham
William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man ...

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) ...

William Blake
William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter...

William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic...

Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625) was an English dramatist and writer of the Elizabeth...

William Browne
William Browne (1590?-1645?) was an English poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, ...

Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne, MA (1636 or 1637, Hereford, England - ca. September 27, 1674, ...

Thomas Ford
Thomas Ford (c. 1580–November 17, 1648) was an English composer, lutenist, viol ...

William Knox
William Knox (1789 - 1825), poet, son of a farmer in Roxburghshire, wrote ...

The Venerable Bede
'The Venerable Bede translates John' ...

William Barnes
William Barnes (22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886) was an English writer, po...

Thomas Weelkes
Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 – buried 1 December 1623) was an ...

Thomas Hoccleve
Thomas Occleve (or Hoccleve) (c. 1368 – 1426), English poet, was born probably ...

Vachel Lindsay
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American ...

William Cowper
William Cowper (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) was an English ...

Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 - May 3, 1845) was a British humorist and ...

X. J. Kennedy
X. J. Kennedy (born 21 August 1929, Dover, New Jersey) is a poet, translator, ...

Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle (January 5, 1789 – December 5, 1834) was a Scottish ...

Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974) was an American writer and...

Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man ...

William Waring Cuney
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Tony Scanlon
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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth ( born June 20, 1952 ...

William Miller
Poems Willie Winkie Biographical informa...

Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 – February 5, 1881) ...

W.H. Davies
William Henry Davies or WH Davies (1871 - September 26, 1940), was a Welsh poet ...

Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt (March 4, 1856 - August 30, 1877) was an English and French poet and ...

William Roscoe
William Roscoe (March 8, 1753 - June 30, 1831), was an English historian and mis...

William Morris
William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, ...

William Byrd
William Byrd (between 1534 and 1543 – 4 July 1623) ...

Wilfred Gibson
Wilfred Gibson is a violinist who played in the band Electric Light Orchestra ...

William McGonagall
William Topaz McGonagall (1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, ...

Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a major ...

Thomas Parnell
Thomas Parnell (September 11, 1679 – October 24, 1718) was a poet, ...

Thomas Morley
Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, ...

Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch (born 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet, essayist, and...

William Lisle Bowles
William Lisle Bowles (September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850) was an English poet an...

Walter Alexander Raleigh
Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (September 5, 1861 - May 13, 1922) was a ...

Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25, 1852) was an Irish poet, ...

Thomas Ernest Hulme
Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English ...

Tom Disch
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William Herbert Carruth
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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, ...

William Strode
William Strode (1598-1645), English parliamentarian, ...

Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (January 30, 1775 – September 17, 1864) was an English ...

Tom Brown
Jones, William R.. “Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704).” Oxford Dictionary of ...

Tom Skeyhill
After training in Egypt, Tom Skeyhill fought as a regimental signaller of the ...

Walter Porter
Poems Love in Thy Yo...

William Cecil
Poems To Daughter A...

William Brighty Rands
Born in 1823, William Brighty Rands published several volumes of children's ...

Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) ...

Thomas Tickell
Thomas Tickell, (December 17, 1685 – April 23, 1740), was a minor English poet ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December...

W. H. Auden
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William Mickle
Poems And will I see his f...

William Wilfred Campbell
William Wilfred Campbell (1 June 1858 – 1 January 1918) was a ...

William Langland
Langland's Dreamer: from an illuminated initial in a Piers Plowman manuscript ...

Thomas Randolph
Thomas Randolph (June, 1605 – March, 1635), English poet and dramatist, was born...

William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903) was an English poet, ...

Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell (July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844) was a Scottish ...

William Stevenson
Sir William Stevenson (1530 - 1575) was a English poet. ...

William John Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine (July 5, 1820 - December 24, 1872) ...

Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536 – April 19, 1608) was an English ...

William Henry Drummond
William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) ...

William Shenstone
William Shenstone (November 18, 1714 – February 11, 1763) was ...

William Johnson Cory
William Johnson Cory (1823 - 1892, born William Johnson) was an ...

William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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W.S. Merwin
William Stanley Merwin (born September 30, 1927 in New York City) is one of the ...

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was born in Leeds on July 21, 1865. He was among...

Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears ...

Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew (pronounced like "Carey") (1595 – March 22, 1640) was an English ...

William Oldys
William Oldys in 1795William Oldys (July 14, 1696 - April 15, 1761), was an ...

Will H. Ogilvie
William Henry Ogilvie (1869–1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and ...

Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924), was the ...

Thomas Parke D'Invilliers
Thomas Parke D'Invilliers is both a pen name of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and a ...

Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy (April 13, 1729 - September 30, 1811), Bishop of Dromore, and is ...

William Jay Smith
William Jay Smith (born 1918) is an American poet. Born in Winnfield, Louisiana,...

Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) is an eminent American poet who ...

Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion, (sometimes Campian) (February 12, 1567 – March 1, 1620) was an ...

