The giant book of poetry

Unknown (possibly 4,000 BC)

Archilochos (circa 700 BC

650 BC)

The Bible

Mei Sheng (circa 1

40 BC)

Horace (65 BC

8 BC)

Norse myth (circa 50 BC)

Petronius Arbiter (27 AD

66 AD)

Tao Yuan-ming (To-Em-Mei) (365

427)

Li Po (701

762)

Omar Khayam (1044

1123)

Moritake (1452

1540)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554

1586)

Robert Greene (1560

1592)

Michael Drayton (1563

1631)

William Shakespeare (1564

1616)

Thomas Campion (1567

1619)

Sir Henry Wotton (1568

1639)

John Donne (1572

1631)

William Drummond (1585

1649)

Robert Herrick (1591

1674)

Thomas Carew (1595

1639)

John Milton (1608

1674)

Sir John Suckling (1609

1642)

Abraham Cowley (1618

1667)

Richard Lovelace (1618

1667)

William Walsh (1663

1708)

William Congreve (1670

1729)

Ryusui (1691

1758). Jokun (circa 1700)

William Blake (1757

1827)

Robert Burns (1759

1796)

William Wordsworth (1770

1850)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772

1864)

Robert Southey (1774

1843)

Walter Savage Landor (1775

1864)

Thomas Moore (1779

1852)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788

1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792

1822)

John Clare (1793

1864)

William Cullen Bryant (1794

1878)

John Keats (1795

1821)

Thomas Hood (1799

1845)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803

1882)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806

1861)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807

1882)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807

1892)

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809

1894)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809

1849)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809

1892)

Robert Browning (1812

1889)

Edward Lear (1812

1888)

Emily Bronte (1818

1848)

Charles Kingsley (1819

1875)

Walt Whitman (1819

1892). Charles Baudelaire (1821

1867)

Coventry Palmore (1823

1896)

Richard Henry Stoddard (1805

1923)

Emily Dickinson (1830

1886)

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830

1894)

Lewis Carroll (1832

1898)

Thomas Hardy (1840

1928)

Sidney Lanier (1842

1881)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844

1889)

Edward Rowland Sill (1847

1881)

William Ernest Henley (1849

1903)

Eugene Field (1850

1895)

Robert Luis Stevenson (1850

1894)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850

1919)

A.E. Housman (1859

1936)

James B. Naylor (1860

1935)

Black Elk (1863

1950)

Rudyard Kipling (1865

1930)

William Butler Yeats (1865

1930)

Shiki (Masaoka Tseunenori) (1867

1902)

Edgar Lee Masters (1868

1950)

Roka (1868

1927)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869

1935)

Stephen Crane (1871

1900)

W.H. Davies (1871

1940)

Robert Frost (1874

1963)

Amy Lowell (1874

1958)

Gertrude Stein (1874

1946)

Carl Sandburg (1878

1967)

Vachel Lindsay (1879

1955). Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1881

1968)

William Carlos Williams (1883

1963)

Sara Teasdale (1884

1933)

D.H. Lawrence (1885

1930)

Ezra Pound (1885

1972)

Louis Untermeyer (1885

1972)

Rupert Brooke (1887

1915)

Robinson Jeffers (1887

1962)

Joyce Kilmer (1887

1918)

Marianne Moore (1887

1972)

T.S. Elliot (1888

1965)

Anna Akhmatova (1889

1966)

Archibald MacLeish (1892

1982)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892

1950)

Wilfred Owen (1893

1918)

Lucian Blaga (1895

1961)

Miyazawa Kenji (1896

1933)

Louise Bogan (1897

1970)

Ernest Hemingway (1899

1960)

Wen I-to (1899-1946)

Anonymous. Langston Hughes (1902

1967)

Steve Smith (1902

1983)

W.H. Auden (1907

1973)

Zawgee (1907

1973)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911

1979)

May Swenson (1913

1989)

David Ignatow (1914

1997)

Randall Jarrell (1914

1965)

William Stafford (1914

1993)

Dylon Thomas (1914

1953)

Robert Lax (1915

2000)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917

2000)

Robert Lowell (1917

1977)

Keith Douglas (1920

1944)

Howard Nemerov (1920

1991)

Hayden Carruth (b. 1921)

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

Philip Larkin (1922

1985)

James Dickey (1923

1997)

Alan Dugan (1923

2003)

Denise Levertov (1923

1997)

Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)

Roberto Juarroz (1925

1995)

Donald Justice (1925

2004)

Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)

Robert Creeley (1926

2005)

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)

James Wright (1927

1980)

Irving Feldman (b. 1928)

Philip Levine (b. 1928)

Anne Sexton (1928

1974)

Thom Gunn (1929

2004). Dan Pagis (1930

1986)

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

Miller Williams (b. 1930)

Etheridge Knight (1931

1991)

Tanikawa Shuntaro (b. 1931)

Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)

Heberto Padilla (1932

2000)

Alden Nowlan (1933

1983)

Richard Shelton (b. 1933)

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)

Rutger Kopland (b. 1934)

Mark Strand (b. 1934)

Paul Zimmer (b. 1934)

David R. Slavitt (b. 1935)

C.K. Williams (b. 1936)

Gail Mazur (b. 1937)

Diane Wakoski (b. 1937)

Robert Phillips (b. 1938)

Charles Simic (b. 1938)

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

Ted Kooser (b. 1939)

David Budbill (b. 1940)

Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)

Robert Pinsky (b.1940)

Billy Collins (b. 1941)

Toi Derricotte (b. 1941)

Stephen Dobyns (b. 1941)

Eamon Grennan (b. 1941)

Gerald Kocklin (b. 1941)

Jack Myers (b. 1941)

Nancy Vieira Couto (b. 1942)

Stuart Dybek (b. 1942)

B.H. Fairchild (b. 1942)

Tom Hennen (b. 1942)

David Huddle (b. 1942)

Louis Jenkins (b. 1942)

William Matthews (1942

1997)

Sharon Olds (b. 1942)

Dave Smith (b. 1942)

Sharon Bryan (b. 1943). PhilipSchultz (b. 1945)

Ronald Wallace (b. 1945)

Tom Wayman (b. 1945)

Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945)

Andrei Codrescu (b. 1946)

Larry Levis (1946

1996)

Brian Patten (b. 1946)

Maura Stanton (b. 1946)

Lorna Goodson (b. 1947)

Kaylin Haught (b. 1947)

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)

Heather McHugh (b. 1948)

Agha Shahid Ali (1949

2001)

Mark Halliday (b. 1949)

Robert Hedin (b. 1949)

Joyce Sutphen (b. 1949)

Bruce Weigl (b. 1949)

Claribel Algeria (b. 1950)

Charles Burnstein (b.1950)

Jorie Graham (b. 1950)

Michael Pettit (b. 1950)

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (b. 1951)

Timothy Russell (b. 1951)

Nuala Ni Dhomhnail (b. 1952)

Sean O'Brien (b. 1952)

Shu Ting (b. 1952)

Mark Irwin (b. 1953)

Richard Jones (b.1953)

Robert Kinsley (b. 1953)

Mark Turpin (b. 1953)

Kevin Hart (b. 1954)

Molly Fisk (b. 1955)

Mark Cox (b. 1956)

Jim Daniels (b. 1956)

Gu Gheng (1956

1993)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)

Julia Kasdorf (b. 1962)

Ruth L. Schwartz (b. 1962)

Patience Aghabi (b. 1965)

Kate Clanchy (b. 1965)

David Berman (b. 1967)

Jackleen Holton (b. 1969)

Jane Flanders (b. 1984)