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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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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is an Italian poet renowned for his *Divine Comedy*. This epic poem, written in the Florenti...

Italian Epic Medieval Divinecomedy

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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remains one of Germany’s most significant literary figures. He produced influential works spa...

German Classical Romantic Faust

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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

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire was a significant 19th-century French poet known for his exploration of urban life and its darker asp...

Modern French Urban Symbolist

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

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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

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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

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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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Al-Mutanabbi

Ibn al-Mutanabbī (915–965) was a prominent Arab poet of the Abbasid period. He is renowned for his lengthy panegyric poe...

Classical Arabic Abbasid Panegyric

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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott is a celebrated poet born in Saint Lucia. His work explores themes of identity, history, and mythology thr...

Epic Caribbean Nobel Saintlucian

9.6 Brilliant

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Constantine Cavafy

Constantine Cavafy was a prominent 20th-century Greek poet known for his evocative and historically rich verse centered...

Modern Historical Greek Alexandria

9.4 Excellent

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Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1980, and author of The Captive Min...

Polish Historical Nobel Exile

9.2 Excellent

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Rita Dove

Rita Dove is an American poet and former U.S. poet laureate who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Thomas and Be...

Black American Historical Laureate

8.5 Great

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Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison is a Jamaican poet and writer, serving as Jamaica's poet laureate from 2017 to 2020 and known for work on...

Caribbean Jamaican Women Laureate

8.5 Great

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Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is an American poet and historian of memory who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Native Guar...

Black American Historical Laureate

8.3 Great

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Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols is a Guyanese-born British poet whose 1983 collection I Is a Long-Memoried Woman won the Commonwealth Poet...

British Caribbean Feminist Guyanese

7.9 Good