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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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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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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

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

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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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

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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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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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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Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin was an English poet and University of Hull librarian, noted in postwar Britain for the 1964 collection The...

Lyric Postwar British Plainstyle

9.3 Excellent

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Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet who became UK Poet Laureate in 2009, the first woman and first openly gay writer to h...

British Feminist Dramaticmonologue Laureate

8.7 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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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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Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker is a British Pakistani poet, artist, and filmmaker, awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014 for...

Visual Identity British Pakistani

7.9 Good

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John Agard

John Agard is a Guyanese-born British poet and playwright, awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012 after decad...

Performance British Postcolonial Guyanese

7.9 Good

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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

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Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah was a British dub poet and novelist from Birmingham, known for performance poetry and for rejecting a...

Performance British Political Dub

7.8 Good

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire is a Somali British poet born in Kenya, named the first Young Poet Laureate for London in 2013 and known fo...

Contemporary British Diaspora Somali

7.4 Good

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Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer, selected for the 2004 Next Generation Poets and known for the Chaucer r...

Performance Contemporary British Chaucer

7.3 Good