List of Famous Poets

Maya Angelou
Margaret Atwood
W. H. Auden
Matthew Arnold
Yehuda Amichai
Anna Akhmatova
Ai
John Ashbery
A. R. Ammons
Jane Austen
Guillaume Apollinaire
Dante Alighieri
Louisa May Alcott
Richard Aldington
Lascelles Abercrombie
Sarah Flower Adams
Delmira Agustini
William Allingham
Deborah Ager
Conrad Aiken
Catherine Anderson
Maggie Anderson
Ralph Angel
Kingsley Amis
Jean Hans Arp
Kelli Russell Agodon
Julie Hill Alger
W. Jude Aher
Alfred Austin
Tiel Aisha Ansari
Siddharth Anand
Elizabeth Bishop
Charles Bukowski
Gwendolyn Brooks
William Blake
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Burns
Robert Browning
Charles Baudelaire
Jorge Luis Borges
John Berryman
Lord Byron
Hilaire Belloc
Matsuo Basho
Richard Brautigan
Andre Breton
Eavan Boland
Stephen Vincent Benet
Louise Bogan
Ambrose Bierce
Anne Bradstreet
Wendell Berry
Yosa Buson (
Rupert Brooke
William Cullen Bryant
David Berman
Bertolt Brecht
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Imamu Amiri Baraka
Thomas Edward Brown
Gelett Burgess
Joseph Brodsky
Aleksandr Blok
Robert Seymour Bridges
Anne Bronte
Marvin Bell
William Barnes
Laurence Binyon
Erin Belieu
April Bernard
D. C. Berry
Frank Bidart
Arna Bontemps
William Bronk
Ellis Parker Butler
Ingeborg Bachmann
John Betjeman
Thomas Blackburn
Yves Bonnefoy
Edgar Bowers
William Lisle Bowles
George Bradley
Edwin Brock
John Burnside
Alex Boyd
William Browne
John Bodenham
Carlos Barbarito
Joel Barlow
William Rose Benet
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Ros Barber
Jonathan Bohrn
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Luis Benitez
Cecilia Borromeo
Alain Bosquet
Robert Bly
Michael Burch
Bhaskar Roy Barman
E. E. Cummings
Billy Collins
Lucille Clifton
John Clare
Lewis Carroll
Countee Cullen
Stephen Crane
Samuel Coleridge
Robert Creeley
Leonard Cohen
Geoffrey Chaucer
Aleister Crowley
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Gregory Corso
Hart Crane
William Cowper
Raymond Carver
Thomas Campbell
Amy Clampitt
Richard Crashaw
Arthur Hugh Clough
Thomas Chatterton
Li Ching Chao
G. K. Chesterton
Jean Cocteau
Lady Mary Chudleigh
Jim Carroll
Hayden Carruth
Martha Collins
Geraldine Connolly
Thomas Carew
Constantine P. Cavafy
Paul Celan
Andree Chedid
Austin Clarke
Abraham Cowley
Andrew Crumey
Eliza Cook
Peter Conners
Bliss Carman
Willa Cather
Craig Erick Chaffin
Ivan Donn Carswell
Anastasia Clark
Emily Dickinson
Roald Dahl
John Donne
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hilda Doolittle
Rita Dove
Henry Van Dyke
John Dryden
Mark Doty
William Henry Davies
Stephen Dunn
Mahmoud Darwish
Keith Douglas
Michael Drayton
Alan Dugan
John Davidson
Robert Desnos
Mark van Doren
Annie Dillard
Stephen Dobyns
Norman Dubie
Denise Duhamel
Regina Derieva
Michael Donaghy
Ernest Dowson
William Drummond
Carol Ann Duffy
Helen Dunmore
William Dunbar
James Dickey
Edward Dorn
Robert Duncan
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paul Eluard
Marriott Edgar
Russell Edson
Cornelius Eady
James A. Emanuel
Maggie Estep
Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
George Eliot
Gerald England
Ian Emberson
Rebecca Elson
Robert Frost
Tu Fu
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Robert Francis
Edward Field
Nick Flynn
Edward Fitzgerald
Anne Kingsmill Finch
Jean de La Fontaine
Carolyn Forche
Philip Freneau
Daisy Fried
Thomas Flatman
John Fletcher
Eugene Field
John Gould Fletcher
Raymond A. Foss
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Annie Finch
Gary R. Ferris
Allen Ginsberg
Khalil Gibran
Nikki Giovanni
Louise Gluck
Robert Graves
Edgar Albert Guest
Jack Gilbert
Thomas Gray
Thom Gunn
Judy Grahn
Eamon Grennan
Oliver Goldsmith
Dame Mary Gilmore
Patricia Goedicke
Jorie Graham
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rafael Guillen
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Sidney Godolphin
Thomas Godfrey
Adrian Green
R.George
Bernadette Geyer
Godfrey Mutiso Gorry
Rg Gregory
