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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer remains one of England’s most influential poets. His *Canterbury Tales*, written in Middle English, off...

Narrative Medieval English Canterbury

9.5 Brilliant

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César Vallejo

César Vallejo (1895-1963) was a Peruvian poet renowned for his intensely personal and politically charged verse. His wor...

Modernist Experimental Political Peruvian

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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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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Hafez

Hafez was a 14th-century Persian lyric poet of Shiraz, famed for ghazals that blend love, wine imagery, mysticism, and s...

Medieval Persian Sufi Ghazal

9.3 Excellent

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Nazım Hikmet

Nazım Hikmet was a Turkish poet and playwright, noted for free verse and leftist politics, and spent many years imprison...

Modernist Political Turkish Freeverse

8.9 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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Mirabai

Mirabai was a 16th-century Rajput bhakti poet-saint, remembered for songs of personal devotion to Krishna that remain ce...

Lyric Indian Bhakti Devotional

8.5 Great