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  1. Le Gallienne, Richard   English. Born: 1866, Died: 1947, 278 poems.
  2. Smith, Cicely Fox   English. Born: 1882, Died: 1954, 626 poems.
  3. Paterson, A B Banjo   Oceania. Born: 1864, Died: 1941, 245 poems.
  4. Neruda, Pablo   Americas. Born: 1904, Died: 1973 (modern), 118 poems.
    Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets.
  5. Dickinson, Emily   Americas. Born: 1830, Died: 1886, 1063 poems.
    Emily only had six or seven of her poems published during her lifetime--and those without her consent.
  6. 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.
  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. Ryokan, Taigu   Asian. Born: 1758, Died: 1831, 45 poems.
  9. Tagore, Gurudev Rabindranath   Asian. Born: 1861, Died: 1941, 232 poems.
    Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
  10. Milne, A.A.   English. Born: 1882, Died: 1956 (modern), 51 poems.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  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. Drummond de Andrade, Carlos   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1987 (modern), 43 poems.
  17. Shakur, Tupac   Americas. Born: 1971, Died: 1996 (modern), 13 poems.
  18. Byron, Lord George   English. Born: 1788, Died: 1824, 291 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
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Ezekiel, Nissim   Asian. Born: 1924, Died: 2004 (modern), 8 poems.
    A major poet in the modern post Ww Ii phase of Indian Anglian Poetry
  24. 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
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Stephens, James   Born: 1882, Died: 1950, 20 poems.
    He was a poet, playwright and author. Stephens incorporated Irish folklore into his work.
  29. Pinero, Miguel   Americas. Born: 1946, Died: 1988 (modern), 17 poems.
  30. Guest, Edgar Albert   Americas. Born: 1881, Died: 1959 (modern), 1017 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.
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