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Accius
Lucius Accius, also spelled Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar born at Pisaurum in 170 BC, the last major tragedian of the Roman Republic.
Alcaeus
Alcaeus was an ancient Greek lyric poet of Mytilene on Lesbos, born around 625 BCE and an older contemporary of Sappho, known for the Alcaic stanza later imitated by Horace.
Alcman
Alcman (Ἀλκμάν) was a Greek choral lyric poet active in Sparta in the later seventh century BC, best known for his partheneia, songs for choruses of girls.
Alessandro Tassoni
Alessandro Tassoni (1565–1635) was an Italian poet, critic, and courtier from Modena, best known for the mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita about the theft of a bucket from Bologna.
Alexandrian Pleiad
The Alexandrian Pleiad, also called the Pleias, was a group of seven tragic poets active in Ptolemaic Alexandria, named for the seven-star Pleiades; none of their tragedies survives except Lycophron's Alexandra.
Anacreon
Anacreon (Ἀνακρέων), Ionian lyric poet of Teos, 6th–early 5th century BCE, court poet of Polycrates of Samos and Hipparchus of Athens; known for love and wine songs, surviving only in fragments, plus the spurious 1554 Anacreontea.
Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler (1624–1677), was a Silesian mystic and Baroque poet who converted to Catholicism in 1653 and is known for the Cherubinic Wanderer, a collection of mystical epigrams first published in 1657.
Anna Bijns
Anna Bijns was a South Netherlandish poet and schoolteacher of Antwerp, born 1493 and died 1575, best known for her refreinen attacking Martin Luther in Dutch.
Aratus
Aratus (Ἄρατος, ca. 315–240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet from Soli in Cilicia, known for the Phaenomena, a poem on constellations and weather signs.
Arnaut Daniel
Arnaut Daniel was an Occitan troubadour of Ribérac, active about 1180 to 1210, inventor of the sestina and praised by Dante as the better craftsman of the mother tongue.
Asclepiades of Samos
Asclepiades of Samos (Ἀσκληπιάδης, also called Sicelidas) was a Greek poet active around 300–270 BCE, credited as the inventor of the Alexandrian erotic epigram and an influence on Callimachus.
Ausiàs March
Ausiàs March (ca. 1400–1459) was a Valencian knight and poet writing in Catalan, regarded as the foremost poet of medieval Catalan literature and a major European voice of his century.
Ausonius
Ausonius, full name Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 – c. 393), was a Gallo-Roman poet and professor of rhetoric from Bordeaux who tutored the future emperor Gratian.
Avianus
Avianus, also known as Avienus, was a Roman fabulist active around 400 CE who wrote 42 fables in Latin elegiac couplets dedicated to Theodosius, commonly identified with Macrobius.
Bacchylides
Bacchylides (Βακχυλίδης, c. 520–450 BC) was a Greek lyric poet from Ceos, ranked among the nine canonical lyric poets and known for victory odes and dithyrambs.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure
Benoît de Sainte-Maure was a 12th-century Norman or Tourangean poet who wrote the Roman de Troie, around 1160, and the unfinished Histoire des ducs de Normandie.
Bernardim Ribeiro
Bernardim Ribeiro, full name Duarte Bernardim Ribeiro, was a Portuguese Renaissance poet and prose writer, born in Torrão around 1480 to 1490, best known for the pastoral novel Menina e Moça.
Bion of Smyrna
Bion of Smyrna (Βίων ὁ Σμυρναῖος) was a Greek bucolic poet, probably active in the late 2nd century BCE, whose chief surviving work is the Lament for Adonis.
Callimachus
Callimachus was a Greek poet and scholar from Cyrene who spent his career at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and prose.
Calpurnius Siculus
Calpurnius Siculus is the name under which seven Latin bucolic poems, the Eclogues, are transmitted; one of three Latin pastoral collections to survive entire, it is dated to Nero's reign.
Charles d'Orléans
Charles d'Orléans (1394–1465) was Duke of Orléans and one of France's major lyric poets; captured at Agincourt in 1415, he spent 25 years writing poetry in captivity in England.
Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet, probably from Troyes in Champagne, active from about 1160 to 1181, considered the creator of Arthurian romance as a literary genre.
Cino da Pistoia
Cino da Pistoia, born Guittoncino dei Sigisbuldi, was an Italian poet and jurist (1270–1336), a friend of Dante and a founding figure of the legal commentators.
Claudian
Claudian (Claudius Claudianus, c. 370 – c. 404) was a Latin poet from Greek-speaking Egypt who served as court poet to the emperor Honorius and his minister Stilicho from 395.
Clement Marot
Clément Marot (1496?–1544) was a French Renaissance poet, valet de chambre to François I, whose French verse translations of the Psalms formed the nucleus of the Geneva Psalter.
Constantijn Huygens
Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) was a Dutch poet, diplomat, and composer who served the stadtholders of the House of Orange and wrote over 75,000 lines of verse.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (Durante Alighieri, 1265–1321), Florentine poet of the Divine Comedy (Commedia), exiled in 1302; wrote in Tuscan vernacular, invented terza rima, and shaped the Italian language.
Ennius
Quintus Ennius, c. 239–169 BCE, was a Roman epic and dramatic poet born at Rudiae in southern Italy, regarded by later Romans as the father of Roman poetry.
Fernando de Herrera
Fernando de Herrera (1534–1597), nicknamed "el Divino", was a Spanish poet and literary critic of the Siglo de Oro and the leading figure of the Sevillian poetic school.
Francesco Berni
Francesco Berni (1497 or 1498 to 1535) was an Italian burlesque poet whose comic sonnets and capitoli founded the bernesco style, and whose Tuscan reworking of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato displaced the original until the 19th century.