poet

1. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) (synset 110463768)
   is a type of: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
   subtypes:

   • bard - a lyric poet
   • elegist - the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
   • odist - a poet who writes odes
   • poetess - a woman poet
   • poet laureate - the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain
   • poet laureate - a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region
   • sonneteer - a poet who writes sonnets
   specific instances:

   • alcaeus - Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; reputed inventor of Alcaic verse (611-580 BC)
   • apollinaire, guillaume apollinaire, wilhelm apollinaris de kostrowitzki - French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)
   • arnold, matthew arnold - English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)
   • arp, hans arp, jean arp - Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)
   • auden, w. h. auden, wystan hugh auden - United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973)
   • baudelaire, charles baudelaire, charles pierre baudelaire - a French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language (1821-1867)
   • benet, stephen vincent benet - United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943)
   • blake, william blake - visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
   • aleksandr aleksandrovich blok, alexander alexandrovich blok, blok - Russian poet (1880-1921)
   • boccaccio, giovanni boccaccio - Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)
   • anne bradstreet, anne dudley bradstreet, bradstreet - poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)
   • bertolt brecht, brecht - German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)
   • brooke, rupert brooke - English lyric poet (1887-1915)
   • browning, elizabeth barrett browning - English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
   • browning, robert browning - English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
   • burns, robert burns - celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)
   • butler, samuel butler - English poet (1612-1680)
   • byron, lord george gordon byron, sixth baron byron of rochdale - English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
   • calderon, calderon de la barca, pedro calderon de la barca - Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681)
   • carducci, giosue carducci - Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907)
   • carew, thomas carew - Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639)
   • catullus, gaius valerius catullus - Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC)
   • chaucer, geoffrey chaucer - English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
   • ciardi, john anthony ciardi, john ciardi - United States poet and critic (1916-1986)
   • coleridge, samuel taylor coleridge - English romantic poet (1772-1834)
   • corneille, pierre corneille - French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)
   • cowper, william cowper - English poet who wrote hymns and poetry about nature (1731-1800)
   • crane, harold hart crane, hart crane - United States poet (1899-1932)
   • cynewulf, cynwulf - Anglo-Saxon poet (circa 9th century)
   • dante, dante alighieri - an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
   • de la mare, walter de la mare, walter john de la mare - English poet remembered for his verse for children (1873-1956)
   • dickinson, emily dickinson - United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)
   • donne, john donne - English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
   • dryden, john dryden - the outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700)
   • eliot, t. s. eliot, thomas stearns eliot - British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
   • edward fitzgerald, fitzgerald - English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)
   • frost, robert frost, robert lee frost - United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
   • frederico garcia lorca, garcia lorca, lorca - Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)
   • gilbert, sir william gilbert, william gilbert, william s. gilbert, william schwenk gilbert - a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
   • allen ginsberg, ginsberg - United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997)
   • goethe, johann wolfgang von goethe - German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
   • gongora, luis de gongora y argote - a Spanish poet whose work was characterized by an affected elegance of style (1561-1627)
   • gray, thomas gray - English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
   • herrick, robert herrick - English lyric poet (1591-1674)
   • hesiod - Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)
   • hoffmannsthal, hugo von hoffmannsthal - German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929)
   • hogg, james hogg - Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)
   • homer - ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
   • gerard manley hopkins, hopkins - English poet (1844-1889)
   • horace - Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
   • a. e. housman, alfred edward housman, housman - English poet (1859-1936)
   • edward james hughes, hughes, ted hughes - English poet (born in 1930)
   • hugo, victor hugo, victor-marie hugo - French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
   • henrik ibsen, henrik johan ibsen, ibsen - realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)
   • jarrell, randall jarrell - United States poet (1914-1965)
   • jeffers, john robinson jeffers, robinson jeffers - United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962)
   • jimenez, juan ramon jimenez - Spanish lyric poet (1881-1958)
   • ben jonson, benjamin jonson, jonson - English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)
   • erik axel karlfeldt, karlfeldt - Swedish poet whose works incorporate Swedish customs and folklore (1864-1931)
   • john keats, keats - Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821)
   • francis scott key, key - United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
   • friedrich gottlieb klopstock, klopstock - German poet (1724-1803)
   • lindsay, nicholas vachel lindsay, vachel lindsay - United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931)
   • li po - Chinese lyric poet (700-762)
   • henry wadsworth longfellow, longfellow - United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)
   • lovelace, richard lovelace - English poet (1618-1857)
   • amy lowell, lowell - United States poet (1874-1925)
   • lowell, robert lowell, robert traill spence lowell jr. - United States poet (1917-1977)
