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소설가
[편집]아래는 세계의 소설가들의 목록이다.
아프리카
[편집]- 치누아 아체베, (1930년 ~ ) 모든 것이 산산이 부서지다 등 아프리카 전통사회의 붕괴에 관한 작품 집필.
유럽
[편집]- 하리 뮐리스 - en:Harry Mulisch [1]
- 티프 마뤼크 - en:Tip Marugg
- 빌럼 프레데리크 헤르만스 - en:Willem Frederik Hermans
- 얀 볼컬스 - en:Jan Wolkers
- 헤라르트 레버 - en:Gerard Reve
- A. F. Th. 판데르헤이던 - en:A. F. Th. van der Heijden
- 잉바르 암비에른센 - en:Ingvar Ambjørnsen
- 라르스 소뷔에 크리스텐센 - en:Lars Saabye Christensen
- 올라브 둔 - en:Olav Duun
- 에릭 포스네스 한센 - en:Erik Fosnes Hansen
- 로이 야콥센 - en:Roy Jacobsen
- 알렉산데르 셸란 - en:Alexander Kielland
- 얀 셰르스타 - en:Jan Kjærstad
- 요나스 리 - en:Jonas Lie
- 악셀 산데모스 - en:Aksel Sandemose
- 이사크 디네센 (1885년 ~ 1962년) 본명 : 카렌 블릭센, Seven Gothic Tales (1934년), 아웃 오브 아프리카(1937년)의 작가 - en:Karen Blixen
- 페테르 키에룰프 (1946년 ~ )
- 한스 크리스티안 안데르센
- 요한 볼프강 폰 괴테
- 지그프리트 렌츠, (1926년- )
- 파트리크 쥐스킨트 (1949년 ~ ), 향수, 좀머씨 이야기 - en:Patrick Süskind
- 테오도르 폰타네
- 귄터 그라스
- 카렐 차페크, (1890년 ~ 1938년) 체코어 작가.
- 프란츠 카프카, (1883년 ~ 1924년), 프라하의 유대인 독일어 작가.
- 밀란 쿤데라, (1929년- )
- 바츨라프 하벨, 극작가. 체코슬로바키아의 대통령(1989년 - 1992년). 체코 공화국의 대통령.(1993년 ~ 2003년)
- 야로슬라프 하섹, (1883년 ~ 1923년), Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (세계대전 동안 일어난 착한 병사 슈베이크의 이야기)
- 보후밀 흐라발, (1914년 ~ 1997년), Ostře sledované vlaky (엄밀히 감시받은 열차)의 작가
- 야로슬라프 사이페르트 (1901년 ~ 1986년), (노벨 문학상) (1984년)
- 알렉산드르 푸시킨
- 니콜라이 고골
- 미하일 레르몬토프, (1814년 ~ 1841년)
- 알렉세이 K. 톨스토이, (Aleksey K. Tolstoy)(1817년 ~ 1875년)
- 미카일 살티코프 시체드린 (1826년 ~ 1889년) - en:Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- 레프 톨스토이
- 표도르 도스토옙스키
- 안톤 체호프
- 니콜라이 체르니솁스키, (1828년 ~ 1889년) 무엇을 할 것인가로 유명.
- 니콜라이 레스코프, (1831년 ~ 1895년)
- 안드레이 벨르이 (1880년 ~ 1934년) - en:Andrei Bely
- 알렉세이 N. 톨스토이 (1883년 ~ 1945년) - en:Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- 미하일 불가코프, (1891년 ~ 1940년, The Master and Margarita의 작가
- 알렉산드르 솔제니친
- 미르케아 카르타레스쿠, (1956년 ~ ), Nostalgia (1993년), Orbitor
- 이온 크레안가,en:Ion Creanga (1839년 ~ 1889년)
- 미르케아 엘리아데, (1907년 ~ 1986년),
- 파나이트 이스트라티, (1884년 ~ 1935년)
- 카밀 페트레스쿠, (1894년 ~ 1957년), Patul lui Procust (1933년)
- 마린 프레다, (1927년 ~ 1980년), Morometii
- 리비우 레브레아누, (1885년 ~ 1944년)
- 미하일 사도베아누, (1880년 ~ 1961년)
- 밀로라드 파비치 (1929년 ~ ) - en:Milorad Pavić (writer)
- 막스 프리슈(en:Max Frisch) (1911년 ~ 1991년), Stiller (1954년) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964년)
- 마리안네 프레드릭손 - en:Marianne Fredriksson
- 구스타프 프뢰딩 - en:Gustaf Fröding
- 얀 기유 - en:Jan Guillou
- 빌헬름 모베리 (Vilhelm Moberg)
- 이언 뱅크스-en:Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (1954년 ~ ) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science-fiction novels under the second.
- J. M. 배리-en:J. M. Barrie, author of 피터와 웬디 among others.
- 제임스 켈먼-en:James Kelman
- 켄 매클라우드-en:Ken MacLeod, (1954년 ~ ) : 과학소설 작가
- 이언 랭킨-en:Ian Rankin
- 로버트 루이 스티븐슨, (1850년 ~ 1894년), author of 보물섬
- 메리 스튜어트,(Mary Stewart) (1916년 ~ )
- 나이절 트랜터-en:Nigel Tranter, (1909년 ~ 2000년) : 스코틀랜드 역사소설 작가
- 어바인 웰시-en:Irvine Welsh, (1961년 ~ )
- 브렌던 비언-en:Brendan Behan, (1923년 ~ 1964년)
- 토머스 플래너건-en:Thomas Flanagan, (1923년 ~ 2002년)
- 아이리스 머독-en:Iris Murdoch
- 플란 오브라이언-en:Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
- 브리안 오놀란-en:Brian O'Nolan, (1911년 ~ 1966년) Flann O'Brien으로도 알려짐. Myles na Gcopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn.
- 로런스 스턴-Laurence Sterne, (1713년 ~ 1768년) played with text and self-referential narrative two centuries before Postmodernism was invented.
- 제임스 조이스
- 레오폴도 알라스-en:Leopoldo Alas, 'La Regenta' 작가
- 페레스 갈도스-en:Pérez Galdós
- 후안 고이티솔로-en:Juan Goytisolo: El sitio de los sitios
- 후안 마르세-en:Juan Marsé: La Muchacha de las bragas de oro (Premio planeta)
- 에두아르도 멘도사-en:Eduardo Mendoza: La ciudad de los prodigios, Sin Noticias de Gurp, El Misterio de la cripta embrujada
- 아르투로 페레스 레베르테-en:Arturo Pérez-Reverte: El Club Dumas
- 영국(잉글랜드)
- 존 버니언
- 윌리엄 셰익스피어
- 그레이엄 그린 (1904년 ~ 1991년) - en:Graham Greene
- 러셀 호번,{영국/ }여류작가,플란더즈의개(1872),
- 윌리엄 골딩
- 토머스 하디, (1840년 ~ 1928년)
- 앤서니 버지스-en:Anthony Burgess, (1917년 ~ 1993년), composer, 수필가, 태엽시계 오렌지 작가
- 앤서니 트롤럽-en:Anthony Trollope
- C.H.B 키친-en:C. H. B. Kitchin
- 엘리자베스 가스켈-en:Elizabeth Gaskell
- 에블린 워
- 헨리 필딩 : The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- J. R. 애컬리
- 제임스 폴릿, (1939년 ~ ), author of over 20 novels, plus works for radio and television.
