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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. Homer (circa 800 BC)
2. Meleager of Gadara (1st century BC)
3. Pindar (circa? 522-433 BC)
4. Sappho (circa? 630-570 BC)
5. 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. William Alabaster (1567-1640), England
11. Arthur Johnston (1579-1641), Scotland

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

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

• Rabindranath Tagore (861-1941), Bengali

Irish

1. Brendan Behan (1923–1964)
2. Michael Davitt (1950-2005)
3. Douglas Hyde (1860–1949)
4. Flann Mainistrech (died 1056)
5. Brian Merriman (1747–1805)
6. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (born 1952)
7. 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. Yone Noguchi (1875-1947), Japan
2. Lucille M. Nixon (1908-1963), United States

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)

Sanskrit

1. Kalidasa (circa 400)

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. Carmen Rodriguez (born 1948), Chile
10. Salomón de la Selva (1893-1959), Nicaragua
11. Javier Sicilia (born 1956), Mexico
12. 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