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  1. Garcia Lorca, Federico   European. Born: 1898, Died: 1936, 47 poems.
  2. Machado, Antonio   European. Born: 1875, Died: 1939, 13 poems.
    Spanish poet who turned to writing and acting to support himself.
  3. Bjornson, Bjornstjerne   European. Born: 1832, Died: 1910, 131 poems.
  4. Nin, Anais   European. Born: 1903, Died: 1977 (modern), 1 poems.
    avant-guarde novelist, erotic prose and poetry, creates sensitive and perceptive works.
  5. Verlaine, Paul   European. Born: 1844, Died: 1896, 60 poems.
    Writing poetry from an early age, he became one of the most popular of the French poets. His poetry often reflected his own struggle with his private life.
  6. Sappho,   European. Born: 615, Died: 550, 46 poems.
    Sappho is not only one of the few women poets we know of from antiquity, but also is one of the greatest lyric poets from any age.
  7. Baudelaire, Charles   European. Born: 1821, Died: 1867, 139 poems.
    French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal; (1857;The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century
  8. Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich   European. Born: 1799, Died: 1837, 55 poems.
    In his use of words Pushkin is said to have emancipated the Russian language from its adolescent conventions and achieved a simplicity directness of speech and imagery that have few parallels outside the language of ancient Greece.
  9. Tuwim, Julian   European. Born: 1894, Died: 1953, 7 poems.
    Julian Tuwim was a polish poet born in 1894 and died in 1953.As leader of the Skamander group of experimental poets, he was also a major figure in his nation's literature.
  10. Buonarroti, Michelangelo   European. Born: 1475, Died: 1564, 103 poems.
    As a poet, Michelangelo left us with approximately 300 pieces of poetry, occupying the considerable place in the Renaissance lyrics.
  11. Mallarme, Stephane   European. Born: 1842, Died: 1898, 34 poems.
    French poet and leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry. Mallarmé's vers libre had a huge influence on twentieth century French poetry, and in the creation of the modernist tradition in German and American poetry.
  12. Ungaretti, Giuseppe   European. Born: 1888, Died: 1970 (modern), 14 poems.
  13. Belloc, Hilaire   European. Born: 1870, Died: 1953, 99 poems.
    Both during his lifetime and since, Belloc's refusal to tone down his views, and his contempt for the political, literary and social establishments of the day, militated against recognition of him as a major writer and thinker.
  14. Rilke, Rainer Maria   European. Born: 1875, Died: 1926, 127 poems.
    As a poet Rilke made his debut at the age of nineteen with Leben und Lieder (1894), written in the conventional style of Heinrich Heine.
  15. Rimbaud, Arthur   European. Born: 1854, Died: 1891, 125 poems.
    The precocious boy-poet of French symbolism, wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the 19th century. His highly suggestive, subtle work drew on subconscious sources, and its form was correspondingly supple and novel. Rimbaud has been
  16. Ady, Endre   European. Born: 1877, Died: 1919, 23 poems.
    Ady's poems either scandalized people or were revered as standards of the revolution. No other Hungarian poet has been the subject of such fervent disputes as he.
  17. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von   European. Born: 1749, Died: 1831, 365 poems.
    It is as a lyric poet that Goethe’s supremacy is least likely to be challenged; he has given his nation, whose highest literary expression has in all ages been essentially lyric, its greatest songs.
  18. Hugo, Victor Marie   European. Born: 1802, Died: 1885, 281 poems.
    At an early age, Victor began to write tragedies and poetry, and to translate Virgil.  His lyrical style has been described as 'rich, intense and full of powerful sounds and rhythms..
  19. Pasternak, Boris   European. Born: 1890, Died: 1960 (modern), 123 poems.
    His novel, Doktor Zhivago, won him the Nobel Prize in 1958, which the Union of Soviet Writers compelled him to decline.
  20. de la Vega, Garcilaso   European. Born: 1503, Died: 1536, 42 poems.
    He shared in Boscán's Italian innovations of style and, in the few works that he left, is seen to surpass him. Las Obras de Boscán y algunas de Garcilasso de la Vega were first published at Barcelona in 1543
  21. Labe, Louise   European. Born: 1524, Died: 1566, 5 poems.
    A sixteenth century French writer and a member of the Lyon bourgeoisie.
    Her first colelction of poetry and prose, Euvres de Louize Labe Lionnoize was published in 1555.
  22. Schiller, Friedrich von   European. Born: 1759, Died: 1805, 163 poems.
    Leading German 18th-century dramatist, poet, and literary theorist. Schiller's mature plays examine the inward freedom of the soul.
  23. de Valois, Duke of Orleans, Charles I   European. Born: 1394, Died: 1465, 15 poems.
    Charles crafted poetry as an ivory carver crafts a diptych: perhaps a believer in the religious scene he is carving, perhaps not, the craftsman is thoroughly at home with the vocabulary of his art and devoted to composing and executing an object whic
  24. Eluard, Paul   European. Born: 1895, Died: 1952, 56 poems.
    Paul's idealism, kindness and inability to see the reality of the Soviet Union led the poet to admire Stalin as a cultural force for good. According to Eluard, the mission of poetry was to renew language in order to effect radical changes in all area
  25. Unamuno, Miguel de   European. Born: 1864, Died: 1936, 18 poems.
    Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo is not only a Poet but a Philosopher, Educator and Author.