- 킹즐리 에이미스
- 마틴 에이미스 - en:Martin Amis
- 네빌 슈트(Nevil Shute) (1899년 ~ 1960년), On the Beach, The Trustee from the Toolroom, A Town like Alice
- 닉 혼비, author of About a Boy (1998년)
- P. G. Wodehouse, (1881년 ~ 1975년), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
- P. D. 제임스, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992년)
- 러디어드 키플링-en:Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904년)
- 후고 베타우어
- 페터 한트케, (1942년- )
- 요제프 하슬링거
- 페터 헤니슈
- 로베르트 무질, (1880년 ~ 1942년), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities)
- 슈테판 츠바이히(Stefan Zweig), (1881년 ~ 1942년)
- 단테 알리기에리
- 리카르도 바첼리
- 알레산드로 바리코
- 스테파노 베니, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra (1985년) is most popular work in English
- 알베르토 베빌라콰
- 비탈리아노 브란카티 (Vitaliano Brancati)
- 제수알도 부팔리노
- 알도 부시
- 디노 부차티
- 프리모 레비
- 이탈로 칼비노, Cosmicomics
- 안드레아 카밀레리 (Andrea Camilleri)
- 카를로 카솔라
- 가브리엘레 단눈치오, revolutionary
- 마시모 다첼리오
- 주세페 데시
- 카를로 에밀리오 가다
- 나탈리아 레비
- 에밀리오 루수
- 다치아 마라이니
- 엘자 모란테
- 바스코 프라톨리니
- 살바토레 사타
- 알베르토 사비니오
- 레오나르도 시아시아
- 이그나치오 실로네
- 마리오 솔다티
- 수잔나 타마로
- 주세페 토마시 디 람페두사, The Leopard
- 조반니 베르가
- 미로슬라브 크를레자 (1893년 ~ 1981년)
- 비톨트 곰브로비치-en:Witold Gombrowicz, (1904년 ~ 1969년)
- 스타니스와프 렘, (1921년 ~ )
- 엘리자 오제슈코바, (1841년 ~ 1910년)
- 볼레스와프 프루스, (1847년 ~ 1912년)
- 브와디스와프 레이몬트-en:Wladyslaw Reymont, (1867년 ~ 1925년) 노벨 문학상 1924년, author of national epic The Peasants
- 스테판 제롬스키, (1864년 ~ 1925년)
- 안토니우 로부 안투네스-en:António Lobo Antunes
- 페르난두 드 캄푸스
- 에카 드 케이로스
- 아킬리누 히베이루
- 알비누 포르하스 드 삼파이우, (1884년 ~ 1949년)
- 알렉상드르 뒤마, (1802년 ~ 1870년), 《몽테 크리스토 백작》의 작가.
- 프랑수아 라블레, (ca. 1493년 ~ 1553년) 《가르강튀아의 팡타그뤼엘》로 유명한 우화작가.
- 기 드 모파상, (1850년 ~ 1893년)
- 오노레 드 발자크, (1799년 ~ 1850년), 프랑스의 19세기 초반을 사실주의적으로 잘 묘사한 인간 희극의 작가.
- 장폴 사르트르, (1905년 ~ 1980년), 《구토》, 《벽》 등으로 유명한 작가. 실존주의자.
- 미셸 우엘베크, Impact award winner
- 빅토르 위고, (1802년 ~ 1885년), 《노트르 담의 꼽추》, 《레 미제라블》의 작가.
- 볼테르, (1694년 ~ 1778년)
- 샨 사, 1972년 ~
- 에밀 졸라, (1840년 ~ 1902년), 사실주의.
- 베르나르 베르베르, 《개미》, 《뇌》, 《나무》 등의 작품이 있다.
- 쥘 베른, (1828년 ~ 1905년), SF소설의 효시라고 할 수 있다. 《해저 2만리》, 《달나라 여행》, 《80일간의 세계 일주》 등의 작품이 있다.
- 알베르 카뮈, (1913년 - 1960년) 《이방인》, 《페스트》, 《시지프 신화》
- 아나톨 프랑스
- 마르셀 프루스트, (1871년 ~ 1922년), 《잃어버린 시간을 찾아서》의 저자.
- 귀스타브 플로베르, (1821년 ~ 1880년)
- 토베 얀손, (1914년 ~ 2001년) 스웨덴어 작가
- 아이노 칼라스, (1878년 ~ 1956년), female
- 알렉시스 키비, (1834년 ~ 1872년)
- 배이뇌 린나, (1920년 ~ 1992년)
- 죄르지 덜로슈(György Dalos, 1943년- )
- 모르 요커이(Mór Jókai, 1825년 - 1904년)
- 이슈트반 외르케니(István Örkény, 1912년 ~ 1979년)
중동
[편집]- 아모스 오즈-en:Amos Oz, author of Black Box, My Michael
- A. B. 예호슈아, author of Mr. Mani
- 나기브 마푸즈-en:Naguib Mahfouz, (1911년 ~ ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988년), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.
북아메리카
[편집]- 캐시 애커, (1943년 ~ 1997년) - en:Kathy Acker
- 로버트 H. 애들먼-en:Robert H. Adleman (1919년 ~ 1995년)
- 루이사 메이 올컷, (1832년 ~ 1888년) : 작은 아씨들, 작은 신사들, 조의 아이들 작가 - en:Louisa May Alcott
- 레이 브래드버리, (1920년 ~ ) : The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes 작가 - en:Ray Bradbury
- 찰스 버코우스키-en:Charles Bukowski, (1920년 ~ 1994년), poet & novelist, author of Post Office, Factotum
- 윌리엄 S. 버로스-en:William S. Burroughs, (1914년 ~ 1997년) - en:William S. Burroughs
- 트루먼 커포티-en:Truman Capote, (1924년 ~ 1984년) - en:Truman Capote
- 스티븐 크레인-en:Stephen Crane, (1871년 ~ 1900년), The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets.
- 존 한테-en:John Fante, (1909년 ~ 1983년), author of Ask the Dust, Full of Life
- 존 어빙, (1942년), author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules - en:John Irving
- 필립 로스, (1933년 ~ ), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain - en:Philip Roth
- 커트 보네거트-en:Kurt Vonnegut, (1922년 ~ ) : Cat's Cradle의 작가
- 톰 울프, (1931년 ~ ) : The Bonfire of the Vanities 작가 - en:Tom Wolfe
- 토머스 울프 (1900년 ~ 1938년), Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life (1929년) - en:Thomas Wolfe
- 톰 클랜시, (1947년 ~), 붉은 10월
- 윌리엄 포크너, (1897년 ~ 1962년), Southern Modernist, author of A Light in August
- F. 스콧 피츠제럴드, (1896년 ~ 1940년), author of 위대한 개츠비 and This Side of Paradise
- 대실 해밋, (1894년 ~ 1961년)
- 너새니얼 호손, (1804년 ~ 1864년), author of 주홍글씨, The House of the Seven Gables
- 어니스트 헤밍웨이, (1899년 ~ 1961년), author of 누구를 위하여 종은 울리나, 무기여 잘 있거라, and The Sun Also Rises
- 프랭크 허버트(Frank Herbert), (1920년 ~ 1986년), 듄 시리지를 쓴 과학소설가.
