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J. H. Leopold
J. H. Leopold (Jan Hendrik Leopold, 1865–1925) was a Dutch symbolist poet and classicist, best known for the long poem Cheops and his free translations of Persian and Arabic poetry.
Jaan Kaplinski
Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021) was an Estonian poet, philosopher, translator, and politician, a leading figure of the 1960s Estonian poetry revival, nominated several times for the Nobel Prize.
Jacint Verdaguer
Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902) was a Catalan Romantic poet and priest, central figure of the Renaixença and founder of modern Catalan literature, known for the epics L'Atlàntida and Canigó.
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (1900–1977) was a French poet and screenwriter whose collection Paroles (1946) made him one of the most widely read French poets of the twentieth century.
Jaime Gil de Biedma
Jaime Gil de Biedma (Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba, 1929–1990) was a Spanish poet and critic, a central figure of the Generation of the 50 in postwar Spanish poetry.
Jakob van Hoddis
Jakob van Hoddis was the pen name of Hans Davidsohn (1887–1942), a German-Jewish Expressionist poet best known for "Weltende" (1911), considered the opening work of German Expressionism.
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish Baroque poet and diplomat, Grand Treasurer of the Crown, often considered the best poet of the Polish Baroque, and a paid agent of Louis XIV.
Jan Erik Vold
Jan Erik Vold, born 1939 in Oslo, is a Norwegian modernist poet and translator who debuted in 1965 and became a central figure of the Profil generation.
Jan Frans Willems
Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846) was a Flemish philologist, poet, and literary historian known as the father of the Flemish movement, who edited medieval Dutch texts like Reinaert de Vos.
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch physician and poet and ship's doctor, one of the major Dutch poets of the interwar period.
Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár (1793–1852) was a Slovak poet, Lutheran pastor, and Slavic scholar whose sonnet cycle Slávy dcera became a foundation of modern Slovak poetry and voiced Slavic reciprocity.
Jan Neruda
Jan Neruda (1834–1891) was a Czech poet, journalist, and critic who led the Májovci generation and is best known for his 1878 story collection Tales of the Little Quarter.
Janina Degutytė
Janina Degutytė (1928–1990) was a Lithuanian lyric poet, translator, and children's author who published nine poetry collections from 1959 to 1984 and won the 1968 LSSR State Prize.
Jānis Sudrabkalns
Jānis Sudrabkalns was the pen name of the Latvian poet Arvīds Sudrabkalns (1894–1975), a leading interwar and Soviet-era poet, People's Poet of the Latvian SSR in 1947.
Janko Kráľ
Janko Kráľ was a Slovak Romantic poet of the Štúr generation, born in 1822, best known for the ballad Zakliata panna vo Váhu a divný Janko of 1844.
János Arany
János Arany (1817–1882) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and scholar whose verse epic Toldi (1847) won national fame, and whose ballads and Shakespeare translations are classics.
János Batsányi
János Batsányi, also spelled Bacsányi (1763–1845), was a Hungarian Enlightenment poet and editor who founded the Magyar Museum, the first literary journal in Hungarian, and was imprisoned for his revolutionary verse.
János Pilinszky
János Pilinszky (Pilinszky János, 1921–1981) was a Hungarian poet and essayist, a Kossuth Prize winner whose poetry centers on Second World War trauma and God's silence.
Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech poet and journalist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Czech to receive it. A Charter 77 signatory, he wrote nearly thirty volumes of poetry over six decades.
Jaroslav Vrchlický
Jaroslav Vrchlický, born Emil Frída, was a Czech poet, dramatist, and translator who published about 270 books, including more than 80 poetry collections, and died in 1912.
Jean Fanchette
Jean Fanchette (1932–1992) was a Mauritian-born French-language poet, psychoanalyst, and editor who founded the Paris review Two Cities and won the Académie française's prix de la Langue française in 1976.
Jens Baggesen
Jens Baggesen (Jens Immanuel Baggesen, 1764–1826) was a Danish poet and prose writer of European outlook who wrote partly in German, best remembered for the travel work Labyrinten.
Jeppe Aakjær
Jeppe Aakjær, born Jeppe Jensen (1866–1930), was a Danish poet and novelist from Jutland known for nature poetry and social realism about the rural poor.
Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro, born 1944 in Landskrona, is a Swedish poet and classical philologist who has lived in Paris since the 1970s and joined the Swedish Academy in 2006.
Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa (Joan Brossa i Cuervo, 1919–1998) was a Catalan poet, playwright, and visual poet from Barcelona and a founder of the avant-garde group Dau al Set.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) was a Finland-Swedish poet regarded as Finland's national poet, whose war cycle Fänrik Ståls sägner supplied the national epic and whose poem "Vårt land" became the Finnish national anthem.
Johan Olof Wallin
Johan Olof Wallin (1779–1839) was a Swedish clergyman, poet, and hymn writer, archbishop of Uppsala from 1837 and principal author of the 1819 Swedish hymnal.
Johan Sebastian Welhaven
Johan Sebastian Welhaven was a Norwegian poet, critic, and professor of philosophy in Oslo, a central figure of Norwegian Romanticism and chief opponent of Henrik Wergeland in the feuds of the 1830s.
Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826) was a German-language author, Protestant theologian, and schoolman best known for the Alemannic dialect poems Allemannische Gedichte and his popular calendar stories.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet and Weimar statesman, author of Werther, Faust, and Wilhelm Meister; led Sturm und Drang, co-founded Weimar Classicism with Schiller, and wrote Zur Farbenlehre.