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Famous Poets

Famous PoetsThe PoetrySoup Famous Poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration. Here you will find famous poets of our time and times past. We are expanding this site daily so that each poet's section will contain information about his or her writings, and poems written by the poet.

There are many poets who have achieved world wide recognition for their talent. We hope to maintain a resource of those poets and their poems – if possible. If we are missing a famous poet, please tell us so we can add him or her.


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Angelou, Maya
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Pulitzer Prize-winning African American author and an important figure in the American Civil Rights.

Abercrombie, Lascelles
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A British poet and literary critic.

Agustini, Delmira
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An Uruguayan poet considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th c.

Aiken, Conrad
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning American author.

Akhmatova, Anna
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One of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th-century.

Aldington, Richard
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An English writer and poet.

Alighieri, Dante
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An Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work is la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).

Allingham, William
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An Irish man of letters and poet.

Amichai, Yehuda
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An Israeli poet considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet.

Amis, Kingsley
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An English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.

Apollinaire, Guillaume
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A poet, writer, and art critic. Among the foremost French poets of the early 20th century.

Arnold, Matthew
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An English poet and cultural critic.

Ashbery, John
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An American poet.

Austen, Jane
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An English novelist and poet

Austin, Alfred
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An English poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson.

Auden, Wystan Hugh (W. H.)
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An English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the 20th century.

Ammons, Archie Randolph (A. R.)
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An American author and poet.

Alcott, Louisa May
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An American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women.

Adams, Sarah Fuller Flower
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An English poet.

Alger, Julie Hill
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An American poet.

Arp, Jean Hans
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A German-French sculptor, painter, and poet.