- 존 어빙, (1942년), author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules
- 잭 케루악, beatnik, author of On the Road (1952년).
- 스티븐 킹, prolific horror author.
- 잭 런던, (1876년 ~ 1916년), 야성의 절규, Martin Eden, The Sea-Wolf
- 허먼 멜빌, (1819년 ~ 1891년), 모비 딕
- 헨리 밀러 (1891년 ~ 1980년)
- 토머스 핀천(Thomas Pynchon), (1937년) 브이를 찾아서 (V.), The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Slow Learner, Mason & Dixon
- 필립 로스, (1933년 ~ ), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain
- J. D. 샐린저, 호밀밭의 파수꾼
- 존 스타인벡, (1902년 ~ 1968년), 분노의 포도, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, Cannery Row, 에덴의 동쪽
- 마크 트웨인, (1835년 ~ 1910년), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of 허클베리 핀의 모험, 톰소여의 모험, 왕자와 거지
- 토머스 울프 (Thomas Wolfe), (1900년 ~ 1938년), Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life (1929년)
- 릭 라이어던 (Rick Riodan), 퍼시 잭슨과 올림포스의 신
- 피에르 브르통 (1920년 ~ ) - en:Pierre Berton
- 마리클레르 블레-en:Marie-Claire Blais, (1939년- )
- 몰리 캘러건-en:Morley Callaghan, (1903년 ~ 1990년) Strange Fugitive (1928년) 작가
- 데버라 조이 코리-en:Deborah Joy Corey, (1958년- ) Books in Canada First Novel Award 수상자
- 로버트슨 데이비스-Robertson Davies, (1913년 ~ 1995년), Fifth Business 작가
- 레장 뒤샤름
- 티머시 핀들리 (1930년 ~ 2002년) - en:Timothy Findley
- 휴 매클레넌-en:Hugh MacLennan,
- 마거릿 로런스,
- 얀 마텔, "Life of Pi" 작가, 2002 Booker Prize
- 로힌튼 미스트리, (1952년 ~ )
- 루시 모드 몽고메리, (1874년 ~ 1942년) - en:Lucy Maud Montgomery
- 수재나 무디, (1803년 ~ 1885년) - en:Susanna Moodie
- 팔리 모웟 - en:Farley Mowat
- 앨리스 먼로, (1931년- ) - en:Alice Munro
- 모디카이 리츨러, (1931년 ~ 2001년), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959년)
- 가브리엘 루아, (1909년 ~ 1983년)
- 캐럴 실즈, (1935년 ~ 2003년)
- 캐서린 파 트레일, (1802년 ~ 1899년)
- 제인 어커트, (1949년 ~ ) - en:Jane Urquhart
남아메리카
[편집]- 훌리오 코르타사르, (1914년 ~ 1984년)
- 리카르도 구이랄데스, (1886년 ~ 1927년) Don Segundo Sombra
- 마누엘 푸익, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman
- 호세 에우스타시오 리베라(José Eustasio Rivera), (1888년 ~ 1928년), author of La voragine
- 마리오 바르가스 요사(Mario Vargas Llosa), (1936년- ), ran for president, author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
오세아니아
[편집]- 에이미 위팅-en:Amy Witting
- 카멜 버드(Carmel Bird)
- 크리스티나 스테드-en:Christina Stead, author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940년)
- D.B.C. Pierre, 2003 부커 상
- 데이비드 포스터(David Foster)
- 데이비드 말로프-en:David Malouf
- 도로시 휴잇-en:Dorothy Hewett
- 엘리자베스 졸리-en:Elizabeth Jolley
- 프랭크 무어하우스-en:Frank Moorhouse
- 조지 존스턴-en:George Johnston
- 제랄드 뮤네인-en:Gerald Murnane
- 그레그 이건-en:Greg Egan, science fiction
- 헬렌 가너
- 헨리 헨델 리처드슨-en:Henry Handel Richardson
- 제임스 클라벨, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), Shogun
- 제시카 앤더슨
- 존 마즈든, 투모로우(Tomorrow) 시리즈
- 조셉 퍼피
- 케이트 그렌빌
- 케리 그린우드
- 릴리 브렛, Just Like That (1994년)
- 마커스 클라크
- 마일스 프랭클린
- 머리 베일
- 네빌 슈트
- 패트릭 화이트, 노벨 문학상 수상 (1973년), noted for his examinations of his native land
- 피터 케리
- 피터 골드워시
- 랜돌프 스토
- 리차드 플래니건
- 롤프 볼더우드 (토마스 브라운)
- 시아 애슬리
- 토머스 케닐리, Schindler's Ark (1985년), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates (1979년)
- 팀 윈톤
- 트레이시 하딩
- 사비에르 허버트
아시아
[편집]- R.K. 나라얀, (1906년 ~ 2001년)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908년 ~ 1994년)
- 살만 루슈디, (1947년 ~ ), of the fatwa fame.
- 아룬다티 로이, <<작은 것들의 신(The God of Small Things)>>
- 아베 고보 (1924년 ~ 1993년) The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
- 엔치 후미코 (1905년 ~ 1986년) A Tale of False Fortunes, The Waiting Years
- 아쿠타가와 류노스케, (1892년 ~ 1927년), Rashomon
- 다자이 오사무, (1909년 ~ 1948년), No Longer Human, Melos, Run!
