Poets in the Yahoo! Directory

Frost, Robert (1874-1963) (23)
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Great Writers and Poets
Features an alphabetical listing of authors and literary prize winners.
www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html
Blake, William (1757-1827) (13)
Find sites for William Blake, the great English Romantic poet, engraver, and painter. Sites offer his biography, poetry archives, paintings, illustrations, as well as literary analysis of his works such as Songs of Innocence and Experience, and The Book of Job.
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Burns, Robert (1759-1796) (21)
Learn about Robert Burns, the 18th century Romantic poet, through sites featuring life, poems, songs, essays, bicentenary exhibits, literary reviews, and sites for Burns' Nights, celebrating the birthday of the Bard of Scotland who wrote Auld Lang Syne.
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Williams, Saul (3)
Find sites for Saul Williams, the poet and award winning screenwriter-actor which include official site, biography, discography, videoclips, and albums of one of the most powerful voices of the hip-hop generation.
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Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) (5)
Find sites for Giovanni Boccaccio, the 14th century Italian poet and author who played a significant role in Renaissant humanism and known for his work, Decameron. Sites offer biography, paintings, historical perspectives, and English translations of his works.
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Cohen, Leonard@
Learn about Leonard Cohen, the legendary songwriter and poet through sites featuring biography, discography, albums, tablatures, lyrics, unpublished songs, and reviews of songs by the folk musician known for heavy emotions and metaphoric wordplay.
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Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) (12)
Find sites for William Wordsworth, the English Poet Laureate who offset the Romantic Age in English literature. Sites offer biography, online texts, manuscripts, quotes, notes on Wordsworth's favourite places, and his epic works including Lyrical Ballads.
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Neurotic Poets [read review]
Exploration of madness and creativity in the lives of famous poets. Includes biographical sketches discussing their work in context.
www.neuroticpoets.com
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) (27)
Read about Walt Whitman, the American poet-essayist and his famous poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. Sites offer biography, poems, reference guides, quotations, prose works, messageboards, and analyses of the works of one of the founding American poets.
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Hafiz (6)
Discover Hafez, the Persian mystic and poet through sites which offer biography, online texts, criticism, audio clips, and translations of the Sufi poetry and ghazal compositions of the poet popularly known as the Nightingale of Shiraz (Ian).
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Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400) (29)
Discover Chaucer, the first major poet in the English language after Norman conquest who invented metre and other poetic conventions. Sites offer bio, medieval background, seminars, excerpts, glossary, and study resources for the poet and his poetic epics, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
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Le Guin, Ursula K.@
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Melville, Herman (1819-1891)@
Read about Herman Melville, the American novelist who wrote, among many, one of the canonical novels of the English language, Moby Dick. Sites offer biography, works, quotations, study guides, memorabilia, and bibliography of the writer whose works were precursor to existentialist literature.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) (12)
Discover S.T. Coleridge, the English poet, critic, and philosopher through sites which offer e-texts of prose and poetic compositions, study guide, and genealogy of the poet who wove poetic magic in the likes of Kubla Khan, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Lyrical Ballads.
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Gordon, George, Lord Byron (1788-1824) (7)
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Shamlu, Ahmad
Official site. Includes life events, press reviews, poems, translations.
www.shamlu.com
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) (20)
Find sites for Allen Ginsberg, considered one of the Beat generation writers who influenced the cultural transformations of 1960s. Sites offer biography, CBI files, poems, manuscripts, obituaries, and interviews of the poet known for anti-establishment poems such as Howl.
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Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) (22)
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Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) (19)
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