20th Century Famous Poets

Aafjes, Bertus - May 12, 1914 – April 23, 1993
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Abani, Chris - December 27, 1966 – Present
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Abercrombie, Lascelles - January 9, 1881 – October 27, 1938
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Abse, Dannie - born 1923
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Acorn, Milton - 1923 – 1986
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Adams, Léonie - 1899 – 1988
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Adams, Ryan - born 1974
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Adcock, Fleur - born 1934
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Addonizio, Kim - born 1954
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Ady, Endre - 1877 – 1919
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Agarwal, Kedarnath - 1911 – 2000
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Agarwala, Jyoti Prasad - June 17, 1903 – January 17, 1951
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Agee, James - 1909 – 1955
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Agolli, Dritëro - born 1931
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Agustini, Delmira - October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914
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Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Riaz - 1941 – 2001
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Aiken, Conrad - August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973
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Akhmadulina, Bella - 1937 – 2010
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Akhmatova, Anna - June 23, 1889 – March 5, 1966
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Akhtar, Javed - 1945 –
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Aldington, Richard - July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - November 11, 1836 – March 1907
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Aleixandre, Vicente - 1898 – 1984
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Alexander Allan, James - 1889 – 1956
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Alger, Julie Hill - March 13, 1927 – December 29, 1994
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Ali, Muhammad - January 17, 1942 – Present
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Alonso, Damaso - 1898 – 1990
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Alterman, Natan - 1910 – 1970
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Alvarez, Al - born 1929
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Amichai, Yehuda - 1924 – 2000
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Amis, Kingsley - April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995
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Amjad, Majeed - 1914 – 1974
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Ammons, A R - February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001
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Amor, Pita - May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000
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Andersch, Alfred - 1914 – 1980
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Anderson, Catherine - 1954 - Present
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Angelou, Maya - April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
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Anne Williams, Sherley - August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999
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Antoine d'Arcy, Hugh - 1843 – 1925
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Antoninus, Brother - 1912 – 1994
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Anwar, Chairil - 1922 – 1949
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Anyuru, Johannes - born 1979
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Apollinaire, Guillaume - August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918
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Apostoloska, Maja - born 1976
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Aquilina, Pawlu - 1929 – 2009
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Aragon, Louis - 1897 – 1982
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Arghezi, Tudor - 1880 – 1967
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Armantrout, Rae - born 1947
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Armitage, Simon - born 1963
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Armstrong, Martin - 2 October 1882 – 24 February 1974
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Arnold, Sir Edwin - 1832 – 1904
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Arp, Jean - September 16, 1886 – June 7, 1966
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Artaud, Antonin - 1896 – 1948
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Asan, Kumaran - 1873 – 1924
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Ashbery, John - July 28, 1927 – Present
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Ashton Smith, Clark - 1893 – 1961
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Atwood, Margaret - November 18, 1939 – Present
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Auden, Wystan Hugh (W H) - February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973
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Austin, Alfred - May 3, 1835 – June 2, 1913
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Avison, Margaret - 1918 – 2007
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Awad, Krayem - born 1948
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Aygi, Gennady - 1934 – 2006
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Ayres, Pam - March 14, 1947 – Present
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Azmi, Kaifi - January 14, 1919 – May 10, 2002
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Babstock, Ken - born 1970
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Bachmann, Ingeborg - June 25, 1926 – October 17, 1973
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Bacovia, George - 1881 – 1957
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Baghy, Julio - 1891 – 1967
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Bailey, Philip James - 1816 – 1902
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Balaban, John - born 1943
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Ball, Jesse - born 1978
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Balmont, Konstantin - 1867 – 1942
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Baraka, Imamu Amiri - October 7, 1934 – Present
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Barba-Jacob, Porfirio - 1883 – 1942
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Barker, George - 1913 – 1991
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Barker, Les - born 1947
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Basinski, Michael - born 1950
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Bass, Ellen - born 1947
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Bataille, Henry - April 4, 1872 – March 2, 1922
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Baumbach, Rudolf - 1840 – 1905
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Baus, Eric - born 1975
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Bazeley Scurfield, George - 1920 – 1991
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Bechain, Kunwar - 1942 –
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Beets, Nicolaas - 1814 – 1903
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Belieu, Erin - born 1967
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Bell, Marvin - born 1937
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Belli, Gioconda - born 1948
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Bello, Xuan - born 1965
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Belloc, Hilaire - July 27, 1870 – July 16, 1953
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Benet, Stephen Vincent - July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943
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Benet, William Rose - February 2, 1886 — May 4, 1950
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Bennett, Jim - born 1951
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Bergman, Bo - 1869 – 1967
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Berman, David - January 4, 1967 – Present
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Bernstein, Charles - born 1950
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Berrigan, Daniel - born 1921
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Berry, Wendell - August 5, 1934 – Present
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Berryman, John - October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972
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Betjeman, John - August 28, 1906 – May 19, 1984
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Bevington, Helen - 1906 – 2001
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