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<p><p><table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_c"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/087/000114742/"><font size=-1>Dannie Abse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000048632/"><font size=-1>Diane Ackerman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Natural History of the Senses</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000048692/"><font size=-1>Charles Follen Adams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Mar-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Leedle Yawcob Strauss</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000099339/"><font size=-1>L&eacute;onie Adams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Those Not Elect</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000096595/"><font size=-1>Agathias</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>536 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>582 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>On the Reign of Justinian</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/652/000048508/"><font size=-1>James Agee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Death in the Family</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000048694/"><font size=-1>Conrad Aiken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Aug-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Earth Triumphant</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/296/000179756/"><font size=-1>Mark Akenside</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1721</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1770</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Pleasures of the Imagination</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000028395/"><font size=-1>Anna Akhmatova</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poem Without a Hero</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/700/000180160/"><font size=-1>Richard Aldington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Death of a Hero</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/777/000048633/"><font size=-1>Thomas Bailey Aldrich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Nov-1836</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Story of a Bad Boy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000159457/"><font size=-1>Vicente Aleixandre</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spanish surrealist poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/801/000048657/"><font size=-1>Hervey Allen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ballads of the Border</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000102919/"><font size=-1>William Allingham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Day and Night Songs</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/361/000049214/"><font size=-1>Washington Allston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Painter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1779</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Dead Man Revived</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000107629/"><font size=-1>Moniza Alvi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Country at My Shoulder</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/565/000097274/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Amhurst</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1697</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1742</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Craftsman</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/141/000115793/"><font size=-1>Henri Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Amiel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1821</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Journal Intime</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/591/000099294/"><font size=-1>A. R. Ammons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sphere</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/974/000107653/"><font size=-1>Anacreon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 560 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 485 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek lyric poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000023196/"><font size=-1>Maya Angelou</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000048626/"><font size=-1>David Antin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Artist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Improv artist, talk poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/088/000103776/"><font size=-1>Guillaume Apollinaire</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Alcools</i>, <i>Calligrammes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/070/000107746/"><font size=-1>Louis Aragon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Oct-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Communistic French poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/743/000096455/"><font size=-1>Ludovico Ariosto</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1474</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1533</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Orlando Furioso</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000084806/"><font size=-1>Matthew Arnold</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Culture and Anarchy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000119757/"><font size=-1>Antonin Artaud</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Sep-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theater of Cruelty</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/777/000095492/"><font size=-1>Juana de Asbaje</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1651</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>America's first feminist poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000048640/"><font size=-1>John Ashbery</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000227017/"><font size=-1>Michael J. Astrue</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Social Security Commissioner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000026297/"><font size=-1>Margaret Atwood</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000031941/"><font size=-1>W. H. Auden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Age of Anxiety</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/100/000101794/"><font size=-1>Hartmann von Aue</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1170</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1210</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Der arme Heinrich</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/620/000097329/"><font size=-1>Ausonius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 310 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 395 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Roman poet and rhetorician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/623/000097332/"><font size=-1>Alfred Austin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Poet Laureate of England, 1892-1913</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000116142/"><font size=-1>Kofi Awoonor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Rediscovery</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000100889/"><font size=-1>Jean-Antoine de Ba&iuml;f</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1532</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1589</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pl&eacute;iade</i> poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000100912/"><font size=-1>Joanna Baillie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1762</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Family Legend</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/440/000042314/"><font size=-1>Evgeny Baratynsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1800</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Russian Golden Age poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000115296/"><font size=-1>George Barker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Calamiterror</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/506/000048362/"><font size=-1>Joel Barlow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1754</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Hasty Pudding</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000103791/"><font size=-1>Djuna Barnes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Modernist poet, <i>Nightwood</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000174713/"><font size=-1>Matsuo Basho</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1644</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1694</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Haiku master</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/188/000025113/"><font size=-1>Charles Baudelaire</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1821</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Les Fleurs du Mal</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/160/000179620/"><font size=-1>Arnold Bax</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Oct-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Symphonist, Tone Poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000025097/"><font size=-1>Samuel Beckett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Waiting for Godot</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/124/000100821/"><font size=-1>Joachim du Bellay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1522</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1560</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French Pl&eacute;iade poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000093357/"><font size=-1>Andr&eacute;s Bello</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1781</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>South American intellectual, poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000085153/"><font size=-1>Hilaire Belloc</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Bad Child's Book of Beasts</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000044286/"><font size=-1>Stephen Vincent Ben&eacute;t</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>John Brown's Body</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/219/000084964/"><font size=-1>William Rose Ben&eacute;t</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-May-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Dust Which Is God</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/246/000086985/"><font size=-1>Gottfried Benn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jul-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/509/000025434/"><font size=-1>Steven Jesse Bernstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Grunge poet and punk rocker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000196491/"><font size=-1>Ted Berrigan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Sonnets</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000099304/"><font size=-1>John Berryman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Homage to Mistress Bradstreet</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000092968/"><font size=-1>John Betjeman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Summoned By Bells</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000115817/"><font size=-1>Hayyim Nahman Bialik</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Foremost Hebrew poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000115294/"><font size=-1>Frank Bidart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Book of the Body</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000099361/"><font size=-1>Elizabeth Bishop</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>North & South</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/796/000138382/"><font size=-1>Bj鴕nstjerne Bj鴕nson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Synn&ouml;ve Solbakken</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/853/000024781/"><font size=-1>William Blake</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1757</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English romantic poet and artist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/200/000030110/"><font size=-1>Steen Steensen Blicher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1782</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/075/000101769/"><font size=-1>Blind Harry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 1470-92</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 1470-92</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Acts and Deeds of William Wallace</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/755/000114413/"><font size=-1>Alexander Blok</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Nov-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Russian Silver Age poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/632/000115287/"><font size=-1>Edmund Blunden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Undertones of War</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000026329/"><font size=-1>Robert Bly</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Iron John: A Book About Men</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/634/000099337/"><font size=-1>Louise Bogan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The New Yorker</i> poetry critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/421/000179881/"><font size=-1>Matteo Maria Boiardo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1434</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1494</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Orlando Innamorato</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000095612/"><font size=-1>Nicolas Boileau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1636</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Satires du Sieur D...