n. 25B6; noun WRITER OF POETRY, versifier, rhymester, rhymer, sonneteer, lyricist, lyrist; laureate; poetic/literary bard; derogatory poetaster; historical troubadour, balladeer; archaic rhymist. See list.
Poets
Acock, Fleur (New Zealand) Lamartine, Alphonse de (French)
Akhmatova, Anna (Russian) Landor, Walter Savage (English)
Alcaeus (Greek) Langland, William (English)
Anacreon (Greek) Larkin, Philip (English)
Angelou, Maya (American) Lawrence, D. H. (English)
Apollinaire, Guillaume (Wilhelm de Kostrowitzki; French) Layamon (English)
Archilochus (Greek) Lear, Edward (English)
Ariosto, Ludovico (Italian) Leconte de Lisle, Charles (French)
Arnold, Matthew (English) Leopardi, Giacomo (Italian)
Auden, W. H. (American) Lermontov, Mikhail (Russian)
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (American) Li Po (Chinese)
Barbour, John (Scottish) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (American)
Bash 014D; Matsuo (Matsuo Munefusa; Japanese) Lorca, Federico Garcia (Spanish)
Baudelaire, Charles (French) Lovelace, Richard (English)
Baxter, James (New Zealand) Lowell, Amy (American)
Belloc, Hilaire (British, b. in France) Lowell, Robert (American)
Betjeman, John (English) Lucan (Roman)
Bishop, Elizabeth (American) Lucretius (Roman)
Blake, William (English) Lydgate, John (English)
Blok, Aleksandr (Russian) Macdiarmid, Hugh (Christopher Grieve; Scottish)
Blunden, Edmund (English) MacNeice, Louis (Northern Irish)
Borges, Jorge (Argentinian) Malherbe, François de (French)
Breton, André (French) Mallarmé, Stéphane (French)
Bridges, Robert (English) Mandelstam, Osip (Russian, b. in Poland)
Brodsky, Joseph (American, b. in Russia) Marinetti, Filippo (Italian)
Brontë, Emily (English) Martial (Roman)
Brooke, Rupert (English) Marvell, Andrew (English)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (English) Masefield, John (English)
Browning, Robert (English) Mayakovsky, Vladimir (Russian)
Bunin, Ivan (Russian) Meleager (Greek)
Bunting, Basil (English) Millay, Edna St Vincent (American)
Bürger, Gottfried (German) Milosz, Czeslaw (American, b. in Lithuania)
Burns, Robert (Scottish) Milton, John (English)
Butler, Samuel (English) Montale, Eugenio (Italian)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (English) Moore, Marianne (American)
Caedmon (Anglo-Saxon) Moore, Thomas (Irish)
Callimachus (Greek) Motion, Andrew (English)
Camões, Luís de (Portuguese) Muir, Edwin (Scottish)
Campbell, Roy (South African) Murray, Les (Australian)
Carew, Thomas (English) Nash, Ogden (American)
Castilho, Antonio Feliciano de (Portuguese) Neruda, Pablo (Neftalí Reyes; Chilean)
Catullus (Roman) Omar Khayyam (Persian)
Cavafy, Constantine (Greek) Ovid (Roman)
Cavalcanti, Guido (Italian) Owen, Wilfred (English)
Chapman, George (English) Pasternak, Boris (Russian)
Chatterton, Thomas (English) Patmore, Coventry (English)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (English) Paz, Octavio (Mexican)
Chrétien de Troyes (French) Péguy, Charles (French)
Clare, John (English) Petrarch (Italian)
Clough, Arthur Hugh (English) Pindar (Greek)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (English) Plath, Sylvia (American)
Cowley, Abraham (English) Pope, Alexander (English)
Cowper, William (English) Porter, Peter (British, b. in Australia)
Crabbe, George (English) Pound, Ezra (American)
Crane, Hart (American) Propertius, Sextus (Roman)
cummings, e. e. (American) Pushkin, Aleksandr (Russian)
