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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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Rumi

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic in Anatolia, whose Masnavi became a major text of Islamic spiritual...

Medieval Persian Sufi Mystic

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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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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet and critic, known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the 1798...

Romantic English Ballad Imagination

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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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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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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Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov was a Russian Romantic poet, author of Demon and A Hero of Our Time (1840), who died in a Caucasus due...

Lyric Romantic Russian Heroic

9.0 Excellent

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Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, playwright, and philosopher, notable for Ode to Joy (1785), later set by Beethoven...

German Classical Dramatic Idealism

8.9 Great

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist, author of Auld Lang Syne and a national literary figure whose first colle...

Romantic Song Scottish Dialect

8.8 Great

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Kabir

Kabir was a 15th-century Indian devotional poet, whose Hindi-region verses challenged caste and ritual while influencing...

Indian Bhakti Devotional Mystic

8.7 Great

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Attar of Nishapur

Attar of Nishapur was a 12th to 13th-century Persian Sufi poet, best known for The Conference of the Birds, an allegoric...

Medieval Persian Sufi Mystic

8.6 Great

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Sándor Petőfi

Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian Romantic poet and revolutionary whose 1848 poem Nemzeti dal became a rallying text of Hung...

Romantic Hungarian Revolutionary National

8.6 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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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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Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese American poet and artist, best known for The Prophet, a prose-poetry book first published i...

American Lebanese Mystic Prosepoetry

8.2 Great

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Sohrab Sepehri

Sohrab Sepehri was an Iranian poet and painter, associated with modern Persian verse and known for lyrical nature imager...

Nature Modern Iranian Mystic

8.2 Great