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/581/000093302/"><font size=-1>Arrigo Boito</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Mefistofele</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000048616/"><font size=-1>George Henry Boker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1823</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Francesca da Rimini</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000115291/"><font size=-1>Eavan Boland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>In a Time of Violence</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/565/000180025/"><font size=-1>Yves Bonnefoy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Du Mouvement et de l'immobilit&eacute; de Douve</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000084848/"><font size=-1>Arna Bontemps</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>God Sends Sunday</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000103773/"><font size=-1>Tadeusz Borowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000099320/"><font size=-1>Edgar Bowers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Mar-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>For Louis Pasteur</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000084963/"><font size=-1>Anne Bradstreet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1612</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1672</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/079/000031983/"><font size=-1>Richard Brautigan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/170/000025095/"><font size=-1>Bertolt Brecht</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Mother Courage and Her Children</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000115320/"><font size=-1>Robert Bridges</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Prometheus the Firegiver</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000115318/"><font size=-1>Francisco Brines</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Generation of 1950</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000087953/"><font size=-1>Joseph Brodsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/773/000179236/"><font size=-1>Branwell Bront&euml;</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Bront&euml; sisters' brother</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000115308/"><font size=-1>Rupert Brooke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>1914 and Other Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000084849/"><font size=-1>Gwendolyn Brooks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Annie Allen</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000114797/"><font size=-1>George Mackay Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Time in a Red Coat</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000031940/"><font size=-1>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sonnets from the Portuguese</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000031939/"><font size=-1>Robert Browning</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prominent Victorian poet and playwright</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/931/000098637/"><font size=-1>Dennis Brutus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sirens, Knuckles and Boots</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/330/000114985/"><font size=-1>William Cullen Bryant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1794</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Editor, <i>The New York Evening Post</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000057958/"><font size=-1>Charles Bukowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Love is a Dog from Hell</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000062917/"><font size=-1>Ivan Bunin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Oct-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Russian short story writer, <i>Light Breathing</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/251/000102942/"><font size=-1>Gottfried August B&uuml;rger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1747</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1794</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lenore</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000048464/"><font size=-1>Gelett Burgess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Cartoonist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Has never seen a purple cow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000024778/"><font size=-1>Robert Burns</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1759</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Most beloved Scottish poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/159/000102850/"><font size=-1>Samuel Butler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1612</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1680</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Hudibras</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/856/000024784/"><font size=-1>Lord Byron</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1788</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English romantic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/367/000114025/"><font size=-1>Lu&iacute;s de Cam&otilde;es</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1524</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1580</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Os Lus&iacute;adas</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/301/000179761/"><font size=-1>Thomas Campion</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1567</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1620</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English musical poet, <i>Bookes of Ayres</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000114200/"><font size=-1>Ernesto Cardenal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Liberation theologist, important Nicaraguan poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/084/000104769/"><font size=-1>Giosu&egrave; Carducci</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Odi barbare</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000104767/"><font size=-1>Thomas Carew</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1595</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1639</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Rapture</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/710/000099413/"><font size=-1>Hayden Carruth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Brothers, I Loved You All</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000057829/"><font size=-1>Raymond Carver</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Aug-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000095065/"><font size=-1>Giovanni Battista Casti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1724</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Novelle Galanti</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000095075/"><font size=-1>Ant&oacute;nio Feliciano de Castilho</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1800</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A noite de Castello</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000095078/"><font size=-1>Crist&oacute;bal de Castillejo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1490</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1556</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spanish poet, disliked Italian forms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000094655/"><font size=-1>Catullus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 84 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 54 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ancient Roman poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/096/000203484/"><font size=-1>Constantine P. Cavafy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek poet in Alexandria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/208/000095920/"><font size=-1>Guido Cavalcanti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1250</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1300</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Canzone d'Amore</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/199/000095911/"><font size=-1>Felice Cavallotti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Italian radical politician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000140481/"><font size=-1>Paul Celan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Todesfuge</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000113424/"><font size=-1>Luis Cernuda</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Generation of '27</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/069/000084814/"><font size=-1>Miguel de Cervantes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1547</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1616</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Don Quixote</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/455/000116107/"><font size=-1>Aim&eacute; C&eacute;saire</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Return to My Native Land</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/962/000104650/"><font size=-1>Pablo de C&eacute;spedes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1538</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-1608</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spanish poet, painter, sculptor, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000179618/"><font size=-1>John Jay Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Essayist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Mar-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Essayist, founder of <i>The Nursery</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000102776/"><font size=-1>Charles, duc d'Orl&eacute;ans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1394</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1465</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Medieval French courtly poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000104528/"><font size=-1>Alain Chartier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1392</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1449</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Belle Dame sans merci</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/815/000104503/"><font size=-1>Thomas Chatterton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1752</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1770</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fabricated as Thomas Rowley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000104520/"><font size=-1>Andr&eacute; de Ch&eacute;nier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1762</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1794</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greatest 18th c. French poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000116112/"><font size=-1>Chr&eacute;tien de Troyes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 1165-80</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 1165-80</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Author of Arthurian romances</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000107514/"><font size=-1>Christine de Pizan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1364</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1430</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Le Livre des trois vertus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000104822/"><font size=-1>Charles Churchill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1764</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Rosciad</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/958/000115613/"><font size=-1>John Ciardi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>How Does a Poem Mean?</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/203/000101897/"><font size=-1>Colley Cibber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Nov-1671</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1757</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Apology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/822/000107501/"><font size=-1>John Clare</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Northamptonshire Peasant Poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/345/000032249/"><font size=-1>Paul Claudel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French poet and diplomat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000099416/"><font size=-1>Lucille Clifton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Good Woman</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/930/000070720/"><font size=-1>Jean Cocteau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Belle et la B&ecirc;te</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000047845/"><font size=-1>Andrei Codrescu</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Exquisite Corpse</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000099358/"><font size=-1>Robert P. Tristram Coffin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Strange Holiness</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/812/000023743/"><font size=-1>Leonard Cohen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer/Songwriter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Everybody Knows</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/852/000024780/"><font size=-1>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1772</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/966/000086708/"><font size=-1>William Congreve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1670</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1729</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Way of the World</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000107627/"><font size=-1>Wendy Cope</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>If I Don't Know</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000044539/"><font size=-1>Cid Corman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of <i>Origin</i> poetry magazine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/159/000025084/"><font size=-1>Pierre Corneille</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1606</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1684</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Le Cid</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/406/000115061/"><font size=-1>Gregory Corso</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Beat poet, <i>Gasoline</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000094560/"><font size=-1>Charles Cotton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1630</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1687</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Translator of Montaigne</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/474/000107153/"><font size=-1>William Cowper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1800</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Task</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/732/000026654/"><font size=-1>Hart Crane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Apr-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Industrial and urban poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000048291/"><font size=-1>Stephen Crane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Red Badge of Courage</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/466/000032370/"><font size=-1>Robert Creeley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founded <i>Black Mountain Review</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/196/000095908/"><font size=-1>Critias</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 460 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 403 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Athenian orator and poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000096022/"><font size=-1>Ant&oacute;nio Diniz da Cruz e Silva</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Hyssope</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000096023/"><font size=-1>Mih&aacute;ly Csokonai Vit&eacute;z</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1733</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1805</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dorottya</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000113000/"><font size=-1>Countee Cullen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Harlem Renaissance poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000024888/"><font size=-1>e. e. cummings</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Majuscule-challenged American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/006/000028919/"><font size=-1>Ivor Cutler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Glasgow Dreamer</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000096745/"><font size=-1>Isaac da Costa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1798</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>De Verlossing van Nederland</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000096739/"><font size=-1>Simon Dach</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1605</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1659</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German lyrical poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/299/000179759/"><font size=-1>Samuel Daniel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1562</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1619</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The First Four Books of the Civil Wars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000180002/"><font size=-1>Roy Daniells</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Chequered Shade</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/861/000084609/"><font size=-1>Dante</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1265</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1321</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Divina Commedia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000103825/"><font size=-1>Bei