bard - a lyric poet

elegist - the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

poetess - a woman poet

Poet Laureate - the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain; "the Poet Laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions"

sonneteer - a poet who writes sonnets

author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Alcaeus - Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; reputed inventor of Alcaic verse (611-580 BC)

Apollinaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki - French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)

Arnold, Matthew Arnold - English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

Arp, Hans Arp, Jean Arp - Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)

Auden, W. H. Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden - United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973)

Baudelaire, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudelaire - a French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language (1821-1867)

Benet, Stephen Vincent Benet - United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943)

Blake, William Blake - visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, Blok - Russian poet (1880-1921)

Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio - Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)

Anne Bradstreet, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Bradstreet - poet in colonial America (born in England) (1612-1672)

Bertolt Brecht, Brecht - German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)

Brooke, Rupert Brooke - English lyric poet (1887-1915)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Browning - English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

Robert Browning, Browning - English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

Robert Burns, Burns - celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)

Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale - English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)

Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca - Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681)

Carducci, Giosue Carducci - Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907)

Carew, Thomas Carew - Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639)

Catullus, Gaius Valerius Catullus - Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC)

Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer - English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

Ciardi, John Anthony Ciardi, John Ciardi - United States poet and critic (1916-1986)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English romantic poet (1772-1834)

Corneille, Pierre Corneille - French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)

Cowper, William Cowper - English poet who wrote hymns and poetry about nature (1731-1800)

Harold Hart Crane, Hart Crane, Crane - United States poet (1899-1932)

Cynewulf, Cynwulf - Anglo-Saxon poet (circa 9th century)

Dante, Dante Alighieri - an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)

de la Mare, Walter de la Mare, Walter John de la Mare - English poet remembered for his verse for children (1873-1956)