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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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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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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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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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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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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova remains one of Russia’s most significant lyric poets. Her work offers profound insights into personal suf...

Lyric Russian Witness Acmeist

9.5 Brilliant

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Sappho

Sappho was an archaic Greek lyric poet from Lesbos, active around 600 BCE and famed in antiquity for personal poems in A...

Lyric Ancient Greek Lesbos

9.4 Excellent

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Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin was a German lyric poet, notable for Hyperion (1797-1799) and odes that bridged Classicism and Roman...

Lyric German Romantic Philosophical

9.4 Excellent

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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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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-American poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1987, expelled from the Soviet Union i...

Russian American Nobel Exile

9.0 Excellent

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist, known for Ariel and The Bell Jar and awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for...

Lyric American Intense Confessional

8.9 Great

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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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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich was an American poet and essayist, known for feminist writing and winner of the 1974 National Book Award f...

Lyric American Political Feminist

8.6 Great

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Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech poet and journalist, the first Czech writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, award...

Lyric Modern Czech Nobel

8.4 Great

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet and novelist, born in 1872, who became one of the first nationally known Black...

Black Lyric American Dialect

8.3 Great

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Hart Crane

Hart Crane was an American poet whose 1930 long poem The Bridge sought a modern epic for the United States and made him...

Lyric American Bridge Modernist

8.2 Great

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-born American poet and novelist whose 2016 collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the T....

Lyric American Vietnamese Queer

8.2 Great

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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