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Old-poets in Asian, by popularity

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  1. Juan, Chi   Asian. Born: 201, Died: 263, 1 poems.
    Poet, musician, Daoist
  2. Toson, Shimazaki   Asian. Born: 1872, Died: 1943, 1 poems.
    Japanese poet and novelist, whose fiction illuminated the clash of old and new values in a Japan feverishly modernizing itself during the period of the Meiji Restoration.
  3. Akhyaliyya, Laila   Asian. Born: 646, Died: 704, 4 poems.
  4. Abai, Kunanbaev Ibragim   Asian. Born: 1845, Died: 1904, 3 poems.
    Also known as Abay Kunanbayev
  5. Jami, Nur ad-Din   Asian. Born: 1414, Died: 1492, 3 poems.
    Poet and Sufi mystic from Persia
  6. Das, Jibanananda   Asian. Born: 1899, Died: 1954, 10 poems.
  7. Sayakian , Haroutiun   Asian. Born: 1712, Died: 1795, 7 poems.
  8. ibn al Abd, Tarafah   Asian. Born: 543, Died: 569, 1 poems.
    Tarafah a pre islamic Arab poet from Bahrain famous for writing the longest of the seven odes in the celebrated collection of pre-Islamic poetry al-Mu'allaqat.
  9. Hwang, Chin-i   Asian. Born: 1522, Died: 1565, 4 poems.
    Hwang Chin-i was the most famous and most talented of the Korean entertainers (kisaeng) during the classical period. Her poetry is still highly revered.
  10. Dard, Khwaja   Asian. Born: 1720, Died: 1784, 2 poems.
    Khwaja Mir Dard is one of the three major poets of the Delhi School who could be called the pillars of the classical Urdu ghazal.
  11. Firdowsi,   Asian. Born: 941, Died: 1020, 1 poems.
    Firdowsi is regarded as one of the major poets of Khorasan and the author of the famous epic of Shah Namah
  12. Tabidze, Galaktion   Asian. Born: 1892, Died: 1959 (modern), 3 poems.
    Galaktion Tabidze was born in Georgia, in 1892. Much of his work is influenced by Symbolists, Tablize (who survived the purges of the '30s) was one of the most recognizable Georgian poets of the the early 20th Century, especially by the newly Sovieti
  13. Zuhair,   Asian. Born: 501, Died: 580, 1 poems.
    Zuhair, ‘A Slave to Poetry’, belonged to a family of poets and was said to be sufficiently affluent to have time to polish his verses to perfection
  14. Assadour, Zabel   Asian. Born: 1863, Died: 1934, 3 poems.
  15. Khattak, Khoshal Khan   Asian. Born: 1613, Died: 1690, 6 poems.
  16. Akiko, Yosano   Asian. Born: 1878, Died: 1942, 8 poems.
    Yosano Akiko was a poet, essayist, and feminist (1878-1942). During the Taiso regime women journalists and women’s journals debated new roles for women under the title New Woman, which differed considerably from the Meiji role of "good wife and wise
  17. Hikmet, Nazim   Asian. Born: 1902, Died: 1963 (modern), 38 poems.
  18. al-Husri, Abu l-Hasan   Asian. Born: 1095, 1 poems.
  19. Akhtar-Ul-Iman,   Asian. Born: 1915, Died: 1996 (modern), 2 poems.
  20. Chattopadhyay, Shakti   Asian. Born: 1933, Died: 1995 (modern), 5 poems.
  21. Sauda, Rafi   Asian. Born: 1714, Died: 1781, 1 poems.
  22. Li, Shang yin   Asian. Born: 813, Died: 858, 2 poems.
    A Chinese poet from the ninth century who is best known for his sensual love poems.
  23. Narihira, Ariwara no   Asian. Born: 823, Died: 880, 2 poems.
    Best known for his poetry, which made a major contribution to the culture of the Heian period (794-1185).
