Modern European poets

Johannes Ewald

Johannes Ewald (1743–1781) was a Danish poet and dramatist, considered his country's leading lyricist, who wrote the royal anthem "Kong Christian stod ved høien Mast".

Johannes Jørgensen

Johannes Jørgensen, born and died in Svendborg, was a Danish lyric poet and critic who introduced Symbolism to Denmark and converted to Catholicism in 1896.

Jóhannes úr Kötlum, born Jóhannes Bjarni Jónasson (1899–1972), was an Icelandic poet, novelist, translator, and member of parliament, best known internationally for his 1932 children's verse book Jólin koma.

John Clare

John Clare (13 July 1793 to 1864), the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, was an English Romantic-era poet and naturalist of rural life, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820), who spent his last decades in asylums.

Jón Þorláksson

Jón Þorláksson á Bægisá (1744–1819) was an Icelandic poet and priest who pioneered the Enlightenment in Iceland, best known for translating Milton's Paradise Lost into Icelandic.

Jonas Aistis

Jonas Aistis (1904–1973), born Jonas Aleksandravičius, was a Lithuanian lyric poet and essayist, a leading figure of the interwar neoromantic generation who lived in exile in the United States.

Jónas Hallgrímsson

Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807–1845) was an Icelandic poet and natural scientist who co-founded the journal Fjölnir and is regarded as the father of Icelandic Romanticism and one of Iceland's greatest poets.

Joost van den Vondel

Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) was a Dutch poet and playwright of the Dutch Golden Age, known for the tragedies Gysbreght van Aemstel and Lucifer.

Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén (1893–1984) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, alongside Lorca and Salinas, whose collected work, gathered as Aire nuestro, is organized in five series.

José Ángel Valente

José Ángel Valente (1929–2000) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and translator of the Generation of the 50 who evolved from social poetry toward an introspective writing of silence and mysticism.

José de Espronceda

José de Espronceda (José de Espronceda y Delgado, 1808–1842) was a Spanish Romantic poet, playwright, and liberal politician, often called the Spanish Byron, best known for El estudiante de Salamanca and Canción del pirata.

José Hierro

José Hierro, full name José Hierro del Real, was a Spanish poet, art critic, and member of the Real Academia Española who won the 1998 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

José María Pemán

José María Pemán (1897–1981) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and essayist from Cádiz, a leading official voice of the Franco regime and director of the Real Academia Española.

José Martí

José Martí (José Julián Martí Pérez, 1853-1895), Cuban poet, journalist, and independence leader; founder of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano, author of Nuestra América and Versos sencillos, and an initiator of Modernismo with Rubén Darío; died at Dos Ríos in 1895.

Josef Svatopluk Machar

Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942) was a Czech poet, publicist, and politician, the leading representative of Czech poetic realism, co-author of the 1895 Česká moderna manifesto, and later inspector general of the Czechoslovak army.

Josep Carner

Josep Carner (1884–1970) was a Catalan poet, journalist, translator, and diplomat called the "Prince of Catalan Poets," the central poetic figure of the Noucentisme movement.

Joseph Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский)

Joseph Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский, 1940–1996), Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 and US poet laureate 1991–1992. Born Leningrad, tried for parasitism, exiled 1972, wrote poetry in Russian and self-translated into English, died in New York, buried in Venice.

Joseph Victor Widmann

Joseph Victor Widmann (1842–1911) was a Swiss journalist, poet, and leading literary critic who edited the feuilleton of Bern's Der Bund from 1880 until his death.

Joseph von Eichendorff

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857) was a German lyric poet and novelist of the Romantic movement, born in Silesia, best known for the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts.

Jovan Dučić

Jovan Dučić (Јован Дучић, 1871–1943) was a Serbian poet and career diplomat born near Trebinje, a leading figure of Serbian Symbolism and the first ambassador in Yugoslav diplomatic history.

Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (Јован Јовановић Змај) was a Serbian poet and physician who laid the foundations of Serbian children's poetry; he also edited the satirical magazine Zmaj.

József Gvadányi

József Gvadányi was a Hungarian baroque satirical poet and Habsburg cavalry general who fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War before becoming a prolific author in his sixties.

Juan Meléndez Valdés

Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817), who wrote under the pseudonym Batilo, was a Spanish poet and magistrate regarded as the leading Spanish lyric poet of the eighteenth century.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote Platero y yo, prose poems about a man and his donkey.

Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana de Ibarbourou, born Juana Fernández Morales and titled Juana de América in 1929, was an Uruguayan poet whose 1919 Las lenguas de diamante made her famous across Latin America.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Inés Ramírez de Asbaje, 1648/1651-1695), Hieronymite nun, poet, and scholar of colonial New Spain; author of Primero sueño and Respuesta a Sor Filotea, called the Tenth Muse and Phoenix of Mexico.

Judita Vaičiūnaitė

Judita Vaičiūnaitė (1937–2001) was a Lithuanian poet and translator known as one of the first real city poets, with Vilnius at the center of her work.

Judith Herzberg

Judith Herzberg (Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg, born 1934 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch poet, playwright, and screenwriter, daughter of Abel Herzberg, who won the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1997 and the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 2018.

Juhan Liiv

Juhan Liiv (1864–1913) was an Estonian poet and prose writer, regarded as the first important innovator of Estonian poetry, whose novella Vari is the first realistic Estonian novella.