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A poet is a person who writes poetry. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. ^[1] The unknown poet or poets of the epic poem The Epic of Gilgamesh is the creator of what many scholars believe is the oldest surviving work of poetry.^[2] Religious texts such as the Torah contain early poems such as the prologue to Book of Job^[3], and mythological texts such as Homer's The Odyssey existed in the Ancient Greek language as early as 750 BC.^[4] In Chinese culture, the earliest collection of poems is the Shijing, a collection of 305 poems by various authors thought to have been written as early as 1000 BC.^[5] Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced.

Famous French poet Arthur Rimbaud summarized the "poet" by saying:

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed--and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!^[6]

Contents 1 Etymology 2 The Ancient Greek 3 The Ancient Tamil language 4 In Arabic 5 The Bengali language 6 The Bulgarian language 7 The Chinese language 8 The Czech language 9 In the Danish language 10 The Dutch language 11 In the English language 12 The Finnish language 13 The French language 14 The German language 15 The Modern Greek language 16 In the Gujarati language 17 The Hebrew language 18 The Hungarian language 19 In the Italian language 20 In the Japanese language 21 The Korean language 22 The Latin language 23 The (modern Slavic) Macedonian language 24 Maltese poetry 25 The Norwegian language 26 In the Portuguese language 27 The Persian language 28 The Polish language poets 29 The Romanian language 30 The Russian language 31 The Spanish language 32 Modern Scottish Gaelic poets 33 Scots language poets 34 The Swedish language 35 The Turkish language 36 The Urdu language 37 The Vietnamese language 38 The Yiddish language 39 See also 40 Gallery 41 References

[edit] Etymology

From the ancient Greek : ποιέω, poieō : "I make or compose" ; ποιητης, poïêtes : "artisan, creator, maker (also makar), 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. The term makar, which is another older term for poet, is a calque from the Greek.

[edit] The Ancient Greek

has some of the richest poetry in ancient history, including that of Homer, Sappho, Pindar, Alcaeus of Mytilene, 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.

[edit] The Ancient Tamil language

has a rich and long literary tradition since the ancient period. Famous poets include Tiruvalluvar, Agastya, Nakkirar, Seethalai Saathanar, Peyalvar, Ilango Adigal, Arunagirinathar,Appar, Manikkavacakar, Tirumular, Karaikkal Ammeiyar, Sekkizhar, Thirunavukarasar, Avvaiyar, Ramalinga Adigal, Subramanya Bharathi, Bharathidasan, Kalki Krishnamurthy, Kannadasan, Vairamuthu, Vaali

[edit] In Arabic

the most notable poets include Al-Ma`arri, Al-Mutanabbi, Abu Nuwas, Ahmed Shawqi, Khalil Gibran, Mahmoud Darwish Ahmed M. Seddik.

[edit] The Bengali language

has been used by many poets including Krittibas Ojha, Chandidas, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Mohitolal Majumdar, Achintyakumar Sengupta, Satyendranath Dutta, Premendra Mitra. Modern age poetry Jibanananda Das, Buddhadev Bose, Sudhindranath Dutta, Bishnu Dey, Amiya Chakravarty and Samar Sen Post World War II poets Dinesh Das, Sukanta Bhattacharya, Arun Mitra, Nirendranath Chakravarty, Subhas Mukhopadhyay

[edit] The Bulgarian language

has been used by poets like Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov, Pencho Slaveikov, Peyo Yavorov, Dimcho Debelyanov, Hristo Smirnenski, Nikola Vaptsarov, Geo Milev, Atanas Dalchev, Elisaveta Bagriana, Petya Dubarova, Blaga Dimitrova, and many others.

