Poets

A listing of poets and their major works

Africa

Country	National Poets	Born	Died	Major Works
Algeria	Si Mohand	1848	1905
Angola	Agostinho Neto	1922	1979
Egypt	Ahmed Shawqi	1868	1932	Esh-Shawqiyyat, his selected works, in four volumes
Ethiopia	Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin	1936	2006	Prologue to African Conscience	Black Antigone
Mali	Fily Dabo Sissoko	1900	1964	Poèmes de l’Afrique noire	Les Jeux de destin
Morocco	Mohammed Awzal	1680	1749	The Reservoir	The Ocean of Tears
Nigeria	Chinua Achebe	1930	2013	Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems	Another Africa
Senegal	Léopold Sédar Senghor	1906	2001	A l'appel de la Race de Saba
Somalia	Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame (Hadrawi)	1943
South Africa	Mazisi Kunene	1930	2006	Emperor Shaka the Great	The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain
Sudan	Gely Abdel Rahman	1931	1990	Poems from Sudan	Cavalery and Broken Sword	Songs of the Marchers
Tanzania	Shaaban bin Robert	1909	1962	Utubora Mkulima (Diwani Ya Shaaban 8)	Koja La Lugha
Tunisia	Aboul-Qacem Echebbi	1909	1934	Defenders of the Homeland	To the Tyrants of the World

