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Monday, February 9, 2015

WORLD FAMOUS POET

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A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” Does this quote remind you of someone? Of course, of the ...
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A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson was an accomplished English author, poet and essayist. A number of his ghost stories have also been published along ...
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A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman, better known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet regarded as one of the greatest scholars of all ...
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A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons
Multiple award winning American poet Archie Randolph Ammons, better known as A. R. Ammons, was famous for his works describing the wonders of ...
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Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge was a prolific and gifted author. Reading her works, one can get terrific insights into the sensibilities and styles of the then ...
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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was born to Jewish-Protestant parents. Her father encouraged her to read and ...
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus was a Greek tragedian who gave his life to dramatic arts. He laid the foundation and groundwork that was required for the art to ...
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American librettist and lyricist who along with Frederick Loewe created some of the most renowned and enduring works of ...
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was a well-known writer, essayist and screenwriter. He wrote his fist novel at the age of 17, the novel was never ...
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
An 18th-century English poet, Alexander Pope was best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of the works of Homer. Born in ...
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Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset was a French dramatist and poet, regarded as one of the first Romantic writers. He was also a prolific novelist of the romantic ...
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Alfred de Vigny
Alfred de Vigny
One of the major writers in the era of French Romanticism, Alfred de Vigny was a poet, playwright and novelist who began his career as a ...
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Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson was a poet laureate of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria and also one of the most known poets in ...
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Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English author, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, notably known for his ballads ‘The Highwayman’ and ...
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Allan Cunningham
Allan Cunningham
Allan Cunningham didn’t have access to great education unlike many of his other contemporaries yet he authored some of the finest works of ...
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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was a famous American poet who passionately battled against militarism, materialism and sexual repression. A prominent ...
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Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet is considered to be one of the most iconic names of French literature. Unlike many famous writers in world history, Alphonse ...
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Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam, the young poet who emotively invoked Waris Shah in what would become her best known poem, ‘Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu’, was ...
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Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt was an American poet and author known for works marked by dense language and complex allusions. She published her first book of ...
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Amy Levy
Amy Levy
Amy Levy was a British poetess and novelist, one of the most remembered authors of the Victorian era. She came from an Anglo-Jewish family and ...
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Andre Breton
Andre Breton
Andre Breton was a distinguished writer and poet from France. He was one of the few personalities who reinforced and led the Surrealist movement ...
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer and literary critic best known for collecting folk and fairy tales and publishing them in a series. He also ...
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Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell
One of the major English poets of the 17th century, Andrew Marvell was a metaphysical poet known for his passionate, sensuous and elegant ...
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Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet
With the publication of her first work “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, by a Gentlewoman of those Parts” in London in 1650, Anne ...
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Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was an influential American poet famous for her highly personal and confessional poetry. She had extensively used her knowledge of ...
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes was an acclaimed Greek comic playwright and poet. Among his originally written forty plays, only eleven are still extant. These, ...
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 Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a famous French poet and adventurer. He came out with some of his finest poems while he was still in his late ...
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhya
Bankim Chandra Chatt...
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a famous Bengali poet, writer and journalist. He was the author of Anandamath containing the National Song of ...
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Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, poet, social activist and author of the best-selling novel ‘The Poisonwood Bible’. A prolific ...
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Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
A highly acclaimed, literary figure from the 17trh century, Ben Jonson is widely hailed as ‘one of the most vigorous minds that ever added to ...
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, born as Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, was a German poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was a visionary who departed ...
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 C. Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis, commonly known as C. Day Lewis CBE, was an Irish-born poet and novelist. He was also a British poet Laureate from 1968, until ...
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Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
The first woman Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duff is a much-admired, award-winning female poet. Many of her poems are part of ...
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Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers, the author of the celebrated piece of fiction ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ was born as Lula Carson Smith. The author is ...
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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was one of the most creatively proficient novelist and translator who introduced modern US and English writers to Italy. His works ...
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a notable French poet, also known as an essayist, art critic and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. Being a critic ...
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Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte was a famous English novelist and poet who left behind a rich legacy of written work which includes classical novels like ...
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Called "the father of modern African writing", Chinua Achebe was one of the most widely read novelists from Nigeria who played a pivotal role in ...
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Claude McKay
Claude McKay
One of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, Festus Claudius McKay was a Jamaican-American novelist and poet. Better known as ...