[edit] The Chinese language

claims great poets such as Ai Qing, Bai Juyi, Ban Gu, Bei Dao, Ban Gu, Cai Wenji, Cai Yong, Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, Chen Zi'ang, Chugan Engetsu. Consort Ban, Cui Hao, Du Fu, Du Mu, Duo Duo, Emperor Jianwen of Liang, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Fenggan, Fu Tianlin, Gao Qi, Gidō Shūshin, Gu Cheng, Gu Taiqing, Guan Daosheng, Guo Moruo, Hai Zi, Han Yu, Hanshan, He Zhizhang, Huang Tingjian, Huarui Furen, Iasyr Shivaza, Ido Reizan, Jia Dao, Jia Yi, Jiang Yan, Ke Yan, Kokan Shiren, Lady Xu Mu, Li Bai, Li He, Li Houzhu, Li Jiao, Li Qingzhao, Li Shangyin, Liang Desheng, Lin Huiyin, Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan, Lu Guimeng, Lu Ji, Lu You, Lu Yu, Lu Zhi, Luo Binwang, Ma Rong, Mang Ke, Mao Zedong, Mei Yaochen, Meng Haoran, Mi Heng, Mu Dan, Natsume Sōseki, Nalan Xingde, Ouyang Xiu, Pan Lei, Pi Rixiu, Qiao Ji, Qiu Jin, Qu Yuan, Quan Deyu, Ruan Ji, Shang Ting, Shangguan Wan'er, Shen Quanqi, Shen Shanbao, Shen Yue, Shide, Shitao, Shiwu, Shu Ting, Sima Xiangru, Song Yu, Su Xiaoxiao, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, Wang Bo, Wang Can, Wang Changling, Wang Wei (8th century poet), Wang Wei (17th century poet), Wang Yucheng, Wang Yun, Wei Zhuang, Wen Tingyun, Wen Yiduo, Wu Cheng'en, Wu Jiaji, Xi Kang, Xi Xi, Xie Lingyun, Xin Qiji, Xu Zhimo, Xu Zihua, Xue Tao, Yang Lian Yang Wanli, Yang Xiong, Yu Xuanji, Yu Xin, Yuan Hongdao, Yuan Zhongdao, Yao Shouzhong, Yao Sui, Yuan Zhen, Zhai Yongming, Zhang Heng, Zhang Hua, Zhang Ji, Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Xu, Zhao Luorui, Zheng Min. Zheng Yunduan, Zhu Shuzhen, Zhuo Wenjun and Zuo Si.

[edit] The Czech language

has been used by many poets, such 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.

[edit] In the Danish language

we can read the 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.

[edit] The Dutch language

has been used by poets such as Piet Paaltjens, Paul van Ostaijen, Guido Gezelle, Hugo Claus, P.C. Hooft.

[edit] In the English language

poets generally considered to be the most influential or important include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy,Samuel Beckett, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, H.D., T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Walter Scott, William Carlos Williams, May Swenson, Anne Carson, Geoffrey Hill, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh and Edgar Allan Poe.

[edit] The Finnish language

has been used by poets such as Aaro Hellaakoski, Martti Haavio, Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, Joel Lehtonen, Eino Leino, Larin Paraske, Aale Tynni, Katri Vala and Julius Krohn.

[edit] The French language

has been used by such illustrious poets as Chrétien de Troyes, Adam de la Halle, Béroul, Thomas d'Angleterre, Marie de France, Jean Bodel, Robert Wace, Rutebeuf, Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Clément Marot, Joachim du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Maurice Scève, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Jean de Sponde, Vincent Voiture, Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, André Chénier, Alfred de Vigny, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, Sully Prudhomme, François Coppée, José-Maria de Heredia, Paul Verlaine, Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Cros, Comte de Lautréamont, Pierre Louÿs, Jean Lorrain, Georges Rodenbach, Jean Moréas, Stéphane Mallarmé, Anna de Noailles, Emile Verhaeren, Jules Laforgue, Paul Claudel, Paul Valéry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Victor Segalen, Blaise Cendrars, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jacques Prévert, Robert Desnos, Jean Cocteau, Gaston Miron, Saint-John Perse, Antonin Artaud, Maurice Maeterlinck, Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, Gherasim Luca, Aimé Césaire, Edmond Jabès, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin, Claude Esteban, André du Bouchet and Philippe Jaccottet.

[edit] 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 Hölderlin, 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.

[edit] The Modern Greek language

has been used by 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.

[edit] In the Gujarati language

Harilal Upadhyay was a respected poet known as Haribhai Kavi ("Kavi" means poet in Gujarati).