Asia

Country	National Poets	Born	Died	Major Works
Afghanistan	Khushal Khattak	1613	1689	Selections from the Poetry of Afghans	Poems from the Diwan of Khushhal Khan Khattak
Afghanistan	Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (Ferdowsi)	940	1020	Book of Kings
Azerbaijan	Fuzûlî	1494	1556	The Epic of Layla and Majnun
Azerbaijan	Imadaddin Nasimi	1369	1417	Emād-al-dīn Nasīmī
Azerbaijan	Samad Vurgun	1906	1956	Muradkhan	Khumar
Bangladesh	Kazi Nazrul Islam	1899	1976	The Rebel	Bhangar Gaan
China	Du Fu	712	770	A Spring View
China	Li Bai	701	762	Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day	The Hard Road to Shu	Quiet Night Thought
China	Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)	1881	1936	Diary of a Madman
Cambodia	Preah Botumthera Som,	1852	1932	Tum Teav
Cambodia	Krom Ngoy	1865	1936	Working in the Farm to Earn a Living	Choosing a Spouse	Poverty and its Causes
Cambodia	Chuon Nath	1883	1969	Nokor Reach
India	Rabindranath Tagore	1861	1941	Gitanjali	Gora Jana Gana Mana	Ghare-Baire Manasi
Indonesia	Chairil Anwar	1922	1949	Roar Mixed with Dust	Sharp Pebbles and the Seized and The Broken	Aku
Iran	Ferdowsi	940	1020	Shahnameh
Iran	Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Rumi)	1207	1273	Maṭnawīye Ma'nawī	The Works of Shams of Tabriz
Iran	Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Hafez)	1325 / 26	1389 / 90	Mystic Poetry (Ghazal, Irfan)
Iran	Rudaki	858	941	Adam of Poets
Iran	Nezami Ganjavi	1141	1209	The Five Jewels (Panj Ganj)	Nozhat al-Majales	Makhzan al-Asrar
Iran	Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī (Saadi)	1210	1291 / 92	Bustan (The Orchard)	Gulistan (The Rose Garden)
Iran	Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī (Omar Khayyám)	1048	1131	Rubáiyát
Iran	Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani (Nasir Khusraw)	1004	1088	Safarnama (The Book of Travels)	The Gourd and the Palm-tree
Iraq	Maarouf Al Rasafi	1875	1945	A Praise to the Development of the Future
Israel	Hayim Nahman Bialik	1873	1934	nationalistic poems
Japan	Koizumi Yakumo (Patrick Lafcadio Hearn)	1850	1904	Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things	Meiji Era
Japan	Murasaki Shikibu	973 / 978	c 1014 / 31	The Diary of Lady Murasaki	The Tale of Genji	Poetic Memoirs
Jordan	Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal	1897	1949	Poetry, Essay, Philosophical Literature, Social Commentary
Kazakhstan	Abai Qunanbaiuli, known as Abai Kunanbaev	1845	1904	The Book of Words
Korea	Kim Sowol	1902	1934	Azaleas
Korea	Ko Un	1933		Otherworld Sensibility	Flowers of the Moment	The Sound of my Waves
Kurdistan	Khana Qubadi	1700	1759	Shirin and Khasraw)
Kyrgyzstan	Toktogul Satylganov	1864	1933	improvising poet and singer
Lebanon	Kahlil Gibran	1883	1931	The Prophet	Broken Wings	The Earth Gods
Lebanon	Said Akl	1911 or 19	2014	Yara	Khumasiyyat	Al Majdaliyyah (Epic)
Malaysia	Usman Awang	1929	2001	traditional Pantun poems
Mongolia	Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj	1906	1937	My Native Land
Mongolia	Byambyn Rinchen	1905	1977	Anu hatun (Queen Anu)
Mongolia	Hadaa Sendoo	1961		Come Back to Earth
Myanmar	Min Thu Wun	1909	2004	Nursery Songs for Maung Khway
Nepal	Laxmi Prasad Devkota	1909	1959	Like Strength
Nepal	Motiram Bhatta	1923	1953	Manodweg Prawah	Panchak Prapancha	Shakuntala
Pakistan	Allama Muhammad Iqbal	1877	1938	Asrar-e-Khudi Bang-e-Dara (The Call of the Marching Bell)	Rumuz-e-Bekhudi	Payam-e-Mashriq, Zabur-e-Ajam
Palestine	Mahmoud Darwish	1941	2008	Passers Between the Passing Words Mural	Bed of a Stranger State of Siege	Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Philippines	Francisco Balagtas	1788	1862	Florante at Laura
Saudi Arabia	Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi	1940	2010	Ghazi Al Gosaibi
Sri Lanka	Ananda Samarakoon	1911	1962	Namo Namo Mata
Syria	Nizar Qabbani	1923	1998	Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat
Tajikistan	Rudaki	858	941	founder of Persian classical literature
Tajikistan	Ferdowsi	940	1020	Shahnameh (Book of Kings)
Tajikistan	Saadi,	1210	1291 / 92	Bustan and Gulistan
Tajikistan	Molavi	1207	1273
Tajikistan	Nasir Khusraw
Tajikistan	Sadriddin Ayni
Tajikistan	Gulnazar Keldi
Thailand	Sunthorn Phu	1786	1855	Nirat Phukaothong	Nirat Suphan
Turkmenistan	Magtymguly Pyragy	1724	1807	Tukmenin
Uzbekistan	Abdulla Oripov	1941		Mitti Yulduz (The Little Star)
Uzbekistan	Erkin Vohidov	1936		Tong Nafasi (The Breath of Morning)
Uzbekistan	Gʻafur Gʻulom	1903	1966	Dinamo (Dynamo) Tirik Shiqlar (Alive Songs)
Uzbekistan	(Mirtemir) Mirtemir Tursunov	1910	1978	Poet and literary translator
Vietnam	Nguyễn Du	1766	1820	The Tale of Kiều
Vietnam	Nguyễn Đình Chiểu	1822	1888	Lục Vân Tiên	Dương Từ-Hà Mậu
Vietnam	Hàn Mặc Tử	1912	1940	Gái Quê (Country Girls)	Chơi Giữa Mùa Trăng (Playing in the Moon Season)
Yemen	Abdullah Al-Baradouni	1929	1999	From the Land of Sheba	On the Path of Dawn,