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, popularly known as Dante, was a chief Italian poet during the middle ages. Born in Florence, he spent a large portion ...
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David Wagoner
David Wagoner
David Wagoner is one of the prolific writers amongst the list of modern American literary scholars. Though media glare and attention has always ...
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Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
A Nobel laureate and an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Derek Walcott is one of the creative geniuses ...
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas, also known as Dylan Marlais Thomas, was a Welsh-born poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. Apart from poetry, he also ...
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EE Cummings
E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an impressive American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He is ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, who was also associated with the American Romantic Movement. He was ...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Mil...
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poetess and playwright who was known for her feminist activism and her several love affairs. Some of her ...
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Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey was a famous American writer and illustrator. He was famous, particularly in the gothic subculture, for his unconventional ...
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Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Young was one of the most prominent English poets of 18th century. He attended Winchester College and earned his degree from New College, ...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Br...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was among the most eminent English poets of the Victorian era. Her works were immensely famous in England as well as ...
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Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop was an extremely admired American poet, quite popular for her striking sense of witty and descriptive poems. Bishop was the ...
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's prolific excellence lay in her positive approach and optimistic nature. She had started penning down poetry from an early ...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet much acclaimed worldwide for her unique poems. Known for her seclusion from outer world and ...
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Ezra Pound
An expatriate American poet and critic, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was a chief personality in the initial modernist movement in poetry. He gained ...
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Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a noted literary figure of the 20th century Portugal and is known to be the greatest poet of the ...
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Francesco Petrarch
Francesco Petrarch
The illustrious Italian poet, scholar and humanist, Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch is inarguably one of the most influential poets in the world ...
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Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Voted by a Franco-German TV network as ‘the second most important playwright in Europe after William Shakespeare’, Friedrich Schiller is ...
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Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was a woman with a multi-faceted personality—she was a poet, an educator, a diplomat and a feminist all rolled into one. She ...
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Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
Gary Sherman Snyder is a famous American poet, writer, educator, travel writer, translator and environmental activist. He was born and brought ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Also known as the Father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was also the first poet to ...
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George Elliot
George Elliot
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, more popular by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. Her ...
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George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbert was an English poet, orator and Anglican priest with a Welsh origin. He had descended from a wealthy family and thus, was ...
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George Santayana
George Santayana
George Santayana was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He never gave up his Spanish citizenship, despite being ...
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was a writer, poet and an ardent collector of Modernist art. She rejected the conventional style of early nineteenth-century ...
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Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro was a prominent Italian physician, poet and scholar in astronomy, mathematics and geography. He propagated the philosophy of ...
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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Widely regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Short Story’ writing, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest French writers in the 19th century. ...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, the Pulitzer-prize winning poet from the Midwest, is one name that needs no introduction. Revered as the ‘patron ...
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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
A famous Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet, Henrik Ibsen is often considered as “the father” of modern theater and one of the ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Long...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He was famous for writing lyric poems, which were popular for their musicality and ...
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Homer
Homer
Homer was a legendary ancient Greek poet who wrote the epics, the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”. These epics were a part of Western canon of ...
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Horace
Horace
Horace, whose real name was Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was the leading Roman poet of the Augustan Age. He was a member of literary circle that ...
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Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr. was a well-known 19th century American author known for his novels portraying young boys’ struggles and challenges. Most of ...
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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was a novelist who had broken all literary conventions and traditions. He was popularly known literary iconoclast and is placed ...
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James Joyce
James Joyce
James Joyce was one of the most influential writers in the early part of the 20th century. This Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and ...
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
A multi-faceted personality, James Weldon Johnson grew up to be America's top author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, ...
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James Wright
James Wright
James Arlington Wright, one of the most prolific American poets of the 20th century, was the proud recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Wright made ...
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau was a Parisian writer, artist, poet, playwright and film maker belonging to a wealthy and prominent family ...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a key personality in the list of German writers and polymaths. He is regarded as the supreme Genius of modern ...
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John Berger
John Berger
John Peter Berger is an English painter, art critic, essayist, prose writer and a fiction writer. His fictional work on the alienation of the ...
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John Clare
John Clare
John Clare was an English poet, belonging to the Romantic school, known for his vivid and lyrical descriptions of the rural English countryside. ...
