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editLazarus Aaronson
Chinua Achebe
Eliza Acton
Maya Angelou
Astronomica (Manilius)
Brothers Poem
Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi
Corinna
Stephen Crane
Emily Dickinson
Du Fu
Fuzuli (poet)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
H.D.
Amir Hamzah
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Homeric Hymns
Imagism
Samuel Johnson
James Joyce
James Russell Lowell
The Lucy poems
Olivia Manning
Murasaki Shikibu
O Captain! My Captain!
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Indolence
Philitas of Cos
Harold Pinter
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry of Maya Angelou
Ezra Pound
Adelaide Anne Procter
Proserpine (play)
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
The Raven
Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari
William Shakespeare
Song of Innocence
John Millington Synge
This Dust Was Once the Man
To Autumn
Ulysses (poem)
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
Nathaniel Parker Willis
W. B. Yeats
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editThe Absent-Minded Beggar
Abu Firas al-Hamdani
Aetia (Callimachus)
Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)
Anna Akhmatova
Al Aaraaf
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Julia Alvarez
And Still I Rise
Victor Henry Anderson
Annales (Ennius)
Ariwara no Narihira
As I was going by Charing Cross
Athir al-Din Akhsikati
W. H. Auden
Sri Aurobindo
Azar Bigdeli
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Rabia Balkhi
Abu Sulayman Banakati
Baseball's Sad Lexicon
Battle of Brunanburh (poem)
Beachy Head (poem)
Beowulf
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Betelguese, a Trip Through Hell
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
The Botanic Garden
Buah Rindu
Burnt Norton
CIL 4.5296
Callimachus
James Edwin Campbell (poet)
Mateiu Caragiale
Catalogue of Women
Hector Munro Chadwick
Katherine Garrison Chapin
Eric Chappelow
Chen Xiaocui
Thomas Holley Chivers
Cho Ki-chon
Christian interpretations of Virgil's Eclogue 4
Come Up from the Fields Father
Commonitorium (Orientius)
Conversation poems
Ina Coolbrith
Marshall S. Cornwell
Eusebia Cosme
Danny Deever
Der Rosendorn
Dox (poet)
The Dry Salvages
East Coker (poem)
Klaus Ebner
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elizabeth F. Ellet
The Eolian Harp
Epodes (Horace)
Eureka: A Prose Poem
Fears in Solitude
First circle of hell
Abdullahi dan Fodio
Four Quartets
The Fox, the Wolf and the Husbandman
Frithegod
Frost at Midnight
Fu (poetry)
Funeral Blues
Y Gododdin
Abraham Goldfaden
The Good-Morrow
Paul Goodman
Dennis Howard Green
Green Knight
Guillaume de Dole
Habibi (poet)
Johann Peter Hebel
The Hill We Climb
Lee M. Hollander
Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day
Hymns for the Amusement of Children
I Shall Not Be Moved (poetry collection)
I syng of a mayden
William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
In Flanders Fields
In Praise of Limestone
Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi
Jack and Jill
Jans der Enikel
Joan of Arc (poem)
John Keats's 1819 odes
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Khosrovidukht
Joyce Kilmer
Kishvari
Jan Kochanowski
Zygmunt Krasiński
The Lamb (Tavener)
Philip Larkin
Last Post (poem)
Li He
Little Gidding (poem)
Little Orphant Annie
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Al-Ma'arri
Sorley MacLean
Madoc (poem)
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
Mandalay (poem)
Mariana (poem)
Prince Marko
Matsuo Bashō
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Adam Mickiewicz
Midas (Shelley play)
Midnight poem
Hamdallah Mustawfi
Mounseer Nongtongpaw
Luis Muñoz Rivera
Imadaddin Nasimi
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Cyprian Norwid
Nyanyi Sunyi
Daniel O'Connell (journalist)
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Psyche
Odyssey
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
The Old French Tristan Poems
Magnus Olsen
Omkring tiggarn från Luossa
On the Pulse of Morning
Sophia Parnok
Philomela
Sylvia Plath
Henry Poe
Poems and Songs of Middle Earth
Poet Laureate of New Jersey
Prise d'Orange
Abdollah Mirza Qajar
Rambhadracharya
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
Reginald of Canterbury
Richmond Park
James Whitcomb Riley
Salma (writer)
Sappho 2
Sappho 16
Sappho 94
Sappho
Sayf ol-Dowleh
Second circle of hell
Sept haï-kaïs
Sestina
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Falaki Shirvani
Angelus Silesius
Juliusz Słowacki
Christopher Smart
Patti Smith
So God Made a Farmer
Songs of Experience (David Axelrod album)
Songs of Innocence and Experience (Allen Ginsberg album)
