Dylan Thomas

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

poet aka Lord Tennyson, writer of Ulysses, Timbuktu, playwright of The Foresters, Becket, politician in the UK House of Lords
1809-1892 (83)
poetryfoundation.org

Algernon Charles Swinburne

playwright, poet aka Algernon Charles Swinburne, novelist, literary critic
1837-1909 (72)
webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu

Arthur Rimbaud

Poet, pioneer in surrealism, modern literature, transgressive surrealist themes
1854-1891 (37)
poets.org

Charles Bukowski

poet, writer, novelist
1920-1994 (74)
bukowski.net

Charles Williams

Poet, novelist, writer, playwright, theologian, literary critic, author of Descent into Hell, member of the Inklings
1886-1945 (59)
charleswilliamssociety.org.uk

Geoffrey Chaucer

Middle English story writer, father of English literature, considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, author of The Canterbury Tales in 1400
-1400
poetryfoundation.org

Dante Alighieri

Poet, writer of Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Paradiso, known for Dante's Inferno about the torture of the Knights Templars in 1308

Edmund Spenser

Tudor dynasty poet, author of The Faerie Queene (1590), Amoretti (1595), Epithalamion (1595), Prothalmion, Britomart

Edward Thomas

poet, essayist, novelist
1878-1917 (39)
poetryfoundation.org

Elizabeth Bishop

Poet, short-story writer, consultant for the Library of Congress in 1949-1950
1911-1979 (68)

Friedrich Schiller

German literary, poet, writer of dramas; The Robbers, Maria Stuart, Wallenstein
1759-1805 (46)
plato.stanford.edu

George Herbert

Poet, aristocrat, orator, lyricist, priest at the Church of England, author of The Temple in 1633
1593-1633 (40)
poets.org

Billionaire, businessman, chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services, great grandson of the LDC founder Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, poet, chairman of the Poetry Society of America from 1998-2008, his daughter is Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus
1932-2016 (84)

Guy Boulianne living

Poet, writer of The Fanciful Prince
1962- (63)
guyboulianne.com

Han Yu

Poet aka Hanyu, prose writer in the Tang dynasty

Hermann Hesse

Poet, writer, novelist, author of Demian in 1919, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, painter
1877-1962 (85)

Hesiod

Poet, didactic poetry, philosopher on the origins of Greek gods, author of Theogony in 700 BC, Works and Days
750 BC-650 BC
britannica.com

Homer

Greek Hellenistic poet, Homeric epics are poems such as the Iliad (aka the Eliad, Iliás), The Odyssey, philosopher in the Bronze Ages
800 BCE-701 BCE
worldhistory.org

Horace

Poet, lyricist, author of Odes, Epistles
65 BC-8 BC

John Donne

Poet, scholar, educator, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral
britannica.com

John Lehmann

Poet, writer, journalist, owner of John Lehmann Limited, owner of New Writing and The London Magazine
1907-1987 (80)

John Milton

Poet, writer about Satan, author, civil servant, pioneer in Areopagitica poetry, poem by the name of Paradise Lost in 1645-1667
1608-1674 (66)

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Poet, romantic writer, long poems such as Don Juan
1788-1824 (36)

Matthew Arnold

Poet

Nguyễn Sĩ Cố

poet
1230-1312 (82)

Nguyễn Thuyên

poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes

poet, writer of "The Breakfast Table" which started as The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, member of the fireside poets (household poets), humorist, medical researcher, doctor, physician, pioneer in sterilization and washing hands before childbirth, polymath
1809-1894 (85)
britannica.com

Ovid

Greco Roman poet who was exiled from the Roman empire, didactic poetry writer of Metamorphoses, "Ars Amatoria" (Art of Love) in 2 AD, Amores, Heroides
43 BCE-17 AD
poetryfoundation.org

Paul Verlaine

Poet in the Symbolist movement, writer, pioneer in symbolism
1844-1896 (52)
poetryfoundation.org

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet, The Masque of Anarchy
knarf.english.upenn.edu

Francesco Petrarch

poet, historian, scholar, author of De Sui Ipsius et Multorum Ignorantia in 1367

Philip Sidney

Poet, poetry sonnets, courtier, scholar

Phocylides living

Poet
560 BC-