poet
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concept
A poet is a creator who uses carefully chosen words, rhythm, and imagery to evoke emotions, convey ideas, and capture experiences in the form of poetry.
Aliases (50)
- American poet ×11
- English poet ×11
- medieval poet ×9
- lyric poet ×8
- French poet ×5
- Persian poet ×5
- Romantic poet ×5
- modernist poet ×5
- Kannada poet ×4
- Roman poet ×4
- Georgian poet ×3
- Sindhi poet ×3
- Sufi poet ×3
- Telugu poet ×3
- Urdu poet ×3
- Victorian poet ×3
- ancient Greek poet ×3
- court poet ×3
- epic poet ×3
- Afro-Cuban poet ×2
- Bengali poet ×2
- Irish poet ×2
- Jain poet ×2
- Japanese poet ×2
- Pakistani poet ×2
- Persian-language poet ×2
- Portuguese poet ×2
- Symbolist poet ×2
- Syriac poet ×2
- comic poet ×2
- confessional poet ×2
- hymnographer ×2
- national poet ×2
- saint-poet ×2
- spoken word artist ×2
- symbolist poet ×2
- waka poet ×2
- 14th-century poet ×1
- 18th-century poet ×1
- Afrikaans-language poet ×1
- Anglo-Saxon poet ×1
- Beat generation writer ×1
- Bhakti movement poet ×1
- Chilean poet ×1
- Chinese poet ×1
- Christian poet ×1
- Confessional poet ×1
- English Romantic poet ×1
- Finnish poet ×1
- French-language poet ×1
Instances (469)
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
- Julia Ward Howe
- William Langland
- Thomas Gray
- George Eliot
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Lonnie Lynn
- The Gawain Poet ("medieval English poet")
- José Martí
- Reeve Lindbergh
- John Gower
- Sylvia Plath
- Nicolás Guillén
- Eusebio Lillo
- Walt Whitman
- Bernardo de Vera y Pintado
- Langston Hughes
- Bahadur Shah II
- Jacob Cats
- Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
- Luís de Camões
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Breyten Breytenbach
- Michelangelo
- Emily Dickinson
- Herman Melville
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
- Stephen Crane
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky
- Aldous Huxley
- Sri Aurobindo
- Nnimmo Bassey
- Hesiod ("ancient Greek poet")
- Joost van den Vondel
- Homer ("ancient Greek poet")
- Leonard Cohen
- Francesco Petrarca
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Frost
- Maggie Nelson
- William Shakespeare
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen
- Jules Laforgue
- T. E. Hulme
- Samuel Beckett
- Cynewulf ("Old English poet")
- Morgenstern
- Charles Baudelaire
- Ezra Pound
- W. H. Auden
- Alexander Pushkin
- Adelbert
- Seamus Heaney
- Rumi
- Ted Hughes
- Hafez
- John Milton
- Namdev ("saint-poet")
- Saadi ("Persian poet")
- Anna Seward
- Dante Alighieri
- Ferdowsi
- William Wordsworth
- Eknath ("saint-poet")
- Omar Khayyam
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ramdas Swami ("spiritual poet")
- Robert Southey
- Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)
- Francisco González Bocanegra
- Rupert Brooke
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Luis Muñoz Marín
- Barlow
- Francis Scott Key
- Tupac Shakur
- Ibn Arabi
- al‑Hallaj
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Bertolt Brecht
- Heinrich Heine
- Robert Burns
- Robert Fergusson
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Günter Grass
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Allan Ramsay
- T. S. Eliot
- Barnstaple Grammar School
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Alexander Pope
- Nannaya
- Orpheus
- Ralph Tomlinson
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Archibald MacLeish
- King David ("psalmist")
- Sri Krishnadevaraya
- Tyagaraja ("devotional poet")
- James Shirley
- Jibanananda Das
- Margaret Atwood
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Oscar Wilde
- Bob Dylan
- Lord Byron
- Tikkana
- Yerrapragada ("Telugu poet")
- Sir Walter Scott
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- poet Cui Hao
- Malik Yusef ("spoken word artist")
- William Cullen Bryant
- René François Armand Prudhomme
- Les Épreuves
- Lucretius
- Goffredo Mameli
- Johan Sebastian Welhaven
- John Keats
- Virgil ("Roman poet")
- John Perry Barlow
- William Morris
- Dora Maar
- Ovid
- Hatikvah
- Mir Taqi Mir ("Urdu poet")
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Mirza Ghalib
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Elizabeth Siddal
- Victor Hugo