Europe

Country	National Poets	Born	Died	Major Works
Albania	Gjergj Fishta	1871	1940	Lahuta e Malcís (The Highland Lute)
Albania	Naim Frashëri	1846	1900	Fjalët e Qiririt (Words of the Candle)
Andorra	Albert Salvadó	1951		L'enigma de Constantí el Gran
Armenia	Hovhannes Tumanyan	1869	1923	The Dog and the Cat	The Capture of Tmkaberd
Armenia	Sayat-Nova	1722	1795	Armenian poet, musician and ashik
Armenia	Paruyr Sevak	1924	1971	We Are Few but We Are Called Armenians	The Unsilenceable Belfry
Austria	Franz Grillparzer	1791	1872	Dramatist
Austria	Peter Rosegger	1843	1918	Zither und Hackbrett (poems in Styrian dialect, 1870)
Austria	Johann Nepomuk Nestroy	1801	1862	Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus
Belarus	Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (Yanka Kupala)	1882	1942	Ziarno	The Little Flute	From the Heart
Belarus	Kanstancin Mickievič (Yakub Kolas)	1882	1956	The Fisherman's Hut
Belgium	Emile Verhaeren	1855	1916	Les Flamandes	Les moines	Les Soirs
Belgium	Maurice Maeterlinck	1862	1949	Serres chaudes	DouzeChansons
Flanders	Hendrik Conscience	1812	1883	Flemish Life in Four Stories
Flanders	Guido Gezelle	1830	1899	Longfellows Song of Hiawatha (translation, 1886)	Kerkhofblommen
Flanders	Hugo Claus	1929	2008	The Sorrow of Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Izet Sarajlić	1930	2002	Sarajevo War Journal
Republika Srpska	Aleksa Šantić	1868	1924	Emina
Republika Srpska	Gordana Kukić	?	?	?
Bulgaria	Hristo Botev	1846 / 47	1876	My Prayer (Moyata molitva)	At Farewell
Bulgaria	Ivan Vazov	1850	1921	Under the Yoke	Epic of the Forgotten
Croatia	Marko Marulić	1450	1524	Judita	Davidiad
Croatia	Miroslav Krleža	1893	1981	Balade Petrice Kerempuha (Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh)	Gospoda Glembajevi
Cyprus	Vasilis Michaelides	1849	1917	The 9th of July 1821	The Woman From Chios	The Fairy
Cyprus	Demetrios Libertis	1866	1937	Apanta of Libertis
Czech Republic	Karel Hynek Mácha	1810	1836	Máj (May)
Czech Republic	Božena Němcová	1820	1862	Národní Báchorky a Pověsti (National Stories and Legends)	Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends
Czech Republic	Jan Neruda	1834	1891	Knihy Veršů (Books of Verses)
Denmark	Adam Oehlenschläger	1779	1850	Der er et Yndigt Land (the Danish National anthem)	Thors Reise til Jotunheim,	Langelandsreisen
Faroe Islands	William Heinesen	1900	1991	Arktiske Elegier og Andre Digte (Arctic Elegies and Other Poems)
England	William Shakespeare	1564	1616	Playwright, poet, actor
Estonia	Lydia Koidula	1843	1886	Emajõe Ööbik, (The Nightingale of the Emajõgi (the Mother River))
Estonia	Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald	1803	1882	Kalevipoeg (Kalev's Son)	Lembitu
Finland	Johan Ludvig Runeberg	1804	1877	Maamme (Finland's national anthem)
Finland	Elias Lönnrot	1802	1884	Kalevala
France	Victor Hugo	1802	1885	Les Contemplations and La Légende des Siècles	Les Misérables	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
France	Charles Baudelaire	1821	1867	Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)
Georgia	Shota Rustaveli	Georgia	Jerusalem	The Knight in the Panther's Skin
Germany	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749	1832	Faust The Sorcerer's Apprentice	Götz von Berlichingen	The Sorrows of Young Werther
Germany	Friedrich Schiller	1759	1805	The Robbers	Don Carlos
Gibraltar	Héctor Licudi	1959		Barbarita
Greece	Homer	unknown	unknown	Iliad	Odyssey
Greece	Dionysios Solomos	1798	1857	Hymn to Liberty
Guernsey	George Métivier	1790	1881	Rimes Guernesiaises
Hungary	Sándor Petőfi	1823	1849	National Song, John the Valiant
Hungary	János Arany	1817	1882	Toldi trilogy	The Bards of Wales
Iceland	Jónas Hallgrímsson	1807	1845	poet, author and naturalist