Thomas MacDonagh
Thomas MacDonagh (1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916) ...

Thomas Lord Vaux
Poems The Aged Lover Renounceth Love ...

Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison (born April 30, 1937) is an English poet. He was born in Leeds and...

Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – August 25, 1632) was an Elizabethan dramatist and ...

William Warner
William Warner, (1558? - March 9, 1609), was an English poet, born in London abo...

Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock (October 18, 1785 - January 23, 1866) was an English satiris...

William Cosmo Monkhouse
William Cosmo Monkhouse (March 18, 1840 – July 20, 1901), English poet and ...

Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by...

Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn (29 August 1929 - 25 April 2004) was an Anglo-American poet. ...

Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe (November 1567–1601) was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer, poet ...

William Drummond of Hawthornden
William Drummond (December 13, 1585–December 4, 1649), called "of Hawthornden" ...

William Habington
William Habington (November 4, 1605 - November 30, 1654), was an English poet. ...

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Halsey, Alan. “Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849).” Oxford Dictionary of ...

Theodore Huebner Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethke (May 25, 1908 – August 1, ...

Thomas Bateson
Thomas Bateson, Batson or Betson (c.1570 - 1630) was an English writer of ...

Thomas Edward Brown
Thomas Edward Brown (May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897), Manx poet, scholar and ...

Thomas Craig
Sir Thomas Craig, Knt., (c. 1538 - February 26, 1608) was a Scottish jurist and ...

Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. Born in Erith, ...

W. N. Hodgson
William Noel Hodgson MC (3 January 1893- 1 July 1916) was an English poet of the...

William 'Smokey' Robinson
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William Collins
William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759), English poet ...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́&...

Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (28 July 1802 – 15 July 1839) was an English politician...

Tom Waits
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (April 23 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint ...

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (August 17, 1840–September 10, 1922) was a British poet and...

William Hamilton
William Hamilton (1665? Gilbertfield, Cambuslang, Scotland – 1751) was a ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 19 [O.S. July 7] 1893 – April 14, 1930) was a ...

Thomas Warton the younger
Thomas Warton, the YoungerThomas Warton (January 9, 1728 – May 21, 1790) was an ...

T. S. Eliot
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W. B. Yeats
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Yamabe no Akahito
Kuniyoshi, Yamabe no Akahito (700 - 736) was a ...

Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (born September 19, 1947) is a British writer of science fiction, ...

Trumbull Stickney
Joseph Trumbull Stickney (June 20, 1874 - October 11, 1904) was an American ...

Thomas Wyatt
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W.B.Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish ...

Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley PC, FRS (4 May 1825 Ealing – 29 June 1895 Eastbourne, ...

Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser (b. April 25, 1939, Ames, Iowa) is an American poet who was the ...

Theodore William Graf Wratislaw
Theodore William Graf Wratislaw (1871-1933), Count of the Holy Roman Empire, was...

Thomas Buchanan Read
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822 - 1872), American poet, was a portrait-painter, and ...

William Gray of Reading
Poems The King's Hunt is up Biographical infor...

William Stafford
William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet...

Yehuda Amichai
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T. E. Hulme
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William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an ...

Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical ...

William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray ( July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an Englis...

Wislawa Szymborska
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Trad
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William Vaughn Moody
William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was a U.S. dramatist and ...

Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes OM (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet an...

Ursula Askham Fanthorpe
Ursula Askham Fanthorpe (born 1929 in Kent) is a significant English poet. ...

W. J. Turner
Walter James Redfern Turner (October 13, 1889 – November 18, 1946) was an ...

William Dunbar
William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), Scottish poet, was probably a native of East...

Zachary Richard
Zachary Richard is a Louisiana singer, songwriter, and poet who works in both ...

W. S. Gilbert
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Tomas Transtromer
Tomas Tranströmer (born April 15, 1931) is a Swedish writer, poet and ...

Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon's style of blues was one of the inspirations for a new generation ...

Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BCE – September 21, 19 BCE), later called...

William Logan
William Logan (born 1950) is an American poet, critic and scholar. He was born ...

Thomas Ybarra
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Traditional
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W.S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English ...

Wang Wei
Wang Wei (traditional Chinese ...

Tarjei Vesaas
Tarjei Vesaas (August 20, 1897 - March 15, 1970) was a Norwegian poet and ...

Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American ...

Willa Sibert Cather
Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is an eminent ...

Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, ...

Weldon Kees
Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914- presumed dead July 18, 1955) was an ...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (11 November 1836 – 19 March 1907) ...

William Empson
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an ...

Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (November 20, 1752 – August 24, 1770) was an English poet and ...

Walter de la Mare
Walter John de la Mare, OM CH (April 25, 1873 – June 22, 1956), was an English ...

Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973, who signed his works W....

Yosa Buson
Grave of Yosa Buson, or Yosa no Buson (1716 ¨C December 25, ...

Tadeusz Ròzewicz
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