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Amir Khusro Dehlavi, Poet, musician, inventor, philosopher, linguist. Khusro was musician in the court of seven kings in Delhi, from Allauddin Khilji to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq.

Famous for his Poem Heer Waris Shah about the legend of the star crossed lovers Heer and Ranjha.

Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty one years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing.

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.

By the 1890s Australia had been settled for a little more than 100 years and Lawson was arguably the first Australian-born writer who really looked at Australia with Australian eyes, not influenced by his knowledge of other landscapes. He was the fir

They called him "The Poet of the People" "Poet Laureate of the American Home" and "America's Best Loved Poet of the Newspaper Age." In March, he earned another title, with his selection for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

Early 1890’s Frost attempted to submit several of his work to various magazines, which were rejected.  It was in about 1894, when the first of his poetry began to appear. His elegy ‘My Butterfly, an Elegy” being published in the Independent (a nation

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.

At age 19 she wrote the poem, 'My Country,' with the second verse being one of the best known stanzas in Austrailian poetry.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. This was the sixth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

He was a poet, playwright and author. Stephens incorporated Irish folklore into his work.

Sexton offers the reader an intimate view of the emotional anguish that characterized her life. She made the experience of being a woman a central issue in her poetry

Mirabai, a princess, was a devotee of Lord Krishna, she was in love with him from her early childhood and her poems are of love and devotion to her Lord. Her devotion of Lord Krishna made her go against the traditions and customs of her time and made

he has been admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and an ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wasn't just a great writer, he was also a famous photographer, mathematician, and illustrator. When he published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he used Lewis Carroll as a pen name. Dodgson invented his pen name by translat

He was quite successful as an author while he lived, but apart from a few poems and his supernatural fiction, he is not often reprinted today.

Jalalud'Din Rumi, The Thirteenth-Century Persian lawyer-divine and Sufi, is widely considered literature's greatest mystical poet.

An imaginative lyric poet, he wrote in the tradition of Keats and Shelley and was resistant to the new poetic techniques of the Modernists

Nizar Qabbani, left life as a Syrian diplomat to become one of the Arab world's greatest poets

Welsh poet, short-story writer, and playwright, renowned for the unique brilliance of his verbal imagery and for his celebration of natural beauty.

Kabir, a saint to millions, a universal Guru, a poet, a weaver by profession, a Sufi, and last but not the least a mystic. In India, he is perhaps the most quoted author.

Her poetry, meanwhile, states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion.

modelling himself after the great poets of classical antiquity, writing highly polished verse, often in a didactic or satirical vein. In verse translations, moral and critical essays, and satires that made him the foremost poet of his age

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

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

Vera Brittain is best known for her book "Testament of Youth", in which she tells the story of her harrowing experiences in the First World War.

Stevenson's works earned him great popularity because of his clear and careful style, and his extraordinary power as a storyteller.

Roethke exposure to nature and own reflections of family life give him an emotional basis for writings which helped break the mold previously set by T.S. Elliot.

Poet, Politician, Philosopher, Jurist and one of the founding fathers of Modern Pakistan, upon him was bestowed the honour 'Shaere-Meshria' the thinker poet of Islam.

Brooke's reputation, aside from the myth of the fallen "golden warrior" that his friends set about creating almost immediately after his death, rests on the five war sonnets of 1914. Some of his earlier poetry--"Fish," Helen and Menelaus," and "Heave

One of Pakistan's best known Urdu poets of recent times. Couched his socially conscious poetry in sweet mellifluous words.

Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat and the most well known of the modernismos

Blind poet, saint, and musician of India. He portrayed in exquisite poetry the life of Krishna.

Tolkien's epic world is populated by elves, dwarves, magicians, and evil monsters. He saw himself as a Hobbit

Marriott, Edgar became known for his witty dittys such as The Lion and Albert, Aggie the Elephant, and The Magna Carta, which were immortalized in popular monologues by actor Stanley Holloway.

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.

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

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.

Spanish poet who turned to writing and acting to support himself.

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

Considered by many to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century, a storyteller, whose works are still cited - or parodied.

Even at the age of 80, he was sending things up, and refusing to lie down and be conformist.

Famous poet of the Marsia (elegiac poetry in Urdu).

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

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.

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.

Abdur Rahim KhanKhanan (also known as Rahim) lived during the reign of Akbar. He was an excellent poet and an Astrologer.

"I came out in order to help these boys-- directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can. I have done the first" (October, 1918).

avant-guarde novelist, erotic prose and poetry, creates sensitive and perceptive works.

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.

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

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.

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

This dual belief in nature and religion colored his literary criticism as well as his other writing throughout his life.

 

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

In 1969, he was knighted, and when Cecil Day Lewis died in 1972, Jb was made Poet Laureate.

was an American poet and leading apostle of the beat generation.

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.

one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics

He was one of the greatest 'Bhakti' poets India ever had.

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.

Gurney was regarded as one of the most promising men of his generation, both in music and poetry

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.

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.

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.