  24. Verma, Mahadevi   Asian. Born: 1907, Died: 1987 (modern), 1 poems.
  25. Rizal, Jose   Asian. Born: 1861, Died: 1896, 26 poems.
  26. Tyagaraja,   Asian. Born: 1767, Died: 1847, 4 poems.
    incomparable to other Indian mystics in that he falls into the genre of not only poet, but also music composer.  He is one of the three emissaries of what is known as, “Carnatic Music” or classical music of South India;
  27. Takuboku,   Asian. Born: 1886, Died: 1912, 3 poems.
    A Japanese poet, born in 1886, who specialised in the ancient form of Japanese poetry known as 'tanka'.
  28. Kil, Chae   Asian. Born: 1353, Died: 1419, 1 poems.
    Kil Chae was one of the three noted Confucian literary scholars of Korea's late Koryo dynasty known collectively as The Three Recluses.
  29. Confucius,   Asian. Born: -551, Died: -479, 94 poems.
  30. Khiem, Nguyen Binh   Asian. Born: 1491, Died: 1585, 1 poems.
  31. Chu, Yuan   Asian. Born: -340, Died: -278, 1 poems.
    Chu Yuan was the earliest of China’s great poets. He has been called the father of Chinese poetry.
  32. Dakhni, Vali   Asian. 1 poems.
    Vali Dakhni was not the first poet to write his Kalaam in urdu, but it was through his poetry that the idea of using urdu as a medium of poetic expression spread.
  33. Takamura, Kotaro   Asian. Born: 1883, Died: 1956 (modern), 14 poems.
    Japanese poet and sculptor. After studying art in France, where he was profoundly influenced by Rodin, Takamura devoted his career to applying Western aesthetics to Japanese poetry and sculpture. Takamura's poetry, almost all in free verse, underwent
  34. Charents, Yeghishe   Asian. Born: 1897, Died: 1937, 3 poems.
  35. Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich   Asian. Born: 1743, Died: 1816, 8 poems.
    He published much lyric poetry, and is considered one of Russia's greatest poets
  36. Tourian, Bedros   Asian. Born: 1851, Died: 1872, 17 poems.
  37. Touqan, Fadwa   Asian. Born: 1917, Died: 2003 (modern), 2 poems.
  38. Bhattacharya, Sukanta   Asian. Born: 1926, Died: 1947, 3 poems.
  39. Bryusov, Valery Yaklovich   Asian. Born: 1873, Died: 1924, 5 poems.
    Bryusov published and contributed to the composite anthology Ruskie Simvolisty (Russian symbolists), which recieved much negative attention for its alleged imitation of the French Sybolists.
  40. Insha, Shair Muhammad Khan   Asian. Born: 1927, Died: 1978 (modern), 9 poems.
  41. Tak, U   Asian. Born: 1262, Died: 1342, 1 poems.
    He served as a high-ranking minister under two kings of the late Koryo dynasty.
  42. Xuong, Tran Te   Asian. Born: 1868, Died: 1909, 2 poems.
  43. Dey, Bishnu   Asian. Born: 1909, Died: 1982 (modern), 2 poems.
  44. Annensky, Innokentii Fedorovich   Asian. Born: 1855, Died: 1909, 22 poems.
    Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky's literary legacy is not expansive, but diverse. He was a poet, a classical philologist, a dramatic author, a critic, and a poet.
  45. Kolatkar, Arun   Asian. Born: 1932, Died: 2004 (modern), 21 poems.
  46. Nabokov, Vladimir   Asian. Born: 1899, Died: 1977 (modern), 1 poems.
  47. Hagiwara, Sakutaro   Asian. Born: 1886, Died: 1942, 35 poems.
  48. Asastiani, Lado   Asian. Born: 1917, Died: 1942, 1 poems.
  49. Chieu, Nguyen Dinh   Asian. Born: 1822, Died: 1888, 1 poems.
    The great blind poet of southern Vietnam.
  50. Yarjanian, Atom   Asian. Born: 1878, Died: 1915, 15 poems.
    Also known as Siamanto.  He said in a poem "Yes yerkelov g'ouzem mernil", which means "I wish to die singing". He was murdered in 1915 like most of his colleagues.
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