- 엔도 슈사쿠, (1923년 ~ 1996년) Silence, Deep River
- 히구치 이치요, (1872년 ~ 1896년) Child's Play, The Thirteenth Night
- 이부세 마스지, (1898년 ~ 1993년) Black Rain
- 가네시로 가즈키, (1968년~ ) Go, Fly Fly Daddy
- 가와바타 야스나리 (1899년 ~ 1972년) 설국, The Izu Dancer (Winner of the Nobel Prize, 1968년)
- 미시마 유키오, (1925년 ~ 1970년), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask
- 미야베 미유키, (1960년~ )
- 미야자와 겐지, (1896년 ~ 1933년) Night Train to the Stars, Matasaburo the Wind Imp
- 모리 오가이, (1862년 ~ 1922년), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
- 나쓰메 소세키, (1867년 ~ 1916년), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
- 오에 겐자부로 (1935년 ~ ) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize, 1994년)
- 다니자키 준이치로 (1886년 ~ 1965년) Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters
- 라오 (1899 ~ 1966) : Si Shi Tong Tang의 작가 - zh:老舍
- 장아이링 (1920 ~ 1995) : 여성 소설가 - zh:张爱玲
- 치엔종수 (1910 ~ 1998) : 圍牆의 작가 - zh:錢鍾書
- 루쉰, (1881년 ~ 1936년), author of 阿Q正傳
- 마오둔 (茅盾), (1896년 ~ 1981년), author of 자야 (子夜)
- 젬 아카스(1968 ~ ) - en:Cem Akas
- 메틴 카찬 - en:Metin Kaçan
- 야흐야 케말 - en:Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
- 야샤르 케말: "Mehmed, My Hawk"의 작가 - en:Yaşar Kemal
- 오르한 파묵: "Black Book" and "The White Castle"의 작가 - en:Orhan Pamuk
- 아지즈 네신: en:Aziz Nesin
- 할둔 타네르- en:Haldun Taner
- 아메드 알리
- 줄피카르 고세(1935 ~ ) - en:Zulfikar Ghose
- 바프시 시드와(1938 ~ ) - en:Bapsi Sidhwa
- 타리크 알리(1943 ~ ) - en:Tariq Ali
세계주의자들
[편집]시인
[편집]- 데니 앱스-en:Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
- 밀턴 에이콘-Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- 레오니 애덤스-en:Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
- 플류어 애드콕en:Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
- 조지프 애디슨en:Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
- 어디 엔드레en:Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
- 아이스킬로스-en:Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
- 루키우스 아프라니우스 (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
- 페이션스 에이그바비-en:Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
- 제임스 에이지 (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
- 드리테로 아골리-en:Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
- 아이 (시인)-en:Ai (poet) (born 1947), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
- 콘래드 에이컨-en:Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
- 마크 아큰사이드=en:Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
- 벨라 아흐마둘리나 (born 1957), Russian poet
- 안나 아흐마토바 (1889–1966), Russian poet
- 루이기 알라만니en:Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
- 잘랄 알-딘 무함마드 루미, (1207-1273)
- 알크만 (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
- 리차드 올딩턴 (1892–1962)
- 바실레 알렉산드리 (1821-1890), Romanian poet
- 클라리벨 알레그리아 (born 1924), Central American poet
- 비센떼 알레익산드레, (1898–1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
- 조십 먼 안레코안드로프 (1879–1901)
- 무함마드 알리, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
- 단테 알리기에리, (1265-1321), Italian poet
- 제임스 알렉산더 앨런 (1889–1956), Australian poet
- 윌리엄 앨링엄, (1824 or 1828-1889)
- 다마소 알론소 (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
- 나탄 알트만 (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
- 알 알바레즈 (born 1919), English poet
- 아마라 신하 (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
- 앙부아즈, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
- 예후다 아미차이 (1924–2000) Israeli poet
- 킹슬리 에이미스 (1922–1995) English author and poet
- A. R. 에몬즈 (1926–2001) American author and poet
- 아나크레온 (570 BC-488 BC), Greek lyric poet
- 알프레드 안더슈, (1914–1980)
- 한스 크리스티안 안데르센, 덴마크 시인 (1805–1875)
- 존 앤더슨, (born 1944), English rock music vocalist and lyricist (영국 프로그레시브 밴드 Yes의 보컬)
- 마리오 지 앙드라지, (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
- 아네이린, medieval (6th century) epic poet
- 마야 앤절로, (born April 4, 1928), American Poet
- 앤틀러 (시인), (b.1946), American poet
- 윌리엄 에버슨 (Brother Antoninus로도 알려져 있음)
- 하이릴 안와르, (Indonesian poet: 1922–1949)
- 기욤 아폴리네르, (1880–1918)
- 아폴로니오스 로디오스 (270-after 245 BC)
- 마자 아포스톨로스카, (born 1976), Macedonian poetess
- 파울 아쿠일리나, (1929-2009), Maltese poet
- 루이 아라공, (1897-1982)
- 아르킬로코스, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
- 휴 앙트완 다아시 (1843-1925)
- 월터 콘래드 아렌즈버그 (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
- 투도르 아르게지 (1880-1967), Romanian poet
- 루도비코 아리오스토, (1474-1533)
- 래 알만트로우트, (1947-)
- 사이먼 아미테이지, (born 1963)
- 에른스트 모리츠 아른트, (1769-1860), German patriotic author and poet
- 아힘 폰 아르님, (1781-1831) 독일 낭만주의파
- 베티나 폰 아르님, (1785-1859)
- 매튜 아널드, (1822-1888)
- 장 아르프, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
- 앙토냉 아르토, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
- 존 애쉬베리, (born 1927)
- 안톤 아스케르크, (1856-1912)
- 아타르 네이샤퓨리 (필명: 파리드 알-딘 아타르 혹은 아타르), (c. 1130-c. 1230)
- 마거릿 애트우드, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
- W. H. 오든, (1907-1973)
- 아우시아스 마르치, (1397-1459)
- 오소니우스, (c. 310-395) 로마 시인
- 마가렛 에비슨 (1918-2007)
- 로버트 아이튼 경(Sir) (1570-1638)
- 아쇼끄 짜끄르다르 (Born 8 February 1951)
- Ken Babstock, Canadian
- Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
- Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
- Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
- George Bacovia, Romanian poet
- Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
- Julio Baghy
- Bai Juyi
- Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
- Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
- Jesse Ball American poet
- Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
- Porfirio Barba-Jacob
- John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
- George Barker, (1913-1991)
- Les Barker
- Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
- William Barnes, (1801-1886)
- Elizabeth Barrett(March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)
- Matsuo Bashō, (1644-1694), renku and haiku poet
- Ellen Bass
- Charles Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
- James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)
- Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
- Joshua Beckman
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
- Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
- Marvin Bell, (1937-?)
- Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
- Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
- Gottfried Ben
- Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
- William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
- Bo Bergman (1869-1967)
- Ilhan Berk
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
- Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943)
- Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
- Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
- Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet (1895-1961)
- Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
- William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
- Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
- Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
- Michael Blumenthal
- Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Robert Bly
- Jean Bodel
- Louise Bogan
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)
- Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
- Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
- Nozawa Bonchō, (c.1640-1714), Japanese haikai poet
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
- Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)
- Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Richard Brautigan, (1935–1984)
- Bertolt Brecht, (1898–1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
- Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
- Christopher Brennan, (1870–1932), Australian
- Joseph Payne Brennan, (1918–1990)
- Clemens Brentano, (1778–1842)
- André Breton, (1896–1966)
- Nicholas Breton, (1542–1626)
- Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
- Robert Bridges, (1844–1930)
- James Brock, (born 1958)
- Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
- Wladyslaw Broniewski
- William Bronk, (died 1999)
- Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
- Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
- Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
- Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
- Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
- Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
- Flora Brovina
- Petrus Brovka (1905-1980), Soviet poet
- Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
- George Mackay Brown
- Sterling Brown, (1901-1989)
- William Browne, (1588-1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
- William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
- Bryher
- Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
- Georg Büchner
- Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
- David Budbill, (born 1940)
- Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994) poet, novelist
- Basil Bunting
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
- William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
- Edwin G. Burrows
- Andrzej Bursa
- Yosa Buson, (1716-1784), Japanese haikai poet and painter
- Raegan Butcher
- Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
- Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
- Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
- Lord Byron, (1788-1824)
- Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
- Caedmon (old English)
- Alison Calder, Canadian poet
- Cali Xuseen Xirsi
- Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
- Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
- Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
- Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
- Luís de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
- Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
- Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
- Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
- Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
- Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844)
- Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980)
- Ivan Cankar, (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893-1973)
- Edip Cansever (187-29, 226), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei, and poet
- Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD), warlord, poet
- Cao Zhi, (192-232), Chinese poet
- Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
- Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
- Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
- Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
- Jim Carroll, (1949-2009)
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
- Hayden Carruth
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- Jared Carter (born 1939)
- William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
- Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
- Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
- Charles Causley
- C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)
- Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
- Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
- Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
- Mário Cesariny, (1923-2006)
- John Chalkhill
- Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674)
- Arthur Chapman, (1873-1935)
- George Chapman, (1560-1634)
- René Char, (1907-1998)
- Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
- Billy Childish
- Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
- Chiyo-ni, (1703 - 1775)
- Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
- Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
- Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
- John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
- Amy Clampitt
- John Clare, (1793-1864)
- George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
- Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
- Matthias Claudius
- Brian P. Cleary
- Michelle Cliff
- Lucille Clifton,
- Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)
- 장 콕토-en:Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
- Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
- 사뮤얼 테일러 코울리지, (1772-1834), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
- Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
- William Collins, (1721-1759)
- William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
- Paul Conneally, (born 1959)
- Robert Conquest, historian and poet
- Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
- Clark Coolidge
- Wendy Cope
- Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
- Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
- Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
- Jayne Cortez
- George Cosbuc (1866-1918), Romanian poet
- Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
- Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
- William Cowper, (1731-1800)
- George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
- Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
- Richard Crashaw, (1613-1649)
- Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
- Octave Crémazie
- Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
- Aleister Crowley, (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
- Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
- Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
- Necati Cumalı
- e e cummings, (1894-1962)
- Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
- Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
- Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
- Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
- Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
- David Daniels, (1933- ) Visual Poet
- Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
- Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
- Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
- Jibanananda Das,(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author
- René Daumal, (1908-1944)
- Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
- Alan Davies, American poet
- W. H. Davies
- William Davenant, (1606-1668)
- Donald Davidson, (1893-1968)
- John Davies, (1569-1626), historian
- Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
- Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
- Denis Davydov, (1784-1839)
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- James Deahl
- Aurora de Albornoz, (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
- Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
- 대니얼 디포-en:Daniel Defoe, (1659/61? - 1731)
- Walter de la Mare, author, poet
- Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, (1651-1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
- Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
- François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
- Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
- Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
- Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530-1606)
- Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
- Evariste de Parny, 18th century French poet
- Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
- Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Canadian poet
- Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
- Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
- Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
- James Dickey, (1923-1997)
- Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
- Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
- Thomas M. Disch, (1940-2008), American poet, novelist
- Tim Dlugos, (1950-1990), American poet
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
- Pete Doherty, (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
- Antonia Donatiello, (born 1950), Italian writer and poet
- John Donne, (1572-1631)
- Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
- Gavin Douglas
- Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)
- Jane Draycott
- Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
- Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
- John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
- William Drummond, (1585-1649)
- William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
- John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright
- Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
- W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
- Du Fu, the Poet Saint
- Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
- Alan Dugan
- Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906)
- William Dunbar, (1465-1520)
- Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
- Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
- Stephen Dunn
- Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
- Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
- Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
- Stuart Dybek
- Bob Dylan, born 1941
- Richard Eberhart
- Russell Edson
- Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- T. S. 엘리엇-en:T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
- Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
- Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
- Paul Éluard, French poet
- Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
- Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
- Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (1850-1889)
- William Empson, (1906-1984)
- Yunus Emre
- Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
- Paul Engle
- Ennius
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
- Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
- Haydar Ergülen
- Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
- Mehmet Erte
- Maggie Estep, American slam poet
- Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
- Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
- Martin Espada, American poet and teacher
- Florbela Espanca, poet
- Salvador Espriu, writer
- Claude Esteban (1935-2006), French poet
- Euripides (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
- Mari Evans
- William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
- Gavin Ewart
- U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-), British poet and CBE
- Christian Falster (1690-1752), Danish poet and philologist
- J.P. Farrell, (1968-), American poet and musician
- Fenggan
- Ferdowsi, (935–1020), Persian poet
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, (1925-2006)
- Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
- Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
- Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
- John Fletcher, (1579-1625)
- John Gould Fletcher, (1886-1950), Imagist poet
- F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
- Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898)
- John Forbes, (1950-1998), Australian poet
- Carolyn Forché, born 1950
- Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
- John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
- John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet.
- Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
- Hristo Fotev, (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
- Janet Frame, (born 1924)
- Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
- Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
- Naim Frashëri (1846—1900)
- Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
- Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
- Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
- Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet
- Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
- Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
- James Galvin (poet), (1951 - )
- Karina Galvez, (1964- ), Ecuadorian Poet
- Asadulla Khan Ghalib, (1796-1869) Urdu & Persian Poet
- Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808-1876)
- Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
- Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
- George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
- David Gascoyne (1916 - 2001)
- Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
- John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
- Stefan George, (1868-1933)
- Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
- Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
- Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
- Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
- Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
- Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
- Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
- Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
- Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
- Louise Glück, (1943 - ) Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
- Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet
- Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
- Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
- Ziya Gökalp
- Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
- Pavel Golia (1887-1959)
- Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
- Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
- Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-1967)
- Hedwig Gorski, (born 1949), first Performance poet, American avant-garde literature
- Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet
- Anders Abraham Grafström, (1790-1870), Swedish poet
- Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
- Richard Graves, (1715-1804), British poet and essayist
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
- Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
- Robert Greene, (1558-1592)
- Horace Gregory
- Eamon Grennan
- Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
- Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
- Franz Grillparzer
- Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Stanisław Grochowiak
- Philip Gross
- Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
- Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
- Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
- Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
- Guido Guinizelli
- Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
- Gül Baba
- Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
- Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
- Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
- Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
- Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)
- Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
- Hafez, (1315-1390), Persian poet
- Hai Zi
- Han Yu
- Han-Shan
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
- Jim Harrison, (born 1937)
- Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
- Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
- David Harsent
- Peter Härtling
- Gwen Harwood
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Ahmet Haşim
- Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
- Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
- Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
- Robert Hayden
- Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
- John Heath-Stubbs
- Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
- Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
- Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
- Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
- Essex Hemphill, (1957–1995)
- William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
- Adrian Henri
- Robert Henryson, (died c.1500) Scottish poet
- George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Johann Gottfried Herder, (1744-1803)
- Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
- Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
- Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English poet
- Hesiod, ancient Greek poet
- Phoebe Hesketh, (1909-2005), English poet
- Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
- Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
- Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)
- William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
- Dick Higgins, (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
- Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
- Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
- Nazım Hikmet
- Ellen Hinsey, poet
- H.L. Hix, American poet
- Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
- James Hogg, (1770-1835)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
- John Hollander, (born 1929)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
- Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- Thomas Hood, (1798-1845)
- A. D. Hope (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Roman lyric poet
- George Moses Horton
- Joan Houlihan
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
- Richard Howard
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Mohammad Nurul Huda, a modern poet from Bangladesh
- Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
- Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
- Richard Hugo
- Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
- Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
- Lynda Hull, (1954-1994)
- Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
- James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
- Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)
- Avetik Isahakyan, (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet
- Will Inman, (1923-2009), an American poet
- FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
- Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
- Clive James
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
- Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Jia Dao
- John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet
- Edmund John
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
- Lionel Johnson
- 사뮤엘 존슨, (1709-1784), Samuel Johnson
- David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
- Richard Jones (poet)
- Ryan Jones (author)
- Jacqueline Kibacha, a.k.a Pretty Poet, (1975- ), Tanzanian neo-poet
- 벤 존슨, (1573-1637), Ben Jonson, poet and dramatist
- June Jordan, (1936-2002), American poet and educator
- Anthony Joseph
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
- James Joyce, (1882-1941)
- Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
- Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
- Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
- Juvenal (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist
- Kábir,
- Jim Kacian (born 1953)
- Uuno Kailas (1901-1933), Finnish
- Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
- Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
- Orhan Veli Kanik
- Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
- Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
- Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
- Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
- John Keats, (1795-1821)
- Weldon Kees
- Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
- Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Khushal Khan Khattak
- Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
- Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
- Nikos Kavvadias, (1910-1975), Greek poet
- Takarai Kikaku, (1661-1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
- Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
- Amy King
- Henry King, (1592-1669)
- William King, (1663-1712)
- Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882)
- Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
- John Kinsella (born 1963)
- Thomas Kinsella
- Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories
- Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
- Eila Kivikk'aho (1921-2004)
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
- Etheridge Knight
- Kobayashi Issa, (1763 - 1828), Japanese haikai poet
- Jan Kochanowski (1530-84)
- Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
- Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
- Faik Konica
- Ted Kooser
- Srecko Kosovel (1904-1926)
- Dezső Kosztolányi Hungarian poet
- Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
- Dimitris P. Kraniotis (born 1966), Greek poet
- Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
- Ruth Krauss
- Miroslav Krleža (1589-1638), poet, novelist
- Maxine Kumin
- Stanley Kunitz
- Tuli Kupferberg (born 1923)
- Onat Kutlar
- Pierre Labrie poet from Quebec (1972- )
- Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
- Philip Lamantia
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
- Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
- James Laughlin
- Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
- D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
- Layamon
- Eric Layman Canadian poet (1943-2008)
- Irving Layton, Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
- Lalitha Lenin
- Edward Lear (1812-1888)
- Jan Lechon
- Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
- Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
- Eino Leino (1878-1926), Finnish
- Sue Lenier English poet and playwright
- John Leonard (1965- ) Australian
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, novelist
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
- Boleslaw Lesmian
- Rika Lesser
- Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
- Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
- Philip Levine
- Larry Levis
- D. A. Levy (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
- William Levy
- Saunders Lewis (1893-1985)
- Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957)
- Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
- José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
- Tim Liardet
- Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Tim Lilburn
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
- Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
- Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
- Federico García Lorca
- Audre Lorde, (1934-1992) American poet
- Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
- Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), American
- James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891), American
- Robert Lowell, (1917-1977), American
- Mina Loy (Dada)
- Lu You
- Gherasim Luca
- Lucilius
- Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
- Lucan, (39-65), Roman
- Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
- Luo Binwang
- Mario Luzi
- John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
- John Lyly, (1553-1606)
- George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
- George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
- Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
- Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
- Compton Mackenzie
- Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
- Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
- Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
- Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), general and poet
- G. D. Madgulkar (1919-Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
- Majeed Amjad (Pakistani poet)
- 스테판 말라르메-Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
- David Mallet, (c.1705–1765)
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
- Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
- James Clarence Mangan
- Bill Manhire (born 1946)
- Marcus Manilius (1st century)
- Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
- Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
- 토마스 만-Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895-1988)
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
- Chris Mansell (1953-)
- Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
- Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
- Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
- Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
- Edwin Markham
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
- Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
- José Martí, (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer.
- Martial (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
- Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
- Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)
- John Masefield, (1878-1967)
- Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
- Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
- Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
- Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders Fields
- Bryant H. McGill
- Elvis McGonagall
- William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
- Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
- Campbell McGrath
- Wendy McGrath
- Thomas McGrath, (1916-1990)
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
- James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Claude McKay
- Don McKay
- Rod McKuen
- James McMichael (born 1939)
- Norman MacCaig
- Mei Yaochen
- Meng Haoran
- George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
- Kersti Merilaas, (1913-1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
- Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
- James Merrill, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
- Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
- W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
- Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
- Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)
- Henry Meyer, (1840-1925)
- Henri Michaux, poet and painter
- Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
- Veronica Micle (1850–1889)
- Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
- Josephine Miles
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
- Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Tim Miller, poet and publisher
- Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
- Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911-2004)
- Alice Duer Miller
- Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
- 존 밀턴, (1608-1674), English poet
- 가브리엘 미스트랄, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Adrian Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
- Ndre Mjeda
- Harold Monro
- Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
- Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
- Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
- Dom Moraes
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
- Merrill Moore, (1903-1957), Sonneteer
- Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
- John Morgan, (1688-1733)
- Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914)
- William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
- Jim Morrison (poet, songwriter)
- Stephen Morse (1945 - ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
- Valzhyna Mort (born 1981)
- Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
- Howard Moss
- Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-2009)
- Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
- Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
- Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
- Lale Müldür, (born 1956)
- Laura Mullen, American poet
- Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
- Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
- Les Murray, (born 1938)
- Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
- Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
- Susan Musgrave, Poet.
