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Homer

Homer is a Greek poet whose oral tradition produced seminal works like the Iliad and the Odyssey. These epic poems, comp...

Epic Ancient Greek Oral

9.8 Brilliant

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John Milton

John Milton remains a pivotal figure in English poetry. His extensive body of work, including *Paradise Lost*, explores...

Epic English Puritan Paradiselost

9.8 Brilliant

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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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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke was a significant 20th-century poet born in Austria. He is best known for his deeply philosophical an...

Lyric German Austrian Spiritual

9.7 Brilliant

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin is considered Russia’s greatest poet. His works, including *Eugene Onegin*, established a distinctly n...

Romantic Russian Narrative National

9.7 Brilliant

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Virgil

Virgil was a highly influential Roman poet living from 70 BCE to 19 BCE. He is most celebrated for *The Aeneid*, an epic...

Epic Ancient Roman Latin

9.6 Brilliant

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Du Fu

Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (712-770). His work is notable for its deeply personal reflection...

Lyric Tang Historical Chinese

9.6 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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Paul Celan

Paul Celan was a significant 20th-century poet writing in German. Born in Romania, he experienced the Holocaust firsthan...

Lyric Holocaust Dense Germanlanguage

9.6 Brilliant

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Li Bai

Li Bai is a prominent figure of the Tang Dynasty, renowned as a Chinese poet. His evocative lyricism frequently explores...

Nature Lyric Tang Chinese

9.5 Brilliant

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer remains one of England’s most influential poets. His *Canterbury Tales*, written in Middle English, off...

Narrative Medieval English Canterbury

9.5 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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Luís de Camões

Luís de Camões (1524-1580) was a prominent Portuguese poet celebrated for his epic poem Os Lusíadas. This work chronicle...

Epic Renaissance Portuguese Lusiads

9.5 Brilliant

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Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud was a significant French poet known for his intensely personal and visionary verse produced during his yo...

French Youth Visionary Symbolist

9.5 Brilliant

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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova remains one of Russia’s most significant lyric poets. Her work offers profound insights into personal suf...

Lyric Russian Witness Acmeist

9.5 Brilliant

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Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin was an English poet and University of Hull librarian, noted in postwar Britain for the 1964 collection The...

Lyric Postwar British Plainstyle

9.3 Excellent

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Wang Wei

Wang Wei was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, painter, and official, born in 699, noted for spare landscape poems with Buddh...

Nature Tang Chinese Buddhist

9.0 Excellent

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Li Qingzhao

Li Qingzhao was a Song dynasty Chinese poet, born in 1084, regarded as a master of ci lyric for works of intimacy, exile...

Lyric Song Chinese CI

8.9 Great