Dao</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Aug-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Exiled Chinese poet of the Misty School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/546/000114204/"><font size=-1>Rub&eacute;n Dar&iacute;o</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Cantos de vida y esperanza</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000096647/"><font size=-1>George Darley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1795</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1846</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nepenthe</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/256/000049109/"><font size=-1>Erasmus Darwin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Naturalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1802</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English naturalist, very bad poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/078/000096787/"><font size=-1>Jean Daurat</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1508</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1588</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French <i>Pl&eacute;iade</i> poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000096746/"><font size=-1>Sir William Davenant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1606</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1668</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Gondibert</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/306/000089039/"><font size=-1>Donald Davidson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Agrarian, Southern American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000096808/"><font size=-1>Sir John Davies</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1569</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1626</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/175/000114830/"><font size=-1>W. H. Davies</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tramp-Poet, <i>The Soul's Destroyer</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000114977/"><font size=-1>Cecil Day-Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Apr-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/392/000116044/"><font size=-1>Walter de la Mare</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Memoirs of a Midget</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/411/000097120/"><font size=-1>Casimir Delavigne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Parisienne</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000097122/"><font size=-1>Jacques Delille</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1738</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1813</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French translator of Virgil</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/420/000097129/"><font size=-1>Giovanni Della Casa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1503</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1556</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Galateo</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000097157/"><font size=-1>Sir John Denham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1615</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1669</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Cooper's Hill</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000042313/"><font size=-1>Gavriil Derzhavin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1743</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1816</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greatest Russian 18th-century poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/462/000097171/"><font size=-1>Eustache Deschamps</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1346</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1406</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>L'Art de Dictier</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/466/000097175/"><font size=-1>Antoinette Deshouli&egrave;res</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1638</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1694</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French poet-socialite</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/491/000097200/"><font size=-1>Jo&atilde;o de Deus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Mar-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Flores do Campo</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/716/000099419/"><font size=-1>James Dickey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Deliverance</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/442/000026364/"><font size=-1>Emily Dickinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Perplexing American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000085092/"><font size=-1>John Donne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1572</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Anniversaries</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/869/000044737/"><font size=-1>Timothy Donnelly</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1969</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Twenty-Seven Props</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/536/000031443/"><font size=-1>Rita Dove</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/258/000113916/"><font size=-1>Ernest Dowson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Aug-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English Decadent poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000179760/"><font size=-1>Michael Drayton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1563</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poly-Olbion</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000085069/"><font size=-1>John Dryden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Absalom and Achitophel</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/955/000107634/"><font size=-1>Carol Ann Duffy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Mean Time</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/638/000099341/"><font size=-1>Alan Dugan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/384/000104072/"><font size=-1>Georges Duhamel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Civilisation</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/402/000104090/"><font size=-1>Paul Laurence Dunbar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lyrics of a Lowly Life</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/401/000104089/"><font size=-1>William Dunbar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1460</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1520</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Thrissil and the Rois</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/411/000104099/"><font size=-1>Robert Duncan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Bending the Bow</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/414/000104102/"><font size=-1>Lawrence Durrell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Alexandria Quartet</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000097999/"><font size=-1>Richard Eberhart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Collected Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/069/000087805/"><font size=-1>Dietrich Eckart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Mar-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/079/000163587/"><font size=-1>G&uuml;nter Eich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Z&uuml;ge im Nebel</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000044115/"><font size=-1>T. S. Eliot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Author of "The Waste Land"</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000082469/"><font size=-1>Paul &Eacute;luard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Capitale de la Douleur</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/734/000141311/"><font size=-1>Odysseas Elytis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Axion Esti</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000031954/"><font size=-1>Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Essayist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Apr-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Essayist, wrote <i>Nature</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000095583/"><font size=-1>Mihai Eminescu</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jun-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The greatest Romanian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/623/000117272/"><font size=-1>William Empson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Seven Types of Ambiguity</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/818/000095533/"><font size=-1>Quintus Ennius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 239 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 170 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Roman literature</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000095519/"><font size=-1>Epimenides</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 6th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 6th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deep-sleep prophet of Crete</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/723/000095438/"><font size=-1>Alonso de Ercilla y Z&uacute;&ntilde;iga</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1533</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1594</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Araucana</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000101917/"><font size=-1>Richard Fanshawe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1608</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1666</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Translator of Cam&otilde;es</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/933/000206315/"><font size=-1>Kenneth Fearing</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Big Clock</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/964/000024892/"><font size=-1>Ferdowsi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-940 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1020 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greatest Persian Poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000104075/"><font size=-1>Lawrence Ferlinghetti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Coney Island of the Mind</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/676/000114334/"><font size=-1>Eugene Field</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Little Book of Western Verse</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000114268/"><font size=-1>Dudley Fitts</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jul-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Translator of Greek literature</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/253/000113911/"><font size=-1>Carolyn Forch&eacute;</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Country Between Us</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/443/000116095/"><font size=-1>Ugo Foscolo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1778</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/888/000031795/"><font size=-1>Robert Frost</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/615/000104303/"><font size=-1>Cornelius Gallus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 70 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 26 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Roman poet and orator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000087867/"><font size=-1>Federico Garc&iacute;a Lorca</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lament for a Bullfighter</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/637/000104325/"><font size=-1>Robert Garioch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scots dialect poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/642/000104330/"><font size=-1>Robert Garnier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1545</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1590</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Bradamante</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/450/000116102/"><font size=-1>Jo&atilde;o Batista de Almeida Garrett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Frei Lu&iacute;s da Sousa</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000025115/"><font size=-1>Th&eacute;ophile Gautier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1811</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Hashish-Eaters' Club</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/576/000104264/"><font size=-1>John Gay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1732</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Beggar's Opera</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/301/000099004/"><font size=-1>Stefan George</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Algabal</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000114017/"><font size=-1>Khalil Gibran</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Prophet</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/891/000031798/"><font size=-1>Allen Ginsberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Howl!</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/600/000108276/"><font size=-1>Nikki Giovanni</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Black Feeling, Black Talk</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000137611/"><font size=-1>Karl Gjellerup</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Pilgrim Kamanita</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/452/000116104/"><font size=-1>&Eacute;douard Glissant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>L'Intention Po&eacute;tique</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/962/000024890/"><font size=-1>Goethe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1749</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Most influential German writer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000047962/"><font size=-1>Albert Goldbarth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The most prolific modern poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000087886/"><font size=-1>Lu&iacute;s de G&oacute;ngora y Argote</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1561</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1627</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Soledades</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/630/000087369/"><font size=-1>R&eacute;my de Gourmont</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Promenades Litt&eacute;raires</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000180175/"><font size=-1>John Gower</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1330</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1408</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Confessio Amantis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000099395/"><font size=-1>Jorie Graham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Dream of the Unified Field</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000032102/"><font size=-1>Robert Graves</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>I, Claudius</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/410/000087149/"><font size=-1>Thomas Gray</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1716</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1771</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000099297/"><font size=-1>Horace Gregory</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Chelsea Rooming House</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/173/000114828/"><font size=-1>Julian Grenfell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Into Battle</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/953/000103644/"><font size=-1>Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1709</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Vert Vert</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/721/000096433/"><font size=-1>Fulke