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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Graves, in response to a questionnaire in Horizon, 1946.

Poetry, is a very special form of art, which is not only expressed by forms, interpretations or expressions through musical rhythms, vivid images, but also used as metaphors and strong inner meanings.

Throughout history, there has been many great male poets who have contributed to this kind of art, including familiar names such as: Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe or Ezra Pound… All of them have had a great influence on human literature. Many poetic works have broaden and varied in themes such as love, friendship, culture, war and society.

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Poets and their poetic works have the capability to offer the readers different emotions and take them to other worlds they have never imagined. Poems are often the soul, a part of the poet’s world carved into the interior. The greatest male poets of all time connect emotions through each line of verse, allowing readers to have a multidimensional and objective view of the world.

1. Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) American poet who bridged the Transcendentalist poets with the more realistic style of the Twentieth Century. Whitman magnus opus was Leaves of Grass, a ground breaking new style of poetry. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman’s own life came under scrutiny for his presumed homosexuality.

To Read: Song Of Myself, XXV | I Sing The Body Electric | Had I The Choice

2. Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the 0

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jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that “the Negro

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was in vogue”, which was later paraphrased as “when Harlem was in vogue.”

To Read: Mother To Son | Dreams | The Weary Blues

3. Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) is one of the most widely celebrated of American poets. During his lifetime he received four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry, and his works are still widely anthologized in collections of American poetry and school literature textbooks.

To Read: Acquainted With The Night | The Gift Outright | Home Burial

4. Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic.

Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of mystery and horror initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His The Raven (1845) numbers among the best­known poems in national literature.

To Read: The City In The Sea | Eldorado | The Haunted Palace

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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the

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Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

To Read: Lycidas | L’Allegro | Il Penseroso

6. Shel Silverstein Sheldon Allan Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, poet, cartoonist, songwriter and playwright.

Shel Silverstein is most famous for the best-selling children’s books that he wrote and illustrated: The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic. But Silverstein’s imaginative talent also stretched into songwriting, and he played an important role in Outlaw-era music making.

To Read: Invitation | Runny’s Heading Rabits | Gumeye Ball

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. He was a prolific essayist and speaker. He gave over 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

To Read: The Snow-Storm | The Lords Of Life | Wealth

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Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) the son of a US soldier and German woman. His family immigrated to the United States in 1922 and settled in Los Angeles, where Bukowski spent most of his life. His father was in and out of work during the Depression years and was a reputed tyrant, verbally and

physically abusing his son throughout his childhood. It was perhaps to numb himself from his father’s abuse that Bukowski began drinking at the age of 13, initiating his life-long affair with alcohol.

To Read: A Smile To Remember | Bluebird | Alone With Everybody

9. Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. The second son of Louis and Naomi Ginsberg. His father was an English teacher, a poet, and a socialist; his mother was a communist and an active member in the Party; both were children of Russian-Jewish immigrants.

To Read: Cezanne’s Ports | The Lion For Real | Footnote To Howl

10. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.

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To Read: The Phoenix And The Turtle | Sonnet I | Sonnet XX TOP P OE TS

11. Rudyard Kipling

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. His parents had moved to India from England and were British citizens. They hoped to start a new life in India, which was then a colony of the British Empire. As a young child he played with local children and learned the language spoken in that area of India.

To Read: If— | The White Man’s Burden | The Female Of The Species

12. William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Between the Celtic dreams of THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN (1889) and the intellectual, often obscure poetry of the 1930s, Yeats produceda tremendous amount of works.

To Read: Leda And The Swan | The Second Coming | Death

13. John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the 0 0 second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a

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philosophy through classical legend.

To Read: Ode On Melancholy | Fancy | A Party Of Lovers

14. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was the Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic, was born in Dublin on October 16th, 1854. At that time Ireland belonged to, and was ruled by, Britain. Wilde’s parents were part of the Protestant ruling class in Ireland, rather than the mostly Catholic ‘native’ Irish people.

To Read: Requiescat | The Burden Of Itys | The Garden Of Eros

15. Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

To Read: Here I Love You | In You The Earth | Your Hands

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Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

Through his epic poems, Homer has played a hugely influential role

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in Western Literature.