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani poet and scholar
- George Murnu, aromanian poet
- Ogden Nash, (1902-1971)
- Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
- Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
- John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
- Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
- Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
- Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
- Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
- Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
- John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
- Nezami, (1141–1209), Persian poet
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
- B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
- John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
- Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970)
- Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
- Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
- Noon Meem Rashid (Pakistani poet)
- Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
- Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965)
- Nolla, Olga (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
- Caroline Norton (1808 - 1877)
- Cyprian Kamil Norwid
- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
- Alfred Noyes
- Julia Nyberg (1784-1854)
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Ron Offen (1930-)
- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
- Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
- George Oppen
- Peter Orlovsky (beat)
- Gregory Orr (poet)(born 1947)
- Öser
- Alice Oswald
- Ouyang Xiu
- Ovid, (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
- Ismet Özel
- Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
- Ron Padgett
- Grace Paley
- Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
- Palladas
- Michael Palmer, (1943-)
- Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
- 도로시 파커en:Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
- Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
- Nicanor Parra, Chile
- Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
- Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
- Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
- Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
- Don Paterson
- Coventry Patmore
- Brian Patten
- Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet
- Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
- Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
- Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
- Kathleen Peirce, (born 1956)
- Sam Pereira
- Persius (34-62), Roman poet
- Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
- Robert Peters, (1924-) American poet
- Pascale Petit
- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), (1304-1374)
- Ambrose Philips
- Pindar (522-443 BC), Theban lyric poet
- Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963),
- Shmuel Plavnik(1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer
- 애드거 앨런 포-en:Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
- Edward Pollock, (1823-1858), California poet
- Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
- Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet
- Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (Imagist movement leader)
- Halina Poswiatowska
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- E.J. Pratt Canadian poet
- France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
- Robert Priest Canadian poet
- Richard Price (poet) (born 1966)
- Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
- Bryan Waller Proctor
- Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45-15 BCE), Latin Poet
- Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
- Luigi Pulci
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet
- Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
- Shamsur Rahman, 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
- Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
- Samina Raja, Pakistani poet
- Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
- Dudley Randall
- Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
- Agnes Rapai, (1952- Hungarian poet
- John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
- Tom Raworth
- Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
- Wayne Ray, 1950 -
- Angela Readman
- Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- James Reaney
- Abraham Regelson, (1896-1981)
- Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Charles Reznikoff
- Pi Rixiu
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001)Sufi, poet & author
- Stan Rice, (1943-2002), poet and artist
- Adrienne Rich
- Lola Ridge, (1873-1941)
- Laura Riding, (1901-1981)
- Anne Ridler
- James Whitcomb Riley, (1853-1916)
- Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926)
- 아르튀르 랭보-en:Arthur Rimbaud, (1854-1891), 상징주의 poet
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
- Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
- Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
- Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
- Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
- Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
- Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
- Nicholas Rowe
- Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
- Tadeusz Różewicz
- Friedrich Rückert
- Muriel Rukeyser, (1913-1980)
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877)
- Rumi
- Ryōkan, (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet
- Umberto Saba
- Sa'di, (1184 – 1283/1291), Persian poet
- Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491-1558)
- Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
- Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (1939-)
- Sonia Sanchez
- Michal Šanda, (1965- ), Czech poet
- Sandra A. Mushi, (1974- ), 탄자니아 (neo-soul) 시인
- 사포 en:Sappho, 고대 그리스 시인
- Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
- Taneda Santōka, (1882 - 1940), Japanese free-verse haiku poet
- William Saroyan, (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
- Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924-1995), Indonesian poet
- Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
- Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
- Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
- Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
- Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
- 월터 스콧 경, (1771-1832), 역사소설(en:historical novel)의 창시자
- Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
- George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920-1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
- Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin poet
- Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
- Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
- Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
- Vikram Seth
- Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)
- Thomas Shadwell
- 윌리엄 셰익스피어, (c. 1564-1616), 영어 시인
- Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996), Artist and black activist
- Otep Shamaya, (born 1979), poet and songwriter
- Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
- Jo Shapcott
- Karl Shapiro
- Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)
- William Shenstone
- Bhupi Sherchan, Nepal poet
- Taras Shevchenko
- Masaoka Shiki, (1867 - 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
- James Shirley, (1596-1666)
- Avraham Shlonsky
- Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
- Eli Siegel, (1902-1978)
- Ron Silliman (born 1946)
- Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
- Charles Simic
- Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
- Lemn Sissay
- Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
- Marilyn Singer
- John Skelton, (1460-1529)
- Sasha Skenderija
- Kenneth Slessor
- Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
- Juliusz Slowacki
- Christopher Smart
- Charlotte Turner Smith, (1749-1806)
- Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
- Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
- Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
- Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
- William Jay Smith
- Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
- Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
- Edith Södergran
- Sōgi (1421-1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
- Nishiyama Sōin, (1605-1682), Japanese haikai poet
- David Solway, (born 1941)
- William Somervile, (1675-1742)
- Sophocles, (c.496-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
- Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
- Natsume Sōseki, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
- Gary Soto
- Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
- Robert Southwell, (1561-1595)
- Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
- Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599)
- Leopold Staff
- William Stafford
- Harold Standish, (1919-1972), Canadian poet
- George Starbuck
- Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
- Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
- Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
- Eric Stenbock
- Mattie Stepanek, (1990-2004), American poet and advocate
- Gerald Stern
- Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
- Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
- James Still
- Ruth Stone, (born 1915)
- Theodor Storm, (1817-1888)
- Alfonsina Storni, (1892-1938)
- Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
- Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
- Joseph Stroud (poet), (born 1943)
- Jesse Stuart
- Su Shi
- Su Xiaoxiao
- Sir John Suckling
- Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
- Cemal Süreya
- Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
- Paul Summers poet (b. 1967)
- Robert Sward poet (b. 1933)
- Cole Swensen poet (b. 1955), awareded Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
- May Swenson
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
- Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
- Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
- Lőrinc Szabó Hungarian poet
- Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
- Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913
- Tao Qian
- Jovica Tasevski - Eternijan, Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
- Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
- Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
- James Tate
- Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
- Telesilla (fl. 510BC), Greek poet
- Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
- Lucy Terry
- A.S.J. Tessimond
- Neyzen Tevfik
- Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
- Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
- Jan Theuninck, (born 1954)
- Dylan Thomas, (1914-1953)
- Edward Thomas, (1878-1917)
- Lorenzo Thomas, (1944-2005)
- R. S. Thomas, (1913-2000)
- John Thompson, (1845-1913), Canadian writer
- Francis Thompson, (1859-1907)
- James Thomson, (1700-1748)
- James Thomson, (1834-1882)
- Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)
- Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
- Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
- Thomas Tickell
- Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Jean Toomer
- Thomas Traherne
- Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
- Elizabeth Treadwell (1967-)
- Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
- Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
- Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
- Quincy Troupe
- Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
- Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
- Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
- Hovhannes Tumanyan, (1869-1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
- Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
- Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
- Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886-1913), Tatar poet
- Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
- Julian Tuwim
- Jan Twardowski
- Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521-1605)
- Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803-1873)
- Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963), (Dada)
- 미겔 드 우나무노-[:en:[Miguel de Unamuno]]
- Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
- Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
- John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
- Allen Upward, Imagist
- Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha
- Mona Van Duyn
- Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
- Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
- Varand, (Born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, translator, painter, professor of Armenian literature
- Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
- Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
- Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
- Vemana
- Helen Vendler
- Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
- Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
- Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
- Alfonso Vallejo, (born 1943) Spanish
- Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
- Peter Viereck
- François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
- Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
- Publius Vergilius Maro
- Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
- Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
- Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
- Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
- Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
- Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)
- Robert Wace (c. 1115-c. 1183)
- Sidney Wade (born 1951)
- Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
- Derek Walcott (born 1930)
- Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
- Arthur Waley (1889-1966)
- Alice Walker (born 1944)
- Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
- Wang Wei (698-759)
- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
- Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
- Roger Waters (born 1943)
- Barrett Watten (born 1948)
- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- David Wayne (1914-1995)
- John Webster (c.1580-c.1634
- Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
- Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899 - 1946)
- Philip Whalen (1923-2002)
- Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
- Martin Walser (born 1927)
- Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
- Johan Herman Wessel (1742-1785)
- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
- E.B. White (1899-1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
- James L. White (1936-1981), American poet, editor and teacher
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
- Isabella Whitney b. 1540s?
- Reed Whittemore b. 1919, American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet
- Les Wicks (1955-)
- Ulrika Widström (1764-1841)
- John Wieners (1934-2002)
- Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
- Jane Wilde, (1826-1896)
- Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900)
- John Wilkinson (born 1953)
- William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071-1126)
- Emmett Williams (1925-2007)
- Miller Williams (born 1930)
- Oscar Williams (1900-1964)
- Saul Williams (born 1972)
- Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999)
- Waldo Williams (1904-1971)
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- William Williams Pantycelyn (1717-1791)
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
- Peter Lamborn Wilson
- Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
- George Wither (1588-1667)
- Rafał Wojaczek (born 1945-1971)
- Christa Wolf (born 1929)
- Charles Wolfe, (1791-1823)
- Hans Wollschläger(1935-2007)
- George Woodcock (1912-1995)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Franz Wright (born 1953)
- Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835-1866)
- Charles Wright (born in 1935)
- C.D. Wright, (born 1949)
- James Wright (1927-1980)
- Judith Wright (1915-2000)
- Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
- Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
- Hedd Wyn (1887-1917)
- Xu Zhimo, (1897-1931)
- Leo Yankevich (born 1961)
- Peyo Yavorov (1878-1914)
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
- Akiko Yosano, (1878-1942), Japanese author, poet, feminist and pacifist
- Marguerite Young (1908-1995)
- David Young (born 1946)
- Edward Young (1683-1765)
- Kevin Young (poet) (born 1970)
- A. W. Yrjänä (1967-)
- Yunus Emre (1238?-1320?)