Greville</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Oct-1554</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1628</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/709/000096421/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Grimald</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1519</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1559</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Songes and Sonettes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/141/000085883/"><font size=-1>Tommaso Grossi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Lombards in the First Crusade</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000114508/"><font size=-1>Edgar Guest</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Heap o' Livin'</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/724/000080484/"><font size=-1>Louise Imogen Guiney</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Roadside Harp</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000045218/"><font size=-1>Thom Gunn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Man with Night Sweats</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000180155/"><font size=-1>Ivor Gurney</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>War's Embers</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000096730/"><font size=-1>Dafydd ap Gwilym</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1340</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1400</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greatest medieval Welsh poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/970/000103661/"><font size=-1>William Habington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1605</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1654</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Castara</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/039/000031943/"><font size=-1>Marilyn Hacker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Presentation Piece</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/963/000024891/"><font size=-1>Hafez</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1326</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1389</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prominent Persian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/978/000103669/"><font size=-1>Friedrich von Hagedorn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1708</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1754</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German Anacreontic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/984/000103675/"><font size=-1>Judah ben Samuel Halevi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1085</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1140</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hebrew Poet of the Middle Ages</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000048813/"><font size=-1>Donald Hall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The One Day</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000096389/"><font size=-1>Albrecht von Haller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1708</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000085886/"><font size=-1>Robert Hamerling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ahasver in Rom</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/978/000084726/"><font size=-1>Thomas Hardy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1840</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Far from the Madding Crowd</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000173615/"><font size=-1>Joy Harjo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Last Song</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/505/000116157/"><font size=-1>Frances E. W. Harper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1825</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Abolitionist, temperance activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/134/000173612/"><font size=-1>Michael S. Harper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nightmare Begins Responsibility</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/138/000173616/"><font size=-1>Jim Harrison</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Legends of the Fall</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000101797/"><font size=-1>Moritz Hartmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1821</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German patriotic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/066/000031970/"><font size=-1>Robert Hass</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Poet Laureate, 1995-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000101811/"><font size=-1>Andr&eacute; van Hasselt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Quatre Incarnations du Christ</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/621/000042495/"><font size=-1>Signe Hasso</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Double Life</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000101825/"><font size=-1>Johannes Carsten Hauch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Valdemar Seir</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000101829/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Hauff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1802</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/163/000101857/"><font size=-1>Stephen Hawes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1474</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1523</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Passetyme of Pleasure</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000116202/"><font size=-1>Robert Hayden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Words in the Mourning Time</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000103346/"><font size=-1>H. D.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Imagist poet, <i>Sea Garden</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000027905/"><font size=-1>Seamus Heaney</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Spirit Level</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/985/000095700/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Hebbel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1813</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Die Niebelungen Trilogie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000099325/"><font size=-1>Anthony Hecht</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Hard Hours</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/614/000138200/"><font size=-1>Verner von Heidenstam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Charles Men</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/994/000095709/"><font size=-1>Heinrich Heine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1797</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Buch der Lieder</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/765/000086507/"><font size=-1>Richard Hell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Musician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Blank Generation</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000180158/"><font size=-1>W. E. Henley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Invictus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000086766/"><font size=-1>George Herbert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Apr-1593</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1633</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Temple</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/280/000093998/"><font size=-1>Johann Gottfried Herder</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1744</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sturm und Drang</i> movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/558/000116210/"><font size=-1>Jos&eacute; Mar&iacute;a de Heredia</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Les Troph&eacute;es</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/170/000114825/"><font size=-1>Oliver Herford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Cupid's Encyclopedia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000116234/"><font size=-1>Miguel Hern&aacute;ndez</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>El rayo que no cesa</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/860/000103551/"><font size=-1>Robert Herrick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1591</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1674</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Hesperides</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/837/000087576/"><font size=-1>Hesiod</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 700 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 700 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Works and Days</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000116240/"><font size=-1>John Hewitt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>No Rebel Word</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/591/000116243/"><font size=-1>Georg Heym</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Der ewige Tag</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/514/000114172/"><font size=-1>Hildegard von Bingen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1098</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1179</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Scivias seu Visiones</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000115623/"><font size=-1>Ralph Hodgson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Skylark</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000100353/"><font size=-1>Roald Hoffmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Woodward-Hoffmann reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000103406/"><font size=-1>James Hogg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1770</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Queen's Wake</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000103418/"><font size=-1>Friedrich H&ouml;lderlin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1770</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Hyperion</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/334/000048190/"><font size=-1>John Hollander</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Powers of Thirteen</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000103451/"><font size=-1>Karl von Holtei</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1798</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German proto-Vaudevillian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000206362/"><font size=-1>Miroslav Holub</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Immunologist, important Czech poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000087580/"><font size=-1>Homer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 8th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 8th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Iliad</i> and the <i>Odyssey</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000094718/"><font size=-1>Thomas Hood</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Odes and Addresses to Great People</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/799/000103490/"><font size=-1>Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1581</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1647</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dutch History</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000113769/"><font size=-1>Gerard Manley Hopkins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000087584/"><font size=-1>Horace</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>65 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-8 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Satirae</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/092/000047948/"><font size=-1>George Moses Horton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1797</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1883</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Hope of Liberty</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/615/000053456/"><font size=-1>A. E. Housman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Shropshire Lad</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000099366/"><font size=-1>Richard Howard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Untitled Subjects</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/381/000103072/"><font size=-1>Hrosvitha</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 935 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1000 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Female medieval dramatist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000032015/"><font size=-1>Langston Hughes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Negro Speaks of Rivers</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/675/000086417/"><font size=-1>Ted Hughes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Crow</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000196006/"><font size=-1>T. E. Hulme</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Modernist poet and critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/452/000107131/"><font size=-1>Leigh Hunt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Story of Rimini</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/647/000094365/"><font size=-1>Ulrich von Hutten</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1488</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1523</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000099314/"><font size=-1>David Ignatow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Rescue the Dead</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/525/000179985/"><font size=-1>Edmond Jab&egrave;s</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Book of Resemblances</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000101374/"><font size=-1>Helen Hunt Jackson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ramona</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/128/000113786/"><font size=-1>Max Jacob</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1876</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Le Cornet &agrave; d&eacute;s</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000097511/"><font size=-1>Richard Jago</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1715</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1781</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Blackbirds</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/704/000099407/"><font size=-1>Randall Jarrell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Woman at the Washington Zoo</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000101508/"><font size=-1>Jacques Jasmin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1798</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proven&ccedil;al poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000113775/"><font size=-1>Robinson Jeffers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Tamar and Other Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000101524/"><font size=-1>Elizabeth Jennings</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Song for a Birth or a Death</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/153/000140730/"><font size=-1>Johannes V. Jensen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Nov-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Long Journey</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000104903/"><font size=-1>Juan Ram&oacute;n Jim&eacute;nez</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pastorales</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000114446/"><font size=-1>Denis Johnson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Jesus' Son</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000134655/"><font size=-1>Pauline Johnson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mohawk Canadian poet and actress</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000114449/"><font