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

Basho Matsuo is known as the first great poet in the history of haikai (and haiku).

As a poet Wilmot was a follower of Abraham Cowley and of Boileau, to both of whom’ he was considerably indebted. His love lyrics are often happy, but his real vigour and ability iS best shown in his critical poems and satires. The political satire

Considered the greatest of the sanskrit dramatists, and the first great name in Sanskrit literature after Ashvaghoshha

Declared James Joyce the most influentila poet of the twentieth century.

Sarojinidevi was a great patriot, politician, orator and administrator. She had an integrated personality and could mesmerize audiences with her pure honesty and patriotism.

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

Leading haiku poet of the late 18th century and, with Basho and Issa, one of the great names in haiku.

Renowned twentieth century writer. He was a leading voice of young English writers called 'The Movement',using intensity of emotion while avoiding sentiment and self-pity in his pieces.

Oscar founded the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for art's sake."

 

As a poet, Michelangelo left us with approximately 300 pieces of poetry, occupying the considerable place in the Renaissance lyrics.

Though perhaps less obvious, the tremendous influence of his poetry, which addresses the poet's most innermost feelings with complete transparency, can easily be seen in writers as different from each other as W. B. Yeats, James Wright, Sylvia Plath,

A major poet in the modern post Ww Ii phase of Indian Anglian Poetry

A famous Welsh bard from around 550 Ad. He also became something of a mythic figure in early Welsh legend.

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.

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

Toru Dutt was the first Indian poetess to write in English

It was during this time that she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Harp-Weaver and other Poems

The secret of Crane's success as war correspondent, journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and poet lay in his achieving tensions between irony and pity, illusion and reality, or the double mood of hope contradicted by despair.

author of the popular Flannan Isle

Eliot wrote of his "genius". Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women.

Masefield's literary career was rich and varied, and although his reputation waned in later years, he is again being recognized for his wide range, encompassing ballads, nature poetry and mythological narrative, and for his attempt to make poetry a p

Edward Taylor was born in Leicestershire, England in 1642. He emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1668, and studied Divinity at Harvard, becoming a minister. He became known as one of the best writers of the Puritan times.

Her poems were published in 1650 as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, which is generally considered the first book of original poetry written in colonial America.

In 1974 Silverstein published a collection of poems for children called Where The Sidewalk Ends. Bringing him comparisons to the likes of Dr. Seuss and Edward Lear, Where The Sidewalk Ends contained humorous efforts such as "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stou

James Weldon Johnson came from an extremely talented family that weighed heavily on the prolific artist he came to be.  "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is his most famous work, it is now called, "The Negro National Anthem"

Her profound interest in poetry informed much of her early life. "Eventide," her first poem, was published in American Childhood Magazine in 1930.

Author of the infamous Waverly Novels, including Rob Roy, and numerous poems, notably The Lady of the Lake, Marmion, etc.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of ex-slaves and classmate to Orville Wright of aviation fame.   

His own work included many books of poetry, such as the verse novel The Fire on the Snow, and the memoir Springtime in Taranaki. He died in 1985.

Augusta Webster spent her young years on the ship Griper, stationed at such places as Banff Castle and Penzance, and then in 1851, at Cambridge.

In 1806 Byron had his early poems privately printed in a volume entitled Fugitive Pieces, and  that same  year he formed at Trinity what was to be a  lifelong friendship with John Hobhouse, who stirred his interest in liberal Whigg

In almost her last letter, she declared her goal to be total honesty. ‘If I were allowed one single cry to God, that cry would be: I want to be Real.

Both during his lifetime and since, Belloc's refusal to tone down his views, and his contempt for the political, literary and social establishments of the day, militated against recognition of him as a major writer and thinker.

Ady's poems either scandalized people or were revered as standards of the revolution. No other Hungarian poet has been the subject of such fervent disputes as he.

Brown is known for his frank, unsentimental portraits of black people and their experiences...

French poet and leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry. Mallarmé's vers libre had a huge influence on twentieth century French poetry, and in the creation of the modernist tradition in German and American poetry.

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).

The poems Binyon wrote during the First World War were collected in "The Four Years" and published in 1919

César Vallejo was born in 1892 in the town of Santiago de Chuco, Perú, where he was brought up along with his eleven older brothers and sisters.

Vallejo began writing poetry in 1913.

One of the most famous Islamic mystics was a woman: Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya (c.717-801). This 8th century saint was an early Sufi who had a profound influence on later Sufis.

His novel, Doktor Zhivago, won him the Nobel Prize in 1958, which the Union of Soviet Writers compelled him to decline.

As with many Persian authors, little is known about Hafiz' life. He is considered an incomporable master of the ghazal form, and a source of wisdom and guidance to this day.

As a poet Rilke made his debut at the age of nineteen with Leben und Lieder (1894), written in the conventional style of Heinrich Heine.

He is widely recognized as one of the most important poets to appear in Canada in the last thirty years.

A twentieth century Welsh writer of poetry and verse. Remembered mainly for his religious poetry, but also because of his strong republican views.

