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Aazer, Kafeel
Asian.
2 poems.
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Abai, Kunanbaev Ibragim
Asian.
Born: 1845,
Died: 1904,
3 poems.
Also known as Abay Kunanbayev
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Alfonso II , King Alfonso II
European.
Born: 1152,
Died: 1196,
1 poems.
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Alling, Kenneth Slade
Americas.
Born: 1889,
Died: 1989 (modern),
1 poems.
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Allott, Kenneth
English.
Born: 1912,
Died: 1973 (modern),
4 poems.
The 1930s was a decade characterized both by intense anxiety and by a highly charged idealism, and much of the poetry of the period owes its energies to the fruitful conjunction of the two.
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Amis, Sir Kingsley
English.
Born: 1922,
Died: 1955,
6 poems.
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and lite
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Arentzen, Kristian
European.
Born: 1823,
Died: 1899,
0 poems.
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Arnim, Karl
European.
Born: 1781,
Died: 1831,
4 poems.
His full name was Karl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig Achim von Arnim. His fame rests on the volume of German folk poetry he collected and edited: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn). Influenced by Johann Gottfried von Herder's collection of Fo
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Ashley, Kenneth Herbert
English.
Born: 1887,
Died: 1950,
4 poems.
Kenneth Herbert Ashley was born in 1887 in England, as an English poet, novelist, journalist, and a farmer. He published Up Hill and Down Dales (19??) and Creighton the Admirable (19??) the latter being a novel and the first one his collected poems.
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Azmi, Kaifi
Asian.
Born: 1930,
Died: 2002 (modern),
2 poems.
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Baczynski, Krzysztof Kamil
European.
Born: 1921,
Died: 1944,
0 poems.
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Balmont, Konstantin Dmitrievich
European.
Born: 1867,
Died: 1942,
7 poems.
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Banzan , Kumazawa
Asian.
Born: 1619,
Died: 1691,
1 poems.
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Bates, Katharine Lee
Americas.
Born: 1859,
Died: 1929,
101 poems.
Probably best known as the author of the words to "America the Beautiful," Bates was a prolific poet and a professor of English and head of the English department at Wellesley, where she had been a student in its earliest years.
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Batiushkov, Konstantin Nikolaevich
Asian.
Born: 1787,
Died: 1855,
9 poems.
it was Konstantin's youth spent in Petersburg which played the most important part in his development as a poet
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Bednar, Kamil
European.
Born: 1912,
Died: 1972 (modern),
0 poems.
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Biebl, Konstantin
European.
Born: 1898,
Died: 1951,
0 poems.
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Binkis, Kazys
European.
Born: 1893,
Died: 1942,
9 poems.
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Bolay, Karl H
European.
Born: 1914,
Died: 1994 (modern),
0 poems.
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Boruta, Kazys
European.
Born: 1905,
Died: 1965 (modern),
6 poems.
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Bosha, Kawabata
Asian.
Born: 1897,
Died: 1941,
3 poems.
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Botev, Khristo
European.
Born: 1848,
Died: 1876,
15 poems.
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Boye, Karin
European.
Born: 1900,
Died: 1941,
12 poems.
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Boyle, Kay
Americas.
Born: 1902,
Died: 1992 (modern),
1 poems.
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Brodzinski , Kazimierz
European.
Born: 1791,
Died: 1835,
0 poems.
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Burke, Kenneth
Americas.
Born: 1897,
Died: 1993 (modern),
1 poems.
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Capek Chod, Karel Matej
European.
Born: 1860,
Died: 1927,
1 poems.
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Charles 1, King
English.
Born: 1600,
Died: 1649,
1 poems.
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Chiyo, Kaga no
Asian.
Born: 1703,
Died: 1775,
11 poems.
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Chunder-Sen, Keshub
Asian.
Born: 1838,
Died: 1884,
0 poems.
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Dard, Khwaja
Asian.
Born: 1720,
Died: 1784,
2 poems.
Khwaja Mir Dard is one of the three major poets of the Delhi School who could be called the pillars of the classical Urdu ghazal.
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Daruwala, Keki N
Born: 1937,
0 poems.
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Digby, Kenelm
Born: 1800,
Died: 1880,
0 poems.
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Djalski, Ksaver Sandor
European.
Born: 1854,
Died: 1935,
0 poems.
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Donelaitis, Kristijonas
European.
Born: 1714,
Died: 1780,
4 poems.
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Douglas, Keith
English.
Born: 1920,
Died: 1944,
9 poems.
He was killed in Normandy. His reputation rests mainly on his war poetry, particularly that depicting the desert warfare he experienced in North Africa
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Fearing, Kenneth
Americas.
Born: 1902,
Died: 1961 (modern),
3 poems.
A journalist, poet, and novelist. Probably best known for his novel The Big Clock, which was made into a movie by Paramount.
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Fofanov , Konstantin
Asian.
Born: 1862,
Died: 1911,
3 poems.
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Galczynski, Konstanty Ildefons
European.
Born: 1905,
Died: 1953,
1 poems.
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Ghulam Farid , Khwaja
Asian.
Born: 1845,
Died: 1901,
1 poems.
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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.
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Grahame, Kenneth
English.
Born: 1859,
Died: 1932,
1 poems.
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Greenaway, Kate
English.
Born: 1846,
Died: 1901,
44 poems.
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Groth, Klaus
European.
Born: 1819,
Died: 1899,
2 poems.
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Hachiemon, Karai
Asian.
Born: 1718,
Died: 1790,
2 poems.
Whose pen name 'Senryu' came to honour his contribution to the 5-7-5 verse form in which he wrote extensively.
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Hakushu, Kitahara
Asian.
Born: 1885,
Died: 1942,
2 poems.
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Hale, Katherine
Americas.
Born: 1878,
Died: 1956 (modern),
8 poems.
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Havlicek Borovsky, Karel
European.
Born: 1821,
Died: 1856,
0 poems.
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Heinrich, Kaiser
European.
Born: 1165,
Died: 1197,
1 poems.
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Hitomaro, Kakinomoto no Asomi
Asian.
Born: 660,
Died: 708,
50 poems.
One of Japan's greatest, and most appealing, poets, whose work still has a resonance for us today.
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