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John Milton
John Milton (1608–1674), English poet, polemicist, and Commonwealth Secretary for Foreign Tongues; author of Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and Areopagitica; blind from 1651–1652, dictated his late epics.
John Skelton
John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) was an English poet, satirist, and priest who served the Tudor court as tutor to the young Henry VIII and was later named orator regius.
John Suckling
Sir John Suckling (1609–1641 or 1642) was an English Cavalier poet, playwright, and courtier of Charles I, known for witty love lyrics like "Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), Restoration courtier, poet, and satirist under Charles II; leader of the libertine "Merry Gang," author of A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind, later converted through Gilbert Burnet; only three poems printed in his lifetime, canon fixed by Vieth's 1968 edition.
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 Barbosa
Jorge Barbosa (Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa, 1902–1971) was a Cape Verdean poet who cofounded the review Claridade in 1936, and whose 1935 debut Arquipélago began modern Cape Verdean poetry.
Jorge de Lima
Jorge de Lima, full name Jorge Mateus de Lima, was a Brazilian poet and novelist from Alagoas (1893–1953), known for the epic poem Invenção de Orfeu.
Jorge Gaitán Durán
Jorge Gaitán Durán (1924–1962) was a Colombian poet and editor known for founding and directing the cultural journal Mito and for poetry centered on eroticism and death.
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.
Jorge Manrique
Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) was a Castilian poet and soldier, author of the Coplas por la muerte de su padre, among the most famous Spanish poems.
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 Antonio Ramos Sucre
José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890, Cumaná – 1930, Geneva) was a Venezuelan prose poem writer, largely ignored in life, now seen as the country's finest twentieth-century poet.
José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva (1865–1896) was a Colombian poet and prose writer, a pioneer of modernismo whose musical, pessimistic Nocturnos influenced Rubén Darío and Spanish American literature.
José Basílio da Gama
José Basílio da Gama (1740 or 1741–1795) was a Luso-Brazilian Arcadismo poet, best known for the epic O Uraguai of 1769 about the campaign against the Guaraní Jesuit missions.
José Coronel Urtecho
José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, and diplomat born in Granada who founded the Vanguardia movement and introduced North American poetry into Central American literature.
José Craveirinha
José Craveirinha, full name José João Craveirinha (1922 to 2003), was a Mozambican poet regarded as his country's greatest; imprisoned from 1964 to 1969 for anti-colonial activity, he won the Camões Prize in 1991.
José de Diego
José de Diego y Martínez (1866–1918) was a Puerto Rican poet, lawyer, and orator known as the Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and Speaker of the legislature from 1907.
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 de Santa Rita Durão
José de Santa Rita Durão, born José Luís de Morais, was a Brazilian Augustinian friar and poet who wrote the epic poem Caramuru, a founding work of Brazilian literature.
José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014) was a Mexican poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexican literature.
José Gorostiza
José Gorostiza (1901–1973) was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat of the Contemporáneos group, best known for the philosophical long poem Muerte sin fin (1939).
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 Joaquín de Olmedo
José Joaquín de Olmedo (1780–1847) was an Ecuadorian poet and statesman, first vice president of Ecuador and author of the ode La victoria de Junín.
José Joaquín Pesado
José Joaquín Pesado (1801–1861) was a Mexican poet, translator, and politician remembered for his religious verse and Las aztecas (1854), which first brought ancient Mexican songs into poetry.
José Manuel Arango
José Manuel Arango Pérez (1937–2002) was a Colombian poet, essayist, and translator from Antioquia who published four slim books of poems and influenced later Colombian poetry.
José María Heredia
José María Heredia (1803–1839) was a Cuban poet and exile, regarded as the initiator of Romanticism in Spanish America, best known for his odes to Niagara and Cholula.
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.