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Li Bai

Li Bai is a prominent figure of the Tang Dynasty, renowned as a Chinese poet. His evocative lyricism frequently explores...

Nature Lyric Tang Chinese

9.5 Brilliant

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a prominent English poet of the Romantic era. His work, particularly *Lyrical Ballads*, emphasize...

Nature Romantic Lyrical English

9.4 Excellent

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Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes was an English poet and children's writer, UK Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998 and author of the 1970 sequence...

Nature British Mythic Laureate

9.3 Excellent

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Wang Wei

Wang Wei was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, painter, and official, born in 699, noted for spare landscape poems with Buddh...

Nature Tang Chinese Buddhist

9.0 Excellent

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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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Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Scottish poet Christopher Murray Grieve, a Scots modernist known for A Drunk Man Loo...

Language Modernist National Scottish

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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Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican-born American poet and essayist whose 2014 book Citizen became a major work on race and ly...

American Contemporary Hybrid Race

8.4 Great

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Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan was a Scottish poet and translator, appointed the first Scots Makar, Scotland's national poet, in 2004 afte...

Modern Concrete Scottish Laureate

8.4 Great

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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is an American poet known for formal invention, and won the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Light...

Black American Contemporary Formal

8.2 Great

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Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri was an Iranian poet and painter, associated with modern Persian verse and known for lyrical nature imager...

Nature Modern Iranian Mystic

8.2 Great

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Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is an English poet, playwright, and translator, appointed UK Poet Laureate in 2019 after publishing the 1...

Contemporary Northern British Laureate

8.2 Great

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Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was an American poet from Michigan, known for greenhouse imagery and psychological lyricism and winner...

Nature Modern American Psychological

8.1 Great

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Ada Limón

Ada Limon is an American poet known for direct lyric poems on nature and selfhood, and became U.S. poet laureate in 2022...

Nature American Contemporary Laureate

8.1 Great

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Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet, novelist, and playwright, appointed Scots Makar in 2016 and noted for the 1991 collection...

Contemporary Identity Scottish Laureate

8.0 Great

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet from County Armagh, known for intricate wordplay and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for...

Contemporary Playful Formal Irish

7.9 Good

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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

7.8 Good

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Ross Gay

Ross Gay is an American poet and essayist whose 2015 collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Cri...

American Garden Essay Joy

7.6 Good

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Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet and cultural critic from Ohio, known for blending music criticism, memoir, and poet...

Music American Contemporary Essay

7.5 Good

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an American poet and essayist known for nature writing, including the 2020 illustrated essay co...

Nature American Contemporary Essay

7.4 Good