People in the category poets (1500-1900)

Authors 1 till 100 of 130.

• Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet 1672 - 1719 95
• Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet 1821 - 1881 60
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Deens poet and fairy tale writer 1805 - 1875 2
• Ernst Moritz Arndt
  German nationalist historian, writer, and poet 1769 - 1860 2
• George Arnold
  American author and poet 1834 - 1865 1
• Matthew Arnold
  British critic and poet 1822 - 1888 24
• Berthold Auerbach
  German-Jewish writer and poet 1812 - 1882 16
• Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821 - 1867 45
• James Beattie
  Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher 1735 - 1803 1
• Francis Beaumont
  English writer and poet 1584 - 1616 8
• Robert Blair
  Scottish poet 1699 - 1746 2
• William Blake
  English poet 1757 - 1827 103
• Nicholas Boileau
  French poet and critic 1636 - 1711 12
• Anne Bradstreet
  English American poet 1612 - 1672 7
• Nicholas Breton
  English poet and novelist 1545 - 1626 3
• Emily Brontë
  British writer, poet 1818 - 1848 21
• Phillips Brooks
  American Minister, Poet 1835 - 1893 15
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  English poet 1806 - 1861 32
• Robert Browning
  English poet 1812 - 1889 44
• William C. Bryant
  American poet, editor 1794 - 1878 7
• Henry Cuyler Bunner
  American writer 1855 - 1896 1
• Robert Burns
  Scottish Poet 1759 - 1796 16
• Lord George Byron
  English poet 1788 - 1824 207
• Richard Owen Cambridge
  British poet 1717 - 1802 1
• Thomas Campbell
  Scottish poet 1777 - 1844 3
• Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet 1547 - 1616 88
• George Chapman
  English writer and poet 1559 - 1634 6
• Francois René de Chateaubriand
  French poet, writer and politician 1768 - 1848 6
• Charles Churchill
  British poet 1731 - 1764 12
• Colley Cibber
  English actor-manager, playwright and poet 1671 - 1757 5
• Arthur Hugh Clough
  English poet 1819 - 1861 8
• Hartley Coleridge
  English poet, biographer and writer (eldest son of S. T. Coleridge) 1796 - 1849 1
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic 1772 - 1834 60
• Eliza Cook
  English author and poet 1818 - 1889 5
• Barry Cornwall
  English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) 1787 - 1874 20
• Abraham Cowley
  English poet 1618 - 1667 56
• William Cowper
  English poet 1731 - 1800 49
• George Crabbe
  English poet, surgeon and clergyman 1745 - 1832 4
• Samuel Daniel
  English poet 1562 - 1619 1
• Sir John Davies
  English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 1569 - 1626 1
• Sir John Denham
  Anglo-Irish poet and courtier 1615 - 1669 7
• Emily Dickinson
  American poet 1830 - 1886 49
• John Donne
  English poet 1572 - 1631 36
• John Dryden
  English poet and playwright 1631 - 1700 71
• John Dyer
  Welsh cleric, poet and painter 1699 - 1757 1
• Ebenezer Elliott
  British poet 1781 - 1849 1
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803 - 1882 593
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  German writer and poet 1749 - 1832 321
• Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet 1728 - 1774 85
• Anne Grant
  Scottish poet and author 1755 - 1838 6
• Thomas Gray
  British poet 1716 - 1771 11
• Fulke Greville
  English poet, courtier and statesman 1554 - 1628 1
• Sir John Harington
  English courtier and poet 1561 - 1612 2
• Heinrich Heine
  German poet 1797 - 1856 17
• George Herbert
  English poet 1593 - 1633 38
• Johann Gottfried Von Herder
  German poet and theologian 1744 - 1803 6
• Robert Herrick
  English lyric poet and cleric 1591 - 1674 8
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809 - 1894 139
• Thomas Hood
  English poet, author and humorist 1799 - 1845 6
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  English poet and Jesuit 1844 - 1889 3
• Leigh Hunt
  British poet, essaywriter 1784 - 1859 10
• Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
  French author, poet 1846 - 1870 9
• Ben Johnson
  English playwright and poet 1572 - 1637 14
• Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1572 - 1637 52
• John Keats
  English poet 1795 - 1821 47
• John Keble
  English poet 1792 - 1866 2
• Alphonse De Lamartine
  French poet, statesman and historian 1790 - 1869 16
• Walter Savage Landor
  British poet 1775 - 1864 25
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet 1807 - 1882 102
• James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891 72
• John Lyly
  English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier 1553 - 1606 5
• Stephane Mallarme
  French poet 1842 - 1898 3
• Christopher Marlowe
  British Dramatist, Poet 1564 - 1593 14
• Jose Marti
  Cuban politician, journalist and poet 1853 - 1895 2
• Andrew Marvell
  English poet, satirist and politician 1621 - 1678 5
• Pietro Metastasio
  Italian poet and librettist 1698 - 1782 2
• Michelangelo
  Italian sculptor, painter and poet 1475 - 1564 11
• John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters 1608 - 1674 75
• James Montgomery
  British poet 1771 - 1854 1
• Robert Montgomery
  English poet and minister 1807 - 1855 4
• Thomas Moore
  Irish poet 1779 - 1852 12
• Gerard De Nerval
  French writer, poet 1808 - 1855 6
• Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher 1844 - 1900 181
• Novalis
  German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) 1772 - 1801 10
• John Boyle O'Reilly
  Irish poet, journalist, author and activist 1844 - 1890 2
• Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) 1763 - 1825 53
• Thomas Love Peacock
  English novelist, poet, and official 1785 - 1866 5
• Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
  French poet 1792 - 1870 4
• Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic 1809 - 1849 35
• Alexander Pope
  English poet 1688 - 1744 155
• Matthew Prior
  British diplomat, poet 1664 - 1721 15
• Adelaide Anne Procter
  English poet and philanthropist 1825 - 1864 7
• Bryan Procter
  English poet 1787 - 1874 2
• Francis Quarles
  British poet 1592 - 1644 23
• Edgar Quinet
  French poet, historian and politician 1803 - 1875 12
• Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer 1552 - 1618 19
• Thomas Randolph
  English poet and playwright 1605 - 1635 1
• Arthur Rimbaud
  French poet 1854 - 1891 17
• W. D. Roscommon
  English poet 1633 - 1685 3
• Christina Rossetti
  British poet 1830 - 1894 11

Authors 1 till 100 of 130.

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