[edit] The Hebrew language

has been used by many poets such 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.

[edit] The Hungarian language

has been used by poets such as Endre Ady, János Arany, Bálint Balassa, Attila József, József Katona, Ágoston Pável, Sándor Petőfi, Mihály Vörösmarty, Albert Wass and Miklós Zrínyi.

[edit] In the Italian language

there have been such poets as Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Vittorio Alfieri, Guido Cavalcanti, Ludovico Ariosto, Eugenio Montale, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ugo Foscolo, Petrarca, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giovanni Pascoli, Giambattista Basile, Torquato Tasso, Cesare Pavese, Umberto Saba, Alessandro Manzoni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giacomo Leopardi.

[edit] 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.

[edit] The Korean language

has been used by poets such as Choe Chiwon, Ko Un, Hwang Jin-i, Chon Sang-pyong and Seo Jeong-ju.

[edit] The Latin language

has been used by such great poets as Ausonius, Catullus, Ennius, Horace, Juvenal, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Sextus Propertius, Statius, Terence, Tibullus and Virgil.

[edit] The (modern Slavic) Macedonian language

has been used by poets like Bogomil Gjuzel, Blaže Koneski and Mateja Matevski.

[edit] Maltese poetry

features such poets as Dun Karm Psaila, Pietro Caxaro, Rużar Briffa, Anton Buttigieg, Francis Ebejer, Emilio Lombardi, Mikiel Anton Vassalli and Gioacchino Navarro.

[edit] The Norwegian language

has been used by many poets including 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.

[edit] 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, Mário Quintana, Clarice Lispector, Vinícius de Morais, Cruz e Sousa, Décio Pignatari, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Manuel Bandeira.

[edit] The Persian language

has been used by such world famous poets as Rumi, Hafez, Ferdowsi, Saadi, Khayyam, Nezami, Rudaki, Naser Khosrow, Sanai Ghaznavi, Jami, Asadi Tusi, Amir Khosravi Dehlavi, Sheikh Bahaii, Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, Abusaeid Abolkheir, Farid al-Din Attar, Muhammad Iqbal, Asad Gorgani, Farrukhi Sistani, Baba Tahir Oryan, Anvari, Nesîmî, Manuchihri, Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlou, Parvin E'tesami, Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Sepehri, Khwaju Kermani, Khaqani Shirvani, Abdol-Qader Bidel Dehlavi and Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.

[edit] The Polish language poets

are represented by Mikołaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski, Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Maria Konopnicka, Bolesław Leśmian, Leopold Staff, Julian Tuwim, Antoni Słonimski, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Czesław Miłosz, Leon Pasternak, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Halina Poświatowska, Wisława Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, Wlodzimierz Szymanowicz, Rafał Wojaczek, Ewa Lipska.

[edit] The Romanian language

has been used by many poets such as Tudor Arghezi, Ana Blandiana, George Coşbuc, Mihai Eminescu, and Nicolae Labiş.

[edit] The Russian language

is 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.

[edit] The Spanish language

is vibrant with the words of Gonzalo de Berceo, Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita, Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara, Jorge Manrique, The Marquis of Santillana, Gómez Manrique, Garcilaso de la Vega, Juan Boscán, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Cristóbal de Castillejo, fray Luis de León, Jorge de Montemayor, Fernando de Rojas, Fernando de Herrera, Lope de Rueda, Juan del Encina, Antonio de Guevara, Feliciano de Silva,Francisco de Rioja, Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Miguel de Cervantes, Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Baltasar del Alcázar, Francisco de Quevedo, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, The Count of Villamediana, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Alonso de Ercilla, Tirso de Molina, Gabriel Bocángel, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Antonio Mira de Amescua, Luís Vélez de Guevara, Bernardo de Balbuena, Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Félix María de Samaniego, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, José Cadalso, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, José de Espronceda, Carolina Coronado, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Augusto Ferrán, Rosalía de Castro, Ventura Ruiz Aguilera, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Ramón de Campoamor, Luis Cernuda, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Federico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Vicente Aleixandre, Pedro Salinas, Rafael Alberti, Manuel Altolaguirre, Dámaso Alonso, Gerardo Diego, Jorge Luis Borges, Blas Infante, León Felipe, Miguel Hernández, Rubén Darío, Jorge Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Antonio Machado, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Jaime Sabines, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Emilio Prados, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Giannina Braschi, Pedro Figueredo, Karina Galvez, Chantal Maillard, Ernesto Cardenal and Camilo José Cela.