size=-1>Eugene Jolas</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Editor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>transition</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/395/000048251/"><font size=-1>June Jordan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Who Look At Me</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/626/000099329/"><font size=-1>Donald Justice</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Summer Anniversaries</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000097761/"><font size=-1>Juvenal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 60 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 140 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greatest Roman satiric poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000031942/"><font size=-1>Chester Kallman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Librettist, translator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/178/000139758/"><font size=-1>Erik Axel Karlfeldt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><I>Songs of the wilderness and love</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/942/000110612/"><font size=-1>Mary Karr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Liars' Club</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000114556/"><font size=-1>Bob Kaufman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000024779/"><font size=-1>John Keats</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1795</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1821</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English romantic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000114559/"><font size=-1>X. J. Kennedy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Juvenile poet, <i>Brats</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000031963/"><font size=-1>Jack Kerouac</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>On The Road</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/152/000097858/"><font size=-1>Francis Scott Key</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1779</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Star-Spangled Banner</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/043/000031947/"><font size=-1>Omar Khayyam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1048</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1131</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Rubaiyat</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/799/000114457/"><font size=-1>Joyce Kilmer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Trees</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/252/000098955/"><font size=-1>Galway Kinnell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Selected Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000024895/"><font size=-1>Rudyard Kipling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Jungle Book</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/676/000099379/"><font size=-1>Carolyn Kizer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Yin: New Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/918/000114576/"><font size=-1>August Kleinzahler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Calendar of Airs</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000093950/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1724</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Messias</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000114573/"><font size=-1>Etheridge Knight</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poems from Prison</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/628/000099331/"><font size=-1>Kenneth Koch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>On the Great Atlantic Rainway</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/929/000114587/"><font size=-1>Yusef Komunyakaa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Neon Vernacular</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/345/000105030/"><font size=-1>Ted Kooser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Poet Laureate of the United States</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000099373/"><font size=-1>Maxine Kumin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Up Country</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000048083/"><font size=-1>Stanley Kunitz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Poet Laureate, 2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000242693/"><font size=-1>Tuli Kupferberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer/Songwriter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Fugs</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000105104/"><font size=-1>Jean de la Fontaine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1621</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fables</i> and <i>Contes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000258249/"><font size=-1>Jules Laforgue</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/876/000049729/"><font size=-1>Alphonse de Lamartine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bland French poet, failed politician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/409/000115064/"><font size=-1>Sidney Lanier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Important Southern lyrical poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000094601/"><font size=-1>Victor de Laprade</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Les Muses d'&Eacute;tat</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/306/000113964/"><font size=-1>Philip Larkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Dec-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Whitsun Weddings</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/462/000115117/"><font size=-1>Richmond Lattimore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Translator of <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/465/000115120/"><font size=-1>James Laughlin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Publisher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder, New Directions Press</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000104315/"><font size=-1>Comte de Lautr&eacute;amont</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1846</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Les Chants de Maldoror</I></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/256/000093974/"><font size=-1>Johann Kaspar Lavater</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Paranormal</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Nov-1741</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Essays on Physiognomy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000047947/"><font size=-1>Emma Lazarus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The New Colossus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/253/000032157/"><font size=-1>Edward Lear</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Owl and the Pussycat</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000114877/"><font size=-1>Francis Ledwidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jul-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Songs of the Fields</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000117758/"><font size=-1>John Lehmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Thrown to the Woolfs</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/220/000048076/"><font size=-1>Charles Godfrey Leland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Hans Breitmann's Ballads</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000094009/"><font size=-1>Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1751</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sturm und Drang</i> movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/024/000094739/"><font size=-1>Giacomo Leopardi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1798</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1837</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Despairing Italian classical poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/857/000024785/"><font size=-1>Mikhail Lermontov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1841</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Hero of Our Time</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/161/000032065/"><font size=-1>Denise Levertov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/429/000048285/"><font size=-1>Philip Levine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>What Work Is</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000047963/"><font size=-1>Anne Morrow Lindbergh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Aviator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wife of Charles Lindbergh</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/274/000048130/"><font size=-1>Vachel Lindsay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Congo and Other Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000042311/"><font size=-1>Mikhail Lomonosov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early father of Russian poetry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/298/000046160/"><font size=-1>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1807</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Evangeline</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/984/000097693/"><font size=-1>Richard Lovelace</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1618</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1658</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>To Althea from Prison</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/014/000047870/"><font size=-1>Amy Lowell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>What's O'Clock</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/001/000097707/"><font size=-1>James Russell Lowell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Biglow Papers</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000048288/"><font size=-1>Robert Lowell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lord Weary's Castle</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000084972/"><font size=-1>Malcolm Lowry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Under the Volcano</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/005/000097711/"><font size=-1>Lucan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>39 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>65 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pharsalia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000087511/"><font size=-1>Lucretius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 99 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 55 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>On the Nature of Things</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000097737/"><font size=-1>Raymond Lull</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1232</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1315</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catalan mystic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/049/000097755/"><font size=-1>Luxorius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 496 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 534 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Roman epigrammatist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/272/000179732/"><font size=-1>John Lydgate</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1370</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1451</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Troy Book</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/595/000116247/"><font size=-1>Hugh MacDiarmid</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/337/000048193/"><font size=-1>Cynthia Macdonald</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Amputations</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/436/000096148/"><font size=-1>Jos&eacute; Agostinho de Macedo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Os Burros</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/597/000116249/"><font size=-1>Gwendolyn MacEwen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Breakfast for Barbarians</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/579/000114237/"><font size=-1>Machado de Assis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1839</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dom Casmurro</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/762/000113423/"><font size=-1>Antonio Machado</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Generation of '98</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000114729/"><font size=-1>Percy MacKaye</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Canterbury Pilgrims</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000116262/"><font size=-1>Kenneth Mackenzie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dead Men Rising</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/764/000113425/"><font size=-1>Sorley Maclean</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scottish/Gaelic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/415/000048271/"><font size=-1>Archibald Macleish</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Conquistador</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/555/000114213/"><font size=-1>Louis MacNeice</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Autumn Journal</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/163/000095875/"><font size=-1>James Macpherson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Hoaxer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1736</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>So-called translations of Ossian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/620/000116272/"><font size=-1>Jay Macpherson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>O Earth Return</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/066/000114721/"><font size=-1>Haki R. Madhubuti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/354/000087093/"><font size=-1>Maurice Maeterlinck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pell&eacute;as et M&eacute;lisande</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/624/000116276/"><font size=-1>Derek Mahon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Night-Crossing</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000095740/"><font size=-1>Fran&ccedil;ois de Malherbe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1555</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1628</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Larmes de Saint Pierre</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000086996/"><font size=-1>St&eacute;phane Mallarm&eacute;</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Throw of the Dice</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000029703/"><font size=-1>Osip Mandelshtam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acmeist Russian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/024/000095736/"><font size=-1>James Clarence Mangan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jun-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000095753/"><font size=-1>Manilius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 1st c. AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 1st c. AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Astronomica</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000114866/"><font size=-1>Frederic Manning</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Middle Parts of Fortune</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000095754/"><font size=-1>Robert Mannyng</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1264</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1340</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Handlyng Synne</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/153/000085895/"><font size=-1>Alessandro Manzoni</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1785</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>I Promessi Sposi</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000094616/"><font