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Old Poets, by popularity

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  1. Bharati, Subramania   Asian. Born: 1882, Died: 1921, 1 poems.
    Bharati captured the imagination of the Tamil people.  His collection of songs on national unity, Swadesha Geetangal (meaning songs on Indian nationalism), was first published in 1908 which was followed by Janma Bhoomi (meaning motherland), published
  2. Noonuccal, Oodgeroo   Oceania. Born: 1920, Died: 1993 (modern), 4 poems.
    Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a poet, an actress, writer, teacher, artist and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights But she was best known for her poetry. Oodgeroo was the first Aboriginal Australian to have a book of poetry published.
  3. Machado, Antonio   European. Born: 1875, Died: 1939, 13 poems.
    Spanish poet who turned to writing and acting to support himself.
  4. Dahl, Roald   Born: 1916, Died: 1990 (modern), 27 poems.
    Dahls' books are mostly fantasy, and full of imagination. They are always a little cruel, but never without humour - a thrilling mixture of the grotesque and comic.
  5. Benet, Stephen Vincent   Americas. Born: 1898, Died: 1943, 43 poems.
    American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best-known for John Brown'S Body, a long epic poem on the Civil War, which Benét wrote in France. Benét received two Pulitzer prizes for his poetry.
  6. Ransom, John Crowe   Americas. Born: 1888, Died: 1974 (modern), 55 poems.
  7. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth   Americas. Born: 1807, Died: 1882, 463 poems.
    Considered by many to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century, a storyteller, whose works are still cited - or parodied.
  8. Blake, William   English. Born: 1757, Died: 1827, 126 poems.
    Williams Blakes poetry is often elaboratly symbolic, mysterious and spiritual. Upon his death in 1827, Wordsworth said, "There is no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the
  9. Bjornson, Bjornstjerne   European. Born: 1832, Died: 1910, 131 poems.
  10. 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.
  11. Nin, Anais   European. Born: 1903, Died: 1977 (modern), 1 poems.
    avant-guarde novelist, erotic prose and poetry, creates sensitive and perceptive works.
  12. 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.
  13. Surdas, Sant   Asian. Born: 1478, Died: 1581, 30 poems.
    Blind poet, saint, and musician of India. He portrayed in exquisite poetry the life of Krishna.
  14. Shah, Waris   Asian. Born: 1719, Died: 1790, 1 poems.
    Famous for his Poem Heer Waris Shah about the legend of the star crossed lovers Heer and Ranjha.
  15. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor   English. Born: 1772, Died: 1834, 176 poems.
    Though he's really only known today for his poetry, though Col's contributions to the field of criticism and our language were many. For instance, he not only coined the word 'selfless,' he introduced the word 'aesthetic' to the English language
  16. Van Dyke, Henry   Americas. Born: 1852, Died: 1933, 122 poems.
    This dual belief in nature and religion colored his literary criticism as well as his other writing throughout his life.
  17. 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
  18. Ezekiel, Nissim   Asian. Born: 1924, Died: 2004 (modern), 8 poems.
    A major poet in the modern post Ww Ii phase of Indian Anglian Poetry
  19. Williams, William Carlos   Americas. Born: 1883, Died: 1963 (modern), 112 poems.
    Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. His influence as a poet spread slowly during the twenties and thirties
  20. Tolkien, J R R   English. Born: 1892, Died: 1973 (modern), 85 poems.
    Tolkien's epic world is populated by elves, dwarves, magicians, and evil monsters. He saw himself as a Hobbit
  21. 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.
  22. Sassoon, Siegfried   English. Born: 1886, Died: 1967 (modern), 162 poems.
    Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish family in 1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, and playing cricket
  23. Betjeman, Sir John   English. Born: 1906, Died: 1984 (modern), 50 poems.
    In 1969, he was knighted, and when Cecil Day Lewis died in 1972, Jb was made Poet Laureate.
  24. Causley, Charles   English. Born: 1917, Died: 2003 (modern), 12 poems.
    Prize-winning poet, playwright and children's author
  25. Dario, Ruben   Americas. Born: 1867, Died: 1916, 26 poems.
    Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat and the most well known of the modernismos
  26. Rossetti, Christina Georgina   Born: 1830, Died: 1894, 308 poems.
    one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics
  27. Shelley, Percy Bysshe   English. Born: 1792, Died: 1822, 326 poems.
    English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era.
