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Cezar Bolliac
Cezar Bolliac, also spelled Cesar Boliac, was a Romanian Romantic poet, journalist, and archaeologist (1813–1881), a leader of the 1848 Wallachian revolution and a founder of Romanian archaeology.
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821–1883) was a Polish poet, playwright, and visual artist often regarded as the last great Polish Romantic poet; ignored in his lifetime, he was rediscovered during the Young Poland period.
Dániel Berzsenyi
Dániel Berzsenyi (Berzsenyi Dániel, 1776–1836) was a Hungarian lyric poet and landowning nobleman, the leading classical writer of odes in Hungarian, elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1830.
Dimcho Debelyanov
Dimcho Debelyanov (Димчо Дебелянов), born in Koprivshtitsa in 1887, was a Bulgarian symbolist poet known for tender elegies, killed in battle in 1916 at 29.
Dimitrie Anghel
Dimitrie Anghel (1872–1914) was a Romanian symbolist poet, prose writer, and translator known as the "poet of flowers" for his garden imagery and for writing with Șt. O. Iosif under the shared pseudonym A. Mirea.
Dimitrie Bolintineanu
Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819–1872) was a Romanian poet and politician, a participant in the 1848 Wallachian Revolution and one of the founders of the Romanian novel.
Dmytro Pavlychko
Dmytro Pavlychko (Дмитро Павличко; 1929–2023) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and diplomat who served as ambassador to Slovakia and Poland and wrote "Dva Kolyory", long taken for a folk song.
Dobri Chintulov
Dobri Chintulov (Добри Чинтулов, 1822–1886) was a Bulgarian National Revival poet, composer, and teacher from Sliven whose revolutionary patriotic songs, still sung today, helped rouse Bulgarian national feeling in the mid-19th century.
Dragotin Kette
Dragotin Kette (1876–1899) was a Slovene poet, one of the four central figures of the Slovene Moderna, known for his modernized sonnets and lyric poetry.
Eduardas Mieželaitis
Eduardas Mieželaitis (1919–1997) was a Lithuanian poet and translator, a leading figure of Soviet-era Lithuanian poetry who won the 1962 Lenin Prize for Žmogus (Man).
Elena Farago
Elena Farago, born Elena Paximade (1878–1954), was a Romanian poet, translator, and publicist best known for her children's poetry and for directing the Aman Foundation in Craiova.
Eliezer Shteynbarg
Eliezer Shteynbarg (אליעזר שטיינבאַרג, 1880–1932) was a Yiddish poet, educator, and fabulist born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, who wrote about 150 rhymed fables and led Jewish cultural life in interwar Romania.
Elisaveta Bagryana
Elisaveta Bagryana (Елисавета Багряна), born Elisaveta Lyubenova Belcheva, was a Bulgarian poet whose 1927 debut, The Eternal and the Holy, introduced a frank female voice into Bulgarian poetry.
Emanuil Popdimitrov
Emanuil Popdimitrov (Емануил Попдимитров) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, critic, and playwright who taught comparative literature at Sofia University and was condemned as decadent after 1944.
Endre Ady
Endre Ady (Ady Endre, 1877–1919) was a Hungarian poet and journalist whose symbolist verse and political journalism opened the modern period of Hungarian poetry in the early 20th century.
Ferenc Faludi
Ferenc Faludi (Hungarian: Faludi Ferenc, 1704–1779) was a Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, and translator, a leading figure of Hungarian rococo literature and a creator of modern Hungarian prose.
Ferenc Kölcsey
Ferenc Kölcsey (Kölcsey Ferenc, 1790–1838) was a Hungarian poet, critic, and Reform Era politician whose poem the Himnusz, set to music by Ferenc Erkel, became Hungary's national anthem.
Ferenc Verseghy
Ferenc Verseghy (1757–1822) was a Hungarian poet, linguist, and Pauline monk who translated the Marseillaise and served the longest sentence in the 1795 Jacobin conspiracy.
Filip Višnjić
Filip Višnjić (Филип Вишњић) was a blind Serbian guslar and epic poet, born c. 1767 in Bosnia, remembered as the singer of the First Serbian Uprising.
Fran Krsto Frankopan
Fran Krsto Frankopan was a Croatian nobleman, military commander, and poet of the Frankopan family, co-organizer of the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy against the Habsburgs, beheaded with Petar Zrinski in 1671.
Fran Levstik
Fran Levstik (1831–1887) was a Slovene poet, dramatist, and literary critic who was central to the literature after the March Revolution of 1848. He also wrote Popotovanje iz Litije do Čateža.
France Prešeren
France Prešeren (1800–1849) was a Slovenian Romantic poet and lawyer from Vrba, regarded as Slovenia's national poet; his 1844 poem "Zdravljica" (A Toast) became the national anthem, and Prešeren Day marks his death.
Franjo Marković
Franjo Marković (1845–1914) was a Croatian philosopher, poet, and theater critic who became the first professor of philosophy at the restored University of Zagreb in 1874.
František Ladislav Čelakovský
František Ladislav Čelakovský (1799–1852) was a Czech poet and philologist of the National Revival, best known for his Echo of Russian Songs and Echo of Czech Songs.
Frantsishak Bahushevich
Frantsishak Bahushevich (Францішак Багушэвіч; 1840–1900) was a Belarusian poet and lawyer who wrote as Matsei Buračok; his collections The Belarusian Pipe (1891) and The Belarusian Fiddle (1894) founded modern Belarusian literature.
Fricis Bārda
Fricis Bārda (1880–1919) was a Latvian poet, teacher, and essayist regarded as a leading representative of neoromanticism in Latvian literature, brother of poet Anton Bārda.
Ğabdulla Tuqay
Ğabdulla Tuqay (Габдулла Тукай) was a Tatar poet and publicist, 1886 to 1913, who created the modern Tatar literary language, writing over 400 poems and the fairy-tale poem 'Şüräle'.
Galaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidze, known as Galaktioni, was a Georgian poet whose work is regarded as a defining achievement of twentieth-century Georgian lyric poetry; he died in 1959.
Geo Milev
Geo Milev (Гео Милев), born Georgi Kasabov Milev, was a Bulgarian expressionist poet best known for the poem September (1924); he disappeared in police custody in 1925.
George Bacovia
George Bacovia, born George Andone Vasiliu, was a Romanian symbolist poet whose debut volume Plumb (1916) is considered the point at which Romanian symbolism gained definitive recognition.