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Old-poets matching 'Y' by name

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  1. Yaitsu,   Asian. Died: 1807, 1 poems.
  2. Yakamochi, Otomo no   Asian. Born: 716, Died: 785, 3 poems.
    Compiler of the anthology Manyoshu, which is a collection of ten thousand leaves and 4,562 poems.
  3. Yalden, Thomas   English. Born: 1670, Died: 1736, 1 poems.
  4. Yamaguchi, Seishi   Asian. Born: 1901, Died: 1994 (modern), 5 poems.
  5. Yared, Saint   Born: 505, Died: 571, 2 poems.
  6. Yarjanian, Atom   Asian. Born: 1878, Died: 1915, 15 poems.
    Also known as Siamanto.  He said in a poem "Yes yerkelov g'ouzem mernil", which means "I wish to die singing". He was murdered in 1915 like most of his colleagues.
  7. Yasar, Umit   Asian. Born: 1926, Died: 1984 (modern), 1 poems.
  8. Yashin, Alexander   Asian. Born: 1913, Died: 1968 (modern), 2 poems.
  9. Yates, John Henry   Americas. Born: 1837, Died: 1900, 3 poems.
  10. Yavorov, Peyo Kracholov   European. Born: 1878, Died: 1914, 3 poems.
  11. Yayu,   Asian. Born: 1701, Died: 1783, 1 poems.
  12. Yazykov, Nikolay Mikhailovich   European. Born: 1803, Died: 1846, 13 poems.
  13. Ybarra, Thomas Russell   Americas. Born: 1880, Died: 1954, 3 poems.
  14. Yearsley, Ann   English. Born: 1753, Died: 1806, 2 poems.
  15. Yeats, William Butler   Born: 1865, Died: 1939, 382 poems.
    W.B.Yeats work is now seen as being a major part of the Irish literature revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
  16. Yesenin, Sergey Alexandrovich   Asian. Born: 1895, Died: 1925, 11 poems.
  17. Yeshurun, Avoth   Asian. Born: 1904, Died: 1992 (modern), 4 poems.
  18. Yi, Hwang   Asian. Born: 1501, Died: 1570, 2 poems.
    Yi Hwang was the greatest scholar and most influential Confucian philosopher of Korea’s Choson dynasty.
  19. Yogananda, Sri Paramahansa   Asian. Born: 1893, Died: 1952, 6 poems.
  20. Yong-un, Han   Asian. Born: 1879, Died: 1944, 2 poems.
  21. Yorke, Charlie   Oceania. Born: 1830, Died: 1900, 1 poems.
  22. Yosano , Tekkan   Asian. Born: 1873, Died: 1935, 0 poems.
  23. Yoshioka, Minoru   Asian. Born: 1919, Died: 1990 (modern), 2 poems.
  24. Youl, Edward   English. 5 poems.
  25. Young, Edward   English. Born: 1683, Died: 1765, 11 poems.
    His last important work was his prose Conjectures on Original Composition (1759).
  26. Young, Rida Johnson   Americas. Born: 1869, Died: 1926, 1 poems.
    A former actress who had been Victor Herbert’s librettist on Naughty Marietta.
  27. Young, Bartholomew   English. Born: 1577, Died: 1600, 1 poems.
  28. Young, Stark   Americas. Born: 1881, Died: 1963 (modern), 0 poems.
  29. Young, Edward Hilton   English. Born: 1879, Died: 1960 (modern), 2 poems.
  30. Young, Ella   Born: 1867, Died: 1956 (modern), 2 poems.
  31. Young, Andrew   English. Born: 1807, Died: 1889, 2 poems.
  32. Young, Andrew John   English. Born: 1885, Died: 1971 (modern), 3 poems.
  33. Young, Francis Brett   English. Born: 1884, Died: 1954, 15 poems.
  34. Ypres y Alvarez, Juan de   European. Born: 1542, Died: 1591, 1 poems.
  35. Yu, Chihwan   Asian. Born: 1908, Died: 1967 (modern), 8 poems.
  36. Yu, Li   Asian. Born: 936, Died: 978, 24 poems.
    Also known as Li Hou Zhu or Li Houzhu
    Li Yu was the last emperor of the Southern Tang dynasty, deposed in 975. His works focus on the loss of comfort and luxury.
  37. Yuji, Kinoshita   Asian. Born: 1914, Died: 1965 (modern), 3 poems.
  38. Yulayev, Salavat   Asian. Born: 1754, Died: 1800, 1 poems.
  39. Yun, Dongju   Asian. Born: 1917, Died: 1945, 9 poems.
  40. Yun, Son-do   Asian. Born: 1587, Died: 1671, 1 poems.
    Yun is genrally deemed the greatest of Korean poets; his work with the sijo took the form to its zenith in the 17th century.
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