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 86
Sonnet 102
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Jacquie Sturm
Sulpicia (satirist)
Humam-i Tabrizi
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Thalaba the Destroyer
Thebaid (Latin poem)
Third circle of hell
Dylan Thomas
Three Bards
Edwin Thumboo
Tithonus poem
The Tolkien Ensemble
Tornada (Occitan literary term)
Translating Beowulf
Trees (poem)
Tulsidas
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Gabriel Turville-Petre
Types of Women
Tristan Tzara
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Doreen Valiente
Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Jones Very
Villanelle
A Vision of the Last Judgement
The Waste Land
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Whitey on the Moon
Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde
Jane Williams
Han Wo
Yu Wuling
Yusuf Meddah
Zhang Hu (poet)
Zhou Bangyan
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editA Lume Spento
Arthur Talmage Abernethy
The Aboriginal Mother
The Absent-Minded Beggar
Abu Firas al-Hamdani
Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
Acallam na Senórach
Felix Aderca
Adynaton
Aetia (Callimachus)
Ahania
Ain't Burned All the Bright
Kaijin Akashi
Aku (poem)
Rabab Al-Kadhimi
Magaly Alabau
Alipashiad
L'Allegro
Alligator Pie
Martin Allwood
Ivy Alvarez
Amar Asha
America, Why I Love Her
America a Prophecy
An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes
Ananda Thuriya
And Still I Rise
List of Maya Angelou works
Ludovic Antal
Lindita Arapi
Nezihe Araz
Ariwara no Narihira
Red Jordan Arobateau
List of awards and honors received by John Ashbery
Atma Siddhi
John Audelay
Babi Yar in poetry
Anton Bacalbașa
Bacchus and Ariadne (poem)
Ștefan Baciu
Anatol E. Baconsky
Kate Baer
Rabia Balkhi
Ballad
The Ballad of Molly Mogg
The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"
Bao Zhao
Baseball's Sad Lexicon
Battle of Brunanburh (poem)
Miquel Bauçà
Baudouin de Sebourc
Beachy Head (poem)
Gentile de' Becchi
Orelia Key Bell
Girolamo Benivieni
Jacqueline Berger
Howard W. Bergerson
Betelguese, a Trip Through Hell
Marițica Bibescu
Becky Birtha
Bivouac of the Dead
Mary Elizabeth Blake
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Blemyomachia
Blood and the Moon
Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss
Barcroft Boake (poet)
Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
Bohemian Embassy
Robyn Bolam
The Bold Canadian
H. Bonciu
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of Urizen
The Book of Ahania
The Book of Los
Boston Hymn
The Botanic Garden
Bovo-Bukh
Einar Bragi
Break, Break, Break
William Edward Frank Britten
The Bronze Horseman (poem)
Arthur Brooke (poet)
Buah Rindu
August Buchner
Burnt Norton
Der Busant
Bush ballad
Ion Buzdugan
Early life of Lord Byron
May Byron
Dolores Cabrera y Heredia
Alberto Caeiro
The Calendar of Nature
Callimachus
Caloian
Barbara May Cameron
James Edwin Campbell (poet)
Juliet H. Lewis Campbell
Cançó de Santa Fe
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
Luca Caragiale
Carmen (verse)
Caroling Dusk
Manuel Carpio
Cathay (poetry collection)
Vladimir Cavarnali
Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi
Cento (poetry)
Hector Munro Chadwick
Chanson de toile
Chen Xiaocui
Chess (poem)
Chevrefoil
A Child's Christmas in Wales
The Chimeras
Chivers' Life of Poe
Thomas Holley Chivers
Cho Ki-chon
Chō Kōran
Chunwang (poem)
Peggy Pond Church
Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges
The Circus Animals' Desertion
McDonald Clarke
Mihai Codreanu
Early life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
Come, O thou Traveller unknown
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
The Conquered Banner
Continental prophecies
Andrieu Contredit d'Arras
Conversation poems
Ina Coolbrith
John Gilbert Cooper
Marshall S. Cornwell
Eusebia Cosme
The Country Without a Post Office
Crusade cycle
Mary Doyle Curran
Curse of Kehama
Sergiu Dan
Dancing the Dream
Danny Deever
Dante da Maiano
Darkness (poem)
Lucretia Maria Davidson
Daniel Webster Davis
Denis Davydov
The Day-Dream
Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)
De vetula
DeCSS haiku
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Decasyllabic quatrain
Sir Degrevant
Dejection: An Ode
Delphica
Traian Demetrescu
Amelia Denis de Icaza
The Descent of Liberty
A Description of a City Shower
A Description of the Morning
The Deserted House
The Destiny of Nations
The Destruction of the Bastile
Margaret Diesendorf
Janus Djurhuus
Berlie Doherty
Matei Donici
The dragon (Beowulf)
The Dry Salvages
Ferdinand Dugué
Dui Bigha Jomi
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
