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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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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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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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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora was a Spanish Baroque poet whose complex style, called culteranismo, shaped 17th-century poetry through...

Baroque Spanish Ornate Culteranismo

9.3 Excellent

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Saint John of the Cross

Saint John of the Cross was a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar whose 16th-century poems, including Spiritual Canticle,...

Spanish Renaissance Religious Mystic

9.3 Excellent

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Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and diplomat whose 1888 book Azul helped launch modernismo across Spanish-language lit...

Spanish Nicaraguan Symbolist Modernismo

9.2 Excellent

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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo was a Spanish Baroque poet and satirist whose conceptismo and sharp social critique made him a lead...

Baroque Spanish Satire Conceptismo

9.2 Excellent

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a 17th-century Mexican nun, scholar, and poet, famed for Baroque verse and early defenses...

Baroque Religious Mexican Feminist

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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Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega was a 16th-century Spanish soldier-poet who helped introduce Italian Renaissance meters, especially...

Spanish Renaissance Pastoral Sonnet

9.0 Excellent

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Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet whose lyrical work and prose classic Platero y yo helped earn him the 1956 Nobel P...

Lyric Spanish Nobel Purepoetry

8.8 Great

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Juliusz Słowacki

Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet, author of Kordian (1834), and one of Poland's Three Bards with Mickiewicz a...

Romantic Polish Drama National

8.5 Great

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson was an English poet and playwright, made poet laureate in 1616 and known for classical learning and sharp sat...

Drama Renaissance Satire English

8.4 Great

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was a Spanish Romantic poet whose posthumous Rimas of 1871 made him one of the most influential l...

Lyric Romantic Spanish Rimas

8.4 Great

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet whose 1850 Sonnets from the Portuguese became a major Victorian sequence...

Political Victorian English Sonnet

8.3 Great

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Joachim du Bellay

Joachim du Bellay was a French Renaissance poet and Pléiade member, notable for La Défense et illustration de la langue...

French Renaissance Sonnet Pleiade

8.3 Great

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Thomas Wyatt

Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century English poet and courtier credited with helping introduce the Petrarchan sonnet into Eng...

English Tudor Court Sonnet

8.2 Great

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Florbela Espanca

Florbela Espanca was a Portuguese poet whose sonnets and posthumous 1931 book Charneca em Flor made her a major voice of...

Lyric Feminist Portuguese Sonnet

7.9 Good

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Claude McKay

Claude McKay was a Jamaican-born writer of the Harlem Renaissance, known for the 1919 sonnet If We Must Die and novels a...

American Jamaican Sonnet Harlem

7.8 Good