Iceland	Hallgrímur Pétursson	1614	1674	Aldarháttur	Rímur af Lykla-Pétri og Magellónu
Iceland	Halldór Laxness	1902	1998	Nobel Prize in Literature
Ireland	Thomas Moore	1779	1852	The Minstrel Boy	The Last Rose of Summer
Ireland	William Butler Yeats	1865	1939	The Tower	The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Italy	Dante Alighieri (known as Dante)	1265	1321	Divine Comedy
Latvia	Jānis Pliekšāns (Rainis)	1865	1929	Poet
Liechtenstein	Peter Kaiser	1793	1864	historian and statesman
Lithuania	Kristijonas Donelaitis	1714	1780	The Seasons (Metai)
Lithuania	Maironis (born Jonas Mačiulis)	1862	1932	Pavasario Balsai (The Voices of Spring)
Luxembourg	Edmond de la Fontaine (known as Dicks)	1823	1891	D’Vulleparlament am Grengewald
Luxembourg	Michel Rodange	1827	1876	Renert
Luxembourg	Michel Lentz	1820	1893	Ons Heemecht (the national anthem of Luxembourg)
Macedonia	Kočo Racin	1908	1943	White Dawns
Macedonia	Georgi Pulevski	1817	1895	Rechnik od tri Jazika
Macedonia	Kole Nedelkovski	1912	1941	A Voice from Macedonia (Glas od Makedonija)
Malta	Dun Karm Psaila	1871	1961	Innu Malti National Antham Maltese
Moldova	Mihai Eminescu	1850	1889	Luceafărul (The Vesper / The Evening Star / The Lucifer / The Daystar)
Moldova	Grigore Vieru	1935	2009	Writer
Monaco	Louis Notari	1879	1961	Monaco national anthem
Montenegro	Petar II Petrović-Njegoš	1813	1851	Gorski vijenac (The Mountain Wreath)
Netherlands	Joost van den Vondel	1587	1679	Joannes de Boetgezant (1662), on the life of John the Baptist,
Netherlands	Jacob Cats	1577	1660	Sinne en Minnebeelden
Friesland	Gysbert Japicx (or Japiks)	1603	1666	writer, poet, schoolmaster and cantor
Norway	Henrik Wergeland	1808	1845	Digte, Første Ring (poems, First Circle)
Poland	Adam Mickiewicz	1798	1855	Pan Tadeusz	Dziady
Poland	Juliusz Słowacki	1809	1849	Kordian	Balladyna	Beniowski
Poland	Zygmunt Krasiński	1812	1859	Three National Bards - the trio of great Romantic poets
Poland	Jan Kochanowski	1530	1584	The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys
Portugal	Luís de Camões	1525	1580	The Lusiads
Portugal	Fernando Pessoa	1888	1935	The Book of Disquiet
Romania	Mihai Eminescu	1850	1889	Luceafărul, Scrisoarea I
Russia	Alexander Pushkin	1799	1837	Eugene Onegin	Boris Godunov
Dagestan	Rasul Gamzatov	1923	2003	Zhuravli
Ossetia	Kosta Khetagurov	1859	1906	Mother of Orphans
San Marino	Pio Chiaruzzi	1949		Labirinti da lui Fondata
Scotland	Robert Burns	1759	1796	Auld Lang Syne	A Red, Red Rose	A Man's a Man for All That
Scotland	Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid)	1892	1978	Annals of the Five Senses
Scotland	John Barbour	1320	1395	The Brus
Scotland	Edwin Morgan	1920	2010	Starlings In George Square
Serbia	Petar II Petrović-Njegoš,	1813	1851	Gorski Vijenac (The Mountain Wreath)
Serbia	Vladislav Petković Dis	1880	1917	Spomenik (Monument)
Serbia	Oskar Davičo	1909	1989	Anatomija (Anathomy)
Kosovo	Din Mehmeti	1932	2010	Albanian poet
Kosovo	Ali Podrimja	1942	2012	Thirrje (The Calls, 1961)
Slovakia	Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav	1849	1921	Sonety (1882 - 1886) (Sonnets)
Slovenia	France Prešeren	1800	1849	A Wreath of Sonnets (Sonetni Venec)
Spain	Miguel de Cervantes	1547	1616	Don Quixote
Spain	Lope de Vega	1562	1635	Fuente Ovejuna
Spain	Federico García Lorca	1898	1936	Impresiones y Paisajes (Impressions and Landscapes 1918)
Sweden	Carl Michael Bellman	1740	1795	Fredman's epistles
Sweden	Gustaf Fröding	1860	1911	poet and writer
Switzerland	Gottfried Keller	1819	1890	Green Henry
Switzerland	Carl Spitteler	1845	1924	Olympian Spring
Turkey	Mehmet Akif Ersoy	1873	1936	Safahat
Ukraine	Taras Shevchenko	1814	1861	Kobzar
Wales	Dylan Thomas	1914	1953	Under Milk Wood
Wales	Dafydd ap Gwilym	1320	1370	Trafferth mewn Tafarn

