| Poet Name |
Biography |
| A A Milne |
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882-1956), was probably most famous as the author of stories about Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, Tigger and piglet. |
| A B Banjo Paterson |
This poet is also known by his full name. I have therefore added a second list of poems and they can be found here |
| A D Hope |
A D Hope (1907-2000) was an Australian Poet. |
| A E Housman |
Alfred Edward Housman (18591936) was an English poet and scholar, whose verse exerted a strong influence on later poets. Well known for his war poetry his range was far greater.
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| A P Herbert |
A P Herbert (1890-1971) was an English poet. He served in the Royal Navy during the First World War and after the war he published the novel The Secret Battle (1919). Well known for other literary works his poetry wasn't prolific. |
| Ada Cambridge |
Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) was born in Norfolk, England but spent most of her life in Australia. |
| Adam Lindsay Gordon |
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) was an Australian Poet. |
| Adam Mickiewicz |
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1856) was a Polish Poet. |
| Adelaide O'Keefe |
Adelaide O'Keefe (1776-1855). Little is known about this Irish poet and even his date of death is subject to debate |
| Afanasy Afanasevich Fet |
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet (1820-1892) was a Russian Poet and Nobleman |
| Agnes Louise Storrie |
Agnes Louise Storrie (1865-1936) was an Australian Poet |
| Alan Dugan |
Alan Dugan (1923-2003) was an American Poet |
| Alan Seeger |
Alan Seeger (1888-1916) was born in New York to parents from old New England families. In 1912 he moved to Paris and just after the outbreak of the World War One, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He served in the trenches on the western front. During the Battle of the Somme he was severely wounded when advancing on the German lines. He died shortly afterwards and was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire. |
| Albery Allson Whitman |
Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901) was an American Poet. |
| Albino Pierro |
Albino Pierro (1916-1995) was an Italian poet who was a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| Alexander Anderson |
Alexander Anderson (1845-1909), was a poet, whose "real job" was as a surfaceman on the railway.
His poems were somewhat limited in range. He generally wrote under the name of "Surfaceman."For a full biography |
| Alexander Pope |
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)was a poet from England. His poems are modelled after the great poets of classical antiquity, writing highly polished verse, often in a didactic or satirical vein.
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| Alfonsina Storni |
Alfonsina Storni 1892-1938 was an Argentinian born poet whose personal life tragedy is reflected in her later poems |
| Alfred Austin |
Alfred Austin (1835-1913) was from England and wore several hats throughout his career, Alfred Austin was a critic, novelist and political journalist. Although he was educated in law, his professional life focused primarily on literature becoming poet laureate of England in 1896. |
| Alfred Douglas |
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945) is remembered today for his tumultuous association with Oscar Wilde and also as a minor poet. Douglas, universally known as Bosie, was born October 22, 1870. |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), was not well received when he was alive but typically found greater favour when he was dead. Regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, he became Poet Laureate in 1850. |
| Alfred Noyes |
Alfred Noyes (1880 - 1958) was an English Poet who wrote five books of poetry and many books on a variety of topics. |
| Alfred The Great |
Alfred The Great (849-900) was an English King (or at least was accepted as such. He was certainly the fifth son of Ethelwulf, or Ęthelwulf, King of Wessex. |
| Alfred Thomas Chandler |
Alfred Thomas Chandler (1852-1941) was an Australian Journalist and Poet |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an Aristocratic English poet. He was sent to Eton, (famous English Public School) where he acquired a taste for flagellation. This was to become a dominant theme in later poetry. |
| Ali Sardar Jafri |
Ali Sardar Jafri (1913-2000). Sardar was a rebel, freedom fighter, pacifist, radical activist, story writer, critic and documentary filmmaker and of course a poet.
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| Alice Freeman Palmer |
Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902) was an American Poet |
| Alice Guerin Crist |
Alice Guerin Crist (1876-1941) was born in Ireland and her parents migrated to Australia when she was just 2 years old. Her unique style mixes these two influences on her life. |
| Alphonse de Lamartine |
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French poet (France). |
| Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce |
Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce (1842-1914) was an American Poet |
| Amelia Wire Holmes Aaron |
Amelia Wire Holmes Aaron (1902-2000) was an American Poet |
| Anacreon |
Anacreon was a Greek Poet. |
| Andrea Hill |
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| Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson |
A B Paterson (also known as Banjo)1864-1941 was an Australian poet born to Scottish parents. |
| Andrew Lang |
Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was the son of the Sheriff-Clerk of Selkirkshire, and was born in Selkirk, Scotland. A well respected writer of his day he published many articles and poems. |
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