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Category List: Poets

1.	A man who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Joseph Brodsky. Russian-born, but exiled to America, he described himself as "a happy combination of Russian poet and English essayist. Click here to read about Joseph Brodsky
2.	Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, a narrative poem considered to be amongst the greatest literary works of all time. Click here to read about Geoffrey Chaucer
3.	One of the great authors of Russia, Anton Chekhov. His plays lack obvious excitement, and focus on illusion and disillusion in youth and old age. Click here to read about Anton Chekhov
4.	German poet, novelist, playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author of Faust. Click here to read about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5.	Edgar Guest, who wrote over 11,000 poems on subjects as diverse as home, mother and hard work. For several decades he wrote a poem every day of the week. Click here to read about Edgar Guest
6.	Kazantzakis is best known for his novels, but also contributed massively to Greek literature and philosophy, and wrote a 33,333 line poem. He also translated other classics into modern Greek. Click here to read about Nikos Kazantzakis
7.	The American poet Amy Lowell, a leading member of the Imagist school of poetry, who believed that books are life. Click here to read about Amy Lowell
8.	Marianne Moore, once praised by T.S. Eliot as "one of the few producers of durable poetry in her time." Click here to read about Marianne Moore
9.	The Roman poet Ovid, who came to prominence for his risqué poetry on love, but who subsequently wrote a huge collection of myths and legends which were later to inspire many of the great authors. Sadly, Ovid ended his days out of favour and in exile. Click here to read about Publius Ovidius Naso