Poet
19 famous people found
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
1892 - 1973 -
Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824 -
Graeme Edge
English musician, songwriter, and poet, best known as the co-founder and drummer of the English band the Moody Blues
1941 - 2021 -
Anne BRADSTREET
English poet
1612 - 1672 -
Sebastian Shaw
English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet
1906 - 1994 -
John MILTON
English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell
1608 - 1674 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
Alfred TENNYSON
Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign
1809 - 1892 -
Erasmus DARWIN
English physician
1731 - 1802 -
Ted HUGHES
English poet and children's writer
1930 - 1998 -
Charles MONTAGU
English poet and statesman
1661 - 1715 -
Elizabeth Carter
English poet, classicist, writer, translator, and linguist
1717 - 1806 -
W. H. Auden
Anglo-American poet
1907 - 1973 -
Matthew ARNOLD
British poet and cultural critic
1822 - 1888 -
John DRYDEN
English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668
1631 - 1700 -
Henry HOWARD
English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry
1517 - 1547 -
Renée VIVIEN
British poet who wrote in the French language
1877 - 1909 -
Percy Bysshe SHELLEY
One of the major English Romantic poets
1792 - 1822 -
T. S. ELIOT
Publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century"
1888 - 1965