Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Old Poets, by popularity

1 - 50 of 5,822     1 2 3 4  next >
  1. Smith, Cicely Fox   English. Born: 1882, Died: 1954, 626 poems.
  2. Paterson, A B Banjo   Oceania. Born: 1864, Died: 1941, 245 poems.
  3. Neruda, Pablo   Americas. Born: 1904, Died: 1973 (modern), 118 poems.
    Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets.
  4. Dennis, C J   Oceania. Born: 1876, Died: 1938, 726 poems.
    Born in Auburn, South Australia, September 1876. Married Olive Harriet in 1917. They had no children. Clarence Michael James Dennis (he liked to be called 'Den') loved to write childrens poetry.
  5. Qabbani, Nizar   Asian. Born: 1923, Died: 1998 (modern), 38 poems.
    Nizar Qabbani, left life as a Syrian diplomat to become one of the Arab world's greatest poets
  6. Ryokan, Taigu   Asian. Born: 1758, Died: 1831, 45 poems.
  7. Keats, John   English. Born: 1795, Died: 1821, 159 poems.
    John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London.
  8. Milne, A.A.   English. Born: 1882, Died: 1956 (modern), 51 poems.
  9. Tagore, Gurudev Rabindranath   Asian. Born: 1861, Died: 1941, 205 poems.
    Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
  10. Marti, Jose   Americas. Born: 1853, Died: 1895, 120 poems.
    Cuban poet, essayist and journalist, who became the symbol of Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain and who promoted better understanding among American nations
  11. Gibran, Khalil   Asian. Born: 1883, Died: 1931, 74 poems.
    Gibran proved to be a solitary and pensive child who relished the natural surroundings of the cascading falls, the rugged cliffs and the neighboring green cedars.
  12. Kipling, Rudyard   English. Born: 1865, Died: 1936, 490 poems.
    He had declined most of the many honours which had been offered him, including a knighthood, the Poet Laureateship, and the Order of Merit, but in 1907 he had accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  13. Drummond de Andrade, Carlos   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1987 (modern), 42 poems.
  14. Hemingway, Ernest   Americas. Born: 1899, Died: 1961 (modern), 26 poems.
    The nobel prize-winning novelist of works such as The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway also published 88 poems.
  15. cummings, e e   Americas. Born: 1894, Died: 1962 (modern), 191 poems.
    e.e. cummings
  16. Kerouac, Jack   Americas. Born: 1922, Died: 1969 (modern), 16 poems.
    The voice of the Beat Generation, born in Lowell Massachusetts, the youngest of three children.  Probably best known for his novel On the Road
  17. Byron, Lord George   English. Born: 1788, Died: 1824, 290 poems.
    In 1806 Byron had his early poems privately printed in a volume entitled Fugitive Pieces, and  that same  year he formed at Trinity what was to be a  lifelong friendship with John Hobhouse, who stirred his interest in liberal Whigg
  18. Burns, Robert   Born: 1759, Died: 1796, 119 poems.
    Robert Burns was born in Alloway in 1759. He worked on his father's farm, but spent much of his time reading and educating himself.
  19. Poe, Edgar Allan   Americas. Born: 1809, Died: 1849, 65 poems.
    was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his pshycological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide.
  20. Shakur, Tupac   Americas. Born: 1971, Died: 1996 (modern), 13 poems.
  21. Lawson, Henry   Oceania. Born: 1867, Died: 1922, 500 poems.
    By the 1890s Australia had been settled for a little more than 100 years and Lawson was arguably the first Australian-born writer who really looked at Australia with Australian eyes, not influenced by his knowledge of other landscapes. He was the fir
  22. Mackellar, Dorothea   Oceania. Born: 1885, Died: 1968 (modern), 12 poems.
    At age 19 she wrote the poem, 'My Country,' with the second verse being one of the best known stanzas in Austrailian poetry.
  23. Sexton, Anne   Americas. Born: 1928, Died: 1974 (modern), 189 poems.
    Sexton offers the reader an intimate view of the emotional anguish that characterized her life. She made the experience of being a woman a central issue in her poetry
  24. Hughes, Langston   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1967 (modern), 89 poems.
    Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty one years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing.
  25. Wright, Judith   Oceania. Born: 1915, Died: 2000 (modern), 33 poems.
    Judith Arundell Wright was born near Armidale, New South Wales, into an old and wealthy pastoral family. Wright was raised on her family's sheep station. After her mother died in 1927, she was educated under her grandmother's supervision.
  26. Stephens, James   Born: 1882, Died: 1950, 20 poems.
    He was a poet, playwright and author. Stephens incorporated Irish folklore into his work.
  27. Auden, W H   English. Born: 1907, Died: 1973 (modern), 114 poems.
    he has been admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and an ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form
  28. Garcia Lorca, Federico   European. Born: 1898, Died: 1936, 47 poems.
  29. Pinero, Miguel   Americas. Born: 1946, Died: 1988 (modern), 17 poems.
  30. Guest, Edgar Albert   Americas. Born: 1881, Died: 1959 (modern), 385 poems.
    They called him "The Poet of the People" "Poet Laureate of the American Home" and "America's Best Loved Poet of the Newspaper Age." In March, he earned another title, with his selection for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.
