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A Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet who is often referred to as "the fath

Alexander Pushkin

A Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet.

Alexander Pope

Is one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A French author, poet and statesman.

Christoph Martin Wieland

A German poet and writer best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon) as well as

Clive Staples Lewis

A British writer and lay theologian best known for The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilog

Dante Alighieri

An Italian poet, writer and philosopher best known for the narrative poem Divine Comedy.

Diagoras of Melos

A Greek poet and sophist of the 5th century BC who allegedly chopped up a wooden statue of Heracles and used it to roast

Edmund Spenser

An English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty an

Francesco Redi

An Italian physician, naturalist, biologist and poet referred to as the founder of experimental biology, and as the fath

Petrarch

A scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. He is remembered for the collections o

François Fénelon

French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer

Friedrich Schiller

German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Opening German literature up to exploration outside of French models

George Eliot

An English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Gerald Massey

IQ 185

An English poet and writer on Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt.

Giordano Bruno

IQ 190

An Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist.

Heinrich Heine

A German poet, writer, and literary critic best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry.

Henry David Thoreau

An American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher best known for his book Walden.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator who was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

Hesiod

An ancient Greek poet widely regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition.

Homer

Is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Ibn Arabi

An Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic thought

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

A British poet and playwright, known for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"

Ludwig Tieck

A German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement.

Johann Gottfried Herder

Volksgeist

John Henry Newman

An English theologian, scholar, and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was can

John Milton

An English poet and intellectual most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

John Dryden

An English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

Jorge Luis Borges

An Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator best-known for Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Al

Joseph Addison

An English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician who founded The Spectator magazine

Joseph Priestley

An English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian who discovered oxygen in 1774.

Ludovico Ariosto

An Italian poet best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso

Michelangelo

IQ 177

An Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance who is one of the most recognized artists in th

Minou Drouet

Arbre, mon ami

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

A dramatist, poet, writer and a knight of the Order of Santiago, known primarily for being one of the most distinguished

Percy Bysshe Shelley

IQ 185

One of the major English Romantic poets best known for his works "Ozymandias" (1818), "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To

Peter Abelard

A medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, and poet.

Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Prolific French poet and chansonnier songwriter

Pietro Metastasio

An Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

Ovid

A Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus who worked during the time of Virgil and Horace.

Virgil

An ancient Roman poet known across the world for his works Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.

Ennius

Roman writer & poet who considered the father of Roman poetry

Horace

The leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus

Richard Baxter

An English Puritan church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An Irish satirist, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Robert Southey

An English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death.

Robert Frost

IQ 145

An American poet known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech

Robert Burns

A Scottish poet and lyricist widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland

Roger Joseph Boscovich

IQ 185

A physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest from the Republic of

Samuel Johnson

An English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England.

Sappho

An Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a ly

Solon

An Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, econom

Søren Kierkegaard

A Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first exi

Sylvia Plath

IQ 140

American poet, novelist and short-story writer known for her books The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965)

Thomas Chatterton

An English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17

Thomas Moore

An Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies.

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

Tommaso Campanella

An Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

Torquato Tasso

An Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata

Victor Cousin

A French philosopher who founded "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements

Victor Hugo

A French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.

Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer known for use of stream of consciousness and considered one of the more important modernist 20t

Vittorio Alfieri

An Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."

Walter Scott

A Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian

Walter Raleigh

An English statesman, soldier, spy, writer, poet, explorer and landed gentleman who played a leading part in English col

William Cullen Bryant

An American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

William Blake

An English poet, painter, and printmaker.

William Butler Yeats

An English-language Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

William Shakespeare

IQ 190

An English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's g

William Cowper

An English poet and hymnodist.

William Wordsworth

An English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrica

Xenophanes

A Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of religious polytheism.

Alfred de Musset

A French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

Oliver Goldsmith

An Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastora

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