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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

9.68 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

9.68 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

9.63 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

9.58 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

9.55 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

9.47 Excellent

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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

9.46 Excellent

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Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was a German poet profoundly influential within the Romantic movement. His intensely per...

Lyric German Romantic Philosophical

9.38 Excellent

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva was a prominent 20th-century Russian poet recognized for her deeply personal and emotionally charged ly...

Lyric Russian Modernist Exile

9.36 Excellent

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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

9.35 Excellent

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (1933-2007) was a prominent lyric poet deeply rooted in Palestinian experience. His work, particularly f...

Lyric Political Palestinian Exile

9.34 Excellent

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Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin is a British poet known for his direct and often melancholic lyricism. His work reflects the experiences o...

Lyric Postwar British Plainstyle

9.34 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

9.22 Excellent

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas was a prominent 20th-century Welsh poet celebrated for his intensely lyrical verse. His work, often charact...

Lyric Modern Welsh Sound

9.22 Excellent

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was a prominent modern Irish poet recognized for his evocative depictions of rural landscapes and experien...

Modern Rural Irish Nobel

9.20 Excellent

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a prominent English Romantic poet known for his lyrical verse and politically engaged work. His...

Lyric Romantic English Radical

9.18 Excellent

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Kalidasa

Kalidasa remains one of India’s most celebrated poets writing in Sanskrit. His significant contributions include lyrical...

Lyric Classical Drama Sanskrit

9.10 Excellent

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson was England’s Poet Laureate during a significant period of Victorian literature. His works, including “I...

Lyric Victorian English Laureate

9.08 Excellent

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Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist whose writing drew extensively on rural life, religion, hardship, and or...

Lyric Modern Rural Irish

7.84 Good

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Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971) was an Australian poet and journalist considered one of the country's most important moderni...

Lyric Australian Modernist Urban

7.82 Good