North America

Country	National Poets	Born	Died	Major Works
Canada	Pauline Johnson	1861	1913	The White Wampum	Canadian Born	Flint and Feather
Quebec	Émile Nelligan	1879	1941	The Complete Poems of Émile Nelligan
Quebec	Gaston Miron	1928	1996	La Marche à l'amour
Quebec	Octave Crémazie	1827	1879	Le Vieux Soldat Canadien (1855)	Le Drapeau de Carillon (1858)
Quebec	Gilles Vigneault	1928	Present	Les Gens de mon Pays
Quebec	Félix Leclerc	1914	1988	Moi, mes Souliers	Le P'tit Bonheur	Le Tour de l'île
Cuba	José Martí	1853	1895	Guantanamera (patriotic song of Cuba)	Versos Sencillos
Dominican Republic	Pedro Mir	1913	2000	Hay un País en el Mundo (There is a Country in the World)	Countersong to Walt Whitman (Song of Ourselves)
Guatemala	Miguel Ángel Asturias	1899	1974	El Señor Presidente	Men of Maize	Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala)
Haiti	Jacques Roumain	1907	1944	Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew)	Bois D'ébène (Ebony Wood)	A propos de la campagne anti-superstitieuse
Mexico	Ramón López Velarde	1888	1921	La Sangre Devota	Zozobra (Sinking)	La Suave Patria
Mexico	Octavio Paz	1914	1998	Entre la Piedra y la Flor (Between the Stone and the Flower)	Piedra de sol (Sunstone)	Renga: A Chain of Poems with Jacques Roubaud, Edoardo Sanguineti and Charles Tomlinson
Nicaragua	Rubén Darío	1867	1916	Una lágrima	El Jesuita,
Panama	Ricardo Miró	1883	1940	Native Land	Patria (Homeland)	The Last Seagull (1905)
Saint Lucia	Derek Walcott	1930		Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990)	Midsummer Dream on Monkey Mountain	Miltonic
United States	Walt Whitman	1819	1892	Leaves of Grass Democratic Vistas	Beat! Beat! Drums!	Song of Myself
United States	Emily Dickinson	1830	1886	The Poems of Emily Dickinson
United States	Robert Frost	1874	1963	A Boy's Will	North of Boston
United States	Carl Sandburg	1878	1967	Chicago Poems	The People	Yes Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons
United States	Maya Angelou	1928	2014	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)	On the Pulse of Morning	All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Oceania

Country	National Poets	Born	Died	Major Works
Australia	Henry Lawson	1867	1922	A Song of the Republic	The Wreck of the Derry Castle	Golden Gully
Australia	Adam Lindsay Gordon,	1833	1870	Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes	The Swimmer	A Song of Autumn
Australia	Dorothea Mackellar	1885	1968	My Country Fancy Dress (1926)	The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914)	Dreamharbour (1923)
Australia	A B "Banjo" Paterson	1864	1941	Waltzing Matilda	The Man from Snowy River	Clancy of the Overflow
New Zealand	Katherine Mansfield	1888	1923	How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped	Rhythm	The Woman at the Store
New Zealand	Nene Janet Paterson Clutha (Janet Frame)	1924	2004	An Angel at My Table	The Pocket Mirror	The Goose Bath

South America

Country	National Poets	Born	Died	Major Works
Argentina	José Hernández	1834	1886	Martín Fierro
Argentina	Jorge Luis Borges	1899	1986	Ficciones (Fictions)	El Aleph (The Aleph)
Argentina	Leopoldo Lugones	1899.	1986	Isidoro Acevedo	Hymn to the Sea
Brazil	Gonçalves Dias	1823	1864	Canção do Exílio	I-Juca-Pirama	Os Timbiras
Brazil	Olavo Bilac	1865	1918	Poesias	Brazilian Flag Anthem
Brazil	Carlos Drummond de Andrade	1902	1987	A Máquina do Mundo (The World's Machine)	Alguma Poesia (Some Poesy)	A Rosa do Povo (The People's Rose)
Brazil	Machado de Assis	1839	1908	Crisálidas (Chrysalids, poetry)	Falenas (Phalaenae, poetry)	Americanas (poetry)
Chile	Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (Pablo Neruda)	1904	1973	Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair	The Hands of the Day	World's End
Chile	Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (Gabriela Mistral)	1889	1957	Ensoñaciones (Dreams) Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death)	Carta Íntima (Intimate Letter)	Junto al Mar (By the Sea)
Colombia	Rafael Pombo	1833	1912	En El Niágara	Michín, Juan Chunguero, Pastorcita
Ecuador	José Joaquín de Olmedo	1780	1847	La victoria de Junin
Ecuador	Jorge Enrique Adoum	1926	2009	Entre Marx y Una Mujer	Desnuda (1976)	Carta para Alejandra
Peru	César Vallejo
Uruguay	Juan Zorrilla de San Martín	1855	1931	Tabaré	La Leyenda Patria (The Patriot Legend)
Venezuela	Rómulo Gallegos	1884	1969	Doña Bárbara	Cantaclaro (1934) and Canaima (1935)	La Doncella
Venezuela	Andrés Eloy Blanco	1897	1955	Canto a España (A Song to Spain)

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