- François
- Novalis
- Eino Leino ("Finnish poet")
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Lowell family ("American poet")
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Sophocles
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Millen Brand
- Menander ("comic poet")
- Rowan Williams
- Jaan Kross
- Mehmet Akif Ersoy
- Anacreon ("ancient Greek poet")
- Gertrude Stein
- Jacob of Serugh ("Syriac poet")
- Narsai ("Christian poet")
- Amiri Baraka
- James Joyce
- Ephrem the Syrian ("Syriac poet")
- Viggo Mortensen
- Ponna
- Bendre
- Michael Ondaatje
- Tabitha King
- Horatius ("Roman poet")
- Emily Brontë
- Kuvempu
- Pampa ("Kannada poet")
- Dora
- Charlotte Brontë
- John Gay
- Vidyapati
- Vachel Lindsay
- W.B. Yeats
- Pablo Picasso
- Yoko Tawada
- Sully Prudhomme
- Hugo de Groot
- Empedocles
- Ranna ("Kannada poet")
- Voltaire
- Countee Cullen
- Jim Carroll
- Claude McKay
- Jean Toomer
- Ulrich von Hutten
- Zindzi Mandela
- Samuel Johnson
- Marie de France ("medieval poet")
- Dionysios Solomos
- Cleanthes of Assos
- Hafeez Jalandhari
- Wajid Ali Shah
- James Weldon Johnson
- Gottfried
- John Lydgate ("English poet")
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Eugène Marais
- Aristophanes ("comic poet")
- Thomas Hoccleve ("English poet")
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Browning
- Lewis Carroll
- Raymond Carver
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Wilfred Owen
- Gabriele Rapagnetta
- Thomas Bracken
- Albrecht von Haller
- Usman dan Fodio
- Nana Asma’u
- Alice Walker
- Tegnér Prize
- Thomas Hardy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Harold Pinter
- José de Anchieta
- Stephen Fry
- Château de Boncourt
- Erasmus Darwin
- Jack Kerouac
- Bret Harte
- D. H. Lawrence
- Allen Ginsberg
- Taylor
- William S. Burroughs
- Gregory Corso
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Peter Orlovsky
- Friedrich Schiller
- Gary Snyder
- James Russell Lowell
- Jill Scott
- Zack de la Rocha
- Julia Alvarez
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Dwijendranath Tagore
- Carl Sandburg
- Askia Touré
- Djuna Barnes
- Kay Boyle
- E. E. Cummings
- Sonia Sanchez
- Anne Sexton
- Patrick Lane
- Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi
- Nikki Giovanni
- Sharon Olds
- Hart Crane
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Adrienne Rich
- Robert Lowell
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Ishmael Reed
- Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Paul Verlaine
- Theodulf of Orléans
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Noname
- de Bèze
- Guillén
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Epimenides of Crete
- Jean Moréas
- Kobo Daishi
- Bertrand de Born ("troubadour")
- June Jordan
- Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
- Faizi
- Philip Freneau
- Yunus Emre
- Fuzuli
- Ahmet Yesevi
- Nâzim Hikmet
- Nedim
- Roald Hoffmann
- Ilia Chavchavadze
- Vazha-Pshavela
- Boris Pasternak
- Akaki Tsereteli
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
- Galaktion Tabidze
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai ("Sufi poet")
- Sami ("Sindhi poet")
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Ruby Dee
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Anne Bradstreet
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Caroline Clive
- Sachal Sarmast ("Sufi poet")
- Claudia Rankine
- Saigyō ("Japanese poet")
- Orhan Veli Kanık
- Fernando Pessoa
- Charles Maurras
- Shorter
- Pablo Neruda
- Matsuo Bashō
- Rollie Lynn Riggs
- Tevfik Fikret
- Hugo Grotius
- Ki no Tsurayuki ("Japanese poet")
- Solon of Athens
- Attilâ İlhan
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- César Vallejo
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Edip Cansever
- Maya Angelou
- Ben Jonson
- Patti Smith
- Turgut Uyar
- Leigh Hunt
- Maria White Lowell
- Sugawara no Michizane
- İlhan Berk
- Carlos P. Garcia
- Ernest Jones
- N. P. van Wyk Louw
- John of Damascus ("hymnographer")
- Zeb-un-Nissa ("Persian-language poet")
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Edmund Spenser
- Clive James
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Milbanke ("English poet")
- Constantijn Huygens
- Walter Raleigh
- Crown Hill Cemetery
- Roberts Blossom