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193 poets listed chronologically - Poetry Connection
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Chronological listing of poets featured on Poetry Connection
Photo Poet Lived Homer (-750 - -750) Ovid (-43 - 17) Peter Cherches (0 - ) Wang Wei (698 - 759) Li Po (701 - 762) Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400) Francois Villon (1431 - 1474) Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 - 1618) Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631) Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) John Donne (1572 - 1631) Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) John Fletcher (1579 - 1625) William Drummond (1585 - 1649) Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) George Herbert (1593 - 1633) Thomas Carew (1595 - 1645) John Milton (1608 - 1674) Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1650) Abraham Cowley (1618 - 1667) Richard Lovelace (1618 - 1657) Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678) John Dryden (1631 - 1700) Katherine Philips (1631 - 1647) Thomas Flatman (1637 - 1688) Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694) John Wilmot (1647 - 1680) Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721) Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Yosa Buson (1716 - 1784) Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) Joseph Warton (1722 - 1800) Christopher Smart (1722 - 1771) Thomas Warton (1728 - 1790) Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) William Cowper (1731 - 1800) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) William Blake (1757 - 1827) Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) William Lisle Bowles (1762 - 1850) Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828) William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) Samuel Coleridge (1772 - 1834) Ho Xuan Huong (1772 - 1822) Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859) Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) John Clare (1793 - 1864) John Keats (1795 - 1821) William Barnes (1801 - 1886) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809 - 1861) Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855) Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861) Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) George Bradley (1821 - 1903) Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) Sir Thomas Brown (1830 - 1897) Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909) Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) Stephane Mallarme (1842 - 1898) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903) Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) A.E. Housman (1859 - 1936) Sir Henry Newbolt (1862 - 1938) Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) Andrew Barton Paterson (1864 - 1941) Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900) Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922) George William Russell (1867 - 1935) Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953) Lola Ridge (1873 - 1941) G.K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) Robert William Service (1874 - 1958) Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) John Masefield (1878 - 1967) Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) Alfred Noyes (1880 - 1958) A.A. Milne (1882 - 1956) D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) Hans Arp (1886 - 1966) Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967) Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972) Dame Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964) Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914) Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) Gabriela Mistral (1889 - 1957) Pierre Reverdy (1889 - 1960) Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918) Osip Mandelstam (1891 - 1938) Vita Sackville-West (1892 - 1962) Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) Jiri Mordecai Langer (1894 - 1943) Robert Graves (1895 - 1985) Charles Sorley (1895 - 1915) Andre Breton (1896 - 1966) Austin Clarke (1896 - 1974) Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936) Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) Nazim Hikmet (1901 - 1963) Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971) A.S.J. Tessimond (1902 - 1962) Peter Huchel (1903 - 1981) Patrick Kavanagh (1904 - 1967) Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963) Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) Anna Swir (1909 - 1984) Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979) Czeslaw Milosz (1911 - 2004) Elizabeth Smart (1913 - 1986) R.S. Thomas (1913 - 2000) Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) Octavio Paz (1914 - 1998) Thomas Blackburn (1916 - 1977) P.K. Page (1916 - ) Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990) Paul Celan (1920 - 1970) Andree Chedid (1920 - ) Keith Douglas (1920 - 1944) Edwin Morgan (1920 - ) Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921 - ) Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995) Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985) Vasko Popa (1922 - 1991) Vernon Scannell (1922 - ) Yves Bonnefoy (1923 - ) Nizar Qabbani (1923 - 1998) Wislawa Szymborska (1923 - ) Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) Edgar Bowers (1924 - 2000) Lisel Mueller (1924 - ) A.R. Ammons (1926 - 2001) Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 - 1973) Elizabeth Jennings (1926 - 2001) Sonja Akesson (1926 - 1977) Edwin Brock (1927 - 1997) James Wright (1927 - 1980) Thom Gunn (1929 - 2004) Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) Harold Pinter (1930 - ) Derek Walcott (1930 - ) Geoffrey Hill (1932 - ) Rafael Guillen (1933 - ) Alden Nowlan (1933 - 1983) Leonard Cohen (1934 - ) Mark Strand (1934 - ) Mary Oliver (1935 - ) Fernando Pessoa (1935 - ) Tony Harrison (1937 - ) Les Murray (1938 - ) Margaret Atwood (1939 - ) Seamus Heaney (1939 - ) Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996) Mahmoud Darwish (1941 - ) Eamon Grennan (1941 - ) Hugo Williams (1942 - ) Eavan Boland (1944 - ) Craig Raine (1944 - ) Henrik Nordbrandt (1945 - ) Regina Derieva (1949 - ) Paul Muldoon (1951 - ) Helen Dunmore (1952 - ) Michael Donaghy (1954 - 2004) Michael Ondaatje (1954 - ) John Burnside (1955 - ) Erin Moure (1955 - ) Carol Ann Duffy (1955 - ) Andrew Crumey (1961 - ) Don Paterson (1963 - ) Roddy Lumsden (1966 - )

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