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Dante Alighieri

Written in the Florentine vernacular, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy made everyday Italian speech the medium for an amb...

Italian Epic Medieval Divinecomedy

9.80 Brilliant

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John Milton

John Milton's poetry brings religious questions into sustained dialogue with political freedom and human responsibility....

Epic English Puritan Paradiselost

9.78 Brilliant

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry, drama and prose all contribute to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's place in German literary history. His writing exa...

German Classical Romantic Faust

9.76 Brilliant

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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

9.75 Brilliant

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin helped shape modern Russian literature through poetry whose formal precision supports a flexible, conv...

Romantic Russian Narrative National

9.74 Brilliant

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Walt Whitman

Long, flexible lines and an expansive speaking voice distinguish Walt Whitman's poetry. The American poet made Leaves of...

American Democratic Freeverse Leaves

9.72 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

9.55 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

9.47 Excellent

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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

9.36 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

9.34 Excellent

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Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz was a significant 20th-century Polish poet known for his profound reflections on history, exile, and huma...

Polish Historical Nobel Exile

9.16 Excellent

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Wang Wei

Wang Wei was a prominent figure of the Tang Dynasty, primarily recognized as a poet deeply influenced by nature and Budd...

Nature Tang Chinese Buddhist

9.03 Excellent

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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (1940-2016) was a prominent Russian-born American poet whose work explored themes of exile, memory, and c...

Russian American Nobel Exile

8.96 Great

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Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (772-846) was a prominent Tang dynasty poet renowned for his accessible and emotionally direct verse. His work...

Social Tang Chinese Plainstyle

8.88 Great

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Li Qingzhao

Li Qingzhao (1084-1155) was a prominent Chinese poet writing during the Song dynasty. She is celebrated as one of the fo...

Lyric Song Chinese CI

8.86 Great

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George Seferis

George Seferis was a significant 20th-century Greek poet renowned for his modernist style and exploration of themes rela...

Modernist Greek Nobel Exile

8.84 Great

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Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus was a prominent 20th-century poet deeply involved in anti-apartheid activism. His work powerfully addresse...

Political Exile Southafrican Antiapartheid

8.07 Great

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Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri American poet whose English-language work explored exile, memory, loss, family, and the p...

American Kashmiri Ghazal Exile

7.86 Good

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Gu Cheng

Gu Cheng (1956–1993) was a prominent Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets, a literary movement that emerged in t...

Lyric Modern Chinese Misty

7.78 Good

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Xi Chuan

Xi Chuan is a Chinese poet, essayist, and translator, associated with post-Misty poetry and known for intellectually exp...

Contemporary Experimental Chinese Essay

7.52 Good