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Old-poets in European, by popularity

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  1. Beshiktashlian, Mugurditch   European. Born: 1829, 4 poems.
  2. Ibsen, Henrik Johan   European. Born: 1828, Died: 1906, 10 poems.
    Norwegian playwright and luminary of the 19th-century Norwegian literature. Ibsen is generally acknowledged as the founder of modern prose drama.
  3. Aeschylus,   European. Born: -525, Died: -431, 13 poems.
    The "Father of Tragedy,"
  4. Saint-Exupery, Antoine de   European. Born: 1900, Died: 1944, 1 poems.
    after France was occupied by Hitler's troops, he left for the United States and continued to write. He published his most celebrated book The Little Prince in New York.
  5. Calderon de la Barca, Pedro   European. Born: 1600, Died: 1681, 2 poems.
    One of Spains most important dramatists who dominated Spain's Golden Theatre Age.
  6. Carducci, Giosue   European. Born: 1835, Died: 1907, 1 poems.
    winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, highly influential literary figure in his time. Carducci was regarded as the unofficial national poet of modern Italy
  7. Levi, Primo   European. Born: 1919, Died: 1987 (modern), 3 poems.
    A twentieth century Italian Jew whose harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war had a profound effect on his writing.  
  8. Krasinski, Zygmunt   European. Born: 1812, Died: 1859, 2 poems.
    Traditionally ranked with Mickiewicz and Slowacki as one of Poland's great romantic poets, dramatists and writers.
  9. Vogelweide, Walther von der   European. Born: 1170, Died: 1240, 16 poems.
    Vogelweide, a poet and minnesinger(a singer of love songs), is one of the most celebrated of the Medievil German poets.
  10. Hallgrimsson, Jonas   European. Born: 1807, Died: 1845, 46 poems.
  11. Ariosto, Ludovico   European. Born: 1474, Died: 1533, 24 poems.
    Ariosto was one of the most influential poets of the Italian Renaissance. He began his career in the diplomatic service of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, serving as liaison to Popes Julius Ii and Leo X. He is best known for his romantic epic poem, Orlando
  12. Neruda, Jan   European. Born: 1834, Died: 1891, 38 poems.
    Neruda's poetry collections were based on contemporary spoken language. He was a member of "the May school", which dominated Czech literature in the 1860s
  13. Guilluame, Duke of Aquintane   European. Born: 1071, Died: 1126, 1 poems.
    often called the first of the troubadours. His songs are typically ribald full of puns and jests, but his verses display the deeply artistic and eloquent art of later Troubadours.
  14. Vvedensky, Aleksandr Ivanovich   European. Born: 1904, Died: 1941, 5 poems.
    A Russian poet and playwright, Vvedensky along with Daniil Kharms became one of the ringleaders of a group of writers known as the Russian Absurdists.
  15. Holderlin, Friedrich   European. Born: 1770, Died: 1843, 19 poems.
  16. ha-Levi, Yehudah   European. Born: 1075, Died: 1141, 11 poems.
    One of the best-known Spanish Jewish poets.
  17. Iriarte, Thomas de   European. Born: 1750, Died: 1791, 2 poems.
    Spanish Civil servant who introduced the monologue narrative accompanied by music to the Spanish Theatre.
  18. Petofi, Sandor   European. Born: 1823, Died: 1849, 4 poems.
  19. Cocteau, Jean   European. Born: 1889, Died: 1963 (modern), 6 poems.
    Born to a middle-class family in Paris, he excelled from youth in an almost absurd range of fields: filmmaking, poetry, graphic art, fiction, drama, couture, even postage-stamp design.
  20. Manrique, Jorge   European. Born: 1440, Died: 1479, 3 poems.
    Born in 1440 in Paredes de Nava, Spain, Jorge Manrique was both a poet and a soldier.  He was the fourth son of Rodrigo Manrique, Count de Paredes, and as such spent a life surrounded by war.
  21. Norwid, Cyprian Kamil   European. Born: 1821, Died: 1883, 29 poems.
    One of Poland's most original minds of the 19th century.  Norwid was a poet, dramatist, sculptor, painter, and engraver.
  22. Peret, Benjamin   European. Born: 1899, Died: 1959 (modern), 3 poems.
    One of the leading poets of the Surrealist movement.
  23. Nekrasov, Nikolay Alekseyevich   European. Born: 1821, Died: 1878, 11 poems.
    Russian poet and journalist whose poetry was closely connected to the folklore and life of Russian peasantry.
