Category

Poets A–Z

Biographies of the poets in the archive, from Homer and Sappho to Frost and Yeats, with quick facts, their best-known work and links to every poem we cover.

57 poets

A

Matthew Arnold 1822 – 1888 · Victorian · 1 poem W. H. Auden

B

Matsuo Basho 1644 – 1694 Laurence Binyon 1869 – 1943 · Modernist · 1 poem William Blake 1757 – 1827 · Romantic RB Rupert Brooke 1887 – 1915 · 1 poem Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861 · Victorian Robert Browning 1812 – 1889 · Victorian · 1 poem Robert Burns 1759 – 1796 · Romantic · 1 poem Lord Byron 1788 – 1824 · Romantic · 10 poems

C

Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898 · Victorian · 2 poems Geoffrey Chaucer Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834 · Romantic · 1 poem E. E. Cummings

D

Dante Alighieri Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886 · Victorian · 3 poems John Donne 1572 – 1631 · Metaphysical · 3 poems Du Fu Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 – 1906 · 1 poem

E

T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965 · Modernist · 3 poems Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

F

Robert Frost 1874 – 1963 · Modernist · 24 poems

H

Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928 · Victorian · 4 poems William Ernest Henley 1849 – 1903 · Victorian Robert Herrick 1591 – 1674 Homer Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 – 1889 · Victorian Horace A. E. Housman 1859 – 1936 · Victorian · 4 poems Langston Hughes 1901 – 1967 · Harlem Renaissance · 1 poem

K

John Keats 1795 – 1821 · Romantic · 5 poems Rudyard Kipling 3 poems

L

Li Bai Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882 · 1 poem

M

Andrew Marvell 1621 – 1678 · Metaphysical John McCrae 1872 – 1918 · Victorian · 1 poem Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 – 1950 · Modernist · 1 poem John Milton 6 poems Clement Clarke Moore 1779 – 1863 · Romantic · 1 poem

N

Alfred Noyes 1880 – 1958 · 1 poem

O

Ovid Wilfred Owen 1893 – 1918 · Modernist · 3 poems

P

Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849 · Romantic · 6 poems Alexander Pope 2 poems Ezra Pound

R

Christina Rossetti 1830 – 1894 · Victorian · 5 poems

S

Carl Sandburg 1878 – 1967 · Modernist Sappho William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616 · Renaissance · 13 poems Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822 · Romantic · 5 poems

T

Sara Teasdale 1884 – 1933 · 4 poems Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892 · Victorian · 9 poems

V

Virgil

W

Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892 · Romantic · 3 poems William Carlos Williams 1883 – 1963 · Modernist · 1 poem William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850 · Romantic · 11 poems

Y

W. B. Yeats 2 poems