The Greatest Poets

in Chronological Order

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-800 - -730
Homer
70
-780 - -705
Hesiod
75
-630 - -570
Sappho
60
-520 - -448
Pindar
72
-496 - -406
Sophocles
90
-65 - -8
Horace
57
-43 - 18
Ovid
61
380 - 450
Kalidasa
70
505 - 578
Hatim
73
701 - 762
Bai Li
61
712 - 770
Fu Du
58
1048 - 1131
Khayyam Omar
83
1207 - 1273
Rumi Jalaluddin
66
1210 - 1292
Saadi
82
1265 - 1321
Dante
56
1317 - 1392
Hafez
75
1402 - 1475
Bauniyya Aisha
73
1553 - 1614
Kornaros
61
1564 - 1616
Shakespeare
52
1608 - 1674
Milton John
66
1644 - 1694
Basho Matsuo
50
1688 - 1744
Pope, Alexander
56
1757 - 1827
Blake William
70
1759 - 1796
Burns Robert
37
1759 - 1805
Schiller
46
1763 - 1827
Issa Kobayashi
64
1772 - 1801
Novalis
29
1778 - 1827
Foscolo,
49
1786 - 1855
Nizami
69
1786 - 1855
Phu Sunthorn
69
1788 - 1824
Byron George
36
1790 - 1869
Lamartine
79
1792 - 1822
Shelley Percy
30
1795 - 1821
Keats John
26
1797 - 1856
Heine Heinrich
59
1797 - 1851
Shelley Mary
54
1799 - 1837
Pushkin
38
1803 - 1873
Tyutchev Fyodor
70
1809 - 1892
Tennyson
83
1809 - 1849
Poe, Edgar A.
40
1810 - 1857
Musset Alfred
47
1813 - 1851
Petrovic-Njegos
38
1814 - 1868
Acharya Bhanu
54
1814 - 1861
Shevchenko
47
1821 - 1867
Baudelaire
46
1830 - 1894
Rossetti Christina
64
1830 - 1886
Dickinson Emily
56
1840 - 1924
Ullman Samuel
84
1844 - 1896
Verlaine Paul
52
1846 - 1870
Lautreamont
24
1850 - 1889
Eminescu
39
1854 - 1928
Zamudio Adela
74
1854 - 1891
Rimbaud
37
1861 - 1941
Tagore
80
1863 - 1936
Zahawi
73
1863 - 1933
Cavafy
70
1864 - 1901
Toulouse
37
1864 - 1936
Unamuno
72
1865 - 1939
Yeats W. B.
74
1865 - 1936
Kipling
71
1867 - 1916
Dario Ruben
49
1868 - 1950
Masters Edgar
82
1870 - 1932
Shawqiν Ahmed
62
1871 - 1945
Valery Paul
74
1874 - 1963
Frost Robert
89
1875 - 1926
Rilke
51
1875 - 1939
Machado Antonio
64
1877 - 1938
Hazoume Paul
61
1877 - 1938
Gebre-Medhin
61
1878 - 1967
Sandburg Carl
89
1878 - 1945
Tekeyan Vahan
67
1878 - 1926
Leino Eino
48
1879 - 1949
Naidu Sarojini
70
1880 - 1918
Apollinaire
38
1881 - 1958
Jimenez Juan
77
1883 - 1931
Gibran Khalil
48
1883 - 1980
Under Marie
97
1885 - 1972
Pound Ezra
87
1888 - 1935
Pessoa
47
1888 - 1965
Eliot Thomas
77
1889 - 1948
McKay Claude
59
1889 - 1966
Akhmatova
77
1889 - 1957
Mistral Gabriela
68
1890 - 1930
Sucre Ramos
40
1890 - 1930
Mayakovsky
40
1892 - 1950
Milley Edna
58
1892 - 1959
Tabidze Galaktion
67
1892 - 1938
Vallejo Cesar
46
1892 - 1937
Javad Ahmad
45
1893 - 1967
Parker Dorothy
74
1894 - 1962
cummings
68
1895 - 1925
Yesenin Sergei
30
1895 - 1952
Eluard Paul
57
1898 - 1936
Lorca Federico
38
1899 - 1986
Borges
87
1899 - 1984
Michaux Henri
85
1900 - 1977
Prevert Jacques
77
1901 - 1967
Hughes Langston
66
1901 - 1964
Meireles Cecilia
63
1901 - 1937
Rabearivelo
36
1901 - 1968
Quasimodo
67
1902 - 1963
Hikmet Nazim
61
1902 - 1991
Suarez Clementina
89
1902 - 1934
Sowol Kim
32
1904 - 1926
Kosovel Srecko
22
1904 - 1973
Neruda Pablo
69
1905 - 1953
Cervera Campos
48
1906 - 2001
Senghor Leopold
95
1906 - 1937
Natsagdorj
31
1909 - 1962
Shaaban
53
1910 - 1975
Kavvadias
65
1911 - 1979
Bishop Elizabeth
68
1911 - 1996
Elytis
85
1911 - 1984
Faiz Ahmad
73
1914 - 1953
Thomas Dylan
39
1914 - 1998
Paz Octavio
84
1915 - 1995
Nesin Aziz
80
1916 - 2019
Dadie Bernard
103
1920 - 1993
Noonuccal
73
1920 - 2009
Benedetti Mario
89
1922 - 2003
Craveirinha Jose
81
1922 - 1949
Anwar Chairil
27
1923 - 1964
Behan Brendan
41
1925 - 1961
Silveira Onesimo
36
1926 - 1997
Ginsberg Allen
71
1926 - 0
Depestre Rene
1928 - 1990
Andrade Pinto
62
1928 - 2008
Aitmatov
80
1928 - 2014
Angelou Maya
86
1929 - 1976
Mahagame Sekara
47
1930 - 2017
Walcott Derek
87
1930 - 1988
Hughes Ted
58
1930 - 2018
Rubadiri
88
1930 - 2013
Achebe Chinua
83
1931 - 1982
P_Bitek Okot
51
1932 - 2002
Sihab Hamam
70
1932 - 1963
Plath Sylvia
31
1932 - 1973
Jara Victor
41
1933 - 2007
Moe Tin
74
1933 - 0
Thumboo Edwin
1936 - 2010
Seng Goh-Poh
74
1938 - 2009
Konie Gwendoline
71
1941 - 2008
Darwish Maḥmoud
67
1941 - 0
Rajendra
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