Modern European poets

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio, also called Il Vate, Italian poet, novelist, dramatist and nationalist politician (1863–1938), author of Il piacere and the Laudi, leader of the 1919–1920 Fiume occupation.

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.

Gaspar Núñez de Arce

Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1832–1903) was a Spanish poet, playwright, journalist, and public official, acclaimed in his lifetime for Gritos del combate (1875) and the verse drama El haz de leña.

Generation of '27 (Generación del 27, Generation of 1925, Friendship Generation): Spanish poets named for the December 1927 Ateneo de Sevilla homage to Góngora; Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda and peers, Edad de Plata, exile after the Civil War.

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.

Georg Herwegh

Georg Herwegh (1817–1875) was a German poet and revolutionary whose 1841 collection Gedichte eines Lebendigen made him famous; in 1848 he led German exiles into the Baden revolution.

Georg Heym

Georg Heym (1887–1912) was a German poet, playwright, and writer of short fiction, a central figure of early Expressionism best known for his apocalyptic big-city poems.

Georg Johannesen

Georg Johannesen (1931–2005) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and literary scholar known for his society-critical essays and as Norway's first professor of rhetoric, at the University of Bergen.

Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was an Austrian lyric poet and principal figure of early German-language Expressionism whose dark, imagistic verse appears in Gedichte (1913) and Sebastian im Traum (1914).

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.

George Coșbuc

George Coșbuc (1866–1918) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist from Transylvania, best remembered for verses about rural life and Romanian translations of Homer, Virgil, and Dante.

George Topîrceanu

George Topîrceanu (1886–1937) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist known for his humorous and parodic verse, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.

George William Russell

George William Russell (Æ, 1867–1935), Irish poet, painter, editor, and mystic of the Irish Literary Revival; IAOS co-operative organizer, editor of the Irish Homestead and Irish Statesman, early publisher of Joyce.

Georges Schehadé

Georges Schehadé (جورج شحادة), born in 1905 or 1907, was a Lebanese poet and playwright who wrote in French, and his play L'Émigré de Brisbane entered the Comédie-Française repertoire in 1967.

Georgi Rakovski

Georgi Rakovski (Георги С. Раковски), born Subi Stoykov Popovich in 1821, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and writer who founded the organized national-liberation movement against Ottoman rule.

Georgios Drossinis

Georgios Drossinis (Γεώργιος Δροσίνης, 1859–1951) was a Greek poet and prose writer, a pioneer of the New Athenian School in poetry and of ethography in prose, and a founding member of the Academy of Athens.

Georgios Souris

Georgios Souris (Γεώργιος Σουρής), 1853 to 1919, was a Greek satirical poet who wrote and edited the weekly verse newspaper O Romios for over thirty years.

Gérard de Nerval

Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie, was a French writer (1808–1855) whose late works, including Sylvie, Les Chimères, and Aurélia, explore the boundary between dream and reality.

Gerardo Diego

Gerardo Diego (1896–1987) was a Spanish poet, critic, and teacher of the Generation of 27; his 1932 anthology defined the group, and he won the 1979 Cervantes Prize shared with Borges.

Gerrit Achterberg

Gerrit Achterberg was a highly regarded Dutch poet whose themes explored desire beyond death, and was known for killing his landlady in 1937 and later serving mandatory detention.

Gerrit Kouwenaar

Gerrit Kouwenaar (1923–2014) was a Dutch poet and translator, a central member of the experimental Vijftigers group linked to Cobra and one of the most important Dutch-language poets after 1945.

Gertrud Kolmar

Gertrud Kolmar, pen name of Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, was a German Jewish lyric poet who left about 450 poems and was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.

Gheorghe Asachi

Gheorghe Asachi (1788–1869) was a Moldavian and Romanian scholar, poet, journalist, and engineer who founded Romanian-language education, the press, and theater in Moldavia, publishing the newspaper Albina românească.

Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Recanati-born Italian poet, philologist, and philosopher, author of Canti, Operette morali, and the Zibaldone; central figure of Italian pessimism and one of Italy's greatest writers.

Giorgio Caproni

Giorgio Caproni (1912–1990) was an Italian poet, critic, and translator, born in Livorno and raised in Genoa, known for formal lyrics probing memory and God's absence.

Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης; born Georgios Seferiades) was a Greek poet and diplomat who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Greek national to do so.

Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Carducci (Giosue, 1835-1907), Italian poet, critic, and Bologna professor, author of Inno a Satana and Odi barbare; Italy's first Nobel laureate in Literature (1906), senator, anti-Romantic classicist and anticlerical poeta-vate.

Giovanni Berchet

Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851) was an Italian poet, critic, and patriot whose 1816 Lettera semiseria became the manifesto of Italian Romanticism; he lived in exile until joining Milan's 1848 government.

Giovanni Pascoli

Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar who, with Gabriele D'Annunzio, led Italian Decadentism; his best-known works are Myricae and the Latin Carmina.