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  1. Sarton, May   European. Born: 1912, Died: 1995 (modern), 8 poems.
  2. Deschamps, Eustache   European. Born: 1338, Died: 1406, 5 poems.
    Deschamps was a poet of no little merit. His numerous poems, ballads, rondels, lays, and virelays are full of valuable information concerning the political and moral history of his time
  3. Louys, Pierre   European. Born: 1870, Died: 1925, 6 poems.
    A French novelist and poet, born in 1870. He wrote erotic texts which expressed pagan sensuality.
  4. Leopardi, Count Giacomo   European. Born: 1798, Died: 1837, 40 poems.
    Born in 1798, he is considered to be one of Italy's greatest poets for his beautiful but despairing picture of the world rendered in his poetry and philosophical essays.
  5. Andersen, Hans Christian   European. Born: 1805, Died: 1875, 3 poems.
    He once said that ideas for stories 'lie in my mind like seeds and only need the kiss of a sunbeam or a drop of malice to flower'. He would often thinly disguise people he liked or disliked as characters in his stories: a woman who failed to return h
  6. La Fontaine, Jean de   European. Born: 1621, Died: 1695, 69 poems.
    French poet, whose fables rank among the masterpieces of world literature. Because of the universal nature of his fables, La Fontaine's poems about industrious ants, brave lions, and carefree grasshoppers are still widely read.
  7. Chenier, Andre Marie de   European. Born: 1762, Died: 1794, 81 poems.
    he yet reveals something of that quality which to the’ Northern mind has always been of the very essence of poetry, that quality which made Sainte Beuve say of him, that he was the first great poet “personnel et réveur “in France since La Fontaine.
  8. Khlebnikov, Velimir   European. Born: 1885, Died: 1922, 10 poems.
    A poet who became known as the founder of Russian Futurism and whose esoteric verses exerted a significant influence on Soviet poetry after his death.
  9. Vian, Boris   European. Born: 1920, Died: 1959 (modern), 3 poems.
    Vian's extraordinary work mirrored his fascinating life. He wrote novels, plays, songs, scenarios & one short opera.
  10. Cervantes, Miguel de   European. Born: 1547, Died: 1616, 7 poems.
    Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature
  11. Pessoa, Fernando   European. Born: 1888, Died: 1935, 49 poems.
    Pessoa was Portugal's most celebrated poet. He had a major role in the developement of modernism in his country.
  12. Peguy, Charles   European. Born: 1873, Died: 1914, 2 poems.
    A poet, essayist and publisher, Charles Peguy was an ardent socialist, which was reflected in his works.
  13. Bellay, Joachim du   European. Born: 1525, Died: 1560, 6 poems.
    Much of Du Bellay's poetry illustrates rather the age and school to which he belonged than his own temper and genius. As with the writings of Ronsard and the other poets of the Pleiad
  14. Alfonso, El Sabio   European. Born: 1221, Died: 1284, 9 poems.
    Alfonso X commissioned numerous works during his reign, including the Cantigas de Santa Maria (400+ songs mentioning the Virgin Mary) and the Libro de los juegos, or book of games.
  15. Espronceda y Delgado, Jose de   European. Born: 1808, Died: 1842, 1 poems.
    Romantic poet and revolutionary, often called the Spanish Lord Byron
  16. Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanova   European. Born: 1892, Died: 1941, 29 poems.
    She made her debut as a poet at the age of 18 with the collection Evening Album, a tribute to her childhood.
  17. Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovich   European. Born: 1886, Died: 1921, 46 poems.
    With his wife, the poet Anna Akhmatova,and Gorodetsky, Gumilev, he founded the Acmeist school of poetry in 1912
  18. Foscolo, Ugo   European. Born: 1778, Died: 1827, 2 poems.
    He was an Italian poet and patriot, his name was originally Niccolo Foscolo. A devoted Venetian, novelist, translator & poet.
  19. Fontane, Theodor   European. Born: 1819, Died: 1898, 2 poems.
    Poet, novelist, and a war correspondent. He was honored as one of the leading men of letters of his time.
  20. Breton, Andre   European. Born: 1896, Died: 1966 (modern), 7 poems.
    Noted as one of the greatest of the surealist poets ever
  21. Valery, Paul   European. Born: 1871, Died: 1945, 3 poems.
    Valéry's original plan was to produce a poem of some forty lines, but he finished with one of his major works, La Jeune Pataque, which brought him immediate fame.
  22. Ronsard, Pierre de   European. Born: 1524, Died: 1585, 11 poems.
  23. Amichai, Yehuda   European. Born: 1924, Died: 2000 (modern), 44 poems.
    Amichai has published eleven volumes of poetry in Hebrew, two novels, and a book of short stories. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.
  24. Desnos, Robert   European. Born: 1900, Died: 1945, 13 poems.
    Desnos was noted for particular praise in the technique involved drifting into a trance and then recording the associations and leaps of the subconscious mind.
