People in the category Poets (1500- 1900)
Authors 1 till 100 of 101.
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Addison, Joseph
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719 95 -
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric
Swiss philosopher and poet 1821-1881 60 -
Andersen, Hans Christian
Deens poet and fairy tale writer 1805-1875 4 -
Aretino, Pietro
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist 2 -
Arndt, Ernst Moritz
German nationalist historian, writer, and poet 1769-1860 4 -
Arnold, George
American author and poet 1834-1865 1 -
Arnold, Matthew
British critic and poet 1822-1888 24 -
Barca, Pedro Calderón de la
dramatist, poet and writer 1600-1681 5 -
Baudelaire, Charles
French poet 1821-1867 45 -
Beaumont, Francis
English writer and poet 1584-1616 8 -
Behn, Aphra
English playwright, poet and translator 1640-1689 9 -
Blake, William
English poet 1757-1827 103 -
Boileau, Nicholas
French poet and criticus 1636-1711 12 -
Bradstreet, Anne
English American poet 1612-1672 7 -
Brontë, Emily
British writer, poet 1818-1848 21 -
Brooks, Phillips
American Minister, Poet 1835-1893 15 -
Browning, Robert
English poet 1812-1889 44 -
Bryant, William C.
American poet, editor 1794-1878 7 -
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
English writer and poet 1803-1873 54 -
Burns, Robert
Scottish Poet 1759-1796 16 -
Burton, Sir Richard
British explorer, writer, soldier, ethnologist, poet and diplomat 1821-1890 7 -
Butler, Samuel
English poet 1612-1680 131 -
Byron, Lord George
English poet 1788-1824 207 -
Chamisso, Adelbert von
German poet and botanist 1781-1838 14 -
Chapman, George
English writer and poet 1559-1634 6 -
Churchill, Charles
British poet 1731-1764 12 -
Cibber, Colley
English actor-manager, playwright and poet 1671-1757 5 -
Clough, Arthur Hugh
English poet 1819-1861 8 -
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
English poet and critic 1772-1834 60 -
Cook, Eliza
English author and poet 1818-1889 5 -
Cornwall, Barry
English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) 1787-1874 20 -
Cowper, William
English poet 1731-1800 49 -
Crabbe, George
English poet, surgeon and clergyman 1754-1832 4 -
Denham, Sir John
Anglo-Irish poet and courtier 1615-1669 7 -
Dickinson, Emily
American poet 1830-1886 49 -
Donne, John
English poet 1572-1632 36 -
Dryden, John
English poet and playwright 1631-1700 71 -
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
American poet and philosopher 1803-1882 593 -
Gay, John
British playwright and poet 1688-1732 31 -
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
German writer and poet 1749-1832 321 -
Goldsmith, Oliver
Irish writer and poet 1728-1774 85 -
Grant, Anne
Scottish poet and author 1755-1838 6 -
Gray, Thomas
British poet 1716-1771 11 -
Heine, Heinrich
German poet 1797-1856 17 -
Herbert, George
English poet 1593-1633 38 -
Herder, Johann Gottfried Von
German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic 1744-1803 6 -
Herrick, Robert
English lyric poet and cleric 1591-1674 8 -
Heywood, John
English writer, playwright and poet 1497-1580 6 -
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
American writer and poet 1809-1894 139 -
Hood, Thomas
English poet, author and humorist 1799-1845 6 -
Hunt, Leigh
British poet, essaywriter 1784-1859 10 -
Johnson, Ben
English playwright and poet 1572-1637 14 -
Jonson, Ben
British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637 52 -
Keats, John
English poet 1795-1821 47 -
Lamartine, Alphonse De
French Poet, Statesman, Historian 1790-1869 16 -
Landor, Walter Savage
British poet 1775-1864 25 -
Lautréamont, Comte de
French poet born in Uruguay 1846-1870 9 -
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
American poet 1819-1892 102 -
Marlowe, Christopher
British Dramatist, Poet 1564-1593 14 -
Marvell, Andrew
English poet, satirist and politician 1621-1678 5 -
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter and poet 1475-1564 11 -
Montgomery, Robert
English poet and minister 1807-1855 4 -
Moore, Thomas
Irish poet 1779-1852 12 -
Nerval, Gerard De
French writer, poet 1808-1855 6 -
Nietzsche, Friedrich
German poet and philosopher 1844-1900 181 -
Novalis
German poet, writer 1772-1801 10 -
Paul, Jean
German poet (ps. of Johann P.F. Richter) 1763-1825 53 -
Peacock, Thomas Love
English novelist, poet, and official 1785-1866 5 -
Petit-Senn, Jean
French-Swiss poet 1792–1870 4 -
Poe, Edgar Allan
American poet, writer and critic 1809-1845 35 -
Pope, Alexander
English poet 1688-1744 155 -
Prior, Matthew
British diplomat, poet 1664-1721 15 -
Procter, Adelaide Anne
English poet and philanthropist 1825-1864 7 -
Quarles, Francis
British poet 1592-1644 23 -
Quinet, Edgar
French Poet, Historian, Politician 1803-1875 12 -
Rimbaud, Arthur
French Poet 1854-1891 17 -
Roscommon, W. D.
English poet 1633-1685 3 -
Rossetti, Christina
British poet 1830-1894 11 -
Schiller, Friedrich von
German poet 1759-1805 85 -
Scott, Sir Walter
British writer and poet 1771-1832 33 -
Seume, Johann Gottfried
German writer and poet 1763-1810 5 -
Seward, Anne
English poet 1742-1809 6 -
Shakespeare, William
English playwright and poet 1564-1616 536 -
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
English poet 1792-1822 58 -
Shenstone, William
English poet 1714-1763 7 -
Simms, William Gilmore
American poet, novelist and historian 1806-1870 8 -
Smith, Alexander
Scottish Poet, Author 1830-1867 29 -
Smith, Sidney
English poet 1771-1800 1 -
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Scottish writer and poet 1850-1895 93 -
Taylor, Bayard
American poet, travel author, and diplomat 1825-1878 68 -
Taylor, Sir Henry
English dramatist and poet 1800-1886 7 -
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
English poet 1809-1892 74 -
Thomson, James
Scottish poet 1700-1748 7 -
Traherne, Thomas
British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic 1636-1674 16 -
Tupper, Martin Farquhar
English writer and poet 1810-1889 7 -
Turgenev, Ivan
Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright 1818-1883 4 -
Vaughan, Henry
Welsh poet, author, translator and physician 1621-1695 4 -
Vega, Lope de
Spanish playwright, poet, novelist and marine 1562-1635 4 -
Vigny, Alfred de
French poet 1797-1863 20 -
Whittier, John Greenleaf
American poet and writer 1807-1892 16