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Walt Whitman

Long, flexible lines and an expansive speaking voice distinguish Walt Whitman's poetry. The American poet made Leaves of...

American Democratic Freeverse Leaves

9.72 Brilliant

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T. S. Eliot

Fragmented voices and dense literary references mark the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Born in the United States and later base...

American Modernist British Fragmentary

9.65 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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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

9.56 Brilliant

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Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib was a prominent 19th-century poet writing in Urdu and Persian. He is celebrated for his deeply philosophica...

Philosophical Mughal Urdu Ghazal

9.54 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

9.48 Excellent

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Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam was a prominent Russian poet representing the Acmeist movement. His work, characterized by meticulous la...

Russian Modernist Political Acmeist

9.42 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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Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé is a late 19th-century French poet renowned for his Symbolist work. His intensely evocative language a...

French Difficult Modernist Symbolist

9.32 Excellent

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a prominent English Romantic poet whose work explored themes of imagination and the supernat...

Romantic English Ballad Imagination

9.22 Excellent

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Robert Frost

Robert Frost is a prominent figure in American literature known for his evocative poetry reflecting rural life and New E...

Modern American Rural Formal

9.22 Excellent

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Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska was a prominent Polish poet recognized globally for her insightful and often subtly ironic observatio...

Polish Philosophical Ironic Nobel

9.14 Excellent

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Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado is a significant figure in Spanish literature. Born in 1875, he was a poet associated with the Generatio...

Lyric Spanish Modernist Landscape

9.08 Excellent

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound is a significant figure in 20th-century literature. He was an American poet primarily associated with moderni...

American Modernist Imagist Cantos

9.05 Excellent

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was a significant American poet of the modernist movement. He is particularly noted for his focu...

American Local Modernist Imagist

8.88 Great

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was an American poet whose work is notable for its intensely observant style and innovative u...

American Modernist Observational Syllabic

8.44 Great

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Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham is a prominent American poet known for her intellectually demanding work. Her poetry frequently explores ph...

American Philosophical Experimental Pulitzer

8.18 Great

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Hart Crane

Hart Crane is a significant American poet known primarily for his ambitious and complex verse. His work, particularly *T...

Lyric American Bridge Modernist

8.16 Great

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H. D.

Hilda Doolittle, known as H.D., was a significant American poet of the early twentieth century. Her work, aligned with I...

Classical American Modernist Imagist

8.08 Great