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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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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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Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca was a significant Spanish poet born in 1898. He is primarily known as a key figure of Modernism an...

Spanish Modernist Duende Generation27

9.6 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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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora was a Spanish Baroque poet whose complex style, called culteranismo, shaped 17th-century poetry through...

Baroque Spanish Ornate Culteranismo

9.3 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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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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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo was a Spanish Baroque poet and satirist whose conceptismo and sharp social critique made him a lead...

Baroque Spanish Satire Conceptismo

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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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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Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine was a French poet linked to Symbolism and Decadence, noted for the musical verse of Romances sans paroles,...

Lyric French Musical Symbolist

9.0 Excellent

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Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega was a Spanish Golden Age playwright and poet, famed for extraordinary output and for shaping the comedia nu...

Baroque Drama Spanish Sonnet

8.9 Great

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Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet whose lyrical work and prose classic Platero y yo helped earn him the 1956 Nobel P...

Lyric Spanish Nobel Purepoetry

8.8 Great

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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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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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Endre Ady

Endre Ady was a Hungarian poet whose 1906 collection New Poems helped modernize Hungarian literature with Symbolist and...

Hungarian Modernist Political Symbolist

8.4 Great

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José Martí

José Martí was a Cuban poet, essayist, and independence leader, notable for Versos sencillos and his death in the 1895 w...

Cuban Political National Modernismo

8.3 Great

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Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal was a Nicaraguan poet, priest, and Sandinista figure whose Cántico cósmico is a major 1989 work of Lati...

Political Religious Nicaraguan Exteriorismo

8.2 Great

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Claribel Alegría

Claribel Alegría was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet whose exile and Central American memory shaped books such as Sobrevivo...

Political Nicaraguan Salvadoran Witness

7.7 Good

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Gioconda Belli

Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan poet and novelist whose revolutionary and feminist writing includes Línea de fuego, winne...

Sensual Political Feminist Nicaraguan

7.5 Good