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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.
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and translator who laid the groundwork for modern poetry by defining "modernité" and establishing his aesthetic thought.
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769) was a German poet and Leipzig professor whose fables and sacred songs made him one of the most-read authors of his century.
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) was a German poet, translator, and journalist, born in Munich, whose comic verse collection Galgenlieder (1905) made him a pioneer of German nonsense poetry.
Christian Winther
Christian Winther (1796–1876) was a Danish poet of the second Romantic generation, known for the verse narrative Hjortens Flugt (1855) and love poetry centered on Zealand.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) was a German Enlightenment poet and novelist, for a time the most widely read German author and a forerunner of Weimar Classicism.
Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) was a German poet and writer, a leading figure of the Heidelberg Romantics best known for co-editing the folk-song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Achim von Arnim.
Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse (1846–1870), a French-language poet whose prose epic Les Chants de Maldoror became a foundational text for the Surrealists.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898) was a Swiss writer who composed in German, known for historical novellas like Das Amulett and Jürg Jenatsch and for formally exact lyric poetry.
Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy (Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης, 1863–1933), Greek poet of Alexandria, author of "Ithaka" and "Waiting for the Barbarians"; obscure in life, canonized posthumously via Forster, Auden, and Merrill; archive held by Onassis Foundation.
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.
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz, a Polish poet, essayist, and 1980 Nobel laureate, fled communist Poland after World War II and lived until his death in Kraków in 2004.
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.
Daniil Kharms (Даниил Ювачёв)
Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Iuvachev, 1905-1942), Russian avant-garde poet and prose writer, founder of OBERIU, author of Elizaveta Bam and absurd adult works, known in life as a children's poet, died in confinement, republished from the 1960s.
Davíð Stefánsson
Davíð Stefánsson (1895–1964), known as Davíð Stefánsson frá Fagraskógi, was an Icelandic poet, playwright, and novelist whose 1919 debut Svartar fjaðrir made him famous almost overnight.
Debora Vaarandi
Debora Vaarandi, born Debora Trull (1916 to 2007), was an Estonian poet of the postwar era whose poem Talgud Lööne soos supplied the lyrics of the beloved Saaremaa valss.
Detlev von Liliencron
Detlev von Liliencron, born Friedrich Freiherr von Liliencron, was a German lyric poet whose impressionist verse made him one of Germany's most celebrated voices in the 1890s.
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.
Dino Campana
Dino Campana (1885–1932) was an Italian poet, author of a single book, Canti Orfici (1914), and one of the most distinctive voices of early twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Dionysios Solomos
Dionysios Solomos (Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1798–1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, regarded as Greece's national poet and the founder of modern Greek poetry in the demotic language.
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.
Doris Kareva
Doris Kareva, born in Tallinn in 1958 to composer Hillar Kareva, is an Estonian poet, translator, and UNESCO official, one of Estonia's leading and most translated poets.
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.
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in Dresden, is a German poet, essayist, and translator who debuted with Grauzone morgens in 1988 and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1995.
Edith Södergran
Edith Irene Södergran (1892–1923) was a Finland-Swedish poet, born in St. Petersburg, who introduced modernist free verse in Swedish and became one of Finland's foremost poets.
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) was a German lyric poet and Lutheran pastor, born in Ludwigsburg, best known for his 1838 Gedichte and the novella Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag.
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).