English > poet: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry). |
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| Instances | Alcaeus | Greek lyric poet of Lesbos |
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| Apollinaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki | French poet |
| Arnold, Matthew Arnold | English poet and literary critic (1822-1888) |
| Arp, Jean Arp, Hans Arp | Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich |
| Auden, W. H. Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden | United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973) |
| Baudelaire, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudelaire | A French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language (1821-1867) |
| Benet, Stephen Vincent Benet | United States poet |
| Blake, William Blake | Visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827) |
| Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok | Russian poet (1880-1921) |
| Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio | Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375) |
| Bradstreet, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet | poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672) |
| Brecht, Bertolt Brecht | German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956) |
| Brooke, Rupert Brooke | English lyric poet (1887-1915) |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning | English poet best remembered for love / love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861) |
| Browning, Robert Browning | English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889) |
| Burns, Robert Burns | celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796) |
| Butler, Samuel Butler | English poet (1612-1680) |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale | English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious / rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824) |
| Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) |
| Carducci, Giosue Carducci | Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907) |
| Carew, Thomas Carew | Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored / favored by Charles I (1595-1639) |
| Catullus, Gaius Valerius Catullus | Roman lyric poet remembered for his love / love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC) |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer | English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400) |
| Ciardi, John Ciardi, John Anthony Ciardi | United States poet and critic (1916-1986) |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge | English romantic poet (1772-1834) |
| Corneille, Pierre Corneille | French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684) |
| Cowper, William Cowper | English poet who wrote hymns and poetry about nature (1731-1800) |
| Crane, Hart Crane, Harold Hart Crane | United States poet (1899-1932) |
| Cynewulf, Cynwulf | Anglo-Saxon poet (circa 9th century) |
| Dante, Dante Alighieri | An Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) |
| Dickinson, Emily Dickinson | United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886) |
| Donne, John Donne | English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631) |
| Dryden, John Dryden | The outstanding / outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700) |
| Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot | British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature |
| Fitzgerald, Edward Fitzgerald | English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883) |
| Frost, Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost | United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963) |
| Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca | Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936) |
| Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert | A librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911) |
| Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg | United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997) |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832) |
| Gongora, Luis de Gongora y Argote | A Spanish poet whose work was characterized by an affected elegance of style (1561-1627) |
| Gray, Thomas Gray | English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771) |
| Herrick, Robert Herrick | English lyric poet (1591-1674) |
| Hesiod | Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC) |
| Hoffmannsthal, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal | German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929) |
| Hogg, James Hogg | Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835) |
| Homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins | English poet (1844-1889) |
| Horace | Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC) |
| Housman, A. E. Housman, Alfred Edward Housman | English poet (1859-1936) |
| Hughes, Ted Hughes, Edward James Hughes | English poet (born in 1930) |
| Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo | French poet and novelist and dramatist |
| Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen | realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906) |
| Jarrell, Randall Jarrell | United States poet (1914-1965) |
| Jeffers, Robinson Jeffers, John Robinson Jeffers | United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962) |
| Jimenez, Juan Ramon Jimenez | Spanish lyric poet (1881-1958) |
| Jonson, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson | English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637) |
| Karlfeldt, Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Swedish poet whose works incorporate Swedish customs and folklore (1864-1931) |
| Keats, John Keats | Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821) |
| Key, Francis Scott Key | United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 |
| Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | German poet (1724-1803) |
| Li Po | Chinese lyric poet (700-762) |
| Lindsay, Vachel Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay | United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931) |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882) |
| Lovelace, Richard Lovelace | English poet (1618-1857) |
| Lowell, Amy Lowell | United States poet (1874-1925) |
| Lowell, Robert Lowell, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr. | United States poet (1917-1977) |
| Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus | Roman philosopher and poet |
| MacLeish, Archibald MacLeish | United States poet (1892-1982) |
| Mallarme, Stephane Mallarme | French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898) |
| Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Mandelshtam | Russian poet who died in a prison camp (1891-1938) |
| Marini, Giambattista Marini, Marino, Giambattista Marino | Italian poet (1569-1625) |
| Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe | English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form / form of dramatic expression |
| Marti, Jose Julian Marti | Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895) |
| Martial | Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC) |
