Poets of other languages

Penny's Poetry Pages focus on poetry written in English. Occasionally, though, we will print articles on poets who write in another language, either because of their international contribution to the art, or because of a connection (such as translation or influence) with poetry in English''. ''The following list is in no way definitive nor representative of the contributions to world literature of any language group.

Ancient Greek

 * 1) Homer (circa 800 BC)
 * 2) Meleager of Gadara (1st century BC)
 * 3) Pindar (circa? 522-433 BC)
 * 4) Sappho (circa? 630-570 BC)
 * 5) Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC)

Ancient Latin

 * 1) Saint Aldhelm (?639-709), England
 * 2) Catullus (c.84-c.54 BC)
 * 3) Horace (65-8 BC)
 * 4) Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC)
 * 5) Ovid (43BC - 17AD}
 * 6) Tibullus (c.55-c.19BC)
 * 7) Virgil (70-19 BC)
 * 8) Saint Bede (c.672-735), England
 * 9) William Alabaster (1567-1640), England

Classical Chinese

 * 1) Du Fu (712-770)

Belarusian

 * 1) Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), United States

French

 * 1) Anne-Marie Alonzo (1951-2005), Canada
 * 2) Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), France
 * 3) Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), France
 * 4) Yves Bonnefoy (born 1923), France
 * 5) André Breton (1896-1966), France
 * 6) Charles of Orleans (1394-1465), France / England
 * 7) Robert Desnos (1900-1945), France
 * 8) Robert Dickson (1944-2007), Canada
 * 9) Paul Éluard (1895-1952), France
 * 10) Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839-1908), Canada
 * 11) Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943), Canada
 * 12) Anne Hébert (1916-2000), Canada
 * 13) Victor Hugo (1802-1885), France
 * 14) Gustave Kahn (1859-1936), France
 * 15) Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), France
 * 16) Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), Canada
 * 17) Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), France
 * 18) Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), France
 * 19) Francois Villon (?1431-1464?), France
 * 20) Voltaire (1694-1778), France

German

 * 1) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
 * 2) Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
 * 3) Johann Peter Klassen (1868-1947)
 * 4) Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)
 * 5) Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Hebrew

 * 1) Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
 * 2) Abraham Regelson (1896–1981)

Hungarian

 * 1) Bálint Balassi (1554-1594)
 * 2) Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849)

Indian languages

 * Rabindranath Tagore (861-1941), Bengali

Irish

 * 1) Brendan Behan (1923–1964)
 * 2) Douglas Hyde (1860–1949)
 * 3) Flann Mainistrech (died 1056)
 * 4) Brian Merriman (1747–1805)
 * 5) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (born 1952)
 * 6) Antoine Ó Raifteiri (1784–1835)

Italian

 * 1) Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
 * 2) Petrarch (1304-1374)
 * 3) Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

Japanese

 * 1) Yone Noguchi (1875-1947)

Persian

 * 1) Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
 * 2) Rumi (1207 – 1273)

Polish

 * 1) Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998)
 * 2) Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855}
 * 3) Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)
 * 4) Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)

Portuguese

 * 1) Luís de Camões (1524-1580)

Russian

 * 1) Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
 * 2) Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russia / Ireland
 * 3) Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
 * 4) Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
 * 5) Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
 * 6) Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
 * 7) Russian Futurism, 20th century

Spanish

 * 1) Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentina
 * 2) Generation of '27, Spain, 20th century.
 * 3) Jorge Guillén (1893-1984), Spain
 * 4) Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), Spain
 * 5) Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), Chile
 * 6) Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chile
 * 7) Carmen Rodriguez (born 1948), Chile

Swedish

 * 1) Tomas Tranströmer (born 1931)

Zulu

 * 1) Mazisi Kunene (1930-2006), South Africa