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THE FOLIO
8th C. BC:
Homer (Greek)
Hesiod (Greek)7th C. BC:
Sappho (Greek) (f)6th C. BC:
Pindar (Greek)
Classic of Poetry / Shih ching (Chinese)3rd C BC:
Callimachus (Greek)1st. C. BC:
Virgil (Latin)
Ovid (Latin)
Horace (Latin)
Catullus (Latin)
Tibullus (Latin)1st C.:
Juvenal (Latin)
Martial (Latin)
Statius (Latin)4/5/6th C:
Kalidasa (Sanskrit)7/8/9 C:
Quantangshi / Complete Tang Poems (Chinese)8th C:
Beowulf (Old English)
Man'yoshu (Japan)
Du Fu (712-770) (Chinese)
Abu Nuwas (756-814) (Arabic)10th C:
Poetic Eddas (Icelandic)
Kokin Wakashu (Japan)
Al-Mutanabbi (915-965) (Arabic)
Ferdowsi (935-1020) (Persian)
Abu al-Ala al-Maarri (973-1057) (Arabic)11th C:
Yusuf Balasaghuni (11th C)
Nasir Khusraw (1004-1088)
Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)
Su Shi (1037-1101) (Chinese)
Omar Khayyam (1048-1123)
Al-Hariri of Basra (1054-1122)
Judah Halevi (1075-1141)
Sanai (1080-1131)12th C:
Chretien de Troyes
Chanson de Roland
Nibelungenlied
Gottfried von Strassburg
Khoja Akhmet Yassawi (1106-1166)
Lu You (1125-1210) (Chinese)
Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
Farid ud-Din Attar (1145-1221)
Hartmann von Aue (1170-1210)
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170-1220)
Shota Rustaveli (1172-1216)
Saadi (1184-1283)13th C:
Jayadeva (c. 1200)
Rumi (1207-1273)
Yunus Emre (1240-1321)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)14th C:
Petrarch (1304-1374)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Hafez (1315-1390)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343)
Imadaddin Nasimi (1369-1417)15th C:
Francois Villon (1431)
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1434-1494)
Kabir (1440-1518)
Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441-1501)
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Fuzuli (1483-1556)
Hans Sachs (1494-1576)1520s:
Luis de Camoes (1524-1580)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)1530s:
Tulsidas (1532-1623)1540s:
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Italian1550s:
Edmund Spenser (1552)
Philip Sidney (1554)1560s:
William Shakespeare (1564)
Christopher Marlowe (1564)
Giambattista Marino (1569-1625)1570s:
Ben Jonson (1572)
John Donne (1572)1580s:
Francisco de Quevedo1600s:
John Milton (1608)1610s:
Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664)1620s:
Jean de La Fontaine1630s:
John Dryden (1631)
Gregorio de Mattos e Guerra (1636-1696) Brazilian1640s:
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) Japan
Abdul-Qader Bedil (1642-1720)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) Japan1650s:
Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651) (f)1660s:
Jonathan Swift (1667)1680s:
Alexander Pope (1688)ca. 18th C:
Epic of Manas1710s:
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711)
Yosa Buson (1716-1783) Japan1720s:
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799)1730s:
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)
Makhtumkuli / Magtymguly (1733-1783)1740s:
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
Goethe (1749)
Ota Nampo (1749-1823) Japan1750s:
William Blake (1757)
Robert Burns (1759)
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)1760s:
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) Japan
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805) Portuguese1770s:
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843)
William Wordsworth (1770)
Walter Scott (1771)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
Novalis (1772-1801)
Clemens Brentano (1778-1842)
Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827)1780s:
Achim von Arnim (1781-1831)
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783)
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
George Byron (1788)1790s:
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
Giuseppe Belli (1791-1863)
Percy Shelley (1792)
Alexander Fredro (1793)
John Keats (1795)
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1797-1848) (f)
Heinrich Heine (1797)
Ghalib (1797-1869)
Adam Mickiewicz (1798)
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Alexander Pushkin (1799)
Almeida Garrett (1799-1854) Portuguese1800s:
France Preseren (1800-1849) Slovene
Victor Hugo (1802)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
Eduard Morike (1804)
Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806) (f)
Gerard de Nerval (1808)
Juliusz Slowacki (1809)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809)
Alfred Tennyson (1809)1810s:
Alfred de Musset (1810)
Theophile Gautier (1811)
Zygmunt Krasinski (1812)
Robert Browning (1812)
Friedrich Hebbel (1813)
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) Ukraine / Ukrainian
Theodore Storm (1817-1888)
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
Walt Whitman (1819)1820s:
Charles Baudelaire (1821)
Nikolay Nekrasov (1821)
Cyprian Norwid (1821)
Karel Havlicek Borovsky (1821) Czech
Matthew Arnold (1822)
Imre Madach (1823-1864)
Sandor Petofi (1823-1849)
George Meredith (1828)1830s:
Emily Dickinson (1830) (f)
Lewis Carroll (1832)
Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)
Giosue Carducci (1835-1907)1840s:
Thomas Hardy (1840)
Namik Kemal (1840-1888)
Stephane Mallarme (1842)
Maria Konopnicka (1842) (Polish) (f)
Paul Verlaine (1844)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844)
JP Jacobsen (1847)
Castro Alves (1847-1871) Brazilian
Hristo Botev (1848-1876) Bulgarian1850s:
Mihai Eminescu (1850)
Ivan Vazov (1850-1921) Bulgarian
Arthur Rimbaud (1854)
Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)
