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  1. S, M   Americas. Born: 1800, Died: 1900, 1 poems.
  2. S, J   English. Born: 1750, Died: 1850, 1 poems.
  3. Sōkan, Yamazak   Asian. Born: 1564, Died: 1553, 0 poems.
  4. Sa di,   Asian. Born: 1184, Died: 1291, 300 poems.
    Poet, prose writer and thinker Shaykh Sa'di,  was born in Shiraz Persia.
  5. Saarikoski, Pentti   European. Born: 1937, Died: 1983 (modern), 2 poems.
    Pentti Saarikoski was born in Impilahti, Finland in 1937, into a family composed mainly of civil servants, politicians and entrepenuers. Saarikoski studied literature and the Greek histories/language at the University of Helsinki in the 1950s without
  6. Saavedra, Duke de Rivas Angel de   European. Born: 1791, Died: 1865, 6 poems.
    Angel de Saavedra was born in Cordova on March 10, 1791, he was the second son of Juan Martin de Saavedra. When he was eleven years old he entered the Seminario de Nobles in Madrid, Spain but left the Seminario when he was sixteen years old to jo
  7. Saba, Umberto   European. Born: 1883, Died: 1957 (modern), 16 poems.
    Umberto Saba was born Umberto Poli, in 1883. His father: a christian, abandoned his mother: a jew, while she was still pregnant with him, so Saba was brought up by his mother and aunts in the Jewish quarter of Trieste; he did not meet his father unt
  8. Sabie, Francis   English. Born: 1520, Died: 1620, 8 poems.
  9. Sabin, Arthur Knowles   English. Born: 1879, Died: 1959 (modern), 1 poems.
    Officer-in-Charhe, Bethnal Green Museum, 1922-1940.
  10. Sacchetti, Franco   European. Born: 1330, Died: 1400, 1 poems.
    He held a number of public offices in Florence and wrote lyric verse and moral discourses. He is best remembered for his Novelle (c.1378–c.1395), a collection of tales in the manner of the Decameron.
  11. Sachio, Ito   Asian. Born: 1864, Died: 1913, 0 poems.
  12. Sachs, Nelly Leonie   European. Born: 1891, Died: 1970 (modern), 3 poems.
    A poet and playwright born in Berlin of Jewish parents, Sachs escaped from Nazi Germany in 1940 to Stockholm, where she became a Swedish citizen, and eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. First published as a poet in Germany in 1921,
  13. Sachs, Hans   European. Born: 1494, Died: 1576, 3 poems.
    German burgher, meistersinger, and poet who was outstanding for his popularity, output, and aesthetic and religious influence. He is idealized in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
  14. Sackville, Earl of Dorset Charles   English. Born: 1636, Died: 1706, 14 poems.
    being too eager of the riotous and licentious pleasures which young men of high rank, who aspired to be thought wits, at that time imagined themselves intitled to indulge.
  15. Sackville, Earl of Dorset Thomas   Born: 1536, Died: 1608, 1 poems.
    Sackville is important in English literature as the author, with Thomas Norton and others, of Gorboduc (first acted 1561), a drama in blank verse,
  16. Sackville, Margaret   English. Born: 1881, Died: 1963 (modern), 4 poems.
    Margaret Sackville was born in 1881, to the 7th Earl De La Warr. As a poet and children's author, she joined the anti-war, Union of Democratic Control in 1914. Her aunt and uncle, Muriel De La Warr and Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr, were as
  17. Sackville-West, Victoria   English. Born: 1892, Died: 1962 (modern), 17 poems.
    All Sackville-West's books reveal her wit, her vocation as a poet, and her aristocratic heritage
  18. Saenz, Jaime   Americas. Born: 1921, Died: 1986 (modern), 5 poems.
  19. Sagarra, Josep Maria de   European. Born: 1894, Died: 1961 (modern), 0 poems.
    Josep Maria de Sagarra was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1894. He had many accomplishments throughout his life as a playwright, journalist, novelist, memoirs writer translator, and poet. His vigor brought his range of rhetorical resources, and his aim
  20. Sahay, Raghuvir   Asian. Born: 1929, Died: 1990 (modern), 12 poems.
    was a versatile Hindi poet,
    translator, short-story writer and journalist.
  21. Saib,   Asian. Born: 1601, Died: 1677, 1 poems.
    One of the greatest master of Persian poetry of his time.
