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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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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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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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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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Rumi

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic in Anatolia, whose Masnavi became a major text of Islamic spiritual...

Medieval Persian Sufi Mystic

9.4 Excellent

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Hafez

Hafez was a 14th-century Persian lyric poet of Shiraz, famed for ghazals that blend love, wine imagery, mysticism, and s...

Medieval Persian Sufi Ghazal

9.3 Excellent

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, a major Elizabethan epic first published in 1590.

Epic Renaissance English Faerie

9.1 Excellent

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Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz was a Polish Romantic poet, author of Pan Tadeusz (1834), and widely regarded as Poland's national poet.

Romantic Polish Epic National

9.1 Excellent

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Saadi Shirazi

Saadi Shirazi was a 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer, noted for the Bustan and Gulistan, ethical classics of P...

Medieval Persian Ghazal Didactic

9.0 Excellent

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François Villon

François Villon was a late medieval French poet, notable for Le Testament (1461) and ballades that shaped the French lyr...

French Medieval Ballad Criminal

9.0 Excellent

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Attar of Nishapur

Attar of Nishapur was a 12th to 13th-century Persian Sufi poet, best known for The Conference of the Birds, an allegoric...

Medieval Persian Sufi Mystic

8.6 Great

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Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet, born in 1544, best known for Jerusalem Delivered, a Christian epic on the First Crus...

Italian Epic Renaissance Court

8.6 Great

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William Langland

William Langland was an English poet traditionally credited with Piers Plowman, a major 14th-century allegorical poem on...

Medieval English Allegory Vision

8.4 Great