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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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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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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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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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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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Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam was a prominent Russian poet representing the Acmeist movement. His work, characterized by meticulous la...

Russian Modernist Political Acmeist

9.4 Excellent

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet whose work became central to modern Arabic literature and Palestinian identity af...

Lyric Political Palestinian Exile

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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Horace

Horace was a Roman poet, born in 65 BCE, whose Odes, Satires, and Epistles shaped Latin lyric and moral reflection under...

Lyric Ancient Roman Latin

9.2 Excellent

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet whose 1820 lyric Ode to the West Wind reflects his radical politics an...

Lyric Romantic English Radical

9.2 Excellent

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and broadcaster, internationally known for Do not go gentle into that good night and the r...

Lyric Modern Welsh Sound

9.2 Excellent

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet whose Childe Harold's Pilgrimage made him famous in 1812 and helped define the By...

Romantic Satire English Heroic

9.0 Excellent

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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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Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Yesenin was a Russian lyric poet, known for village imagery and Confessions of a Hooligan (1921), prominent after...

Lyric Russian Rural Imagist

8.4 Great

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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine was a French Romantic poet and statesman whose 1820 Méditations poétiques helped establish Romanti...

Lyric Romantic French Meditative

8.1 Great