To Read: The Odyssey | The Odyssey: Book 1 | The Iliad: Book 10

17. Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante (/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/, also US: /ˈdɑːnti/; c. 1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher.

To Read: Inferno (Italian) | Inferno Canto 01 | Inferno Canto 02

18. William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement.

To Read: A Death Song | A Good Knight In Prison | Autumn

19. Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (/ˈkɛruæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as 0 Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who,0 alongside 0William S.     0 

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Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

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To Read: On Tears | Nebraska | One Flower

20. Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion”; the “play for voices” Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. To Read: Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines | And Death Shall Have No Dominion | A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London

21. Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s family was of the bourgeois class, descended from an affluent family who made their money in the London wine trade.

To Read: The House Of Fame | Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01 | The Canterbury Tales; The Milleres Tale

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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century’s major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.

To Read: Morning at the Window | The Naming of Cats | The Hippopotamus

23. W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Auden is a British poet, author and playwright best known as a leading literary character in the 20th century for his poetry. Auden’s poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.

To Read: Lullaby | Night Mail | September 1, 1939

24. Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr/ (About this soundlisten); born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Bishokobi) was a Bengali polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.

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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire, the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

To Read: John Anderson My Jo | Bonie Doon | Holy Willie’s Prayer

26. Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.

To Read: Après La Bataille | La tombe dit à la rose | Sea Song Of The Exiles

27. James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avantgarde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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28. Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire, in full Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (born April 9, 1821, Paris, France—died August 31, 1867, Paris) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic.

He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

To Read: The Death Of Lovers | Epilogue | Be Drunk

29. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (born August 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar), was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature and aesthetic criticism, and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.

To Read: First Loss | Alexis And Dora | Restless Love

30. Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges, (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland), Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works became 0 https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-male-poets/

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essays and a biography.

To Read: Adam Cast Forth | Browning Decides to Be a Poet | Elegy

31. Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for his evergreen works Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

To Read: The Moon | My Shadow | Bed In Summer

32. J. R. R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien, in full John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

To Read: The Bath Song | Cold Be Hand and Heart and Bone | The Riddle of Strider

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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with

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modernism and imagism. He was American poet who succeeded in making the ordinary appear extraordinary through the clarity and discreteness of his imagery.

To Read: Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus | Portrait of a Lady | Smell

34. Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg, (born Jan. 6, 1878, Galesburg, Ill., U.S.—died July 22, 1967, Flat Rock, N.C.), American poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

To Read: A Father To His Son | Who Am I? | Theme In Yellow

35. Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ (About this soundlisten) BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem.

To Read: Time Long Past | To The Moon | Chorus From Hellas

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (Greek: Λόρδος Βύρωνας; 22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as

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Lord Byron, was an English peer who was a poet and politician.

To Read: Don Juan: Canto The Seventh | Lachin Y Gair | I Saw Thee Weep

37. Walter de La Mare Walter de la Mare, in full Walter John de la Mare, (born April 25, 1873, Charlton, Kent, England—died June 22, 1956, Twickenham, Middlesex), was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist.

To Read: A Song of Enchantment | Alexander | Alone

38. Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963), English novelist and critic gifted with an acute and far-ranging intelligence whose works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire. He remains best known for one novel, Brave New World (1932), a model for much dystopian science fiction that followed.

To Read: Anniversaries | The Elms | Minoan Porcelain

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Westmorland), was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

To Read: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Daffodils) | A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

40. Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He also is significant for his technical experiments in assonance, which were particularly influential in the 1930s.

To Read: Futility | Strange Meeting | Anthem for Doomed Youth

41. Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

To Read: The Early Purges | The Grauballe Man | Personal Helicon

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was the most renowned poet of the Victorian era.

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His work includes ‘In Memoriam,’ ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ and ‘Idylls of the King.’

To Read: The Lotos-Eaters | Ulysses | Morte d’Arthur

43. Rupert Brooke Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period. His best-known work is the sonnet sequence 1914.