size=-1>Marie de France</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1175</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1190</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lais</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/019/000047875/"><font size=-1>Edwin Markham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Man With the Hoe</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/208/000114863/"><font size=-1>Jeannette Marks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Merry Merry Cuckoo</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000179768/"><font size=-1>John Marston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1576</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1634</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Malcontent</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000097756/"><font size=-1>Martial</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>41 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>104 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Roman epigrammatist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000159519/"><font size=-1>Harry Martinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/015/000084760/"><font size=-1>Andrew Marvell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1621</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1678</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English poet and member of Parliament</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/256/000086995/"><font size=-1>John Masefield</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000114006/"><font size=-1>Edgar Lee Masters</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Spoon River Anthology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000093572/"><font size=-1>Thomas May</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1595</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-1650</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The History of the Long Parliament</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/874/000196286/"><font size=-1>James McAuley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Australian poet, Ern Malley hoaxer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/693/000114351/"><font size=-1>Michael McClure</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Blossom; or Billy the Kid</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/647/000099350/"><font size=-1>Phyllis McGinley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Pocketful of Wry</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/569/000165074/"><font size=-1>William McGonagall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1825</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Tay Bridge Disaster</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/517/000114175/"><font size=-1>Claude McKay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Home to Harlem</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000023619/"><font size=-1>Rod McKuen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Boy Named Charlie Brown</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/396/000115051/"><font size=-1>George Meredith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1828</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Egoist</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000099383/"><font size=-1>William Meredith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Partial Accounts</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000048842/"><font size=-1>James Merrill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nights and Days</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000099316/"><font size=-1>W. S. Merwin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Carrier of Ladders</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/536/000107215/"><font size=-1>Metastasio</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-1698</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1782</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Italian librettist of the 18th century</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/016/000084761/"><font size=-1>Edna St. Vincent Millay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Renascence</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/336/000087075/"><font size=-1>Joaquin Miller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1837</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Songs of the Sierras</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000114693/"><font size=-1>May Miller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Bog Guide</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/336/000103027/"><font size=-1>Richard Monckton Milnes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poetry for the People</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000027936/"><font size=-1>Czeslaw Milosz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Polish novelist and poet, <i>The Captive Mind</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/017/000084762/"><font size=-1>John Milton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1608</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1674</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Paradise Lost</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000113687/"><font size=-1>Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Mistral</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proven&ccedil;al poet and ethnographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000113685/"><font size=-1>Gabriela Mistral</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Desolaci&oacute;n</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000114696/"><font size=-1>S. Weir Mitchell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1829</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Case of George Dedlow</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/923/000171410/"><font size=-1>Goenawan Mohammad</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Muckraking Indonesian journalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000114675/"><font size=-1>Harriet Monroe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of <i>Poetry</i> magazine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000093869/"><font size=-1>Eugenio Montale</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ossi di seppia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000114706/"><font size=-1>Clement Clarke Moore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1779</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jul-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>'Twas the Night Before Christmas</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000099283/"><font size=-1>Marianne Moore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Collected Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/209/000048065/"><font size=-1>Christopher Morley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-May-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Haunted Bookshop</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000086555/"><font size=-1>William Morris</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Artist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Oct-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Arts and Crafts Movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/463/000022397/"><font size=-1>Jim Morrison</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer/Songwriter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Lead singer and songwriter, <i>The Doors</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/053/000114708/"><font size=-1>Sarah Wentworth Morton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1759</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1846</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ouabi</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000099418/"><font size=-1>Howard Moss</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Finding Them Lost</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000099399/"><font size=-1>Lisel Mueller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Need to Hold Still</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/701/000099404/"><font size=-1>Paul Muldoon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jun-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Moy Sand and Gravel</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000103103/"><font size=-1>Alfred de Musset</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1810</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Les Caprices de Marianne</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/451/000022385/"><font size=-1>Ogden Nash</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/491/000115146/"><font size=-1>John G. Neihardt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Cycle of the West</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000031444/"><font size=-1>Howard Nemerov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Poet Laureate, 1987-88</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/127/000087863/"><font size=-1>Pablo Neruda</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Sep-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Residencia en la Tierra</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/451/000103142/"><font size=-1>G&eacute;rard de Nerval</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1808</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Unbalanced French romantic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/254/000088987/"><font size=-1>Amado Nervo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Modernismo poet, <i>La Revista Moderna</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/174/000114829/"><font size=-1>E. Nesbit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-May-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Story of the Treasure Seekers</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/773/000095488/"><font size=-1>Nezahualcoyotl</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1402</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1472</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Texcoco philosopher-king, Aztec poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/500/000103191/"><font size=-1>Nicander</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 2nd c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 2nd c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek physician and poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000098745/"><font size=-1>Ken Nordine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Radio Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Word Jazz</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/718/000099421/"><font size=-1>Frank O'Hara</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Meditations in an Emergency</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/043/000102734/"><font size=-1>Ben Okri</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Famished Road</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/955/000048811/"><font size=-1>Sharon Olds</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Dead and the Living</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/672/000099375/"><font size=-1>Mary Oliver</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>American Primitive</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000104019/"><font size=-1>Charles Olson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Maximus Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/562/000115217/"><font size=-1>Elder Olson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Critics and Criticism</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/321/000115973/"><font size=-1>Michael Ondaatje</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The English Patient</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/340/000048196/"><font size=-1>George Oppen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jul-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Objectivist proponent and poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000031799/"><font size=-1>Peter Orlovsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000102041/"><font size=-1>Thomas Otway</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1652</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Venice Preserved</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/504/000096216/"><font size=-1>Sir Thomas Overbury</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1581</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1613</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Wife</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000087574/"><font size=-1>Ovid</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-43 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Metamorphoses</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000086890/"><font size=-1>Wilfred Owen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dulce Et Decorum Est</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/581/000115236/"><font size=-1>Luis Pal&eacute;s Matos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Tunt&uacute;n de pasa y griferia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000048061/"><font size=-1>Grace Paley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Little Disturbances of Man</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/529/000096241/"><font size=-1>Francis Turner Palgrave</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Golden Treasury</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/570/000096282/"><font size=-1>Giuseppe Parini</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1729</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Il Mattino</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/512/000045377/"><font size=-1>Dorothy Parker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Constant Reader</i> known for acerbic quips</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000096311/"><font size=-1>Thomas Parnell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1679</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1718</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Hermit</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000096331/"><font size=-1>Jean Passerat</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1534</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1602</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Satyre m&eacute;nipp&eacute;e</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000029704/"><font size=-1>Boris Pasternak</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Doctor Zhivago</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/336/000048192/"><font size=-1>Kenneth Patchen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Journal of Albion Moonlight</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/635/000096347/"><font size=-1>Coventry Patmore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1823</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Unknown Eros</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000113671/"><font size=-1>Cesare Pavese</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La luna e i fal&ograve;</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/990/000027909/"><font size=-1>Octavio Paz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Labyrinth of Solitude</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/661/000097370/"><font size=-1>Thomas Love Peacock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1785</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nightmare Abbey</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000179777/"><font size=-1>James Gates Percival</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1795</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Clio</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/221/000115873/"><font size=-1>Cristina Peri Rossi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Los Museos Abandonados</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/487/000097196/"><font