  26. Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Lois de   European. Born: 1790, Died: 1869, 4 poems.
    A nineteenth century French poet who won acclaim for his lyricism. Also a politician who at one time headed the government.
  27. Cavafy, Constantine P   European. Born: 1863, Died: 1933, 89 poems.
    A Greek poet, published only about 200 privately printed poems. Cavafy has come in recent years to be regarded as a the greatest Mediterranean poet of modern times.
  28. Apollinaire, Guillaume   European. Born: 1880, Died: 1918, 32 poems.
    But nobody knows for certain who Guillaume's father was. In Paris there were rumours that the pope himself was the father. This was neither confirmed nor denied by the poet
  29. Nietzsche, Friedrich   European. Born: 1844, Died: 1900, 2 poems.
    German philosopher and critic of culture, who influenced a number of the major writers and philosophers of the 20th century Germany and France.
  30. Brecht, Bertolt   European. Born: 1898, Died: 1956 (modern), 39 poems.
    Bertolt Brecht's genius was for language. However, because this language is built upon a certain bold and direct simplicity, his plays often lose something in the translation from his native German.
  31. Homer,   European. Born: -900, Died: -850, 49 poems.
  32. Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich   European. Born: 1893, Died: 1930, 21 poems.
    The leading poet of Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period and one of the founders of Russian Futurism movement.
  33. Zorrilla y Moral, Jose   European. Born: 1817, Died: 1893, 2 poems.
    On 15 February, 1837, at the funeral of the noted poet Larra, he repeated an elegy which was universally praised, and this was the means of effecting a reconciliation with his father.
  34. Esenin, Sergei Aleksandrovich   European. Born: 1895, Died: 1925, 4 poems.
    An early twentieth century Russian poet who was a founding member of the Imaginist movement.
  35. Mandelstam, Osip   European. Born: 1891, Died: 1938, 62 poems.
    Russian poet and essayist who is regarded as one of the greatest voices of the 20th-century Russian poetry.
  36. Castro, Rosalia de   European. Born: 1837, Died: 1885, 1 poems.
  37. Camoes, Luis Vaz de   European. Born: 1524, Died: 1580, 25 poems.
    The most sublime figure in the history of Portuguese literature, Camões owes his lasting fame to his epic poem "Os Lusiadas," (The Lusiads);
  38. Ovid,   European. Born: -43, Died: -17, 28 poems.
    Considered by some to be the last of the Golden Age poets(Horace, Vergil), or by others the first of the Silver Age poets(Statius, Lucan).
  39. Kharms, Daniil Ivanovich   European. Born: 1905, Died: 1942, 11 poems.
    Kharm's work has been categorized with popular Russian humor vaudeville, circus clowns, folk drama, and low-class raunchy jokes.
  40. Droste-Hulshoff, Annette Von   European. Born: 1797, Died: 1848, 1 poems.
    Described as the most gifted and original of German women poets. Her verse is strong and vigorous, but often unmusical even to harshness
  41. Vazov, Ivan   European. Born: 1850, Died: 1921, 2 poems.
    His  short stories, novels, poems and plays are inspired by his love of Bulgaria and her countryside. For over half a century he was regarded as being the figurehead of Bulgarian litrature and is continued to be seen as it's foremost poet and founder
  42. Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich   European. Born: 1814, Died: 1841, 38 poems.
    A ninteenth century Russian poet, writer and playwright whose dramatic compositions have played a considerable role in the development of theatrical art, and his life has served as material for many novels, poems, plays, and films.
  43. Alighieri, Dante   European. Born: 1265, Died: 1321, 25 poems.
    The essence of Dante's philosophy is that all virtues and all vices proceed from love. The "Purgatorio" shows how love is to be set in order, the "Paradiso" shows how it is rendered perfect in successive stages of illumination,
  44. Hesse, Hermann   European. Born: 1877, Died: 1962 (modern), 13 poems.
    German poet and novelist, who has explored in his work the duality of spirit and nature and individual's spiritual search outside restrictions of the society.
  45. Coucy, Chatalain de   European. Born: 1170, Died: 1203, 2 poems.
    He is probably the Guy de Couci who was castellan of the castle of that name from 1186 to 1203. Some twenty-six songs are attributed to him, and about fifteen or sixteen are undoubtedly authentic.
  46. Gongora y Argote, Luis de   European. Born: 1561, Died: 1627, 2 poems.
    An edition of his poems was published almost immediately after his death by Juan Lopez de Vicufia; the frequently reprinted edition by Hozes did not appear till 1633
  47. Stampa, Gaspara   European. Born: 1523, Died: 1554, 9 poems.
    Stampa is considered the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age.
  48. Catullus, Gaius Valerius   European. Born: -84, Died: -54, 19 poems.
    His poetry was in the style of the neoterics, who prized highly polished technical achievement in their sophisticated, urbane, witty, short poems.
  49. Villon, Francoise   European. Born: 1431, Died: 1480, 15 poems.
    Between times spent in prison he produced volumes of what are still considered by many to be the finest French lyric verse ever written.
  50. Char, Rene   European. Born: 1907, Died: 1988 (modern), 3 poems.
    The privation, the hunger, the moral suffering of those years were somehow turned into the passionate economy of his style, his rage to compress everything into aphorisms and short bursts of prose.
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