Ivan Franko (1856-1916) Ukraine / Ukrainian1860s:
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
CP Cavafy (1863)
Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864)
WB Yeats (1865)
Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865-1941)
Pencho Slaveykov (1866-1912) Bulgarian
Ruben Dario (1867)
Tevfik Fikret (1867-1915)
Henry Lawson (1867)
Paul Claudel (1868)
Stefan George (1868)
Ahmed Shawqi (1868-1932)1870s:
Amado Nervo (1870)
Paul Valery (1871)
Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) Ukraine (f)
Hayyim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934)
Robert Frost (1874)
Gertrude Stein (1874) (f)
GK Chesterton (1874)
Antonio Machado (1875)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875-1943)
Vladimir Nazor (1876-1949) Croatian
Iqbal (1877-1938)
Teixeira Pascoaes (1877-1952) Portuguese
Endre Ady (1877-1919)
Sadriddin Ayni (1878-1954)
Eino Leino (1878-1926)
Wallace Stevens (1879)1880s:
Tudor Arghezi (1880)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
Alexander Blok (1880)
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881)
Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
Mokichi Saito (1882-1953) Japan
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Mihaly Babits (1883-1941)
William Carlos Williams (1883)
Umberto Saba (1883-1957)
Miroslav Krleza (1883-1981) Croatian
Dezso Kosztolanyi (1885-1936)
Ezra Pound (1885)
Hakushu Kitahara (1885-1942) Japan
Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974)
H.D. (1886) (f)
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912) Japan
Georg Trakl (1887)
Robinson Jeffers (1887)
Marianne Moore (1887) (f)
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) Portuguese
TS Eliot (1888)
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)
Jean Cocteau (1889)
Gabriela Mistral (1889) (f)
Anna Akhmatova (1889) (f)
Jaishankar Prasad (1889-1937)1890s:
Kurt Tucholsky (1890)
Boris Pasternak (1890)
Par Lagerkvist (1891)
Osip Mandelstam (1891)
Tin Ujevic (1891-1955) Croatian
Pavlo Tychyna (1891-1967) Ukraine
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892) (f)
Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) Peruvian
Guo Moruo (1892-1978) (Chinese)
Josep Vicenç Foix (1893)
Carles Riba (1893)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893)
Mario de Andrade (1893-1945) Brazilian
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (1894)
EE Cummings (1894)
Sergei Yesenin (1895)
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) Japan
Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981)
Jacob Glatstein (1896-1971)
Nima Yooshij (1896-1960)
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Louis Aragon (1897)
Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) (Chinese)
Abdulhamid Suleyman Cholpan (1897-1938)
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898)
Desanka Maksimovic (1898-1993) Serbian
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Edgar du Perron (1899)
Wen Yiduo (1899-1946) (Chinese)
Jibanananda Das (1899-1954)1900s:
Giorgos Seferis (1900)
Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri (1900-1997)
Nazim Hikmet (1901-1963)
Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964) Brazilian
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
Jose Regio (1901-1969) Portuguese
Langston Hughes (1902)
Rafael Alberti (1902)
Nicolas Guillen (1902)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) Brazilian
Kim Sowol (1902-1934) Korean
Eugenio Florit (1903)
Pablo Neruda (1904)
Robert Penn Warren (1905)
Leopold Senghor (1906)
Samed Vurgun (1906-1956)
Mussa Calil (1906-1944)
WH Auden (1907)
Miguel Torga (1907-1995)
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950)
Yiannis Ritsos (1909)1910s:
Jose Lezama Lima (1910)
Yi Sang (1910-1937)
Nathan Alterman (1910-1970)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911) (f)
Virgilio Pinera (1912)
Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912)
Salvador Espriu (1913)
Aime Cesaire (1913)
Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983)
Octavio Paz (1914)
John Berryman (1914)
Dylan Thomas (1914)
Nicanor Parra (1914)
Francisco Matos Paoli (1915)
Anne Hebert (1916) (f)
Behcet Necatigil (1916-1979)
Robert Lowell (1917)
Fernando Alegria (1918)
Jorge de Sena (1919-1978) Portuguese1920s:
Paul Celan (1920)
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
Philip Larkin (1922)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) Italian
Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998)
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
Ernesto Cardenal (1925)
Attila Ilhan (1925-2005)
Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000)
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926) (f)
Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati (1926-1999)
Allen Ginsberg (1926)
Robert Creeley (1926)
John Ashbery (1927)
Sohrab Sepehri
Yu Kwang-chung
Hugo Claus
Remco Campert
Primo Levi1930s:
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
Derek Walcott (1930-)
Adunis (1930-)
Salah Abd al-Sabur (1931-1981)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) (f)
Nichita Stanescu (1933-1983)
Peter Hartling (1933-)
Gennadiy Aygi (1934-2006)
Wendell Berry (1934-)
Charles Wright (1935-)
Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967) (f)
Les Murray (1938-)
Ishmael Reed (1938-)
Seamus Heaney (1939-)
Margaret Atwood (1939-) (f)
Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939-)1940s:
Joseph Brodsky
Mahmoud Darwish
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