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Penny's Poetry Pages focus on poetry written in English. Occasionally, though, we will print articles on poets who write in another language, either because of their international contribution to the art, or because of a connection (such as translation or influence) with poetry in English. The following list is in no way definitive nor representative of the contributions to world literature of any language group.

Ancient Greek

Homer

1. Anyte of Tegea (3rd century BC)
2. Homer (circa 800 BC)
3. Meleager of Gadara (1st century BC)
4. Pindar (circa? 522-433 BC)
5. Sappho (circa? 630-570 BC)
6. Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC)

Ancient Latin

Virgil

1. Catullus (c.84-c.54 BC)
2. Horace (65-8 BC)
3. Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC)
4. Ovid (43BC - 17AD}
5. Tibullus (c.55-c.19BC)
6. Virgil (70-19 BC)
7. St. Aldhelm (?639-709), England
8. St. Bede (c.672-735), England
9. Alcuin (735-804), England
10. Edward Michelborne (1565-1626), England
11. William Alabaster (1567-1640), England
12. Arthur Johnston (1579-1641), Scotland
13. Anthony Alsop (?1670-1726), England

Classical Chinese

1. Du Fu (712-770)

Belarusian

1. Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), United States

Dutch

1. Simon Vinkenoog (1928-2009), Netherlands

French

1. Anne-Marie Alonzo (1951-2005), Canada
2. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), France
3. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), France
4. Michel Bibaud (1782-1857), Canada
5. Yves Bonnefoy (born 1923), France
6. André Breton (1896-1966), France
7. Charles of Orleans (1394-1465), France / England
8. William Chapman (1850-1917), Canada
9. Robert Desnos (1900-1945), France
10. Robert Dickson (1944-2007), Canada
11. Paul Éluard (1895-1952), France
12. Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839-1908), Canada
13. Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943), Canada
14. Anne Hébert (1916-2000), Canada
15. Victor Hugo (1802-1885), France
16. Gustave Kahn (1859-1936), France
17. Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), France
18. Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377), France
19. Pauline Michel (born 1944), Canada
20. Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), Canada
21. Claude Pélieu (1934-2002), France
22. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), France
23. Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), France
24. Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), France
25. Francois Villon (?1431-1464?), France
26. Voltaire (1694-1778), France

German

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
2. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
3. Georg Heym (188-1912)
4. Ernst Jandl (1925-2000), Austria
5. Johann Peter Klassen (1868-1947), Canada
6. Friederike Mayröcker (born 1924), Austria
7. Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914),
8. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
9. Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)

Hebrew

1. Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
2. Mois Benarroch (born 1959)
3. Abraham Regelson (1896–1981)

Hungarian

1. Bálint Balassi (1554-1594)
2. Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849)

Indian languages

1. Navtej Bharati (born 1938), Punjabi, Canada
2. Kalidasa (circa 400), Sanskrit
3. Surjeet Kalsey (born 1948), Punjabi, Canada
4. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali

Irish

1. Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
2. Michael Davitt (1950-2005)
3. Piaras Feiritéar (?1600-1653)
4. Douglas Hyde (1860-1949)
5. Flann Mainistrech (died 1056)
6. Brian Merriman (1747-1805)
7. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (born 1952)
8. Antoine Ó Raifteiri (1784-1835)

Italian

1. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
2. Francesco Berni (1497-1535)
3. Petrarch (1304-1374)
4. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

Japanese

1. Lucille M. Nixon (1908-1963), United States
2. Yone Noguchi (1875-1947), Japan / United States
3. Ueshima Onitsura (1661-1735), Japan

Norwegian

1. Jan Erik Vold (born 1939)

Persian

1. Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
2. Rumi (1207 – 1273)

Polish

1. Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998)
2. Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855}
3. Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)
4. Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)

Portuguese

1. Luis de Camões (1524-1580)

Russian

1. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
2. Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942)
3. Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russia / Ireland
4. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
5. Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
6. Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
7. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
8. Russian Futurism, 20th century

Spanish

1. Mois Benarroch (born 1959), Israel
2. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentina
3. Generation of '27, 20th century, Spain
4. Rodolfo Gonzales (1928-2005), United States
5. Jorge Guillén (1893-1984), Spain
6. Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), Spain
7. Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), Chile
8. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chile
9. Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Mexico
10. Carmen Rodriguez (born 1948), Chile
11. Salomón de la Selva (1893-1959), Nicaragua
12. Javier Sicilia (born 1956), Mexico
13. David Unger (born 1950), Guatemala

Swedish

1. Tomas Tranströmer (born 1931)

Yiddish

1. Malka Heifetz Tussman (1893-1987), United States
2. Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1973), United States

Zulu

1. Mazisi Kunene (1930-2006), South Africa