To Read: 1914 V: The Soldier | 1914 IV: The Dead | The Dead

44. Edward Thomas Edward Thomas, in full Philip Edward Thomas, (born March 3, 1878, Lambeth, London, Eng.—died April 9, 1917, Arras, France), was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences, and his career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic.

To Read: Thaw | Aspens | A Cat

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Paul’s Cathedral, London (1621–31). Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language. He is also noted for his religious verse and treatises and for his sermons, which rank among the best of the 17th century.

To Read: The Flea | The Canonization | Phryne

46. Robert Browning Robert Browning, (born May 7, 1812, London—died Dec. 12, 1889, Venice), was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. His verse was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

To Read: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came | Home Thoughts, from Abroad | My Last Duchess

47. Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur, in full Richard Purdy Wilbur, (born March 1, 1921, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 14, 2017, Belmont, Massachusetts), American poet associated with the New Formalist movement. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur’s work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.

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48. Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke, original name René Maria Rilke, (born Dec.

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4, 1875, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died Dec. 29, 1926, Valmont, Switz.), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He is “widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets”. He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose.

To Read: A Walk | Adam | Again And Again

49. John Dryden John Dryden, (born August 9 [August 19, New Style], 1631, Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England—died May 1 [May 12], 1700, London), was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England’s first Poet Laureate in 1668.

To Read: Tarquin And Tullia | Te Deum | One Happy Moment

50. Alexander Pope Alexander Pope, (born May 21, 1688, London, England—died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London), was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.

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Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862), American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849).

To Read: The Summer Rain | Epitaph On The World | Prayer

52. Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).

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53. Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Henrik Johan Ibsen (/ˈɪbsən/; Norwegian: [ˈhɛ̀ nrɪk ˈɪ̀ psn̩ ]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as “the father of realism” and one of the most influential playwrights of his time.

To Read: In the Picture Gallery | Mountain Life | A Brother In Need

54. Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, original name Robert Allen Zimmerman, (born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.), is an American singersongwriter, author and visual artist.

To Read: On The Road Again | Desolation Row | Subterranean Homesick Blues

55. Tulsidas Tulsidas (Hindi pronunciation: [t̪ ʊls̪ iːd̪ aːs̪ ]; 1532–1623), also known as Goswami Tulsidas, was a Ramanandi Vaishnava saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.

To Read: Doha 1 | Doha 5 | Doha 2

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playwright, and historian.

To Read: Answer | Hunting Song | Border Ballad

56. Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, original name Aurobindo Ghose, Aurobindo also spelled Aravinda, Sri also spelled Shri, (born August 15, 1872, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died December 5, 1950, Pondicherry [now Puducherry]), was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers like Bande Mataram.

To Read: The Inner Fields | The Unseen Infinite | Krishna

57. Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur, in full Tupac Amaru Shakur, original name Lesane Parish Crooks, bynames 2Pac and Makaveli, (born June 16, 1971, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada), better known by his stage name 2Pac and by his alias Makaveli, was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor.

To Read: In The Event Of My Demise | When Ure Hero Falls | In The Depths Of Solitude

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January 29 [February 10], 1837, St. Petersburg), was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

To Read: Amidst the Noisy Ball | The Cloister on Kazbek | The Demon

59. Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold, (born December 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, England—died April 15, 1888, Liverpool) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

To Read: Consolation | Shakespeare | Austerity Of Poetry

60. Howard Phillips Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft, in full Howard Phillips Lovecraft, (born August 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.—died March 15, 1937, Providence), was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.

To Read: Christmas Snows | Festival | Good Saint Nick

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The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. To Read: An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty | Iambicum Trimetrum | Sonnet I

62. F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer.

To Read: Marching Streets | The Staying Up All Night | On A Play Twice Seen

63. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (born October 21, 1772, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England—died July 25, 1834, Highgate, near London) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

To Read: Youth And Age | The Eolian Harp | To Nature

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November 7, 2016, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death and romantic relationships.

To Read: Waiting For The Miracle | Suzanne | Bird On The Wire

65. Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, (born June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England—died January 11, 1928, Dorchester, Dorset), was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.