Langston Hughes
Ted Hughes
Thomas Hardy
Robert Hayden
Seamus Heaney
Robert Herrick
Donald Hall
Alec Derwent Hope
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nazim Hikmet
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tony Harrison
A. E. Housman
George Herbert
Tony Hoagland
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Edward Hirsch
Hermann Hesse
William Ernest Henley
Anthony Hecht (
Ho Xuan Huong
Richard Hugo
Bob Hicok
Geoffrey Hill
Thomas Hood
Andrew Hudgins
Marilyn Hacker
Victor Hugo
Kimiko Hahn
Forrest Hamer
Mac Hammond
Brooks Haxton
Mark Hillringhouse
Peter Huchel
Jupiter Hammon
Bret Harte
Julia Ward Howe
William Dean Howells
Dale Harcombe
Billy Jno Hope
Joy Harjo
Sophie Hannah
Suheir Hammad
Eileen Carney Hulme
Robert M. Hensel
Kobayashi Issa
David Ignatow
Mark Irwin
Henrik Ibsen
Randall Jarrell
Elizabeth Jennings
James Joyce
Erica Jong
Robinson Jeffers
Jenny Joseph
Richard Jones
Laura Riding Jackson
James Lee Jobe
Ted Kooser
Jack Kerouac
Stanley Kunitz
Patrick Kavanagh
Yusef Komunyakaa
Bob Kaufman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Federico Garcia Lorca
Philip Larkin
Denise Levertov
C. S. Lewis
Amy Lowell
David Herbert Lawrence
Vachel Lindsay
Richard Lovelace
Giacomo Leopardi
Primo Levi
Larry Levis
Walter Savage Landor
Michael Lally
David Lehman (
Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
Roddy Lumsden
Claude McKay
Roger McGough
Spike Milligan
Walter de la Mare
Marianne Moore
Antonio Machado
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A. A. Milne
W. S. Merwin
John Masefield
Edgar Lee Masters
Louis MacNeice
Thomas Moore
Christopher Marlowe
Archibald MacLeish
Katherine Mansfield
Lisel Mueller
William Morris
Andrew Marvell
John McCrae
William Topaz McGonagall
Herman Melville (
Edwin Morgan
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Heather McHugh
Osip Mandelstam
Chris Mansell
James Merrill
William Vaughn Moody
Dorothea MacKellar
Edwin Markham
Pablo Neruda
Alfred Noyes
Naomi Shihab Nye
Sarojini Naidu
Howard Nemerov
Anais Nin
John Frederick Nims
Sir Henry Newbolt
Edith Nesbit
Claire Nixon
Nimah Nawwab
Sharon Olds
Wilfred Owen
Michael Ondaatje
Peter Orlovsky
Edgar Allan Poe
Sylvia Plath
Dorothy Parker
Octavio Paz
Andrew Barton Paterson
Marge Piercy
Alexander Pope
Linda Pastan
Boris Pasternak
Vasko Popa
Katherine Anne Porter
P. K. Page
Christina Rossetti (
Salvatore Quasimodo
Nizar Qabbani
Rainer Maria Rilke
Adrienne Rich
Theodore Roethke
Isaac Rosenberg
Sir Walter Raleigh
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
George William Russell
Arthur Rimbaud (
Susan Rich
Jennifer Reeser
John Crowe Ransom
John Ruskin
Shel Silverstein
William Shakespeare
Carl Sandburg
Gary Soto
Percy Bysshe Shelley
May Swenson
Wallace Stevens
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevie Smith
William Stafford (
Siegfried Sassoon
Karl Shapiro
Edmund Spenser
Kenneth Slessor
Robert William Service
Mark Strand
Charles Simic
Robert Southey
Gertrude Stein
Sir Philip Sidney
James Stephens
Delmore Schwartz
Dame Edith Sitwell
Gary Snyder
Sir John Suckling
Christopher Smart
Alfonsina Storni
Vita Sackville-West
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Vernon Scannell
Edward Thomas
Georg Trakl
Ann Taylor
James Tate
Jane Taylor
Tristan Tzara
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Francis Thompson
Katharine Tynan
Natasha Trethewey
James Thomson
Marilyn L. Taylor
Jean Valentine
Francois Villon
Andrei Voznesensky
Dimitris Varos (
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
William Wordsworth
Alice Walker
Richard Wilbur
Phillis Wheatley
Judith Wright
Oscar Wilde
Isaac Watts (
Derek Walcott
James Weldon Johnson
James Whitcomb Riley
Annie Louisa Walker
David Wagoner
Diane Wakoski
Connie Wanek
Charles Webb
John Wheelwright
Nancy Willard
John Williams
Eleanor Wilner
Liam Wilkinson
Michael Wigglesworth
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
William Butler Yeats
Lisa Zaran