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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Robert Burns

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist, author of Auld Lang Syne and a national literary figure whose first colle...

Romantic Song Scottish Dialect

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

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Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal was a philosopher-poet of British India whose 1930 Allahabad Address helped shape the idea of a separate...

Philosophical National Pakistani Urdu

8.8 Great

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Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet associated with modernism and surrealism, awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature fo...

Modernist Greek Nobel Aegean

8.7 Great

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Sándor Petőfi

Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian Romantic poet and revolutionary whose 1848 poem Nemzeti dal became a rallying text of Hung...

Romantic Hungarian Revolutionary National

8.6 Great