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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist, known for Ariel and The Bell Jar and awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for...

Lyric American Intense Confessional

8.9 Great

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Louise Glück

Louise Gluck was an American poet whose spare lyric work won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1993 Pulitzer Pr...

Lyric American Mythic Nobel

8.8 Great

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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich was an American poet and essayist, known for feminist writing and winner of the 1974 National Book Award f...

Lyric American Political Feminist

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore was an American modernist poet and editor, known for precise syllabic forms and winner of the 1952 Pulitz...

American Modernist Observational Syllabic

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet and novelist, born in 1872, who became one of the first nationally known Black...

Black Lyric American Dialect

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-born American poet and novelist whose 2016 collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the T....

Lyric American Vietnamese Queer

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Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni was an Argentine modernist poet whose feminist verse reshaped Spanish American literature before her de...

Lyric Modernist Feminist Argentine

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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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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was an American poet of nature and attention, and won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection...

Nature Lyric American Accessible

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