Poetry Month | Notable Poets
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Auden, Byron, Chaucer, and more
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Amiri Baraka
- Abu Nuwas
- Addison, Joseph
- Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Aiken, Conrad
- Akhmatova, Anna
- Aldington, Richard
- Allingham, William
- Amru al-Kais
- Angelou, Maya
- Antara
- Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Apollonius Rhodius
- Ariosto, Ludovico
- Arnold, Matthew
- Ashbery, John
- Auden, W. H.
- Baraka, Amiri
- Basho
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Benét, Stephen Vincent
- Benét, William Rose
- Berryman, John
- Betjeman, John
- Betti, Ugo
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
- Blackmur, Richard Palmer
- Blake, William
- Bly, Robert
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Bogan, Louise
- Boiardo, Matteo Maria
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley)
- Brathwaite, Richard
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Bridges, Robert Seymour
- Brodsky, Joseph
- Brooke, Rupert
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Burns, Robert
- Butler, Samuel
- Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron
Emily Dickinson
- Cædmon
- Callimachus
- Camões, Luís de
- Campion, Thomas
- Carducci, Giosuè
- Carew, Thomas
- Catullus
- Celan, Paul
- Césaire, Aimé
- Chatterton, Thomas
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Ciardi, John
- Claudel, Paul
- Claudian
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Collins, Billy
- Collins, William
- Cowper, William
- Crabbe, George
- Crane, Hart
- Crashaw, Richard
- Creeley, Robert
- Cullen, Countee
- Cummings, E. E.
- Dante Alighieri
- Darío, Rubén
- de la Mare, Walter
- Dickey, James
- Dickinson, Emily
- Donne, John
- Doolittle, Hilda
- Dove, Rita
- Dowson, Ernest Christopher
- Dryden, John
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Langston Hughes
- Eberhart, Richard
- Eliot, T. S.
- Éluard, Paul
- Elytis, Odysseus
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Empson, William
- Firdausi
- Fletcher, John Gould
- Frost, Robert
- Fry, Christopher
- Fujiwara Teika
- García Lorca, Federico
- Garcilaso de la Vega
- Gay, John
- Gibran, Khalil
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Glück, Louise
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Gordon, Adam Lindsay
- Gordon, Judah Leon
- Gower, John
- Graves, Robert Ranke
- Gray, Thomas
- Guillaume de Lorris
- Hall, Donald
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hass, Robert
- Hayden, Robert
- Heaney, Seamus
- Heine, Heinrich
- Herbert, George
- Herrick, Robert
- Hölderlin, Friedrich
- Hollander, John
- Homer
- Hood, Thomas
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Horace
- Housman, A. E.
- Hughes, Langston
- Hughes, Ted
- Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte
- Hunt, Leigh
Emma Lazarus
- Jami
- Jarrell, Randall
- Jean de Meun
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Johnson, Emily Pauline
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Jonson, Ben
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Judah ha-Levi
- Juvenal
- Kavanagh, Patrick
- Keats, John
- Kilmer, Joyce
- Kinsella, Thomas
- Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb
- Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon
- Lagerkvist, Pär Fabian
- Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de
- Larkin, Philip
- Layamon
- Lazarus, Emma
- Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
- Levertov, Denise
- Li Po
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Longley, Michael
- Lovelace, Richard
- Lowell, Amy
- Lowell, Robert
- Lucretius
- Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim
- MacDiarmid, Hugh
- MacLeish, Archibald
- MacNeice, Louis
- Mahon, Derek
- Malherbe, François de
- Mallarmé, Stéphane
- Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich
- Mangan, James Clarence
- Marie de France
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Martí, José
- Martial
- Marvell, Andrew
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich
- McGinley, Phyllis
- McGuckian, Medbh
- McKay, Claude
- Menander
- Merrill, James
- Merton, Thomas
- Merwin, W. S.
- Milosz, Czeslaw
- Mickiewicz, Adam
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Miller, Joaquin
- Milton, John
- Mistral, Frédéric
- Mistral, Gabriela
- Montague, John
- Montale, Eugenio
- Moore, Clement Clarke
- Moore, Marianne
- Morris, William
- Motion, Andrew
- Muldoon, Paul
- Musset, Alfred de
Sylvia Plath
- Nash, Ogden
- Nemerov, Howard
- Neruda, Pablo
- Novalis
- Noyes, Alfred
- O'Hara, Frank
- Olds, Sharon
- Oliver, Mary
- Olson, Charles
- Omar Khayyam
- Ossian
- Ovid
- Owen, Wilfred
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
- Paz, Octavio
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Péguy, Charles
- Perse, St.-John
- Petrarch
- Pindar
- Pinsky, Robert
- Pisan, Christine de
- Plath, Sylvia
- Po Chü-i
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Poliziano, Angelo
- Pontano, Giovanni
- Pope, Alexander
- Pound, Ezra Loomis
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
- Quasimodo, Salvatore
- Quintana, Manuel José
- Raine, Kathleen
- Ransom, John Crowe
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Rich, Adrienne
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Roethke, Theodore
- Ronsard, Pierre de
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- Rostand, Edmond
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- Rumi, Jalal ad-Din
William Shakespeare
- Sandburg, Carl
- Santayana, George
- Sappho
- Sarton, May
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Schiller, Friedrich von
- Schwartz, Delmore
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Seferis, George
- Sei Shonagon
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar
- Sexton, Anne
- Shadwell, Thomas
- Shakespeare, William
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Simic, Charles
- Simpson, Louis
- Skelton, John
- Smith, Stevie
- Snodgrass, W. D.
- Snyder, Gary
- Southey, Robert
- Southwell, Robert
- Spender, Sir Stephen
- Spenser, Edmund
- Stevens, Wallace
- Strand, Mark
- Su Tung-p'o
- Suckling, Sir John
- Sully-Prudhomme, René François Armand
- Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Symons, Arthur
- Synge, John Millington
- Szymborska, Wislawa
- Tasso, Torquato
- Tate, Allen
- Tate, Nahum
- Teasdale, Sara
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
- Theocritus
- Thomas, Dylan
- Thompson, Francis
- Traherne, Thomas
- Tu Fu
Walt Whitman
- Untermeyer, Louis
- Valéry, Paul
- Van Doren, Mark
- Van Duyn, Mona
- Vaughan, Henry
- Vergil
- Verlaine, Paul
- Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de
- Villon, François
- Wace
- Walcott, Derek
- Walker, Alice
- Waller, Edmund
- Wang Wei
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Warton, Thomas
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Whitehead, William
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wilbur, Richard
- Williams, William Carlos
- Winters, Yvor
- Wordsworth, William
- Wright, Charles
- Wright, James
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas
- Wylie, Elinor (Hoyt)
- Yeats, W. B.
- Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich
- Zuhair
