poet n : a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

see Poet

English

Etymology

From Old French poete < poēta "poet, author" < (poiētēs) "creator, maker, author, poet" < (poieō) "I make or compose" < PIE *kwoiwo- "making" < base *qwei- "to make".

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊɪt

Noun

1. a person who writes poems

Translations

Dutch

Noun

poet

1. loot, stolen money

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

poet

1. poet

Synonyms

• diktare

Related terms

• poem
• poesi

A poet is an person who writes poetry.

Etymology

From the ancient greek : ποιέω, poieō : "I make or compose" ; ποιητης, poïêtes : "artisan, creator, maker, author, poet" > Latin : poēta : "poet, author" > Old French : (1200-1400) poëte or poète > Used (poet) in 14th. century, in classical english language, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature.

List of many poets classed by language in alphabetical order

• The Ancient Greek language was one of the most richest poetry of the ancient history, including Homer, Sappho, Pindar, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aratus, Archilochus, Arctinus of Miletus, Arion, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Euripides, Epicharmus of Kos, Epimenides, Herodotus, Hesiod, Mimnermus, Philitas of Cos, Simonides of Ceos, Solon, Sophocles, Terpander, Theognis of Megara, Tyrtaeus and Xenophanes.

• In the Arabian language, the poets as Al-Ma`arri, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Abu Nuwas, Al-Shafi'i, Adunis, Ahmed Shawqi, Akl Awit, Khalil Gibran, Joumana Haddad, Mahmoud Darwish, Mustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti, Nizar Qabbani, Samih al-Qasim are remarkable.

• The Bengali language has been used by many poets including Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

• The Bulgarian language has poets like Hristo Botev and Ivan Vazov.

• In the Chinese language there are such literary geniuses as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Li Qingzhao, Qu Yuan, Shitao, Bei Dao, Xue Tao, Yu Xuanji, Su Xiaoxiao, Lu You, Ouyang Xiu, Mei Yaochen, Gu Cheng, Li He, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Yang Lian, Qiu Jin and Cao Zhi.

• The Czech language have many poets as Karel Hynek Mácha, Jaroslav Seifert, Egon Bondy, Otokar Březina, Antonín Sova, Vítězslav Nezval, Jaroslav Durych, Viktor Dyk, Jiří Grossmann, Adolf Heyduk, Vladimír Holan, Josef Jungmann, Karel Kryl, Rio Preisner, Václav Renč and Fráňa Šrámek.

• In the Danish language we can read the bright poetry of Johannes Secundus, Jens Immanuel Baggesen, Jens Fink-Jensen, Piet Hein, Ambrosius Stub, Jeppe Aakjær, Hans Christian Andersen, Steen Steensen Blicher, Holger Drachmann, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger and Johan Herman Wessel.

• In the English language, poets generally considered to be the most influential include William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Alexander Pope, John Milton, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, W. B. Yeats, Isaac Rosenberg, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Hart Crane, Emma Lazarus, Wallace Stevens, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Henry Lawson, Shel Silverstein, Banjo Patterson and Geoffrey Hill.

• The Finnish language owns poets as Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Edith Södergran, Aaro Hellaakoski, Martti Haavio, Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, Joel Lehtonen, Eino Leino, Larin Paraske, Zacharias Topelius, Aale Tynni, Katri Vala and Julius Krohn.

• The French language possesses illustrious poets as François Villon, Clément Marot, Joachim du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Jean de La Fontaine, Alfred de Vigny, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo, Leconte de Lisle, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Camille Lemonnier, Charles Baudelaire, Alfred Jarry, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Stéphane Mallarmé, Emile Verhaeren, Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, André Breton, Pierre Louÿs, Jacques Prévert, Robert Desnos, Jean Cocteau, Gaston Miron, Saint-John Perse, Antonin Artaud, Maurice Maeterlinck, Henri Michaux, Gherasim Luca, Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy.

• The German language carries the great works of Angelus Silesius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gottfried August Bürger, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Peter Rosegger, August Silberstein, Gotthold Lessing, Friedrich Schlegel, August Schlegel, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Novalis, Friedrich von Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Holderlin, Christian Morgenstern, Georg Trakl, Theodor Storm, Rainer Maria Rilke, Erich Kästner, Adalbert Stifter, Karl Kraus, Ernst Toller, Franz Werfel, Else Lasker-Schüler, Nelly Sachs, Hermann Hesse, Paul Celan, Bertolt Brecht and Günter Grass.

• The Modern Greek language has a line of poets including Constantine P. Cavafy, Kostis Palamas, Dionysios Solomos, Odysseas Elytis, Giorgos Seferis, Yiannis Ritsos, Kostas Karyotakis, Angelos Sikelianos, Alexandros Panagoulis, Nikos Kavvadias, Andreas Embirikos, Nikos Engonopoulos, Kiki Dimoula and Dimitris P. Kraniotis.

• In the Gujarati language, Harilal Upadhyay was a respected poet known as Haribhai Kavi ("Kavi" means poet in Gujarati).

• The Hebrew language has many poets as Abraham ibn Ezra, Yehuda Amichai, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Haim Gouri, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Halevi, Ahimaaz ben Paltiel, Hanoch Levin, Rachel Bluwstein, Avraham Shlonsky, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Natan Yonatan and David Edelstadt.

• The Hungarian language possesses poets as Endre Ady, János Arany, Bálint Balassa, Attila József, József Katona, Ágoston Pável, Sándor Petőfi, Mihály Vörösmarty, Albert Wass and Miklós Zrínyi.

