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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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Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud was a significant French poet known for his intensely personal and visionary verse produced during his yo...

French Youth Visionary Symbolist

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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Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé was a French Symbolist poet whose dense, suggestive style and 1897 poem Un coup de dés influenced mode...

French Difficult Modernist Symbolist

9.3 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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Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and diplomat whose 1888 book Azul helped launch modernismo across Spanish-language lit...

Spanish Nicaraguan Symbolist Modernismo

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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Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet of the Generation of 1898 whose Campos de Castilla in 1912 became a defining meditati...

Lyric Spanish Modernist Landscape

9.1 Excellent

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Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry was a French poet and essayist whose long poem La Jeune Parque, published in 1917, restored his standing as...

French Intellectual Formal Symbolist

8.8 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