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John Donne
John Donne
John Donne was a famous English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest of his time. Known for his realistic and sensual style, his writings include ...
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John Dryden
John Dryden
A great playwright, exceptional poet, fine translator, solid critic, and an excellent satirist, John Dryden wore many hats during his living. He ...
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John Gay
John Gay
John Gay, the English poet best remembered as the creator of the immortal fictional characters Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, was a highly ...
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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whitt...
John Greenleaf Whittier was a leading American Quaker poet and a passionate supporter of the abolition of slavery. Born on a farm into a Quaker ...
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John Keats
John Keats
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know’ is one of the famous lines of the sonnet, ‘Ode to ...
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John M. Ford
John M. Ford
John M. Ford is remembered as the drollest and the most scholarly author in America. He was a regular contributor to several online discussions ...
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John Milton
John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He was an influential man of letters and served ...
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John Reed
John Reed
John Reed was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist whose short life as a revolutionary writer made him the hero of a generation ...
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John Updike
John Updike
Considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, John Updike was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner author and was also ...
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish poet, writer and cleric who gained reputation as a great political writer and an essayist. Jonathan, who ...
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, popularly known as Jorge Luis Borges, was a renowned writer, essayist, and poet from Argentina. He ...
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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was a distinguished 18th century English poet, author, playwright, politician and classical scholar. He is recognised as one of ...
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
The New York Times bestselling author, Joyce Carol Oates is an acclaimed author of several literary genres. She is widely regarded as a ...
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Judith Wright
Judith Wright
Judith Wright, born in the early 20th century, was a well-known Australian poet, short-story writer and conversationalist. She was also a highly ...
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Juvenal
Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, popularly known as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the period between late 1st and early 2nd century AD. He was ...
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Karel Appel
Karel Appel
Karel Appel was an expressionist Dutch painter. He was a member of the famous COBRA, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s, which ...
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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam is the ‘National Poet of Bangladesh’. He was an immensely talented person, a gifted literary genius in the field of ...
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Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese American artist, writer, philosopher and the third most popular poet in history after Shakespeare and Laozi. Born ...
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Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley Williams Amis was an English novelist, poet and teacher and his literary work is includes short stories, poetry, books of ...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was better known as the earliest innovators of new literary art ...
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Lord Byron
Lord Byron
Lord Byron was a famous British poet better known as the leading figure of Romanticism. His best known poems include, “She Walks in Beauty”, ...

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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton, born as Thelma Lucille Sayles, was a prolific poet and author best known for writing on themes related to African-American ...
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Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic, poet, editor and a social historian who went on to become a representative of the America’s ...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer, best known for her novels, short stories and poems. She decided to pursue writing as a career in the early ...
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author, essayist, lecturer and humorist who wrote a series of ...
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold is a distinguished twentieth century English poet and critic who brought about a revolution in the world of English literature ...
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Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, also famously known as Allama Iqbal, was a famous poet, philosopher, lawyer and politician from British India. He is ...
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Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady was one of the most prominent personalities of the post-World War II literary movement - 'Beat Generation’. He had a rough ...
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg/Novalis
Novalis
Novalis was amongst the most renowned poet, author and philosophers of the early German romanticism era. Mostly known to the world by his ...
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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat. A Nobel Prize laureate, his works were translated into English by many writers which ...
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
A master of light verse, Frederic Ogden Nash was born in America. Not only did the elements of humor and wit in his poetry make him popular, ...
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith was undoubtedly one of the greatest poets, dramatists, playwrights and novelist of his time. Even his contemporaries abided by ...
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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. It is believed that Omar adopted the ...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, better known as Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, author and one of the most successful playwrights of the ...
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Ovid
Ovid
Ovid, also known as Publius Ovidius Naso, was a Roman poet. He was best known for his erotic poems such as Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. ...
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P B Shelley
P B Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest contributors to the romantic poetry in the English language and author of the Prometheus Unbound ...
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda may have evoked a number of controversies throughout his lifetime, but he still remains one of the most influential literati of the ...
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Paul Valery
Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valery was a popular French poet, essayist, and philosopher. Paul showed great interest in numerous fields and is ...
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Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin was one of the greatest English poets. He was awarded with many honors, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was also ...
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Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley is renowned as the first African-American poetess and the second African-American to get her/his book published. Her work is ...