• In the Italian language there is Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Vittorio Alfieri, Guido Cavalcanti, Ludovico Ariosto, Eugenio Montale, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ugo Foscolo, Petrarch, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giovanni Pascoli, Giambattista Basile, Torquato Tasso, Cesare Pavese, Umberto Saba, Alessandro Manzoni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giacomo Leopardi.

• In the Japanese language we can read the poetry of Matsuo Bashō, Fujiwara no Shunzei, Fujiwara no Teika, Sakutarō Hagiwara, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Ikkyū, Izumi Shikibu, Kambara Ariake, Kamo no Chōmei, Hakushū Kitahara, Kitamura Tokoku, Kūkai, Masao Kume, Kunikida Doppo, Masaoka Shiki, Yukio Mishima, Kenji Miyazawa, Tatsuji Miyoshi, Mori Ōgai, Murasaki Shikibu, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Chūya Nakahara, Natsume Sōseki, Nishiwaki Junzaburo, Yone Noguchi, Okamoto Kanoko, Ono no Komachi, Ryōkan, Saigyō Hōshi, Santō Kyōden, Sei Shōnagon, Sugawara no Michizane, Ueda Akinari and Takuboku Ishikawa.

• The Korean language have poets as Choe Chiwon, Ko Un, Hwang Jin-i, Chon Sang-pyong and Seo Jeong-ju.

• The Kurdish Language has a range of poets including the creative genius and its most influential Nalî. Others include the father of Kurdish literature, Ehmedê Xanî, and the founder of modern Kurdish poetry, Abdulla Goran.

• The Latin language had great poets as Ausonius, Catullus, Ennius, Horace, Juvenal, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Sextus Propertius, Statius, Terence, Tibullus and Virgil.

• The Macedonian language has poets like Bogomil Gjuzel, Blaže Koneski and Mateja Matevski.

• The Norwegian language has many poets as Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Jens Bjørneboe, Hans Børli, Olaf Bull, Kolbein Falkeid, Olav H. Hauge, Gunvor Hofmo, Johan Herman Wessel, Rolf Jacobsen, Jonas Lie, Henrik Wergeland, Herman Wildenvey and Henrik Ibsen.

• In the Portuguese Language you can find the masterworks of Bocage, Cesário Verde, Florbela Espanca, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa, Luís de Camões, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Augusto dos Anjos, Gregório de Matos Guerra, Gonçalves Dias, Álvares de Azevedo and Mário Quintana.

• The Persian language owns a few of the more popular poets who are still widely read today. These include Rumi, Asadi Tusi, Rudaki, Hafez, Farid ad-Din Attar, Saadi, Nezami, Ferdowsi, Forough Farrokhzad, Ahmad Shamlou, and Omar Khayyam.

• The Polish language poets are represented by Jan Kochanowski, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Maria Konopnicka, Bolesław Leśmian, Adam Mickiewicz, Czeslaw Milosz, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Leon Pasternak, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Juliusz Słowacki, Leopold Staff, and Wislawa Szymborska.

• The Romanian language have many poets as Tudor Arghezi, Ana Blandiana, George Cosbuc, Mihai Eminescu, and Nicolae Labis.

• The Russian language can be represented by Bella Akhmadulina, Anna Akhmatova, Innokenty Annensky, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alexander Blok, Joseph Brodsky, Ivan Bunin, Sasha Cherny, Gavrila Derzhavin, Afanasy Fet, Nikolay Gumilyov, Velimir Khlebnikov, Ivan Krylov, Mikhail Lermontov, Osip Mandelstam, Peretz Markish, Samuil Marshak, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolay Nekrasov, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Pushkin, David Samoylov, Konstantin Simonov, Arseny Tarkovsky, Marina Tsvetayeva, Fyodor Tyutchev, Maximilian Voloshin, Andrey Voznesensky, Sergei Yesenin, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Vasily Zhukovsky.

• The Spanish language is vibrant with the words of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rafael Alberti, Gabriela Mistral, Giannina Braschi, Ernesto Cardenal, Rubén Darío, Jorge Guillén, Luis de Góngora, Miguel Hernández, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico Garcia Lorca, Antonio Machado, Jorge Manrique, Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, and Lope de Vega.

• The Swedish language has many poets as Kurt Almqvist, Carl Boberg, Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Siv Cedering, Anna Maria Lenngren, Lucidor, Ture Nerman, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Esaias Tegnér and John Törnquist.

• The Turkish language has poets as Ali Kemal Bey, Melih Cevdet Anday, Bâkî, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, Fuzûlî, Ahmet Haşim, Hayâlî, Nazım Hikmet, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Cahit Külebi, Imadaddin Nasimi, Behçet Necatigil, Nedîm, Rıfat Ilgaz and Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan.

• The Urdu language, known for its poetry, carries the beautiful work of Amir Khusro, Mir Taqi Mir, Ghalib, Faiz, Jalib, Iqbal, and others.

• The Vietnamese language has some poets as Mong-Lan, Han Mac Tu, Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Nguyễn Du, Tố Hữu, Hồ Xuân Hương, Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm and Xuân Diệu.

See also

• Language
• Literature
• Poetry
• History of poetry
• Buddhist poetry
• Biblical poetry
• Ancient Greek poetry
• Latin poetry
• Medieval poetry
• Chinese poetry
• Arabic poetry
• English poetry
• Japanese poetry
• Korean poetry
• French poetry
• Persian poetry
• Epic poetry
• Chanson de geste
• Bard

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Paradise Lost, as drawn by Gustave Doré. Maxfield Parrish, an illustration from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field. (1904) 's calligramme. (1918)

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