- Adam Zagajewski (born 1945)
- Andrea Zanzotto (born 1921)
- Lisa Zaran (born 1969)
- Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
- Calvin Ziegler (1854-1930)
- Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
- Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
한국 문학자
[편집]- 고은 (시인)
- 구상 (시인)
- 권덕린 (시인)
- 권적 (시인)
- 김곰치-(1970년생)
- 김낙행 (시인)
- 김광섭 (시인)
- 김광림
- 김기림 (시인)
- 김낙행 (시인)
- 김동인 (소설가)
- 김동리
- 김소월 (시인)
- 김소진 (소설가)
- 김수영 (시인)
- 김수장 (시인)
- 김시습 (문학자)
- 김연수 (작가) (소설가)
- 김영하 (소설가) (소설가)
- 김완섭 (소설가)
- 김유정 (소설가)
- 김재홍 (시인, 국문학자)
- 김지하
- 김태길 (수필가, 철학자)
- 김훈 (소설가)
- 나도향 (소설가)
- 노천명 (시인)
- 문순태-(1941년 3월 15일생)
- 박경리-(1926년 10월 28일생)
- 박민규-(1968년생)
- 박영한-(1947년 9월 14일생)
- 박완서-(1931년 10월 20일생)
- 방현석
- 백석-(1912년 7월 1일생)
- 복거일-(1946년 3월 20일생)
- 서기원-(1930년 10월 24일생)
- 성석제-(1960년 7월 5일생)
- 송기숙-(1935년 7월 4일생)
- 송기원-(1947년 7월 1일생)
- 송영-(1940년 3월 15일생)
- 신경숙-(1963년 1월 12일생)
- 신석정
- 안수길-(1911년 11월 3일생)
- 양귀자-(1955년 7월 17일생)
- 염상섭
- 오정희-(1947년 11월 9일생)
- 유치환
- 윤대녕-(1962년 5월 1일생)
- 윤동주-(시인)
- 윤정모-(1946년11월 3일생)
- 윤후명-(1946년 1월 17일생)
- 윤흥길-(1942년 12월 14일생)
- 은희경-(1959년생)
- 이문구-(1941년 4월 12일생)
- 이문열-(1948년 5월 18일생)
- 이병주-(1921년 3월 16일생)
- 이외수-(1946년 8월 15일생)
- 이윤기-(1947년 5월 3일생)
- 이인화-(1966년 1월 5일생)
- 이청준-(1939년 8월 9일생)
- 이호철-(1932년 3월 15일생)
- 임철우-(1954년 10월 15일생)
- 장정일-(1962년 1월 6일생)
- 조선희-(1960년 4월 25일생)
- 조성기-(1951년 3월 30일생)
- 조세희-(1942년 8월 20일생)
- 조정래-(1943년 8월 17일생)
- 채만식-(1902년 6월 17일생)
- 천승세-(1939년생)
- 천상병 (시인)
- 최명희-(1947년 10월 10일생)
- 모윤숙 (시인)
- 박경리 (소설가)
- 박인환 (시인)
- 박지원 (고전문학자)
- 배상열 (시인)
- 서기원-(소설가, 1930년 10월 24일생)
- 신구 (시인)
- 오상규 (시인)
- 우규환 (시인)
- 이준 (시인) (시인)
- 정도상-(소설가, 1960년 1월 3일생)
- 정박 (시인)
- 정연희-(소설가, 1936년 3월 5일생)
- 조종저 (시인)
- 최윤-(소설가, 1953년 7월 3일생)
- 표명희-(소설가, 1965년생)
- 하승무-(시인, 1963년생)
- 한창훈-(소설가, 1963년생)
- 황순원
한국 현대시 100년, 100명의 시인, 평론가가 선정한 '10명의 시인' & 73명 시인
[편집]《시인세계》2002년 가을 창간호 선정(괄호 안, 시인 투표+평론가 투표=합산)[1]
- 김소월 (43+44=87표)
- 서정주 (46+40=86표)
- 정지용 (41+39=80표)
- 김수영 (42+35=77표)
- 백석 (34+29=63표)
- 한용운 (27+29=56표)
- 김춘수 (29+20=49표)
- 이상 (24+24=48표)
- 박목월 (25+18=43표)
- 윤동주 (14+19=33표)
- 신경림 (15+11=26표)
- 황동규 (10+12=22표)
- 김지하 (8+13=21표)
- 황지우 (8+13=21표)
- 정현종 (8+9=17표)
- 김종삼 (11+5=16표)
- 유치환 (8+8=16표)
- 이성복 (10+6=16표)
- 이육사 (10+5=15표)
- 김영랑 (7+6=13표)
- 박용래 (8+5=13표)
- 이용악 (3+10=13표)
- 기형도 (7+5=12표)
- 조지훈 (5+7=12표)
- 고은 (7+4=11표)
- 이형기 (7+2=9표)
- 임화 (4+5=9표)
- 김기림 (5+3=8표)
- 김현승 (4+3=7표)
- 이상화 (4+2=6표)
- 김남조 (3+2=5표)
- 신동엽 (2+3=5표)
- 이승훈 (1+4=5표)
- 김명인 (3+1=4표)
- 김혜순 (2+2=4표)
- 박재삼 (2+2=4표)
- 오규원 (1+3=4표)
- 최승자 (3+1=4표)
- 노천명 (3+0=3표)
- 박두진 (2+1=3표)
- 송찬호 (1+2=3표)
- 장정일 (1+2=3표)
- 전봉건 (2+1=3표)
- 정진규 (1+2=3표)
- 최승호 (시인) (0+3=3표)
- 강은교 (2+0=2표)
- 김광균 (2+0=2표)
- 김종해 (1+1=2표)
- 박남수 (1+1=2표)
- 신석정 (1+1=2표)
- 오장환 (2+0=2표)
- 유하 (1+1=2표)
- 조병화 (1+1=2표)
- 강우식 (0+1=1표)
- 구상 (1+0=1표)
- 김광규 (0+1=1표)
- 김구용 (1+0=1표)
- 김정환 (1+0=1표)
- 김종길 (0+1=1표)
- 문인수 (1+0=1표)
- 박남철 (0+1=1표)
- 박인환 (0+1=1표)
- 송재학 (0+1=1표)
- 오상순 (1+0=1표)
- 이시영 (1+0=1표)
- 이윤학 (1+0=1표)
- 장석남 (0+1=1표)
- 조정권 (1+0=1표)
- 천상병 (1+0=1표)
- 함민복 (1+0=1표)
- 함성호 (1+0=1표)
- 허영자 (1+0=1표)
- 홍윤숙 (0+1=1표)