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Old-poets matching 'Y' by name

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  1. Akahito, Yamabe no   Asian. Born: 700, Died: 740, 26 poems.
    He is famous for writing one of the first
    known descriptions of Mt. Fuji. Akahito was most famous for being able to simply capture a thought or a scene in a few short lines.
  2. Akiko, Yosano   Asian. Born: 1878, Died: 1942, 8 poems.
    Yosano Akiko was a poet, essayist, and feminist (1878-1942). During the Taiso regime women journalists and women’s journals debated new roles for women under the title New Woman, which differed considerably from the Meiji role of "good wife and wise
  3. Allison, Young   Americas. Born: 1853, Died: 1932, 1 poems.
  4. 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.
  5. Beyatli , Yahya   Born: 1884, Died: 1958 (modern), 16 poems.
  6. Buson, Yosa   Asian. Born: 1716, Died: 1783, 41 poems.
    Leading haiku poet of the late 18th century and, with Basho and Issa, one of the great names in haiku.
  7. Charents, Yeghishe   Asian. Born: 1897, Died: 1937, 3 poems.
  8. Chen, Yuan   Asian. Born: 779, Died: 831, 7 poems.
  9. Chon o, Yi   Asian. Born: 1341, Died: 1371, 1 poems.
  10. Eassa, Youssef Ezeddin   Asian. Born: 1914, Died: 1999 (modern), 0 poems.
  11. Emre, Yunus   Asian. Born: 1238, Died: 1320, 29 poems.
  12. Goll, Yvan   European. Born: 1891, Died: 1950, 1 poems.
  13. ha-Levi, Yehudah   European. Born: 1075, Died: 1141, 11 poems.
    One of the best-known Spanish Jewish poets.
  14. Halevi, Yehudah   Born: 1075, Died: 1171, 1 poems.
  15. ibn Harun al-Ramadi, Yusuf   Died: 1022, 1 poems.
  16. Jukichi, Yagi   Asian. Born: 1898, Died: 1927, 2 poems.
  17. Kolas, Yakub   Born: 1882, Died: 1956 (modern), 4 poems.
  18. Kupala, Yanka   Born: 1882, Died: 1942, 4 poems.
  19. Lee, Yuksa   Asian. Born: 1905, Died: 1944, 3 poems.
  20. Mei, Yuan   Asian. Born: 1716, Died: 1798, 4 poems.
    Mei was not only the most popular poet of the Ch'ing Dynasty (eighteenth century) but the most popular poet in the 2500-year history of classical Chinese poetry.
  21. Noguchi , Yone   Asian. Born: 1875, Died: 1947, 2 poems.
  22. Okura, Yamanoue no   Asian. Born: 669, Died: 733, 0 poems.
  23. Ritsos, Yiannis   European. Born: 1909, Died: 1990 (modern), 11 poems.
  24. Sōkan, Yamazak   Asian. Born: 1564, Died: 1553, 0 poems.
  25. Sokan, Yamazaki   Asian. Born: 1465, Died: 1553, 1 poems.
  26. Uhn, Koryo scholar Yang Sah   Asian. Born: 1517, Died: 1584, 1 poems.
  27. Wan-Li, Yang   Asian. Born: 1127, Died: 1206, 14 poems.
  28. Winters, Yvor   Americas. Born: 1900, Died: 1968 (modern), 29 poems.
    Winters agreed with D. H. Lawrence’s assessment of much of American literature, which he saw as heavily burdened with a self-indulgent romanticism.
  29. Yaitsu,   Asian. Died: 1807, 1 poems.
  30. Yared, Saint   Born: 505, Died: 571, 2 poems.
  31. Yayu,   Asian. Born: 1701, Died: 1783, 1 poems.
  32. Yi, Hwang   Asian. Born: 1501, Died: 1570, 2 poems.
    Yi Hwang was the greatest scholar and most influential Confucian philosopher of Korea’s Choson dynasty.
  33. Yun, Son-do   Asian. Born: 1587, Died: 1671, 1 poems.
    Yun is genrally deemed the greatest of Korean poets; his work with the sijo took the form to its zenith in the 17th century.
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