Mihai Eminescu

Mihai Eminescu (real name Mihail Eminovici) was born on January 15, 1850 in Botosani, Romania. He is the most famous Romanian poet of all times. Biography and Career : Between...

John Dryden

John Dryden (1631-1700) was a English poet and dramatist, noted for his satirical verse and for his use of the heroic couplet. Short Biography: His poetry includes the verse...

John Donne

John Donne (1571-1631) was a English metaphysical poet, whose work is characterized by subtle imagery and figurative language. Short Biography: In 1615 Donne took orders in the...

Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) was a Irish poet laureate 1968-1972. Short Biography: With Auden and Spender, he was one of the influential left-wing poets of the 1930s. He also...

Ruben Dario

Pen name of Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento (1867-1916) was an Nicaraguan poet. Short Biography: His Azall (Azure) written in 1888, a collection of prose and verse influenced by...

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet. His masterpiece is Divina Commedia / The Divine Comedy 1300-1321. Other works include the prose philosophical treatise Convivio...

Dafydd ap Gwilym

Dafydd ap Gwllym (c. 1340 - c.1400) was a Welsh poet. Short Biography: His work is notable for its complex but graceful style, its concern with nature and love rather than with...

E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet, whose published collections of poetry include Tulips and Chimneys in 1923. Short Biography: His poems were initially...

George Crabbe

George Crabbe (1754-1832) was a English poet. Short Biography: Originally a doctor, he became a clergyman in 1781, and wrote grimly realistic verse of the poor of his own time...

William Cowper

William Cowper (1731-1800) was an English poet. Short Biography: He trained as a lawyer, but suffered a mental breakdown in 1763 and entered an asylum, where he underwent an...

Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was an English poet. Short Biography: He introduced the Pindaricode (based on the Greek poet Pindar) to English poetry, and published metaphysical...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a English poet, one of the founders of the Romantic movement. Short Biography: A friend of Southey and Wordsworth, he collaborated with...

John Clare

John Clare (1793-1864) was a English poet. Short Biography: His work includes Poems Descriptive of Rural Life in 1820, The Village Minstrel in 1821, and Shepherd's Calendar in...

Chretien de Troyes

Chretien de Troyes medieval French poet, born in Champagne about the middle of the 12th century. Short Biography: His epics, which include Le Chevalier de la Charrette; Perceval...

Andre de Chenier

Andre de Chenier (1762-1794) was a French poet, born in Constantinople. Short Biography: His lyrical poetry was later to inspire the Romantic movement, but he was known in his...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) was an English poet. Short Biography: Author of "The Canterbury Tales" about 1387, a collection of tales told by pilgrims on their way to the...

Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was a English poet, whose medieval-style poems and brief life were to inspire English Romanticism. Short Biography: Born in Bristol, he studied...

Adelbert von Chamisso

Pen name of Louis-Charles-Adelaide Chamisso de Boncourt (1781-1831) was a German writer of the story 'Peter Schlemihi', the man who sold his shadow. Short Biography: The son...

Andrei Zanca

Andrei Zanca (pseudonym of Andrei Sofalvi) Is a poet. Also translator. Born on September 13th 1952 in Sighisoara. After graduating No. 1 secondary school in Sighisoara, he attended...

George Vulturescu

George Vulturescu (pseudonym of Gheorghe S. Pop) - poet. Also essayist and publisher. Born on March 1st 1951 in Tireac (Satu Mare). he is the son of Gheorghe Pop and Irina Pop, peasants....

Calin Vlasie

Calin Vlasie - poet. Also essayist, journalist and publisher. Born on May 21st 1953 in Buzau, he is the son of Hristache Vlasie, a police non-commissioned officer, later a clerk, and...

Matei Visnic

Matei Visnic - poet and playwright. Also journalist. Born on January 29lh 1956 in Radauti (Suceava). He graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of History-Philosophy of the University of...

Paul Vinicius

Paul Vinicius (literary name of Paul Vinicius Gheorghe) - poet. Also journalist. Born on January 24th 1953 in Craiova, he is the son of Stefan Gheorghe, an officer at the Ministry of...

Ion Vadan

Ion Vadan - poet. Also prose writer and journalist. Born on October 1st 1949 in Gelu village (Satu Mare), in a family of peasants. After graduating in 1967 from “Mihai Eminescu” secondary...