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Abraham Nahum Stencl
Abraham Nahum Stencl (Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl, 1897–1983) was a Yiddish poet and editor who settled in London's Whitechapel after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, founding the Yiddish monthly Loshn un lebn.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin (1743–1825), was an English poet, essayist, and educator whose Poems (1773) made her famous; her 1812 poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ended her career.
Caedmon
Caedmon was a Northumbrian cowherd at Whitby Abbey who, according to Bede's account, became the first named Old English Christian poet, dying between 670 and 680.
Cædmon
Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman, poet, and monk at Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, active from about 657 to 680, remembered for Cædmon's Hymn, the oldest surviving poem in English.
Cavalier poets
The Cavalier poets were a group of mid-seventeenth-century English lyric poets, principally Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace, named for their royalist allegiance rather than any shared style.
Charles Montagu Doughty
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926) was an English poet and traveler whose account of a solo journey through Arabia, Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888), became a classic.
Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mary Mew (1869–1928) was an English poet and short-story writer whose only lifetime collection, The Farmer's Bride, drew praise from Hardy, Woolf, and Pound.
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith, born Charlotte Turner Smith, was an English poet and novelist whose Elegiac Sonnets, first published in 1784, led the Romantic-era revival of the sonnet.
Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was an English poet best known for the religious poems A Song to David and Jubilate Agno, written largely during his confinement for mental illness.
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) was an English poet best known for The Angel in the House, whose title named the Victorian ideal of the devoted wife.
Cynewulf
Cynewulf, also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf, is an Old English poet of the ninth century who signed four religious poems, including Elene, with runic acrostics.
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon (1941–2020) was an Irish poet from Belfast, regarded as one of the most innovative Irish poets of the late 20th century, known for "A Disused Shed in Co Wexford".
Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland (1944–2020) was an Irish poet who brought women's domestic lives and their exclusion from national history into Irish poetry, becoming a major figure in Irish literature.
Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887–1964) was a British poet, eldest of the literary Sitwell siblings, best known for Façade (1922) and her flamboyant public persona.
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) was an English poet, memoirist, and Oxford Professor of Poetry who fought on the Western Front and wrote Undertones of War (1928), in print ever since.
Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) was an English poet and long-serving member of Parliament whose closed heroic couplets shaped the neoclassical style later perfected by Dryden and Pope.
Edwin Morgan
Edwin George Morgan (1920–2010) was a Scottish poet and translator based in Glasgow, considered the foremost Scottish poet of the twentieth century and Scotland's first national poet, appointed Scots Makar in 2004.
Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir (1887–1959) was a Scottish poet, critic, and translator, born in Orkney, who with his wife Willa produced the first English translations of Kafka.
Ernest Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900) was an English poet of the Decadent movement and a member of the Rhymers' Club, best known for the poem "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae".
Felicia Hemans
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) was a British Romantic poet, among the best-selling poets of her day, known for Records of Woman, "Casabianca," and "The Homes of England."
Gavin Douglas
Gavin Douglas (c. 1474–1522) was a Scottish poet and bishop of Dunkeld whose Eneados of 1513 was the first complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English or Scots.
Gawain Poet
The Gawain Poet, also called the Pearl Poet, is the anonymous author of four Middle English poems, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, written in the late 1300s.
George Wither
George Wither (1588–1667) was an English poet, satirist, and hymn writer who was repeatedly imprisoned for his verse and served Parliament as a cavalry officer in the Civil War.
Gogynfeirdd
The Gogynfeirdd were professional Welsh court poets who composed praise poetry in Middle Welsh for Welsh princes and nobility from roughly 1100 into the fourteenth century.
Graveyard poets
The Graveyard poets were eighteenth-century English poets of melancholy, reflective works on human mortality, often set in graveyards, whose canon includes Gray's Elegy and Young's Night Thoughts.
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, translator, and physician who called himself the Silurist, best known for the religious collection Silex Scintillans, first published in 1650.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978), was a Scottish poet who founded the Scottish Literary Renaissance and wrote A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was a Scottish poet and artist known for concrete poetry and for Little Sparta, his garden of inscribed poems in the Pentland Hills.
Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) was an English poet and painter, son of Jewish immigrants, known for the trench poems "Break of Day in the Trenches" and "Dead Man's Dump".
Isabella Whitney
Isabella Whitney was an English poet, active in the 1560s and 1570s, the first woman to publish original secular poetry in English under her own name.