An invitation to poetry

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966)

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)

A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)

John Ashbery (b.1927)

Margaret Atwood (b.1939)

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

William Blake (1757-1827)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Eavan Boland (b.1944)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Julia De Burgos (1914-1953)

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Paul Celan (1920-1970)

William Cowper (1731-1800)

Hart Crane (1899-1933)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

e.e. cummings (1894-1962)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

John Donne (1572-1631)

Carlos Drummond De Andrade (1902-1987)

Stephen Dunn (b.1939)

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

David Ferry (b.1924)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Louise Gluck (b.1943)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1842)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Thom Gunn (b.1929)

Donald Hall (b. 1928)

Mark Halliday (b.1949)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Robert Hass (b.1941)

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

Seamus Heaney (b.1939)

Anthony Hecht (b.1923)

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998)

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Richard Hugo (1923-1982)

Ikkyu (1394-1481)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Evan Jones (b.1927)

Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

Donald Justice (b.1925)

John Keats (1795-1821)

Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)

Yusef Komunyakaa (b.1947)

Maxine Kumin (b.1925)

Stanley Kunitz (b.1905) Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

Philip Levine (b.1928)

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

Li Po (701-762)

Liu Zongyuan (773-819)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)

Heather McHugh (b.1948)

James Merrill (1926-1995)

W.S. Merwin (b.1927)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Czeslaw Milosz (b.1911)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

George Oppen (1908-1984)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)

Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Adrienne Rich (b.1929)

Rainer Marie Rilke (1875-1926)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Muriel Rukeyser (1912-1980)

Sappho (612 B.C.E.

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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

William Stafford (1914-1993)

Gerald Stern (b.1925)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Mark Strand (b.1934)

May Swenson (1919-1989)

Wislawa Szymborska (b.1923)

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

James Tate (b.1943)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Derek Walcott (b.1930)

Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Richard Wilbur (b.1921)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Williams Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Charles Wright (b.1935)

James Wright (1927-1980)

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

William Butler Yeats (1895-1939)

Sone No Yoshitada (late 10th century)

Saadi Youssef (b.1934)

Zawgee (1907-1990).