[edit] Modern Scottish Gaelic poets

include Sorley Maclean.

[edit] Scots language poets

include John Barbour, James I, Robert Henryson, Walter Kennedy, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Alexander Montgomerie, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Garioch and Robert Burns.

[edit] The Swedish language

has been used by notable poets such as Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Dan Andersson, Carl Michael Bellman, Bo Bergman, Karin Boye, Olof von Dalin, Elmer Diktonius, Nils Ferlin, Gustaf Fröding, Lars Gustafsson, Ola Hansson, Verner von Heidenstam, Harry Martinson, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Johan Henrik Kellgren, Pär Lagerkvist, Anna Maria Lenngren, Oscar Levertin, Lasse Lucidor, Ture Nerman, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, Erik Johan Stagnelius, August Strindberg, Esaias Tegnér, Zacharias Topelius and Tomas Tranströmer.

[edit] The Turkish language

has been used by poets such as Yunus Emre, Bâkî, Hayâlî, Nâzım Hikmet,Rıfat Ilgaz,Nedîm, Neşâtî and Pir Sultan Abdal.

[edit] The Urdu language

carries the classical, traditional and modern works of Amir Khusro, Mir Taqi Mir, Ghalib, Faiz, Jalib, Iqbal, Ibn-e-Insha, Habib Jalib, Zauk, Hakim Momin Khan Momin, Noon Meem Rashid, Krishan Chander, Ihsan Danish, Zamir Jafri, Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Nasir Kazmi, Dilawar Figar, Jon Elia, Shakeb Jalali, Parveen Shakir and others.

[edit] The Vietnamese language

has been used by some poets such as Nguyễn Trãi, Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, Nguyễn Du, Hồ Xuân Hương, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Hàn Mặc Tử, Xuân Diệu and Tố Hữu.

[edit] The Yiddish language

has been used by dozens of poets including : David Edelstadt, Itzik Manger, Abraham Sutzkever, Srul Bronshtein, Celia Dropkin, Itzhak Katzenelson, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Yankev Shternberg.

[edit] See also

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

[edit] Gallery

The Chinese poem "Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain" by 宋高宗.	Illustration from كتاب الأغاني‎ Book of Songs by أبو الفرج الأصفهاني‎. (1216-20)	The Concourse of the Birds painted by Habib Allah for Farid ud-Din Attar poems. (1486–87)	Tiziano Vecellio's "Danae", inspired by the Metamorphoses of Ovidius. (1553-54)
Faust depicted in an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn. (1650)	The poet Yacuren and a companion strolling in a grove of yew trees, by 歌川国芳.	A Norse mythology image from the 18th century Prose Edda manuscript.	"The Ghost of a Flea" by William Blake. (1820)
"Der arme Poet", by Carl Spitzweg. (1839)	Illustration for the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (1862)	Wood engraving named "Farinata degli Uberti addresses Dante" from a Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy. (1861-1868)	"Le Coin de table", by Henri Fantin-Latour. (1872)
Édouard Manet's illustration of Poe's Raven. (1875)	One of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.	"Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene", by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (1881)	Lucifer, the main protagonist of Paradise Lost, as drawn by Gustave Doré.
"Favourite Poete", by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (1888)	Akashi Gidayu, No 83 100 Aspects of the Moon Series by 月岡 芳年. (1890)	"Le Poète et la Muse", by Auguste Rodin.	The Dinky Bird, by Maxfield Parrish, an illustration from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field. (1904)
"At the Tomb of Omar Khayyam", by Jay Hambidge. (?-1911)	Apollinaire's calligramme. (1918)	村山 槐多's Self Portrait. (1918)	"Dancing Girl", an undated ink-on-paper piece by Rabindranath Tagore.

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