| Poet Name |
Biography |
| Nicholas Grimald |
Nicholas Grimald (1519-1563) was an English Poet. |
| Nikoloz Baratashvili |
Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817-1845) was from Georgia (former Soviet Union) |
| Nizami Ganjavi |
Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209) was from Azerbaijan. |
| Noel Coward |
Sir Noel Peirce Coward (1899 – 1973) was, arguably, the most famous "combined" English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. |
| Norma L Davies |
Norma L Davies (1905-1945) was an Australian Poet. |
| Norman Rowland Gale |
Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942) was a little known English poet. |
| Olde English Anonymous |
This isn't so much a poets name as a category. Olde English poems tend to be mystical, extremely old poems whose origins are unclear and are LIKELY to be based on religious or social issues/stories of the day |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish Poet. |
| Oliver Herford |
Oliver Herford (1863-1935) |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1829-1894 ) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and was a physician by profession, but his fame was achieved as a writer. Regarded by many as the best American poet of the 19th century. |
| Osbert Sitwell |
Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) was an English Poet. |
| Oscar Wilde |
Oscar Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that continue to inspire, agitate, shock and delight millions around the world |
| Otomo no Yakamochi |
Otomo no Yakamochi (716-785) was a Japanese Poet. |
| Ovid |
Ovid |
| Pablo Neruda |
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a poet from Chile. This Chilean poet and diplomat, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. |
| Patrick Barrington |
Patrick Barrington (1908-1990) |
| Patrick Kavanagh |
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) was an Irish poet born in Mucker townland, Inniskeen parish, Co. Monaghan. Falling foul of censors and legal action his poems seem remarkably tame by todays standards. For a full biography |
| Patrick R Chalmers |
Patrick R Chalmers (1872-1942) was an Irish Poet |
| Paul Celan |
Paul Celan (1920-1970) was a Romanian Poet whose real name was Paul Antschel. |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne |
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1887) was an American Poet and author of biographical works |
| Paul Lawrence Dunbar |
Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the first African-American poet to garner national critical acclaim. His work often addressed the difficulties encountered by members of his race and the efforts of African-Americans to achieve equality in America. |
| Paul Verlaine |
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was
regarded as one of the greatest and most popular of French poets. |
| Percy Shelley |
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1827) was an English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values of his time. |
| Peter John Allan |
Peter John Allan (1825-1848) |
| Phanuel Bacon |
Phanuel Bacon (1700-1783) |
| Philip Joseph Holdsworth |
Philip Joseph Holdsworth (1849-1902) was an Australian Poet. |
| Philip Morin Freneau |
Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832) |
| Phillip Sidney |
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 –1586) was one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. Famous in his day as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains best known as a writer of sonnets. |
| Phoebe Cary |
Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) was an American Poet. |
| Pierre de Ronsard |
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) was from France and worked as a minor cleric but this did not stop him from having and writing about various romances. Charles lX of France was his chief Patron although he also wrote for Catherine de Medici. |
| R.S. Thomas |
Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000) was a modern Welsh Poet. Educated at University College of North Wales, he later undertook theological training at St Michael's College in Cardiff. A prolific poet and writer of verse he was nominated for a Nobel prize and awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is regarded as the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 and two years later he was awarded the knighthood. However he "handed it back" in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators |
| Rachel Lyman Field |
Rachel Lyman Field (1894-1942) was an American author of both children's and adult books as well as a noted poet. Perhaps most famous for the Novel All This And Heaven Too which was turned into a film with Bette Davies |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was a German writer and poet |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
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