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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was a prominent English poet writing during the Neoclassical period. He is best known for his satirical v...

Satire Neoclassical English Couplets

9.2 Excellent

2

Robert Frost

Robert Frost is a prominent figure in American literature known for his evocative poetry reflecting rural life and New E...

Modern American Rural Formal

9.2 Excellent

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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo was a prominent Spanish poet during the Baroque period. His work, characterized by conceptismo – a...

Baroque Spanish Satire Conceptismo

9.2 Excellent

4

Lord Byron

Lord Byron was an influential English Romantic poet known for his passionate verse and critical perspectives. His work,...

Romantic Satire English Heroic

9.0 Excellent

5

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry was a prominent French poet known for his rigorous intellectualism and formal style. He explored themes of p...

French Intellectual Formal Symbolist

8.8 Great

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Abu Nuwas

Abu Nuwas was a prominent Arab poet of the Abbasid court who flourished in Baghdad during the 9th century. He is notable...

Satire Arabic Wine Abbasid

8.8 Great

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Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell is a prominent American poet known for his intensely personal and autobiographical work. His confessional...

American Formal Autobiographical Confessional

8.7 Great

8

Les Murray

Les Murray is a prominent Australian poet primarily associated with rural life and experiences. His work explores themes...

Australian Rural Formal National

8.7 Great

9

Juvenal

Juvenal was a Latin poet active during the late first and second centuries CE. His work, primarily in hexameter verse, o...

Satire Ancient Roman Latin

8.6 Great

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John Dryden

John Dryden was a significant figure in 17th and 18th century English literature. He established neoclassical styles thr...

Satire Neoclassical Restoration English

8.5 Great

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson was a prominent English poet and playwright of the Renaissance era. His work, characterized by classical infl...

Drama Renaissance Satire English

8.4 Great

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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is an American poet known for formal invention, and won the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Light...

Black American Contemporary Formal

8.2 Great

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Judith Wright

Judith Wright was an Australian poet and conservationist, known for lyrical work on land, settler history, and Aborigina...

Nature Lyric Australian Political

8.2 Great

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Banjo Paterson

Banjo Paterson was an Australian bush poet and journalist, best known for Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River...

Popular Australian Bush Ballad

8.2 Great

15

Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet, known for realist bush ballads and stories, and published In the Days Wh...

Social Australian Bush Ballad

8.1 Great

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet from County Armagh, known for intricate wordplay and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for...

Contemporary Playful Formal Irish

7.9 Good

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Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur was an American poet and translator, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the second United States Poet L...

Modern American Translation Formal

7.9 Good

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Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist, noted for the 1939 elegy Five Bells and for bringing modernist te...

Lyric Australian Modernist Urban

7.8 Good

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a Quandamooka poet and activist, whose We Are Going in 1964 was the first poetry book by an Abori...

Activist Australian Aboriginal Political

7.7 Good

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Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen was an American Harlem Renaissance poet, known for Color in 1925 and for blending traditional forms with...

Black American Formal Harlem

7.4 Good