To Read: During Wind And Rain | The Going | The Oxen

66. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (born February 27, 1807, Portland, Massachusetts [now in Maine], U.S.—died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American poet and educator whose works include “Paul Revere’s Ride”, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

To Read: Nature | Haunted Houses | The Cross of Snow

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E.E. Cummings, in full Edward Estlin Cummings, (born October 14, 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 3, 1962, North Conway, New Hampshire), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works,[1] was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

To Read: Next To Of Course God America I | I Sing Of Olaf Glad And Big | May I Feel Said He

68. Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon, (born Sept. 8, 1886, Brenchley, Kent, Eng.— died Sept. 1, 1967, Heytesbury, Wiltshire), was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. To Read: The Poet As Hero | Memory | The Last Meeting

69. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti, original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, (born May 12, 1828, London, England—died April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/rəˈzɛti/), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator, and member of the Rossetti family.

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Philip Larkin, in full Philip Arthur Larkin, (born August 9, 1922, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died December 2, 1985, Kingston upon Hull), was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.

To Read: The Whitsun Weddings | To My Wife | Water

71. Robert Graves Robert Graves, in full Robert von Ranke Graves, (born July 24, 1895, London, England—died December 7, 1985, Deyá, Majorca, Spain) was a British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

To Read: Lost Love | Corporal Stare | In Broken Images

72. Rumi Rūmī, in full Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, also called by the honorific Mawlānā, (born c. September 30, 1207, Balkh [now in Afghanistan]—died December 17, 1273, Konya [now in Turkey]), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.

To Read: Any Lifetime | Be Lost In The Call | A Stone I Died

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A.A. Milne, in full Alan Alexander Milne, (born January 18, 1882, London, England—died January 31, 1956, Hartfield, Sussex), was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.

To Read: Wind On The Hill | Vespers | Teddy Bear

74. Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

To Read: I Must Have Wanton Poets | Fragment | Hero And Leander

75. Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson, byname Dr. Johnson, (born September 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England—died December 13, 1784, London), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.

To Read: The City Of God | The Winter’s Walk | Summer

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Kabir, (Arabic: “Great”) (born 1440, Varanasi, Jaunpur, India— died 1518, Maghar), was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism’s Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism’s scripture Guru Granth Sahib.

To Read: Lamps Burn In Every House | Tell Me Brother | How Humble Is God

77. Virgil Virgil, also spelled Vergil, Latin in full Publius Vergilius Maro, (born October 15, 70 BCE, Andes, near Mantua [Italy]—died September 21, 19 BCE, Brundisium), was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.

To Read: Eclogue VIII | Eclogue VII | Eclogue VI

78. Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht, original name Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, (born February 10, 1898, Augsburg, Germany—died August 14, 1956, East Berlin), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

To Read: Fragen | The Burning Of The Books | United Front Song

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Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest, one of the most individual of Victorian writers. His work was not published in collected form until 1918, but it influenced many leading 20th-century poets.

To Read: Love Preparing To Fly | Henry Purcell | May Magnificat

80. Thomas Wyatt Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt also spelled Wyat, (born 1503, Allington, near Maidstone, Kent, Eng.—died Oct. 6, 1542, Sherborne, Dorset), was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature.

To Read: A Revocation | In Spain | Mine Own John Poynz

81. Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən/; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the LookingGlass.

To Read: The Voice Of The Lobster | Lays Of Sorrow | Rules And Regulations

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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.

To Read: The Windsor Prophecy | Twelve Articles | On The Gallows

83. Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS), Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature.

To Read: Ovillejos | Bailan Las Gitanas | Sonnet

84. Aeschylus Aeschylus, (born 525/524 BC—died 456/455 BC, Gela, Sicily), the first of classical Athens’ great dramatists, who raised the emerging art of tragedy to great heights of poetry and theatrical power.

To Read: A Prayer For Artemis | The Defiance Of Eteocles | The Appointed Time

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Hermann Hesse, (born July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany—died August 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland), was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.