  28. Graves, Robert   English. Born: 1895, Died: 1985 (modern), 138 poems.
    Graves was known as a poet, lecturer and novelist.  He was also known as a classicist and a mythographer. Perhaps his first known and revered poems were the poems Groves wrote behind the lines in World War One. He later became known as one of the mos
  29. Bronte, Emily Jane   English. Born: 1818, Died: 1848, 57 poems.
    Her first novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story-within-a-story, did not gain immediate success as Charlotte's Jane Eyre, but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most intense novels written in the English language.
  30. Milligan, Spike   English. Born: 1918, Died: 2002 (modern), 50 poems.
    Even at the age of 80, he was sending things up, and refusing to lie down and be conformist.
  31. Bukowski, Charles   Americas. Born: 1920, Died: 1994 (modern), 163 poems.
    called America's greatest poet by French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Genet and has over 40 books to his credit of poetical works
  32. Wilde, Oscar   English. Born: 1854, Died: 1900, 105 poems.
    Oscar founded the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for art's sake."
  33. 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.
  34. Storni, Alfonsina   Americas. Born: 1892, Died: 1938, 13 poems.
    She spoke on the behalf of many women by suggesting that relationships between men and women be intellectual and more balanced. She urged the government to grant women the vote and wrote articles and essays on women's rights.
  35. Taylor, Ann   English. Born: 1782, Died: 1866, 47 poems.
    Ann Talyor was born in England in 1782 and, along with her sister Jane, wrote a number of hymns and poems for children, including Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
  36. Swenson, May   Americas. Born: 1913, Died: 1989 (modern), 21 poems.
    May Swenson became one of America's most inventive and incisive poets. English was actually her second language since Swedish was spoken in her childhood home.
  37. Anees, Babar Ali   Asian. Born: 1803, Died: 1874, 4 poems.
    Famous poet of the Marsia (elegiac poetry in Urdu).
  38. Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan   Asian. Born: 1797, Died: 1869, 26 poems.
    Ghalib was a master of Ghazals. Not only did he exploit Urdu language's subtleties and complexities, he bared his soul in his poetry. His poetry is filled with conflict of existence, love, musings about religion and life.
  39. Chauhan, Subhadra Kumari   Asian. Born: 1904, Died: 1948, 2 poems.
  40. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth   English. Born: 1861, Died: 1907, 30 poems.
    She was the great granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's eldest brother Col. James Coleridge.
    From 1890 she taught at the Women's Working College, London and published Fancy's Following (1896) and Fancy's Guerdon (1897) under the pseudonym
  41. Ramanujan, Attipat   Born: 1929, Died: 1993 (modern), 10 poems.
  42. Slessor, Kenneth   Oceania. Born: 1901, Died: 1971 (modern), 73 poems.
    Kenneth Slessor has long been hailed as one of Australia's finest and most important poets. But the terms of praise have often echoed Slessor's own aesthetic principles--that poetry transcends social and political issues; that poetry is imbued
  43. Muir, Edwin   English. Born: 1887, Died: 1959 (modern), 24 poems.
  44. Gurney, Ivor   English. Born: 1890, Died: 1937, 112 poems.
    Gurney was regarded as one of the most promising men of his generation, both in music and poetry
  45. Pound, Ezra   Americas. Born: 1885, Died: 1972 (modern), 253 poems.
    Declared James Joyce the most influentila poet of the twentieth century.
  46. Khankhana, Abdur Rahim   Asian. Born: 1556, Died: 1627, 1 poems.
    Abdur Rahim KhanKhanan (also known as Rahim) lived during the reign of Akbar. He was an excellent poet and an Astrologer.
  47. Chatterton, Thomas   English. Born: 1752, Died: 1770, 45 poems.
  48. Twain, Mark   Americas. Born: 1835, Died: 1910, 7 poems.
    Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of the major authors of American fiction. Twain is also considered the greatest humorist in American literature.
  49. Ginsberg, Allen   Americas. Born: 1926, Died: 1997 (modern), 49 poems.
    was an American poet and leading apostle of the beat generation.
  50. Taliesin,   Born: 534, Died: 599, 7 poems.
    A famous Welsh bard from around 550 Ad. He also became something of a mythic figure in early Welsh legend.
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