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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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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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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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Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet, notable for intense lyric verse and exile writing after leaving Soviet Russia in 19...

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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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet and insurance executive, known for Harmonium and winner of the 1955 Pulit...

American Philosophical Modernist Imagination

9.3 Excellent

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Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé was a French Symbolist poet whose dense, suggestive style and 1897 poem Un coup de dés influenced mode...

French Difficult Modernist Symbolist

9.3 Excellent

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet whose work became central to modern Arabic literature and Palestinian identity af...

Lyric Political Palestinian Exile

9.3 Excellent

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Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and diplomat whose 1888 book Azul helped launch modernismo across Spanish-language lit...

Spanish Nicaraguan Symbolist Modernismo

9.2 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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Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine was a French poet linked to Symbolism and Decadence, noted for the musical verse of Romances sans paroles,...

Lyric French Musical Symbolist

9.0 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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Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell was an English poet and politician, remembered for 17th-century metaphysical lyrics such as To His Coy Mi...

Lyric Political English Metaphysical

8.8 Great

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Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry was a French poet and essayist whose long poem La Jeune Parque, published in 1917, restored his standing as...

French Intellectual Formal Symbolist

8.8 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