  22. Saigyo,   Asian. Born: 1118, Died: 1190, 19 poems.
    The wandering poet-monk Saigyo (1118-90) lived in seclusion in this small hut for some while. He is well known as an itinerant monk who composed many fine waka poems in the tanka form.
  23. Saikaku, Ihara   Asian. Born: 1642, Died: 1693, 1 poems.
    Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai [comic linked verse] poet, astonishing contemporaries with his skill at composing sequences of thousands of stanzas in a single sitting. Later he turned to writing ukiyozoshi, a popular prose form which i
  24. Saint-Amant, Antoine de Girard   European. Born: 1594, Died: 1661, 0 poems.
    Antoine Girard Saint-Amant born in Rouen, France in 1594, he was the son of a naval officer. Saint-Amant was a freethinker who was vivid and realistic, especially in his lyrical verse of the tavern. He was the author of a long and sometimes refered t
  25. 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.
  26. Saint-Gelais, Mellin de   European. Born: 1487, Died: 1558, 30 poems.
    Mellin de Saint-Gelais was born in Angoulem, France, in 1487. He was the nephew or perhaps the son of Octavien de Saint-Gelais. After he took a trip to Italy, he was appointed by Francois I as almoner to the Dauphin, then he was appointed librarian o
  27. Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin   European. Born: 1804, Died: 1869, 2 poems.
  28. Saito, Mokichi   Asian. Born: 1882, Died: 1953, 0 poems.
  29. Salcedo Coronel, Jose Garcia de   European. Born: 1592, Died: 1651, 0 poems.
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  30. Salinas de Castro, Juan de   European. Born: 1562, Died: 1643, 0 poems.
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  31. Salis, Count Johann Gaudenz von   European. Born: 1762, Died: 1834, 2 poems.
  32. Saltmarsh, John   English. Born: 1610, Died: 1647, 1 poems.
  33. Saltus, Francis S   Americas. Born: 1846, Died: 1889, 9 poems.
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  34. Saltwood, Robert   English. Born: 1500, Died: 1600, 1 poems.
  35. Saltykov, Prokopiy   Asian. Born: 1934, Died: 1994 (modern), 0 poems.
    Prokopiy Saltykov was born in 1934 near Siberia, Russia. He was a teacher of his native Khanty language and also was a journalist in Salekhard, Russia, which is northwest of Siberia.
  36. Salusbury, Sir John   English. Born: 1567, Died: 1512, 1 poems.
  37. Salvat-Papasseit, Joan   European. Born: 1894, Died: 1924, 1 poems.
    Joan Salvat-Papasseit was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1894, he was regarded as an Catalan anarchist and as well as an avant-garde poet, he was also one of the maximum representatives of the vangardist movements that was developed in Catalunya between
  38. Sama, Balkrishna   Asian. Born: 1903, Died: 1981 (modern), 1 poems.
    Balkrishna Sama was born in 1902 in Nepal, he was an articulate Nepali nationalist and of the founding fathers of 'modern' Neapli Literature. When it came to the early 1920s, Sama had started defining Neapl as a place that lacked 'pure' Nepali cultur
  39. Samain, Albert   European. Born: 1858, Died: 1900, 1 poems.
  40. Samaniego, Felix Maria   European. Born: 1745, Died: 1801, 0 poems.
  41. San Jose, Jeronimo de   European. Born: 1587, Died: 1654, 0 poems.
  42. Sanai, Hakim   Asian. Born: 1080, Died: 1131, 10 poems.
    Hakim Sanai wasthe best of the three great mystical mathnavi writers of Persia the second being Attar and the third Rumi, of him Rumi said "Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and 'Attar.”
  43. Sanborn, Robert Alden   Americas. Born: 1880, Died: 1962 (modern), 1 poems.
  44. Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin   Americas. Born: 1831, Died: 1917, 2 poems.
  45. Sanchez Barbero, Francisco   European. Born: 1764, Died: 1819, 0 poems.
  46. Sanchez de Talavera, Ferrnat   European. Died: 1443, 0 poems.
  47. Sandburg, Carl   Americas. Born: 1878, Died: 1967 (modern), 235 poems.
    He was ahead of most of his fellow poets in his interest in American folksong and lore. He won the Pulitzer Prize (1940) for the last of his six-volume biography of Lincoln (1926--39).
  48. Sander, L C   European. Born: 1756, Died: 1819, 0 poems.
  49. Sandes, John   Oceania. Born: 1863, Died: 1938, 6 poems.
  50. Sands, George   Americas. Born: 1824, Died: 1874, 25 poems.
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