swap_horiz Hafez Alternatives

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Homer

Homer was an ancient Greek epic poet traditionally credited with the Iliad and Odyssey, foundational works of Western li...

Epic Ancient Greek Oral

9.8 Brilliant

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John Milton

John Milton was an English poet whose 1667 epic Paradise Lost is one of the central works of English literature and Prot...

Epic English Puritan Paradiselost

9.8 Brilliant

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T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot was an American-born British poet and critic, a central modernist whose The Waste Land appeared in 1922 and...

American Modernist British Fragmentary

9.7 Brilliant

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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was a 19th-century American poet whose 1855 Leaves of Grass reshaped U.S. poetry through free verse and dem...

American Democratic Freeverse Leaves

9.7 Brilliant

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet writing in German, notable for Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, both publis...

Lyric German Austrian Spiritual

9.7 Brilliant

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and playwright, author of Eugene Onegin (1833) and a founder of modern Russian lite...

Romantic Russian Narrative National

9.7 Brilliant

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Virgil

Virgil was a Roman poet, born in 70 BCE, whose Aeneid became Rome's national epic by linking Trojan legend to Augustan i...

Epic Ancient Roman Latin

9.6 Brilliant

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Du Fu

Du Fu was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, born in 712, revered as a poet-historian for verse shaped by war, exile, and publ...

Lyric Tang Historical Chinese

9.6 Brilliant

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W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and helped lead the Irish Literar...

Modernist Irish Nobel Symbolist

9.6 Brilliant

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Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright of the Generation of 1927, notable for Romancero gitano and his...

Spanish Modernist Duende Generation27

9.6 Brilliant

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Paul Celan

Paul Celan was a Romanian-born German-language poet and Holocaust survivor, notable for Todesfuge and postwar European l...

Lyric Holocaust Dense Germanlanguage

9.6 Brilliant

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet whose late-14th-century Canterbury Tales helped establish English as a major litera...

Narrative Medieval English Canterbury

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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Ferdowsi

Ferdowsi was a Persian epic poet, born around 940, whose Shahnameh preserved Iranian legend and history in about 50,000...

Epic Medieval Persian Shahnameh

9.2 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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Yunus Emre

Yunus Emre was an Anatolian Turkish Sufi poet, traditionally dated to the 13th and 14th centuries, known for devotional...

Folk Turkish Devotional Sufi

8.9 Great

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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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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

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Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri American poet, known for English-language ghazals and the 1997 collection The Country Wit...

American Kashmiri Ghazal Exile

7.9 Good