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  1. Angelou, Dr. Maya   Americas. Born: 1928, 24 poems.
    Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature.  As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights  activist, producer and director, she
  2. 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.
  3. 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..
  4. 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.
  5. Chaucer, Geoffrey   Olde English. Born: 1340, Died: 1400, 60 poems.
    Geoffrey Chaucer expanded the reputation of English as a great literary language. William Shakespeare's wrote many of his plays to show a sign of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic spirit. John Dryden, a modern interpreter of The Canterbury Tales, named Chauce
  6. Morant, Harry 'Breaker'   Oceania. Born: 1865, Died: 1902, 39 poems.
    Morant's early life in Australia is known only from fragmentary recollections in after time by people who had known him. Using some of these recollections, he first appeared at Charters Towers in the Queensland back country about the middle of 1884.
  7. Binyon, Robert Laurence   English. Born: 1869, Died: 1943, 399 poems.
    The poems Binyon wrote during the First World War were collected in "The Four Years" and published in 1919
  8. Blunden, Edmund   English. Born: 1896, Died: 1974 (modern), 27 poems.
    In 1920 his collection of poetry The Waggoner was published after he sent a privately printed collection of verse to the then Literary Editor of The Daily Herald, Siegfried Sassoon.
  9. Tabb, Father John Bannister   Americas. Born: 1845, Died: 1909, 906 poems.
    John Bannister Tabb was a poet and educater, born near Richmond, Virginia in 1845. Tabb descended from one of the oldest and wealthiest Virginian familes. He was privately tutored as a child. At the age of fourteen his sight was failing and he had to
  10. Brown, Sterling   Americas. Born: 1901, Died: 1989 (modern), 10 poems.
    Brown is known for his frank, unsentimental portraits of black people and their experiences...
  11. Towne, Charles Hanson   Americas. Born: 1877, Died: 1949, 108 poems.
  12. Chao, Li Ching   Asian. Born: 1084, Died: 1151, 35 poems.
    She was born into a literary family and became an antiquarian, book collector, and calligrapher. Of her six original volumes of lyrics, only about 50 lyrics remain.

    In Stephen Owen's chapter, "The Snares of Memory," it concentrates on Li Ch'ing
  13. Brautigan, Richard   Americas. Born: 1935, Died: 1982 (modern), 57 poems.
    In the late 1960's, Brautigan began to gain popularity and during this time, published several of his most popular works
  14. Nash, Ogden   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1971 (modern), 121 poems.
    Created many childrens poems, musical comedies (collaborations), various poetry.
  15. Attar,   Asian. Born: 1119, Died: 1193, 10 poems.
    He wrote at least 45,000 rhymed couplets and many prose works, and he was greatly admired by the Sufi poet Rumi.
  16. Francis, Robert   Americas. Born: 1901, Died: 1987 (modern), 20 poems.
    Francis' poems are widely varied in form and subject, though a kind tone permeates much of his work. A world traveler, he often journeyed to Europe, at one time teaching at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
  17. Crane, Harold Hart   Americas. Born: 1899, Died: 1932, 33 poems.
    Crane strove to balance moments of ecstatic consciousness when spiritual transcendence seems within reach against the boundaries of human and material limitations.
  18. Marvell, Andrew   English. Born: 1621, Died: 1678, 62 poems.
    He is known chiefly for his brilliant lyrical poetry.
  19. Dowland, John   English. Born: 1563, Died: 1626, 6 poems.
    Dowland was born into an improvising tradition, and it is likely that when he played he did not have a piece of music in front of him - most of the surviving manuscripts were written down by or for amateurs, not for professionals.
  20. Gellert, Leon   Oceania. Born: 1892, Died: 1977 (modern), 84 poems.
    Acclaimed as Australia's greatest war poet.
  21. Crist, Alice Guerin   Oceania. Born: 1876, Died: 1941, 38 poems.
    Her verse interpreted the life and character of the pioneers of Australia, having a special appeal to the Irish migrants of Australia. Alice seemed to be under the spell of the bush,  and the magic of the wattle time
  22. Kavanagh, Patrick   Born: 1904, Died: 1967 (modern), 22 poems.
    We are awaiting permission from the Kavanagh Trust to allow us to display the works of this author.
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  23. Eguren, Jose Maria   Americas. Born: 1882, Died: 1942, 27 poems.
    A Peruvian poet born in 1882. He was originally devoted to the modernismo movement.
  24. Tulsidas,   Asian. Born: 1543, Died: 1623, 10 poems.
    He was one of the greatest 'Bhakti' poets India ever had.
  25. Stevens, Wallace   Americas. Born: 1879, Died: 1955, 50 poems.
    Critically regarded as one of the most significant American poets of the 20th century. Stevens largely ignored the literary world and he did not receive widespread recognition until the publication of his Collected Poems (1954).
