Poet↕ | Country↕ | Era↕ | Style↕ | Top Work↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rumi | Persia | 1207–1273 | Sufi Mystical | Masnavi |
William Shakespeare | England | 1564–1616 | Sonnets & Plays | Sonnets (154) |
Emily Dickinson | USA | 1830–1886 | Lyrical & Reclusive | Because I could not stop for Death |
Pablo Neruda | Chile | 1904–1973 | Romantic & Political | Twenty Love Poems |
Maya Angelou | USA | 1928–2014 | Confessional & Powerful | Still I Rise |
Hafiz | Persia | 1315–1390 | Sufi Lyric | Divan-e-Hafez |
Walt Whitman | USA | 1819–1892 | Free Verse & Expansive | Leaves of Grass |
Sylvia Plath | USA | 1932–1963 | Confessional & Dark | The Bell Jar / Ariel |
Langston Hughes | USA | 1901–1967 | Jazz & Harlem Renaissance | The Weary Blues |
William Wordsworth | England | 1770–1850 | Romantic & Nature | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
Edgar Allan Poe | USA | 1809–1849 | Gothic & Macabre | The Raven |
Rabindranath Tagore | India | 1861–1941 | Spiritual & Lyrical | Gitanjali |
Robert Frost | USA | 1874–1963 | Rural & Deceptively Simple | The Road Not Taken |
Matsuo Bashō | Japan | 1644–1694 | Haiku | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
Warsan Shire | Somalia/UK | 1988–present | Diaspora & Identity | Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth |
T.S. Eliot | USA/UK | 1888–1965 | Modernist | The Waste Land |
Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Pakistan | 1911–1984 | Revolutionary & Romantic | Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat |
Ocean Vuong | Vietnam/USA | 1988–present | Lyric & Immigrant | Night Sky with Exit Wounds |
W.B. Yeats | Ireland | 1865–1939 | Celtic & Symbolist | The Second Coming |
Mahmoud Darwish | Palestine | 1941–2008 | Resistance & Exile | Identity Card |
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