Favorite Poems and Poets

Read about poets from around the world with an A-to-Z listings, profiles, biographies, and more. Also find summaries and analysis of famous poems.

  • Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral
    Biography of Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet and Nobel Prize Winner
  • Dorothy Parker proofreading a draft
    Biography of Dorothy Parker, American Poet and Humorist
  • Rainer Maria Rilke In His Study
    Biography of Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian Poet
  • Portrait of Emily Dickinson
    Biography of Emily Dickinson, American Poet
  • Mexican writer Octavio Paz
    Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet, Writer, and Nobel Prize Winner
  • Gwendolynn Brooks, 1950
    Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks, the People’s Poet
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet and Activist
  • Illustration of Alexander Pope
    Biography of Alexander Pope, England's Most Quoted Poet
  • photograph of poet Gary Snyder
    Gary Snyder, American Poet
  • photo of Carl Sandburg playing his guitar
    Carl Sandburg, Poet and Lincoln Biographer
  • Lord Byron - portrait with his ancestral home
    Biography of Lord Byron, English Poet and Aristocrat
  • Old Father Time with his scythe, carrying in the New Year
    15 Classic Poems for the New Year
  • Vintage letter and communication concept.
    10 Classic Poems for Halloween
  • Couple walking with heart-shaped balloon
    A Collection of Classic Love Poetry for Your Sweetheart
  • tintern abbey on the river wye
    A Guide to Wordsworth's Themes of Memory and Nature in 'Tintern Abbey'
  • Baseball Player Sliding Into Home Plate
    A Poetic Take on Baseball
  • Woman reading a book
    10 Classic Poems on Gardens and Gardening
  • Daughter standing on feet of father and dancing
    7 Classic Poems for Fathers
  • Collection of old, classic books on a shelf.
    14 Classic Poems Everyone Should Know
  • Close up mother and son reading book
    How Did These Classic Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies Originate?
  • Burning Of Shelley
    Poems of Protest and Revolution
  • Mouth open, poetry flowing out of head onto book
    Metaphysical Poetry and Poets
  • Cow licks a calf in pasture.
    Understanding 'The Pasture' by Robert Frost
  • Soldier and wife visiting cemetery together
    Poems of War and Remembrance
  • A large family is all smiles at Thanksgiving dinner
    Poems to Read on Thanksgiving Day
  • Ireland, Meath, Trim, Trees in snow
    41 Classic and New Poems to Keep You Warm in Winter
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Classic Poems Set to Music
  • girl flying American flag in field
    Patriotic Poems for Independence Day
  • William Butler Yeats In A Rocking Chair
    A Guide to Yeats' 'The Second Coming'
  • Colours Of Autumn
    Reading Notes on Robert Frost’s Poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
  • Great Wall of China
    Li Po: One of China's Most Renowned Poets
  • Osprey flying above fir trees with sunrays streaming through mist
    A Classic Collection of Bird Poems
  • Robert Frost outdoors in Miami, 1958
    Biography of Robert Frost
  • Yellow leaves line a forest path in fall
    A Guide to Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
  • William Butler Yeats in 1911
    Profile of William Butler Yeats
  • William Blake British poet
    Biography of William Blake, English Poet and Artist
  • Ronald Reagan Taking Oath of Office
    Presidential Inauguration Poems
  • William Wordsworth engraving
    William Wordsworth
  • Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson
    Heather Ale by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Robert Frost, American Poet
    Robert Frost's 'Acquainted With the Night'
  • The Library of Congress
    Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
  • 9.11 Tribute in Light over Manhattan
    Poets Respond to the 9/11 Attacks
  • A Guide to William Blake's 'The Tyger'
  • 18 Classic Poems of the Christmas Season
  • Dreaming of Xanadu: A Guide to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”
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