   • lucretius, titus lucretius carus - Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC)
   • archibald macleish, macleish - United States poet (1892-1982)
   • mallarme, stephane mallarme - French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898)
   • mandelshtam, mandelstam, osip emilevich mandelstam, osip mandelstam - Russian poet who died in a prison camp (1891-1938)
   • giambattista marini, giambattista marino, marini, marino - Italian poet (1569-1625)
   • christopher marlowe, marlowe - English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)
   • jose julian marti, marti - Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895)
   • martial - Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)
   • andrew marvell, marvell - English poet (1621-1678)
   • john edward masefield, john masefield, masefield - English poet (1878-1967)
   • edgar lee masters, masters - United States poet (1869-1950)
   • mayakovski, vladimir vladimirovich mayakovski - Soviet poet; leader of Russian futurism (1893-1930)
   • george meredith, meredith - English novelist and poet (1828-1909)
   • john milton, milton - English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)
   • marianne craig moore, marianne moore, moore - United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872)
   • moore, thomas moore - Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852)
   • morris, william morris - English poet and craftsman (1834-1896)
   • alfred de musset, louis charles alfred de musset, musset - French poet and writer (1810-1857)
   • neftali ricardo reyes, neruda, pablo neruda, reyes - Chilean poet (1904-1973)
   • alfred noyes, noyes - English poet (1880-1958)
   • omar khayyam - Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)
   • ovid, publius ovidius naso - Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17)
   • francis turner palgrave, palgrave - English poet (1824-1897)
   • francesco petrarca, petrarca, petrarch - an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)
   • pindar - Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)
   • plath, sylvia plath - United States writer and poet (1932-1963)
   • edgar allan poe, poe - United States writer and poet (1809-1849)
   • alexander pope, pope - English poet and satirist (1688-1744)
   • ezra loomis pound, ezra pound, pound - United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
   • aleksandr sergeyevich pushkin, alexander pushkin, pushkin - Russian poet (1799-1837)
   • jean baptiste racine, jean racine, racine - French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
   • james whitcomb riley, riley - United States poet (1849-1916)
   • rainer maria rilke, rilke - German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20th-century German literature (1875-1926)
   • arthur rimbaud, jean nicholas arthur rimbaud, rimbaud - French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891)
   • edwin arlington robinson, robinson - United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)
   • edmond rostand, rostand - French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918)
   • alan seeger, seeger - United States poet killed in World War I (1888-1916)
   • anne sexton, sexton - United States poet (1928-1974)
   • bard of avon, shakespeare, shakspere, william shakespeare, william shakspere - English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
   • percy bysshe shelley, shelley - Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)
   • shevchenko, taras grigoryevich shevchenko - Ukranian poet (1814-1861)
   • sidney, sir philip sidney - English poet (1554-1586)
   • shel silverstein, shelby silverstein, silverstein - United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999)
   • dame edith louisa sitwell, dame edith sitwell, sitwell - English poet (1887-1964)
   • robert southey, southey - English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)
   • sir stephen harold spender, spender, stephen spender - English poet and critic (1909-1995)
   • edmund spenser, spenser - English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)
   • stevens, wallace stevens - United States poet (1879-1955)
   • sir john suckling, suckling - English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
   • algernon charles swinburne, swinburne - English poet (1837-1909)
   • arthur symons, symons - English poet (1865-1945)
   • edmund john millington synge, j. m. synge, john millington synge, synge - Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)
   • tasso, torquato tasso - Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595)
   • allen tate, john orley allen tate, tate - United States poet and critic (1899-1979)
   • sara teasdale, teasdale - United States poet (1884-1933)
   • alfred lord tennyson, alfred tennyson, first baron tennyson, tennyson - Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)
   • thespis - Greek poet who is said to have originated Greek tragedy (sixth century BC)
   • dylan marlais thomas, dylan thomas, thomas - Welsh poet (1914-1953)
   • john trumbull, trumbull - American satirical poet (1750-1831)
   • samuel rosenstock, tristan tzara, tzara - French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the dada movement (1896-1963)
   • johann ludwig uhland, uhland - German romantic poet (1787-1862)
   • paul verlaine, verlaine - French symbolist poet (1844-1896)
   • francois villon, villon - French poet (flourished around 1460)
   • publius vergilius maro, vergil, virgil - a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)
   • andrei voznesenski, voznesenski - Russian poet (born in 1933)
   • robert penn warren, warren - United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
   • isaac watts, watts - English poet and theologian (1674-1748)
   • phillis wheatley, wheatley - American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)
   • walt whitman, whitman - United States poet who celebrated the greatness of America (1819-1892)
   • john greenleaf whittier, whittier - United States poet best known for his nostalgic poems about New England (1807-1892)
   • william carlos williams, williams - United States poet (1883-1963)
   • william wordsworth, wordsworth - a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)
   • sir thomas wyat, sir thomas wyatt, wyat, wyatt - English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542)
   • elinor morton hoyt wylie, wylie - United States poet (1885-1928)
   • w. b. yeats, william butler yeats, yeats - Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
   • yevgeni aleksandrovich yevtushenko, yevgeni yevtushenko, yevtushenko - Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933)
   • edward young, young - English poet (1683-1765)

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