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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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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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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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Ferdowsi

Ferdowsi was a Persian epic poet, born around 940, whose Shahnameh preserved Iranian legend and history in about 50,000...

Epic Medieval Persian Shahnameh

9.2 Excellent

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, a major Elizabethan epic first published in 1590.

Epic Renaissance English Faerie

9.1 Excellent

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Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz was a Polish Romantic poet, author of Pan Tadeusz (1834), and widely regarded as Poland's national poet.

Romantic Polish Epic National

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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Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet, born in 1544, best known for Jerusalem Delivered, a Christian epic on the First Crus...

Italian Epic Renaissance Court

8.6 Great

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Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard was a French Renaissance poet, leader of the Pléiade, and author of Les Amours (1552), central to 16th...

French Renaissance Odes Pleiade

8.6 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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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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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was a Portuguese poet whose classical clarity and civic themes helped her win the Camõe...

Lyric Modern Sea Portuguese

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