Cynewulf (Anglo-Saxon) Quasimodo, Salvatore (Italian)
Dafydd ap Gwilym (Welsh) Raine, Craig (British)
D'Annunzio, Gabriele (Italian) Rilke, Rainer Maria (German, b. in Czechoslovakia)
Dante Alighieri (Italian) Rimbaud, Arthur (French)
Da Ponte, Lorenzo (Italian) Rochester, 2nd Earl of (John Wilmet; English)
Davies, W. H. (English) Rossetti, Christina (English)
Day Lewis, C. (English) Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (English)
de la Mare, Walter (English) Russell, George (Irish)
Dickinson, Emily (American) Sadi (Persian)
Donne, John (English) Sappho (Greek)
Doolittle, Hilda (American) Sassoon, Siegfried (English)
Dowson, Ernest (English) Schiller, Friedrich von (German)
Dryden, John (English) Shakespeare, William (English)
Dunbar, William (Scottish) Shelley, Percy Bysshe (English)
Eliot, T. S. (British, b. in America) Sidney, Philip (English)
Éluard, Paul (French) Simonides (Greek)
Elytis, Odysseus (Greek) Sitwell, Edith (English)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (American) Skelton, John (English)
Empson, William (English) Smith, Stevie (English)
Ennius (Roman) Southey, Robert (English)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (American) Spender, Stephen (English)
Firdausi (Abu al-Qasim Mansur; Persian) Spenser, Edmund (English)
FitzGerald, Edward (English) Statius, Publius Papinius (Roman)
Flecker, James Elroy (English) Stevens, Wallace (American)
Foscolo, Ugo (Italian) Suckling, John (English)
Freneau, Philip (American) Swinburne, Algernon Charles (English)
Frost, Robert (American) Tagore, Rabindranath (Indian)
Gautier, Théophile (French) Taliesin (Welsh)
Gay, John (English) Tannhäuser (German)
Gibran, Khalil (American, b. in Lebanon) Tasso, Torquato (Italian)
Ginsberg, Allen (American) Tate, Nahum (Irish)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German) Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (English)
Góngora y Argote, Luis de (Spanish) Theocritus (Greek)
Graves, Robert (English) Thespis (Greek)
Gray, Thomas (English) Thomas, Dylan (Welsh)
Gunn, Thom (English) Thomas, Edward (English)
Gurney, Ivor (English) Thomas, R. S. (Welsh)
Haavikko, Paavo (Finnish) Thompson, Francis (English)
Hardy, Thomas (English) Thomson, James (Scottish)
Harrison, Tony (English) Tibullus, Albius (Roman)
Heaney, Seamus (Irish) Traherne, Thomas (English)
Heine, Heinrich (German) Tu Fu (Chinese)
Herbert, George (English) Tulsidas (Indian)
Herbert, Zbigniew (Polish) Tzara, Tristan (French, b. in Romania)
Herrick, Robert (English) Ungaretti, Giuseppe (Italian)
Hesiod (Greek) Valéry, Paul (French)
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (Austrian) Vaughan, Henry (Welsh)
Hogg, James (Scottish) Verlaine, Paul (French)
Hölderlin, Friedrich (German) Vigny, Alfred de (French)
Homer (Greek) Villon, François (French)
Hood, Thomas (English) Virgil (Roman)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (English) Vogelweide, Walther von der (German)
Horace (Roman) Walcott, Derek (St Lucian)
Housman, A. E. (English) Warren, Robert Penn (American)
Hughes, Ted (English) Whitman, Walt (American)
Hugo, Victor (French) Williams, William Carlos (American)
Iqbal, Muhammad (Indian) Wordsworth, William (English)
Jonson, Ben (English) Wright, Judith (Australian)
Kalidasa (Indian) Wyatt, Thomas (English)
Kavanagh, Patrick (Irish) Yeats W. B. (Irish)
Keats, John (English) Yesenin, Sergei (Russian)
La Fontaine, Jean de (French) Yevtushenko, Yevgenii (Russian)
Laforgue, Jules (French)