size=-1>Bonaventure des P&eacute;riers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1500</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1544</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nouvelles r&eacute;cr&eacute;ations</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/767/000140347/"><font size=-1>Saint-John Perse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Exile</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/563/000031470/"><font size=-1>Fernando Pessoa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heteronymous author, <i>The Book of Disquiet</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000084640/"><font size=-1>Petrarch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1304</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1374</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of Humanism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000097550/"><font size=-1>Phanocles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 4th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 4th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek elegiac poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/848/000097557/"><font size=-1>Philemon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 361 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 263 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek poet of the New Comedy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000097558/"><font size=-1>Manuel Philes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1275</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1345</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Byzantine poet and flatterer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000097559/"><font size=-1>Philetas of Cos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl 4th. c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 4th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Very thin Alexandrian poet, critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000097571/"><font size=-1>Ambrose Philips</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1675</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1749</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pastorals</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000097573/"><font size=-1>John Philips</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1676</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1708</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Splendid Shilling</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/863/000097572/"><font size=-1>Katharine Philips</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1664</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/282/000104967/"><font size=-1>Marge Piercy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Gone to Soldiers</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000048191/"><font size=-1>Robert Pinsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000047860/"><font size=-1>Sylvia Plath</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Daddy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000022403/"><font size=-1>Edgar Allan Poe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Raven</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/740/000096452/"><font size=-1>Politian</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1454</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1494</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Humanist under Lorenzo de Medici</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/354/000085099/"><font size=-1>Alexander Pope</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1688</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-1744</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Dunciad</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000068685/"><font size=-1>Ezra Pound</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Cantos</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000084980/"><font size=-1>E. J. Pratt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Newfoundland Verse</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/628/000114286/"><font size=-1>Frederic Prokosch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Skies of Europe</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/858/000024786/"><font size=-1>Aleksandr Pushkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1837</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Russia's greatest poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000113431/"><font size=-1>Salvatore Quasimodo</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Acque e terre</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000113430/"><font size=-1>Raymond Queneau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Zazie dans le m&eacute;tro</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/109/000173587/"><font size=-1>Kathleen Raine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000049161/"><font size=-1>John Crowe Ransom</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>God Without Thunder</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000113885/"><font size=-1>Ishmael Reed</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Free-Lance Pallbearers</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000115099/"><font size=-1>Lizette Woodworth Reese</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Handful of Lavendar</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000049051/"><font size=-1>Kenneth Rexroth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Disenchanted beat poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/478/000096190/"><font size=-1>Bernardim Ribeiro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1482</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1552</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Menina e Mo&ccedil;a</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000068688/"><font size=-1>Adrienne Rich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>An Atlas of the Difficult World</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000117693/"><font size=-1>I. A. Richards</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Meaning of Meaning</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/624/000099327/"><font size=-1>Laura Riding</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Survey of Modernist Poetry</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000113881/"><font size=-1>James Whitcomb Riley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Hoosier Poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/499/000028415/"><font size=-1>Rainer Maria Rilke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>04-Dec-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Duino Elegies</i>, <i>Sonnets to Orpheus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000031782/"><font size=-1>Arthur Rimbaud</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Une Saison en Enfer</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/236/000084981/"><font size=-1>Sir Charles G. D. Roberts</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Earth's Enigmas</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/147/000048003/"><font size=-1>Elizabeth Madox Roberts</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Great Meadow</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/652/000099355/"><font size=-1>Edwin Arlington Robinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Man Against the Sky</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/585/000099288/"><font size=-1>Theodore Roethke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Waking</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000100834/"><font size=-1>Pierre de Ronsard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1524</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1585</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Lead <i>Pl&eacute;iade</i> poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000086567/"><font size=-1>Christina Rossetti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Goblin Market and Other Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000040484/"><font size=-1>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Painter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1828</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English pre-Raphaelite painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000048301/"><font size=-1>Muriel Rukeyser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Book of the Dead</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/216/000087952/"><font size=-1>M&aacute;rio de S&aacute;-Carneiro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dispers&atilde;o</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000141466/"><font size=-1>Nelly Sachs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>O the Chimneys</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/334/000179794/"><font size=-1>Thomas Sackville</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Aristocrat</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1536</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1608</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Earl of Dorset</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000179671/"><font size=-1>Vita Sackville-West</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Land</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000113433/"><font size=-1>Pedro Salinas</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Generation of '27</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000031752/"><font size=-1>Carl Sandburg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/459/000213817/"><font size=-1>Sapphire</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Push</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000087626/"><font size=-1>Sappho</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. c. 610 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. c. 580 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Tenth Muse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/612/000114270/"><font size=-1>May Sarton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Plant Dreaming Deep</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/184/000113842/"><font size=-1>Siegfried Sassoon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>War Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/489/000095204/"><font size=-1>Richard Savage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1697</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1743</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Poet-subject of <i>Life of Savage</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/298/000094016/"><font size=-1>Friedrich von Schiller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1759</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1805</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Wallenstein</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/221/000048077/"><font size=-1>James Schuyler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Freely Espousing</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/595/000099298/"><font size=-1>Delmore Schwartz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Summer Knowledge</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000031804/"><font size=-1>Sir Walter Scott</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1771</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Ivanhoe</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/570/000119213/"><font size=-1>Gil Scott-Heron</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Revolution Will Not Be Televised</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/298/000113956/"><font size=-1>Giorgos Seferis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Imerol&oacute;yion katastr&oacute;matos</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000114178/"><font size=-1>Jaroslav Seifert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Sep-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Nightingale Sings Out of Tune</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000116000/"><font size=-1>L&eacute;opold Senghor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Senegal, 1960-80</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/392/000065197/"><font size=-1>Robert W. Service</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bard of the Yukon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/603/000099306/"><font size=-1>Anne Sexton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Live or Die</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000022388/"><font size=-1>William Shakespeare</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1564</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1616</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, <i>Hamlet</i>, <i>Macbeth</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000099311/"><font size=-1>Karl Shapiro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Person, Place and Thing</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000024782/"><font size=-1>Percy Bysshe Shelley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Prometheus Unbound</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/506/000095221/"><font size=-1>William Shenstone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1714</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1763</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Schoolmistress</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000047961/"><font size=-1>Carol Shields</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jun-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Stone Diaries</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000113863/"><font size=-1>Alan Sillitoe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/768/000110438/"><font size=-1>Shel Silverstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Where the Sidewalk Ends</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/683/000099386/"><font size=-1>Charles Simic</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The World Doesn't End</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/046/000097752/"><font size=-1>Simonides of Amorgos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 7th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 7th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek iambic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/045/000097751/"><font size=-1>Simonides of Ceos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 556 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 468 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek lyric poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000099347/"><font size=-1>Louis Simpson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>At The End of the Open Road</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/065/000113723/"><font size=-1>Edith Sitwell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fa&ccedil;ade</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/385/000114043/"><font size=-1>John Skelton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1460</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1529</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Why come ye nat to courte</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/661/000099364/"><font size=-1>W. D. Snodgrass</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Heart's Needle</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/631/000099334/"><font size=-1>Gary Snyder</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Turtle Island</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/949/000095664/"><font size=-1>Robert Southey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1774</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Vision of Judgment</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/307/000179767/"><font size=-1>Robert Southwell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1561</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1595</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/199/000113857/"><font