The precocious boy-poet of French symbolism, wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the 19th century. His highly suggestive, subtle work drew on subconscious sources, and its form was correspondingly supple and novel. Rimbaud has been

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..

W.B.Yeats work is now seen as being a major part of the Irish literature revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

The questions and longings of those summer evenings when I stood in the dying glory of a Wisconsin sunset on the south hill back of the lonely little home, have all been answered.

*She was, as Herbert notes, the wellspring from which all creative works flowed and was, in essence, a co-creator of them.

The voice of the Beat Generation, born in Lowell Massachusetts, the youngest of three children.  Probably best known for his novel On the Road

Meer is the biggest name in Urdu poetry, every poet including Ghalib and Zauq have acknowledged Meer's greatness.

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.

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.

In the late 1960's, Brautigan began to gain popularity and during this time, published several of his most popular works

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McKay's viewpoints and poetic achievements in the earlier part of the twentieth century set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance.

was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his pshycological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide.

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.

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.

Remembered for both his comic and serious work, Thomas Hood was an active, widely published English poet and editor.

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

 

German philosopher and critic of culture, who influenced a number of the major writers and philosophers of the 20th century Germany and France.

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.

Who wrote it?  Who knows? The names fell from the pages,
Lost and never to return

John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London.

He wrote at least 45,000 rhymed couplets and many prose works, and he was greatly admired by the Sufi poet Rumi.

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

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

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

During his wanderings Service had spent much time reading and dreaming and one day he was invited to recite at a church concert. A friend of his suggested that Service write something about the Yukon.

First collection of poetry published when he was twenty-two, a noted poet, critic, essayist who refused to embrace the mordernist movement.

Crane strove to balance moments of ecstatic consciousness when spiritual transcendence seems within reach against the boundaries of human and material limitations.

Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

Created many childrens poems, musical comedies (collaborations), various poetry.

Robert Burns was born in Alloway in 1759. He worked on his father's farm, but spent much of his time reading and educating himself.

Acclaimed as Australia's greatest war poet.

I am no one,
Constructing eternity so
I can live forever.

Saint and Poet from Maharashtra in Western India.

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

T.S. Eliot has called him 'the great master of metric as well as of melancholia' and that he possessed the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.

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

avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius, whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and Ii.

Robert did not become recognized as a poet, until after Elizabeth's death in 1861. After which, he was honored for the rest of his life as a literary figure

An American critic, satirical poet, and short-story writer.
Known for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit.

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.

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).

 

A well-loved Irish songwriter, poet, entertainer and painter.

A poet and scholar whose verse explored the realms of nature and the spirit.

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

The leading poet of Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period and one of the founders of Russian Futurism movement.

Bertolt Brecht's genius was for language. However, because this language is built upon a certain bold and direct simplicity, his plays often lose something in the translation from his native German.

Before his career was interrupted by the war, he had established himself not only as a playwright and manager, but as a poet by the publication of Madagascar;

Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo is not only a Poet but a Philosopher, Educator and Author.

Born n 356 Ad, Tao Chien was an early Taoist poet who is generally regarded as being one of the foremost pre-Tang poets.

Through the publication of The Bee and the Life of Beau Nash, Goldsmith achieved considerable popularity, and his fortunes began to mend. He belonged to the circle of Johnson, Burke, Reynolds, and was one of "The Club."

World famous explorer whose prose and poetry were influenced by his many conquests and misadventures.

Compiler of the anthology Manyoshu, which is a collection of ten thousand leaves and 4,562 poems.

Emily only had six or seven of her poems published during her lifetime--and those without her consent.

Renowned twentieth century English novelist and poet. He believed in writing poetry true to the feeling of the inner essence of his subject.

A Greek poet, published only about 200 privately printed poems. Cavafy has come in recent years to be regarded as a the greatest Mediterranean poet of modern times.

A British poet, born in 1878. His poems are sensitive, subjective, and often sad, and they reveal his passion for nature and the countryside.

Virtually unknown in his lifetime, we have his poetry today only because it was collected and published by his friends after his death

Stampa is considered the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age.

Henry Kendall was born in 1839, an Australian, brought up among the mountains and forests of the south coast of New South Wales.

Much of his work give an insight into the weekend countryside retreats which many courtiers used to escape the pressure of high society court protocol, and teach us the value of nature through the Buddhist perception.

None of Wyatt's poems were ever printed in his lifetime and his first published work was, Certain Psalms...Drawn into English Metre, (1549).

Spending many of his adolescent years working in pool halls, bars, and juke joints, he mastered the art of "telling toasts".

Poet, prose writer and thinker Shaykh Sa'di,  was born in Shiraz Persia.

Whitman struggled finacially throughout his life, with much of his salary, modest royaltiees and even gifts and purses from other poets on aid supplies for the patients he cared for and his mother and injured brother.

The writer of the great Hindu epic The Ramayana. This epic poem provides insights into many aspects of Indian culture and continues to influence the politics, religion and art of modern India