| Marvell, Andrew Marvell | English poet (1621-1678) |
| Masefield, John Masefield, John Edward Masefield | English poet (1878-1967) |
| Masters, Edgar Lee Masters | United States poet (1869-1950) |
| Mayakovski, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski | Soviet poet |
| Meredith, George Meredith | English novelist and poet (1828-1909) |
| Milton, John Milton | English poet |
| Moore, Marianne Moore, Marianne Craig Moore | United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872) |
| Moore, Thomas Moore | Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852) |
| Morris, William Morris | English poet and craftsman (1834-1896) |
| Musset, Alfred de Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de Musset | French poet and writer (1810-1857) |
| Neruda, Pablo Neruda, Reyes, Neftali Ricardo Reyes | Chilean poet (1904-1973) |
| Noyes, Alfred Noyes | English poet (1880-1958) |
| Omar Khayyam | Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123) |
| Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso | Roman poet remembered for his elegiac / elegiac verses on love / love (43 BC - AD 17) |
| Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave | English poet (1824-1897) |
| Petrarch, Petrarca, Francesco Petrarca | An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374) |
| Pindar | Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC) |
| Plath, Sylvia Plath | United States writer and poet (1932-1963) |
| Poe, Edgar Allan Poe | United States writer and poet (1809-1849) |
| Pope, Alexander Pope | English poet and satirist (1688-1744) |
| Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound | United States writer who lived in Europe |
| Pushkin, Alexander Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin | Russian poet (1799-1837) |
| Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine | French advocate of Jansenism |
| Riley, James Whitcomb Riley | United States poet (1849-1916) |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke | German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20th-century German literature (1875-1926) |
| Rimbaud, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud | French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891) |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson | United States poet |
| Rostand, Edmond Rostand | French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918) |
| Seeger, Alan Seeger | United States poet killed in World War I (1888-1916) |
| Sexton, Anne Sexton | United States poet (1928-1974) |
| Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakspere, Bard of Avon | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley | Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822) |
| Shevchenko, Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko | Ukranian poet (1814-1861) |
| Sidney, Sir Philip Sidney | English poet (1554-1586) |
| Silverstein, Shel Silverstein, Shelby Silverstein | United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999) |
| Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell | English poet (1887-1964) |
| Southey, Robert Southey | English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843) |
| Spender, Stephen Spender, Sir Stephen Harold Spender | English poet and critic (1909-1995) |
| Spenser, Edmund Spenser | English poet who wrote an allegorical romance / romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599) |
| Stevens, Wallace Stevens | United States poet (1879-1955) |
| Suckling, Sir John Suckling | English poet and courtier (1609-1642) |
| Swinburne, Algernon Charles Swinburne | English poet (1837-1909) |
| Symons, Arthur Symons | English poet (1865-1945) |
| Synge, J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge | Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909) |
| Tasso, Torquato Tasso | Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595) |
| Tate, Allen Tate, John Orley Allen Tate | United States poet and critic (1899-1979) |
| Teasdale, Sara Teasdale | United States poet (1884-1933) |
| Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, First Baron Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson | Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892) |
| Thespis | Greek poet who is said to have originated Greek tragedy (sixth century BC) |
| Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Dylan Marlais Thomas | Welsh poet (1914-1953) |
| Trumbull, John Trumbull | American satirical poet (1750-1831) |
| Tzara, Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenstock | French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the dada movement (1896-1963) |
| Uhland, Johann Ludwig Uhland | German romantic poet (1787-1862) |
| Verlaine, Paul Verlaine | French symbolist poet (1844-1896) |
| Villon, Francois Villon | French poet (flourished around 1460) |
| Virgil, Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro | A Roman poet |
| Voznesenski, Andrei Voznesenski | Russian poet (born in 1933) |
| Warren, Robert Penn Warren | United States writer and poet (1905-1989) |
| Watts, Isaac Watts | English poet and theologian (1674-1748) |
| Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley | American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784) |
| Whitman, Walt Whitman | United States poet who celebrated the greatness of America (1819-1892) |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier | United States poet best known for his nostalgic poems about New England (1807-1892) |
| Williams, William Carlos Williams | United States poet (1883-1963) |
| Wordsworth, William Wordsworth | A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850) |
| Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyat, Sir Thomas Wyat | English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542) |
| Wylie, Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie | United States poet (1885-1928) |
| Yeats, William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats | Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) |
| Yevtushenko, Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko | Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933) |
| Young, Edward Young | English poet (1683-1765) |
| de la Mare, Walter de la Mare, Walter John de la Mare | English poet remembered for his verse for children (1873-1956) |
| Narrower | bard | A lyric poet |
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| elegist | The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead |
| odist | A poet who writes odes |
| poet laureate | The poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain |
| poet laureate | A poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region |
| poetess | A woman poet |
| sonneteer | A poet who writes sonnets |
| Broader | writer, author | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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| Spanish | poeta, poetisa, versificador |
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| Catalan | poeta, versificador |
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| Adjectives | poetic | of or relating to poets |
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| Verbs | poetize, poetise | compose verses or put into verse |
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