  24. Der Mouw, Johan   European. Born: 1863, Died: 1919, 1 poems.
  25. Aretino, Pietro   European. Born: 1492, Died: 1556, 1 poems.
  26. Suckling, Sir John   European. Born: 1609, Died: 1642, 17 poems.
    Poet, lyricist, author of several plays and credited for inventing the game of cribbage
  27. Theocritus,   European. Born: 315, Died: 260, 85 poems.
    Hellenistic Greek poet, b. Syracuse. The history of the pastoral begins with him, and in him the form seems to have reached its height.
  28. Belleau, Remy   European. Born: 1528, Died: 1577, 1 poems.
    For his early  Petites Inventions (1556) Ronsard called him the Peintre de la nature.  
  29. Lesmian, Boleslaw   European. Born: 1877, Died: 1937, 8 poems.
    Born in 1877 and died in 1937. Lesmian is regarded as one of Poland's finest writers. He was a follower of symbolism.
  30. Jimenez, Juan   European. Born: 1881, Died: 1958 (modern), 17 poems.
  31. Klemm, Wilhelm   European. Born: 1881, Died: 1968 (modern), 1 poems.
  32. Aakjaer, Jeppe   European. Born: 1866, Died: 1930, 32 poems.
    As a young man he studied in Copenhagen, earning his living as a proofreader and later as a journalist.
  33. Novalis,   European. Born: 1772, Died: 1801, 6 poems.
    German poet who influenced later Romantic thought, sometimes called 'the prophet of Romanticism'.
  34. Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich   European. Born: 1817, Died: 1875, 10 poems.
    He was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, an outstanding writer of humorous and satirical verse, serious poetry, and novels and dramas on historical themes.
  35. Stramm, August   European. Born: 1874, Died: 1915, 6 poems.
    He is considered one of the first  expressionist poets.  Stramm was also a dramatist and served with the German Army during the First World War.
  36. Stagnelius, Erik Johan   European. Born: 1793, Died: 1823, 4 poems.
    His poetical works is often coloured by thoughts that all the things human experience in our material world isn´t complete, but in the world of ideas exists the eternal and perfect things.
  37. Nezval, Vitezslav   European. Born: 1900, Died: 1958 (modern), 2 poems.
    One of the founders of the avant-garde group "Nine Powers" which revoltionized Czech literature in the 1920s
  38. Lucretius,   European. Born: -99, Died: -55, 33 poems.
    Lucretius lived from 99-55 Bc.He was a moralist and a reformer as well as a scientist, and a poet.  
  39. Molina, Tirso de   European. Born: 1583, Died: 1648, 3 poems.
    Born in 1583, Tirso de Molina is regarded as being one of the most outstanding dramatists of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.
  40. Maro, Vergil Publius Vergilius   European. Born: -70, Died: -19, 26 poems.
    His perfect poetic expression gives him the first place among pastoral poets.
  41. Musset, Alfred de   European. Born: 1810, Died: 1857, 3 poems.
    Considered by many to be a poet of stature in his time, Alfred de Musset is now known to the majority of the literary world for his stormy love affair with George Sand.
  42. Adamson, Henry   European. Born: 1581, Died: 1627, 9 poems.
  43. Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich   European. Born: 1803, Died: 1873, 32 poems.
    Tyutchev was born on December 5, 1803 on an estate 200 miles southwest of Moscow. He was educated at home until he was 17 and was nurtured in an atmosphere of piety, patriotism, and reverence for the throne that often characterized the Muscovite land
  44. Verhaeren, Emile   European. Born: 1855, Died: 1916, 3 poems.
    One of the leading figures of the Belgian literary renaissance, Verhaeren was a poet, art critic and wrote short stories and verse plays.
  45. Heine, Heinrich   European. Born: 1797, Died: 1856, 40 poems.
  46. Bachmann, Ingeborg   European. Born: 1926, Died: 1973 (modern), 10 poems.
    In 1973 Ingeborg Bachmann died, because she fell asleep smoking in her bed. She won many literature prices and is highly acclaimed in female studies.
  47. Brentano, Clemens Maria   European. Born: 1778, Died: 1842, 4 poems.
    A German poet, one of the most prominent members of the Romantic School.
  48. Gryphius, Andreas   European. Born: 1616, Died: 1664, 4 poems.
    Gryphius was a man of morbid disposition, and his melancholy temperament, fostered by the misfortunes of his childhood is largely reflected in his lyrics,
  49. Santillana, Marques de Inigo Lopez de Mendoza   European. Born: 1398, Died: 1456, 1 poems.
    Spanish poet and literary patron. From his eighteenth year onwards he became an increasingly prominent figure at the court of Juan Ii. of Castile
  50. Busch, Wilhelm   European. Born: 1832, Died: 1908, 9 poems.
    Wilhelm Busch, painter, early cartoonist, and most beloved of all German poets
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