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” said once, one of the most heroic poets of India, at a ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke was a famous Austrian poet known for his significant contribution in German literature. He was famous for the “Thing ...
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Ralph Waldo Emersion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a famous American lecturer, philosopher, essayist, and poet. He was one of the leading figures of Transcendentalist ...
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Reinaldo Arenasf
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas, a writer and poet, spent several years in prison during Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba. Born and raised in the era of the ...
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright known for his mastery of dramatic verse. His dramatic monologues made him one of the most ...
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Robert Burns was a famous Scottish poet and lyricist. Also known as Rabbie Burns, or Scotland's favorite son, Burns is often credited as the ...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost is among the most fecund writers when it comes to poetry and playwriting. He was highly appreciated and admired for his ...
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Robert hayden
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden was a famous American poet, essayist, and educator. He is best remembered for his book “Ballad of Remembrance”, for which he ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevens...
A neo-Romanticist, Robert Louis Stevenson was a prominent Scottish author and poet, who contributed immensely to English literature in his ...
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Robert William Service
Robert W. Service
Robert William Service, one of the most proficient poets and writers, is till date remembered for contributing some of the most celebrated works ...
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author, journalist and poet who wrote the famous fiction The Jungle Book. Born in the British India, ...
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Rumi
Rumi
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was a 13th century Persian poet, an Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic. He is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual ...
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Nobel Prize winning Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet, Samuel Beckett is revered as one of the most influential writers of the ...
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Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic and philosopher who along with William Wordsworth laid the foundation for English Romantic ...
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Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu, also known as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya, was a famous Indian poet and a major freedom fighter who went on becoming the first ...
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Saul Williams
Saul Williams
Saul Williams is a man of many talents. A poet, writer and actor, he is undoubtedly an extremely gifted person. He realized very early in life ...
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Seamus Heaney - Irish Writer
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, one of greatest living poets of our age, is a wordsmith from Ireland, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poems, ...
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Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan Silverstein, better known as Shel Silverstein, was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist and ...
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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is an award winning author whose works primarily fall under the genre of Native American literature. His works are ...
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon
One the most iconic figures of the 20th century, Siegfried Sassoon was a famous historian, poet, writer and soldier. He was among the first ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doy...
Arthur Conan Doyle is the widely read Scottish author who created the legendary, world famous fictional character, 'Sherlock Holmes'. He ...
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Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek poet and one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His plays belonged to the period after ...
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Sylvia Plath was a stunning impressive poet, novelist and short story writer. She was also the first poet to win this ...
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T S Eliot
T S Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, often shorten as T. S. Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic and a Nobel Prize winner for his exceptional work ...
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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
Many critics named him as one of the best poets of his generation. He was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. He was also appointed ...
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Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet who is regarded as one of the most influential poets of his generation. He is famous for the ...
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English author, novelist and poet, who is mainly known for his contribution in the naturalist movement. Though he always ...
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Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
What Robert Burns is to Scotland is Thomas Moore to Ireland. Popularly referred to as Anacreon Moore, Moore is considered as the National Bard ...
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist and playwright and a leading supporter of the Romantic Movement in France. He was also a visual artist, ...
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Virgil
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, popularly known as Virgil was a magnificent classical Roman poet. Initially a student of rhetoric, medicine, and ...
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W B Yeats
W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was a famous Irish poet, dramatist and one of the pioneers of the literary world in 20th century. The author was also a ...
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was considered as one of the most critical American Modernist poets of the 20th century. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania ...
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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet, journalist and humanist. The poet is mainly known for his approach to Transcendentalism and realism and ...
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry is a famous American author, critic and farmer who helped people in diagnosing the nature and the range of the problems ...
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William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. He is considered as one of the most popular poets of his time who contributed to the 18th ...
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William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryan...
What Washington Irving was to American fiction, William Cullen Bryant was to American poetry. A renowned poet and journalist, William Cullen ...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
A typical Southern writer and one of the most preeminent writers of the 20th century, William Faulkner is best-known for his novels set in ...
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Literature without Shakespeare is like an aquarium without fishes. Though it would have all the adoration and kinds, a look at it would tell you ...
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a famous English poet who played a central role in the English Romantic Movement. He is best known for ushering in the ...

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