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T. S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot is a significant 20th-century poet known for his exploration of disillusionment and spiritual searching. Born...

American Modernist British Fragmentary

9.7 Brilliant

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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is an American poet best known for *Leaves of Grass*, published in installments beginning in 1855. His work...

American Democratic Freeverse Leaves

9.7 Brilliant

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats is a significant figure in modernist literature. The Irish poet’s work explored themes of mythology...

Modernist Irish Nobel Symbolist

9.6 Brilliant

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Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca was a significant Spanish poet born in 1898. He is primarily known as a key figure of Modernism an...

Spanish Modernist Duende Generation27

9.6 Brilliant

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César Vallejo

César Vallejo (1895-1963) was a Peruvian poet renowned for his intensely personal and politically charged verse. His wor...

Modernist Experimental Political Peruvian

9.5 Brilliant

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva was a prominent 20th-century Russian poet recognized for her deeply personal and emotionally charged ly...

Lyric Russian Modernist Exile

9.4 Excellent

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Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam was a prominent Russian poet representing the Acmeist movement. His work, characterized by meticulous la...

Russian Modernist Political Acmeist

9.4 Excellent

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Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet whose work profoundly shaped 20th-century literature. He co-founded the Negritude mov...

Political Surrealist Martinican Negritude

9.4 Excellent

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was an American poet whose work explored philosophical themes through vivid imagination. He...

American Philosophical Modernist Imagination

9.3 Excellent

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Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé is a late 19th-century French poet renowned for his Symbolist work. His intensely evocative language a...

French Difficult Modernist Symbolist

9.3 Excellent

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (1933-2007) was a prominent lyric poet deeply rooted in Palestinian experience. His work, particularly f...

Lyric Political Palestinian Exile

9.3 Excellent

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was an American modernist poet and editor, notable for The Cantos and for helping publish writers such as T....

American Modernist Imagist Cantos

9.1 Excellent

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Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet of the Generation of 1898 whose Campos de Castilla in 1912 became a defining meditati...

Lyric Spanish Modernist Landscape

9.1 Excellent

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician, known for Paterson and for shaping modernist verse rooted in...

American Local Modernist Imagist

8.9 Great

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Nazım Hikmet

Nazım Hikmet was a Turkish poet and playwright, noted for free verse and leftist politics, and spent many years imprison...

Modernist Political Turkish Freeverse

8.9 Great

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Senegalese poet and statesman, co-founder of Negritude and Senegal's first president from 19...

French Political Senegalese Negritude

8.9 Great

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet born in Rome whose 1913 Alcools and visual calligrammes helped bridge Symbolism,...

French Modernist Avantgarde Calligrammes

8.8 Great

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George Seferis

George Seferis was a Greek poet and diplomat who became the first Greek Nobel laureate in Literature in 1963 for his mod...

Modernist Greek Nobel Exile

8.8 Great

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Forugh Farrokhzad

Forugh Farrokhzad was an Iranian modernist poet and filmmaker, noted for candid female subjectivity and the 1964 collect...

Lyric Modernist Feminist Iranian

8.8 Great

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Endre Ady

Endre Ady was a Hungarian poet whose 1906 collection New Poems helped modernize Hungarian literature with Symbolist and...

Hungarian Modernist Political Symbolist

8.4 Great