20th and 21st Centuries

Text Box: Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese haiku poet Kawahigashi Hekigoto (1873-1937), Japanese haiku poet Kyoshi Takahama (1874–1959), Japanese haiku poet Dakotsu Iida (1885–1962), Japanese haiku poet Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese American Maria Rainer Rilke (1857-1926), German poet Edward Carpenter (1844 – 1929), English poet D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet, Noble laureate 1907 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, Nobel laureate 1923 James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish poet Allâma Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), India/Pakistan (Urdu-Persian) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), India/Bengali poet, Nobel laureate 1913 Sri Aurbindo (1872-1950), Indian, composer of Savitri Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Belgian poet Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), Chilean poet, Nobel laureate 1945 Nimâ Yushij (1896-1960), Iranian, Father of modern free-verse Persian Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), Russian poet, Nobel laureate 1958 Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German-Swiss poet and novelist, Nobel laureate 1946 Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), Italian poet and writer, Nobel laureate 1959 John Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), American poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), English poet T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965), Anglo-American poet, Nobel laureate 1948 W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973) Anglo-American Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poetess William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American expatriate Modernist poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), American Modernist poet Hart Crane (1899-1932), American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972), American modernist poetess Thomas Merton (1915-1968), American Catholic mystic Nâzim Hikmet (1902-1963), Turkish poet Langston Hughes (1902–1967), American poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet, Nobel laureate 1971 Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967), American poet William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American “Beat Generation” poet Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), American “Beat Generation” poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American “Beat Generation” poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998), English poet Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican poet , Nobel laureate 1990 Kathleen Raine (1908 – 2003), British poetess Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911-1984), Pakistani Urdu poet Francis Brabazon (1907-1984), Australian poet Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), Norwegian Modernist poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), Polish poet, Nobel laureate 1980 Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), Russian-American, Nobel laureate 1987 Mahmud Darwish (1941-2008), Palestinian poet Thich Nhat Hanh (1929- ), Vietnamese Zen poet Wole Soyinka (1934-), Nigerian poet, Nobel laureate 1986 Derek Walcott (1930-), Caribbean poet and writer, Nobel laureate 1992 Wislawa Szymborska (1923-), Polish poet, Nobel laureate 1996 Robert Lowell (1917-1977), American poet, founder of the confessional poetry movement Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), American poetess Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poetess Robert Bly (1926- ), American poet Donald Hall (1928- ), American poet Adrienne Rich (1929– 2012), American poetess Gary Snyder (1930- ), American poet Harold Pinter (1930-), English poet, Nobel laureate 2005 Mark Strand (1934- ), American poet Wendell Berry (1934- ), American poet Mary Oliver (1935- ), American poetess Seamus Heaney (1939-), Irish poet, Nobel laureate 1995 Tomas Tranströmer (1931-), Swedish poet, Nobel laureate 2011

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