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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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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 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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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora was a Spanish Baroque poet whose complex style, called culteranismo, shaped 17th-century poetry through...

Baroque Spanish Ornate Culteranismo

9.3 Excellent

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Saint John of the Cross

Saint John of the Cross was a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar whose 16th-century poems, including Spiritual Canticle,...

Spanish Renaissance Religious Mystic

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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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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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo was a Spanish Baroque poet and satirist whose conceptismo and sharp social critique made him a lead...

Baroque Spanish Satire Conceptismo

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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Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega was a 16th-century Spanish soldier-poet who helped introduce Italian Renaissance meters, especially...

Spanish Renaissance Pastoral Sonnet

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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Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega was a Spanish Golden Age playwright and poet, famed for extraordinary output and for shaping the comedia nu...

Baroque Drama Spanish Sonnet

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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Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet whose lyrical work and prose classic Platero y yo helped earn him the 1956 Nobel P...

Lyric Spanish Nobel Purepoetry

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