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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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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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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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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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Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin was a German lyric poet, notable for Hyperion (1797-1799) and odes that bridged Classicism and Roman...

Lyric German Romantic Philosophical

9.4 Excellent

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Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet and essayist, author of Mr. Cogito (1974), known for classical allusion under communi...

Classical Polish Postwar Ethical

8.9 Great

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Novalis

Novalis was a German Romantic poet and philosopher, notable for Hymns to the Night (1800), a central work of early Germa...

German Romantic Fragment Mystic

8.5 Great

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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is an English poet whose river poem Dart won the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize, and she became Oxford Professor of...

Nature Classical Contemporary British

8.5 Great

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H. D.

H. D. was an American poet born Hilda Doolittle, a founding Imagist associated with Ezra Pound and known for spare, clas...

Classical American Modernist Imagist

8.1 Great

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A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for A Shropshire Lad, a 1896 collection of concise e...

Lyric Classical Modern English

7.8 Good