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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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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is an Italian poet renowned for his *Divine Comedy*. This epic poem, written in the Florenti...

Italian Epic Medieval Divinecomedy

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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remains one of Germany’s most significant literary figures. He produced influential works spa...

German Classical Romantic Faust

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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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire was a significant 19th-century French poet known for his exploration of urban life and its darker asp...

Modern French Urban Symbolist

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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Sappho

Sappho was a prominent lyric poet of ancient Greece originating on the island of Lesbos. Her work, written around 600 BC...

Lyric Ancient Greek Lesbos

9.4 Excellent

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Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes is a prominent British poet known for his evocative explorations of nature, myth, and human experience. His w...

Nature British Mythic Laureate

9.3 Excellent

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Horace

Horace was a prominent Roman poet active from 65 BCE to 8 BCE. He is particularly notable for his influential works incl...

Lyric Ancient Roman Latin

9.2 Excellent

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a prominent Roman lyric poet active during the 1st century BCE. His work is notable for its...

Lyric Ancient Roman Latin

8.9 Great

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Pindar

Pindar was an ancient Greek lyric poet primarily known for his intensely personal odes composed during the Classical per...

Lyric Ancient Greek Odes

8.8 Great

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Louise Glück

Louise Glück is a prominent American poet known for her intensely personal and often mythic lyric verse. Her work explor...

Lyric American Mythic Nobel

8.8 Great

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Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo (1929-1967) was a Nigerian poet recognized for his innovative lyric poetry and complex mythic structu...

Lyric Modernist Mythic Nigerian

8.7 Great

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Juvenal

Juvenal was a Latin poet active during the late first and second centuries CE. His work, primarily in hexameter verse, o...

Satire Ancient Roman Latin

8.6 Great

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Takahashi Mutsuo

Takahashi Mutsuo is a Japanese poet, essayist, and dramatist born in 1937. His extensive body of work draws on Japanese...

Contemporary Japanese Mythic Queer

7.5 Good