  31. Shakespeare, William   English. Born: 1564, Died: 1616, 198 poems.
    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. This was the sixth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
  32. Frost, Robert   Americas. Born: 1874, Died: 1963 (modern), 136 poems.
    Early 1890’s Frost attempted to submit several of his work to various magazines, which were rejected.  It was in about 1894, when the first of his poetry began to appear. His elegy ‘My Butterfly, an Elegy” being published in the Independent (a nation
  33. Khusro, Amir   Asian. Born: 1253, Died: 1325, 29 poems.
    Amir Khusro Dehlavi, Poet, musician, inventor, philosopher, linguist. Khusro was musician in the court of seven kings in Delhi, from Allauddin Khilji to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq.
  34. Mirabai,   Asian. Born: 1498, Died: 1546, 34 poems.
    Mirabai, a princess, was a devotee of Lord Krishna, she was in love with him from her early childhood and her poems are of love and devotion to her Lord. Her devotion of Lord Krishna made her go against the traditions and customs of her time and made
  35. Cullen, Countee   Americas. Born: 1903, Died: 1946, 28 poems.
    An imaginative lyric poet, he wrote in the tradition of Keats and Shelley and was resistant to the new poetic techniques of the Modernists
  36. Carroll, Lewis   English. Born: 1832, Died: 1898, 73 poems.
    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wasn't just a great writer, he was also a famous photographer, mathematician, and illustrator. When he published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he used Lewis Carroll as a pen name. Dodgson invented his pen name by translat
  37. Thomas, Dylan   Born: 1914, Died: 1953, 98 poems.
    Welsh poet, short-story writer, and playwright, renowned for the unique brilliance of his verbal imagery and for his celebration of natural beauty.
  38. de la Mare, Sir Walter   English. Born: 1873, Died: 1958 (modern), 86 poems.
    He was quite successful as an author while he lived, but apart from a few poems and his supernatural fiction, he is not often reprinted today.
  39. Pope, Alexander   English. Born: 1688, Died: 1744, 81 poems.
    modelling himself after the great poets of classical antiquity, writing highly polished verse, often in a didactic or satirical vein. In verse translations, moral and critical essays, and satires that made him the foremost poet of his age
  40. Rumi, Mewlana Jalaluddin   Asian. Born: 1207, Died: 1273, 107 poems.
    Jalalud'Din Rumi, The Thirteenth-Century Persian lawyer-divine and Sufi, is widely considered literature's greatest mystical poet.
  41. Brooke, Rupert   English. Born: 1887, Died: 1915, 98 poems.
    Brooke's reputation, aside from the myth of the fallen "golden warrior" that his friends set about creating almost immediately after his death, rests on the five war sonnets of 1914. Some of his earlier poetry--"Fish," Helen and Menelaus," and "Heave
  42. Stevenson, Robert Louis   Born: 1850, Died: 1894, 225 poems.
    Stevenson's works earned him great popularity because of his clear and careful style, and his extraordinary power as a storyteller.
  43. Jennings, Elizabeth   English. Born: 1926, Died: 2001 (modern), 12 poems.
    Elizabeth Joan Jennings, poet, born July 18 1926; died October 26 2001.

    Throughout the 1960's, Elizabeth was one of the most popular poets in England. She never married and published a great number of works. Elizabeth once said, "I write f
  44. Pope, Jessie   English. Born: 1868, Died: 1941, 7 poems.
  45. Dahl, Roald   Born: 1916, Died: 1990 (modern), 27 poems.
    Dahls' books are mostly fantasy, and full of imagination. They are always a little cruel, but never without humour - a thrilling mixture of the grotesque and comic.
  46. Kabir,   Asian. Born: 1398, Died: 1448, 28 poems.
    Kabir, a saint to millions, a universal Guru, a poet, a weaver by profession, a Sufi, and last but not the least a mystic. In India, he is perhaps the most quoted author.
  47. Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la   Americas. Born: 1651, Died: 1695, 9 poems.
    Her poetry, meanwhile, states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion.
  48. Roethke, Theodore   Americas. Born: 1908, Died: 1963 (modern), 32 poems.
    Roethke exposure to nature and own reflections of family life give him an emotional basis for writings which helped break the mold previously set by T.S. Elliot.
  49. Brittain, Vera   English. Born: 1893, Died: 1970 (modern), 4 poems.
    Vera Brittain is best known for her book "Testament of Youth", in which she tells the story of her harrowing experiences in the First World War.
  50. Noonuccal, Oodgeroo   Oceania. Born: 1920, Died: 1993 (modern), 4 poems.
    Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a poet, an actress, writer, teacher, artist and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights But she was best known for her poetry. Oodgeroo was the first Aboriginal Australian to have a book of poetry published.
1 - 50 of 5,822     1 2 3 4  next >