To Read: Stages | In Secret We Thirst | Across The Fields

86. Harivansh Rai Bachchan Harivansh Rai Bachchan (27 November 1907 – 18 January 2003) was an Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature. He was also a poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan.

To Read: कहते हैं तारे गाते हैं | यात्रा और यात्री | जीवन की आपाधापी में

87. Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney, (born November 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, England—died October 17, 1586, Arnhem, Netherlands) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

To Read: The Bargain | Thou Blind Man’s Mark | To The Sad Moon

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novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

To Read: The Village Schoolmaster | The Taking Of Quebec | The Poet Laberius

89. Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (Latin: [ˈpuːblɪ.ʊs ɔˈwɪd̪ ɪ.ʊs ˈnaːsoː]; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), Roman poet noted especially for his Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses. His verse had immense influence both by its imaginative interpretations of Classical myth and as an example of supreme technical accomplishment.

To Read: Pygmalion And The Statue | Seeing Thou Art Fair | To His Mistress

90. Francesco Petrarch Petrarch, Italian in full Francesco Petrarca, (born July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Tuscany [Italy]—died July 18/19, 1374, Arquà, near Padua, Carrara), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (/ˈpiːtrɑːrk, ˈpɛt-/), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.

To Read: It Was On That Day When The Sun’s Ray | Little Wandering Bird That Goes Singing | Canzone XVI 0 https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-male-poets/

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Arthur Rimbaud, in full Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, (born October 20, 1854, Charleville, France—died November 10, 1891, Marseille), was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes, and his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.

To Read: Time Without End | Mystic | Romance

92. Mirza Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: ‫مرزا اسد هٌٰللا بیگ خان‬‎; 27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869), the preeminent Indian poet of his time writing in Persian, equally renowned for poems, letters, and prose pieces in Urdu.

To Read: In Her Every Indication | These Divine Verses | Tum Apne Shikve Ki Baatein

93. John Clare John Clare, (born July 13, 1793, Helpston, near Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England—died May 20, 1864, Northampton, Northamptonshire), was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption.

To Read: The Landrail | Bantry Bay | Gipsies

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Thomas Gray, (born Dec. 26, 1716, London—died July 30, 1771, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was an English poet, letterwriter, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.

To Read: The Progress Of Poesy | The Curse Upon Edward | If I Should Die

95. A. E. Housman A.E. Housman, in full Alfred Edward Housman, (born March 26, 1859, Fockbury, Worcestershire, Eng.—died April 30, 1936, Cambridge), was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.

To Read: Stars | The Day Of Battle | The Lent Lily

96. Horace Horace, Latin in full Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (born December 65 BC, Venusia, Italy—died Nov. 27, 8 BC, Rome), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

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Jean Cocteau, (born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France—died October 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris), was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic.

To Read: Soft Caramel | Toreador | Awakening

98. Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a British poet and journalist, best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde. While studying at Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, which carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, with whom he started a close but stormy relationship.

To Read: Plainte Eternelle | Ode To Autumn | A Song

99. Ben Jonson Ben Jonson, byname of Benjamin Jonson, (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London), was an English playwright and poet. Jonson’s artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy.

To Read: To My Book | Inviting A Friend To Supper | A Pindaric Ode

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metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.

To Read: The Fair Singer | First Anniversary | Young Love

111. Sophocles Sophocles (/ˈsɒfəkliːz/; Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, pronounced [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ ːs]; c. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.

To Read: A Fair Eubœan Shore | Power Of Love (From “Antigone”) | Strange That The Godless Prosper

112. Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller, in full Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, (born Nov. 10, 1759, Marbach, Württemberg [Germany] —died May 9, 1805, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher.

To Read: The Artists | The Eleusinian Festival | Amalia

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writer, and intellectual. He also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure.

To Read: Ode to a Flower in Casarsa | The Fan | Flesh and Sky

114. George Santayana George Santayana, original name Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz De Santayana, (born December 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain—died September 26, 1952, Rome, Italy), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

To Read: Sonnet III | Sonnet XXV | Sonnet V 5 / 5 ( 1 vote )

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