size=-1>Stephen Spender</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Destructive Element</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000085150/"><font size=-1>Edmund Spenser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1552</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1599</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Faerie Queene</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/722/000140302/"><font size=-1>Carl Spitteler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Olympic Spring</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000099411/"><font size=-1>William Stafford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Traveling Through the Dark</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000097768/"><font size=-1>Statius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 45 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>96 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Silvae</i> and <i>Thebais</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000050585/"><font size=-1>Mattie Stepanek</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Muscular-dystrophic boy-poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000099078/"><font size=-1>Wallace Stevens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Aug-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Harmonium</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000104220/"><font size=-1>Douglas Stewart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fire in the Snow</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/139/000097845/"><font size=-1>Theodor Storm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Schimmelreiter</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/538/000031445/"><font size=-1>Mark Strand</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>U.S. Poet Laureate 1990-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000097963/"><font size=-1>Sir John Suckling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1609</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1642</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fragmenta Aurea</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/297/000098003/"><font size=-1>Sully Prudhomme</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1839</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Parnassian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000042312/"><font size=-1>Aleksandr Sumarokov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1717</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Russian classical drama</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000098021/"><font size=-1>Susarion</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 6th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 6th c. BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greek comic poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/505/000048361/"><font size=-1>May Swenson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Another Animal</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/176/000044044/"><font size=-1>Algernon Charles Swinburne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1837</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Masochist Victorian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000098059/"><font size=-1>Joshua Sylvester</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1563</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1618</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Essay of the Second Week</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/364/000098070/"><font size=-1>John Addington Symonds</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1840</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Renaissance in Italy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000098075/"><font size=-1>Arthur Symons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English symbolist poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/985/000027904/"><font size=-1>Wislawa Szymborska</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Polish poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000114316/"><font size=-1>Genevieve Taggard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Travelling Standing Still</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000087887/"><font size=-1>Rabindranath Tagore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Gitanjali</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/177/000051024/"><font size=-1>Amber Tamblyn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Joan of Arcadia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/427/000098133/"><font size=-1>Tannh&auml;user</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1200</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1270</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>13th c. German Minnesinger</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/751/000096463/"><font size=-1>Torquato Tasso</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1544</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1595</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Gerusalemme Liberata</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000098153/"><font size=-1>Alessandro Tassoni</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1565</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1635</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Rape of the Bucket</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000099291/"><font size=-1>Allen Tate</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Mr. Pope and Other Poems</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000099391/"><font size=-1>James Tate</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Lost Pilot</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000098154/"><font size=-1>Nahum Tate</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1652</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1715</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Imitative British playwright</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/463/000098169/"><font size=-1>John Taylor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1580</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Dec-1653</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Water-Poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/649/000099352/"><font size=-1>Sara Teasdale</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Strange Victory</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000024787/"><font size=-1>Alfred Lord Tennyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Charge of the Light Brigade</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/902/000206284/"><font size=-1>Ernest Thayer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Casey at the Bat</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/567/000107246/"><font size=-1>Theocritus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 310 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 250 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of bucolic poetry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000024416/"><font size=-1>Dylan Thomas</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Most influential Welsh poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000276155/"><font size=-1>Tomas Transtr&ouml;mer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scandinavian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000042319/"><font size=-1>Fyodor Tyutchev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Russian Golden Age poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/506/000082260/"><font size=-1>Tristan Tzara</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founded the Dada movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000087510/"><font size=-1>Miguel de Unamuno</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>El Cristo de Vel&aacute;zquez</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000117727/"><font size=-1>Louis Untermeyer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Anthologist of poetry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/067/000084812/"><font size=-1>Paul Val&eacute;ry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>La Jeune Parque</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/225/000048081/"><font size=-1>Mark Van Doren</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Happy Critic</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000048253/"><font size=-1>Mona Van Duyn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>To See, To Take</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000104464/"><font size=-1>Henry Vaughan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1622</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Silex Scintillans</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/764/000104452/"><font size=-1>Lope de Vega</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Nov-1562</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1635</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Reformed Spanish comedy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/874/000031781/"><font size=-1>Paul Verlaine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Leader of symbolist poetry movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/821/000114479/"><font size=-1>Jones Very</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1813</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Religious mystic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000116821/"><font size=-1>Peter Viereck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Terror and Decorum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/268/000087007/"><font size=-1>Alfred de Vigny</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1797</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Chatterton</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/912/000084660/"><font size=-1>Virgil</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-70 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-19 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Aeneid</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000103779/"><font size=-1>Walther von der Vogelweide</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1170</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1230</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Medieval German lyric poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000114487/"><font size=-1>Diane Wakoski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Coins & Coffins</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/987/000027906/"><font size=-1>Derek Walcott</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>In a Green Night</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000114490/"><font size=-1>Margaret Walker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jul-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Jubilee</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000096208/"><font size=-1>Edmund Waller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1606</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1687</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Go, Lovely Rose</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/133/000049983/"><font size=-1>William Walsh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1663</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1708</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/669/000114327/"><font size=-1>Mercy Otis Warren</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>History of the American Revolution</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000025432/"><font size=-1>Robert Penn Warren</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First US Poet Laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/141/000103829/"><font size=-1>Thomas Warton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English Poet Laureate, 1785-90</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/167/000103855/"><font size=-1>Thomas Watson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1557</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1592</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Tears of Fancie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/820/000049673/"><font size=-1>Georg Rudolf Weckherlin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1584</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1653</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000114634/"><font size=-1>Philip Whalen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Canoeing up Carbaga Creek</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/096/000113754/"><font size=-1>Phillis Wheatley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1743</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First prominent African-American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000031780/"><font size=-1>Walt Whitman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Leaves of Grass</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000114460/"><font size=-1>Reed Whittemore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Heroes & Heroines</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000103902/"><font size=-1>John Greenleaf Whittier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1807</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>American abolitionist poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/819/000114477/"><font size=-1>Michael Wigglesworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1705</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Day of Doom</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/506/000025431/"><font size=-1>Richard Wilbur</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Second U.S. Poet Laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/383/000048239/"><font size=-1>Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poems of Passion</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000099401/"><font size=-1>C. K. Williams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Repair</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000164508/"><font size=-1>Saul Williams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Rapper</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Feb-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Slam</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/160/000086899/"><font size=-1>William Carlos Williams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pictures from Brueghel</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/389/000082143/"><font size=-1>John Wilmot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1647</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-1680</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/605/000099308/"><font size=-1>Yvor Winters</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Primitivism & Decadence</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/001/000114656/"><font size=-1>Larry Woiwode</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>&nbsp;</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>What I'm Going to Do, I Think</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000103957/"><font size=-1>Wolfram von Eschenbach</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1170</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1220</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Parzival</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/855/000024783/"><font size=-1>William Wordsworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1770</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English romantic poet laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000099368/"><font size=-1>James Wright</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Branch Will Not Break</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/707/000117356/"><font size=-1>Judith Wright</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Moving 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