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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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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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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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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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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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Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was a German poet profoundly influential within the Romantic movement. His intensely per...

Lyric German Romantic Philosophical

9.4 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

9.4 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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Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado is a significant figure in Spanish literature. Born in 1875, he was a poet associated with the Generatio...

Lyric Spanish Modernist Landscape

9.1 Excellent

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Louise Glück

Louise Glück is a prominent American poet known for her intensely personal and often mythic lyric verse. Her work explor...

Lyric American Mythic Nobel

8.8 Great

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Forugh Farrokhzad

Forugh Farrokhzad remains one of Iran’s most celebrated poets. Her work, largely written in accessible language, explore...

Lyric Modernist Feminist Iranian

8.8 Great

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Allen Curnow

Allen Curnow is a significant New Zealand poet whose work exemplifies modernist lyricism. He played a pivotal role in es...

Lyric Modernist National Newzealand

8.6 Great

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Hart Crane

Hart Crane was an American poet whose 1930 long poem The Bridge sought a modern epic for the United States and made him...

Lyric American Bridge Modernist

8.2 Great

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Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni was an Argentine modernist poet whose feminist verse reshaped Spanish American literature before her de...

Lyric Modernist Feminist Argentine

8.2 Great

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Chūya Nakahara

Chuya Nakahara was a Japanese poet influenced by French symbolism and Dada, known for Songs of the Goat, published in 19...

Lyric Japanese Modernist Symbolist

8.1 Great

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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