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William Shakespeare
Matsuo Bash
Pablo Neruda
Gwendolyn Brooks
Rumi
Robert Burns
Rabindranath Tagore
Anne Sexton
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Hafez
Sylvia Plath
Omar Khayyam
John Keats
Walt Whitman
Anna Akhmatova
T.S. Eliot
Federico Garcia Lorca
Seamus Heaney
Robert Frost
Audre Lorde
Charles Baudelaire
Khalil Gibran
Allen Ginsberg
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sappho
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Arthur Rimbaud
Rainer Maria Rilke
Jorge Luis Borges
Dante
John Donne
Alejandra Pizarnik
William Wordsworth
John Milton
William Butler Yeats
Wallace Stevens
Li Bai
Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam
Ezra Pound
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nizr Qabbn
Paul Celan
Oscar Wilde
Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dylan Thomas
Robert Browning
George Seferis
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexander Pushkin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Virginia Woolf
Wole Soyinka
Wisawa Szymborska
G.K. Chesterton
Leo Tolstoy
Geoffrey Chaucer
E.E. Cummings
William Blake
Hilaire Belloc
John Dryden
Denise Levertov
Charles Simic
Galway Kinnell
James Wright
Alexander Pope
John Betjeman
Adrienne Rich
Nikki Giovanni
Vikram Seth
Thom Gunn
Tomas Tranströmer
Carolyn Forché
Derek Mahon
Ted Kooser
Mark Strand
Natasha Trethewey
Ronald Stuart Thomas
Joy Harjo
Rita Dove
Les Murray
Paul Muldoon
Dana Gioia
Ocean Vuong
Bei Dao
Claudia Rankine
Kim Addonizio
Robert Wrigley
Terrance Hayes
Carl Phillips
Louise Erdrich
Li-Young Lee
Kevin Young
Carol Ann Duffy
Juan Felipe Herrera
Jorie Graham
Billy Collins
Patricia Smith
Anna Swir
Mahmoud Darwish
Kamala Das
Arundhati Roy
Jericho Brown
Kaveh Akbar
Mary Ruefle
Cornelius Eady
Jack Gilbert
Robert Hass
Dorianne Laux
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Shane McCrae
Layli Long Soldier
Yusef Komunyakaa
Ilya Kaminsky
Fady Joudah
Jane Hirshfield
Mark Doty
Charles Wright
Rae Armantrout
Javier Zamora
Matthew Zapruder
C.D. Wright
Jean Valentine
Danez Smith
Gregory Pardlo
Eduardo C. Corral
Tracy K. Smith
Warsan Shire
Ada Limón
Richard Blanco
Ellen Bass
Jenny Xie
Brian Turner
Solmaz Sharif
Maggie Nelson
Eileen Myles
Khaled Mattawa
Donika Kelly
Ross Gay
Natalie Diaz
Robin Coste Lewis
Allama Iqbal
Aasmund Olafson Vinje
Aaron Hill
A.R. Ammons
A.M. Klein
A.L. Rowse
A.J.M. Smith
A.E. Housman
A.D. Hope
A. Alvarez
W.S. Merwin
Mary Oliver
Sharon Olds
Louise Glück
Robert Pinsky
Anne Carson
Philip Levine
Tony Hoagland
Elizabeth Alexander
Frank Bidart
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Zygmunt Krasiski
Zulfikar Ghose
Zuhayr ibn Ab Sulm
Ziya Gökalp
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius
Zhu Yizun
Zbigniew Morsztyn
Zbigniew Herbert
Yvor Winters
Yves Bonnefoy
Yunus Emre
Yuly Markovich Daniel
Yuan Zhen
Yoshida Kenk
Yosano Akiko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky
Yelena Genrikhovna Guro
Yehuda Amichai
Yannis Ritsos
Yang Xiong
Yamazaki Skan
Yamanoue Okura
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanolu
Xu Zhimo
Xin Qiji
Xie Lingyun
Xenophanes
Wu Cheng’en
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wadysaw Orkan
Wadysaw Broniewski
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Wilson Harris
William Williams
William Whitehead
William Wellington Gqoba (Bantu)
William Watson
William Vaughn Moody
William Thomas
William Stafford
William Soutar
William Somerville
William Shenstone
William Plomer
William Morris
William Meredith
William Lisle Bowles
William Langland
William Kirby
William John Gruffydd
William Jay Smith
William IX
William Henry Drummond
William Henry Davies
William Heinesen
William Hamilton of Gilbertfield
William Gilmore Simms
William Gifford
William Faulkner
William Everson
William Ernest Henley
William Empson
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
William Dunbar
William Drummond of Hawthornden
William Davenant
William Cullen Bryant
William Cowper
William Cornysh
William Congreve
William Combe
William Collins
William Charles Franklyn Plomer
William Cartwright
William Carlos Williams
William Browne
William Broome
William Baylebridge
William Barnes
William Alabaster
Willem Johan Theodoor Kloos
Willem Elsschot
Willem Bilderdijk
Wilhelm Müller
Wilhelm Busch
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Campbell
Wespazjan Kochowski
Werner Aspenström
Wendell Berry
Wen Tingyun
Wang Guowei
Walther von der Vogelweide
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Kennedy
Walter de la Mare
Walter Abish
Walafrid Strabo
Wacaw Potocki
Wace
W.S. Gilbert
W.H. Auden
W.D. Snodgrass
Vyasa
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Voltaire
Volker Braun
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Vittorio, Conte Alfieri
Vittorio Sereni
Vittoria Colonna
Vita Sackville-West
Virgilio Piñera
Virgil
Vinícius de Moraes
Vincenzo Monti
Vincenzo Cardarelli
Vincent Voiture
Vincas Krv-Mickieviius
Viktor Rydberg
Vidyapati
Victor Hugo
Victor Balaguer
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente Aleixandre
Vernon Phillips Watkins
Verner von Heidenstam
Venantius Fortunatus
Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov
Veijo Meri
Vasko Popa
       

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