  26. Hood, Thomas   English. Born: 1799, Died: 1845, 102 poems.
    Remembered for both his comic and serious work, Thomas Hood was an active, widely published English poet and editor.
  27. Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian   Asian. Born: 1809, Died: 1831, 5 poems.
  28. Gordon, Adam Lindsay   Oceania. Born: 1833, Died: 1870, 69 poems.
    Born at Fayel in the Azores and educated in England. Gordon was best known on his arrival in Australia as an amateur Steeplechaser rider in the colonies. His poems relay the stories of his Horseriding career.
  29. Emerson, Ralph Waldo   Americas. Born: 1803, Died: 1882, 112 poems.
  30. 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
  31. Americas, Anonymous   Americas. Born: 1000, Died: 1950, 217 poems.
    I am no one,
    Constructing eternity so
    I can live forever.
  32. Lanier, Sidney   Americas. Born: 1842, Died: 1881, 99 poems.
    A nineteenth century American romantic poet. He is most remembered for his much anthologized works such as such as The Marshes of Glynn and Song of the Chattahoochee.
  33. Ehrmann, Max   Americas. Born: 1872, Died: 1945, 6 poems.
  34. Dutt, Toru   Asian. Born: 1856, Died: 1877, 5 poems.
    Toru Dutt was the first Indian poetess to write in English
  35. Wheatley, Phillis   Americas. Born: 1753, Died: 1784, 47 poems.
    Wheatley was the first Black writer of consequence in America; and her life was an inspiring example to future generations of African-Americans.  In the 1830s, abolitionists reprinted her poetry and the powerful ideas contained in her deeply moving v
  36. Wordsworth, William   English. Born: 1770, Died: 1850, 351 poems.
  37. Tukaram, Sant   Asian. Born: 1608, Died: 1649, 7 poems.
    Saint and Poet from Maharashtra in Western India.
  38. Philips, Katherine   English. Born: 1631, Died: 1664, 23 poems.
    The first authorized collection of her verse was not published until 1667. A century and a half later, the Romantic poet John Keats admired her work in a letter to a friend.
  39. Silva, Jose Asuncion   Americas. Born: 1865, Died: 1896, 8 poems.
    One of the first Modernismo poets in the Spanish language.
  40. Whittier, John   Americas. Born: 1807, Died: 1892, 482 poems.
    I printed at my own expense, an edition of my first pamphlet, "Justice and Expediency." With the exception of a few dollars from the "Democratic Review" and "Buckingham’s Magazine," I received nothing for my poems and literary articles. Indeed, my pr
  41. Dickinson, Emily   Americas. Born: 1830, Died: 1886, 1063 poems.
    Emily only had six or seven of her poems published during her lifetime--and those without her consent.
  42. Komachi, Ono no   Asian. Born: 833, Died: 857, 23 poems.
    One of Japan's greatest female poets.  Her poetry is very passionate and complex, containing multiple entendres and metaphors.  She wrote all of her poems in the tanka form.
  43. Nervo, Amado Ruiz de   Americas. Born: 1870, Died: 1919, 31 poems.
    Nervo traveled to Paris on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition in 1900, visiting Spain, Germany and Austria as well. He was profoundly influenced by modernism
  44. Campbell, David   Oceania. Born: 1915, Died: 1979 (modern), 6 poems.
    David Campbell served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1939 to 1945, serving in the South Pacific, he reached the rank of Wing Commander and received the Distinguished Flying Cross with bar.
  45. Teasdale, Sara   Americas. Born: 1884, Died: 1933, 313 poems.
    Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Some of her work anticipates modern feminist verse and the intimate, autobiographical style known as confessional poetry. A large number of Teasdale's poems deal with love and death.
  46. Noyes, Alfred   English. Born: 1880, Died: 1958 (modern), 95 poems.
    First collection of poetry published when he was twenty-two, a noted poet, critic, essayist who refused to embrace the mordernist movement.
  47. Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth   Americas. Born: 1917, Died: 2000 (modern), 40 poems.
    Her profound interest in poetry informed much of her early life. "Eventide," her first poem, was published in American Childhood Magazine in 1930.
  48. Hayden, Robert   Americas. Born: 1913, Died: 1980 (modern), 14 poems.
    A Detroit-born poet, Hayden first became internationally recognised in the sixties. A celebrated poet, his work frequently appears in American collections and anthologies.
  49. Morrison, James Douglas   Americas. Born: 1943, Died: 1971 (modern), 7 poems.
    As Morrison himself said of poetry:
    "real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities... opens all doors you can walk through any one that suits you. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the lim
  50. 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.
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