  25. European, Anonymous   European. Born: 500, Died: 1950, 34 poems.
    I am no one,
    Constructing eternity so
    I can live forever.
  26. Lenau, Nikolaus   European. Born: 1802, Died: 1850, 10 poems.
    Lenau’s fame rests mainly upon his shorter poems; even his epics are essentially lyric in quality. He is the greatest modern lyric poet of Austria, and the typical representative in German literature of that pessimistic Weltsclimerz
  27. Virgil,   European. Born: -70, Died: -19, 12 poems.
    Virgil (Punlius Vergilius Maro), the great Roman poet, was born on the 15th of October in the year 70 B.C., on a farm on the banks of the Mincio, in the district of Andes, not far from the town of Mantua
  28. George, Stefan Anton   European. Born: 1868, Died: 1933, 8 poems.
    leader of the revolt against realism in German literature.
  29. Maupassant, Guy de   European. Born: 1850, Died: 1893, 20 poems.
    French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer.
  30. Valle-Inclan, Ramon Maria del   European. Born: 1869, Died: 1936, 5 poems.
    Valle-Inclán began his career as a journalist and short-story writer. In 1907 he wrote and published, Eagle Rampant the first of his Barbaric Comedy triology to be written and this was followed in 1908 with The Romance of the Wolves
  31. Strindburg, August   European. Born: 1849, Died: 1912, 2 poems.
    One of Swedens most famous authors. His male and female characters are inevitably bound together in a perverse and dependent relationship, torn between their desire to destroy one another and an equally strong desire for physical possession.
  32. Colonna, Victoria   European. Born: 1492, Died: 1547, 1 poems.
    Her most famous platonic association was with Michelangelo, whom she met in Rome in 1538 and with whom she exchanged many letters and philosophical sonnets.
  33. Herbertson, Agnes Grozier   European. 2 poems.
  34. Stickney, Trumbull   European. Born: 1874, Died: 1904, 22 poems.
    Educated by his father, Austin at home in both  Latin and Greek, and then  entered Harvard University in 1891. He graduated magna cum laude in June 1895.
  35. Eminescu, Mihai   European. Born: 1850, Died: 1889, 35 poems.
  36. Xenophanes,   European. Born: -570, Died: -478, 2 poems.
  37. Dehmel, Richard   European. Born: 1863, Died: 1920, 4 poems.
    His verse, often dealing with social problems, represents a revolt against extreme naturalism.
  38. Trakl, Georg   European. Born: 1887, Died: 1914, 13 poems.
    An Austrian expressionist poet, born in 1887. He wrote poems which largely concerned themselves with decay, courage and the search for God.
  39. Simonov, Konstantin   European. Born: 1915, Died: 1979 (modern), 25 poems.
  40. Belli, Guiseppe Gioacchino   European. Born: 1791, Died: 1863, 29 poems.
    His sharp satire gave life to a great number of humorous and witty sketches, though sometimes concealing bitter remarks about life and human condition.
  41. Swirszczynska, Anna   European. Born: 1909, Died: 1984 (modern), 7 poems.
    aka: Anna Swir, an outstanding Polish poet and playwright.  She created her own form of poetry, her own way of talking about the world as she saw it.
  42. Alfieri, Count Vittorio   European. Born: 1749, Died: 1803, 1 poems.
    The greatest tragic poet of Italy
  43. Voltaire,   European. Born: 1694, Died: 1778, 3 poems.
    French philosopher, historian, dramatist and man of letters, whose real name was Francois Marie Arouet.
  44. Solon,   European. Born: -638, Died: 558, 2 poems.
    Poetry was for Solon a way to entertain himself, and he also used poetry to give his ideas easy access to the minds of the Athenians.
  45. De Ventadorn, Troubadour Bernard   European. Born: 1150, Died: 1195, 18 poems.
    Like the other troubadours, Bernard de Ventadorn had good reason for feeling and describing himself as someone different.
  46. Regnier, Henri   European. Born: 1864, Died: 1936, 2 poems.
    Author of free versed symbolic, and classical styled romatic poetry reflecting a knowledge of French history and culture.
  47. Gautier, Theophile   European. Born: 1811, Died: 1872, 4 poems.
    His first considerable poem,  displayed a good deal of the extravagant character which accompanied rather than marked the romantic movement.
  48. Sodergran, Edith   European. Born: 1892, Died: 1923, 11 poems.
    Pioneer of poetry in Swedish language in Finland, who died of lung disease. Södergran's impact on the Nordic poetry, especially the Finnish modernism in the 1920s, was significant in liberating verse from the confines of rhyme, regular rhythm, and tr
  49. Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Maria   European. Born: 1891, Died: 1945, 1 poems.
    A Polish poet and playwright from a famously artistic background who's career had it's peak in the inter-war period.
  50. Bluwstien, Rahel   European. Born: 1890, Died: 1931, 2 poems.
    Rahel's poetry expounded on the beauty of the land of Israel--but it was a tragedy in space that gave one of her poems renewed attention.
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