Dura Navis
Durham (poem)
Dàin do Eimhir
East Coker (poem)
Easter Holidays
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Eclogue 4
Rhian Edwards (poet)
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute
Eilhart von Oberge
Eyvindur P. Eiríksson
Fateme Ekhtesari
Eldorado (poetry collection)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elizabeth F. Ellet
George Ellis (poet)
Elogium (literary genre)
Emperor Shaka the Great
End Poem
Enion
Enitharmon
The Eolian Harp
Epic Cycle
Epodes (Horace)
An Essay on Criticism
Estadio Chile (poem)
Eureka: A Prose Poem
Europe a Prophecy
A Fable for Critics
Edwina Hume Fallis
Peter Fallon (poet)
Father Goose: His Book
Margaretta Faugères
Fears in Solitude
The Feast of the Poets
Fernaig manuscript
First circle of hell
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu
Five Childhood Lyrics
Paul Fleming (poet)
Fleurs de Marécage
Bonifaciu Florescu
Jennifer Foerster
Jean Follain
Benjamin Fondane
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes
Foss (cat)
Four Hundred Souls
Four Quartets
The Fox, the Wolf and the Husbandman
France: An Ode
Fraszki
Fredmans sånger
The Free Besieged
James Dillet Freeman
The French Revolution (poem)
Frithegod
Frost at Midnight
Fuzuli (poet)
Cherubina de Gabriak
The Gaze of the Gorgon
František Gellner
Rosemonde Gérard
Gerontion
René Ghil
The Ghost of a Flea
Alice E. Gillington
Nikolay Glazkov
Gondal (fictional country)
The Good-Morrow
A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer
The Grave (poem)
The Great Enigma
Dennis Howard Green
Green Knight
Martin Greif (poet)
Sarah Maria Griffin
Eleonore von Grothaus
Guillaume de Dole
Gulshan-i 'Ishq
The Gypsies (poem)
Habibi (poet)
Gottfried von Hagenau
Christine Haidegger
Sharlot Hall
Peter Hamm
Amir Hamzah
Amir Hamzah bibliography
Hari & Sukhmani
Harlem (poem)
Robert Hass
Hay and Hell and Booligal
Hazaj meter
He Xiangning
The Heathen Chinee
Hebrew Melodies
Pêr-Jakez Helias
Henriade
Hermandad Lírica
Hero and Leander (1819 poem)
A. de Herz
Jacob Hiegentlich
Hissa Hilal
The Hill We Climb
The Hilliad
Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Abraham Holland
Lee M. Hollander
Homeric Hymns
The Hop-Garden
Patrick Hore-Ruthven
Mary Gardiner Horsford
Libby Houston
How to Be Drawn
Maria Howard Weeden
Howard at Atlanta
Sarah Howe
Hsinbyushin Medaw
Hu Zhiying
Huchoun
George Huddesford
Michael Derrick Hudson
Huliya (poem)
The Hunters of Kentucky
Rashid Hussein
Mikołaj Hussowczyk
Hymn Before Sunrise
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Hymns and Spiritual Songs (book)
Hymns for the Amusement of Children
I Hope Like Heck
I Shall Not Be Moved (poetry collection)
I syng of a mayden
D. Iacobescu
Ibitekerezo
List of Icelandic writers
If We Must Die
Īhām
William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
In Defense of Reason
In Eutropium
In Praise of Limestone
Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion
Nicolae Iorga
Emil Isac
An Island in the Moon
Mihai Iștvanovici
George Cecil Ives
Olga Ivinskaya
Ada Jafri
Marcel Janco
Jans der Enikel
Joan of Arc (poem)
Johannesburg (song)
John Keats's 1819 odes
John Milton's poetic style
John Milton's reception history
Evan Jones (writer)
Mary Jones (poet)
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Raimon Jordan
Thomas Jordan (poet)
Jubilate Agno
Jueju
Conxita Julià
Louise Julien
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Juvenilia (poetry collection)
Jørgensen's law
Yaza Datu Kalaya
Kali the Mother (poem)
Kamban Kazhagam
Ariake Kambara
Kamsuan Samut
Remi Kanazi
Dmitry Khvostov
Linda King
The King's Pilgrimage
Kishvari
Jan Kochanowski
John Koethe
Maria Konopnicka
Konrad von Altstetten
Kordian
Zygmunt Krasiński
Kostas Krystallis
Kubla Khan
Quirinus Kuhlmann
Kurds'komu bratovi
Kusumamala
Joyce La Mers
The Lady of the Lake (poem)
Lament of Edward II
Laments (Kochanowski)
M. Travis Lane
Last Post (poem)
Lawrence of Durham
Louisa Lawson
Barbu Lăzăreanu
Georg Christian Lehms
Cynthia Lenige
Li E
Li Ye (poet)
Liberté (poem)
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines Written at Shurton Bars
Lines on an Autumnal Evening
Ephraim E. Lisitzky
Literary Pocket-Book
Little Gidding (poem)
Liu Rushi
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Le livre du chemin de long estude
Lochamer-Liederbuch
Luis Felipe Lomelí
London (Samuel Johnson poem)
Lorelei Fountain
Los (Blake)
The Lost Leader (poem)
The Lotos-Eaters
Lu Zhaolin
Luceafărul (poem)
Lucy Gray
The Lucy poems
Luo Binwang
Luvah
Al-Ma'arri
Alexandru Macedonski
Sorley MacLean
Madoc (poem)
Madwoman (book)
The Maid of Orleans (poem)
Nazik Al-Malaika
Qabaniso Malewezi
Felip de Malla
Itzik Manger
Olivia Manning
Mariana (poem)
Egbert Martin
Theo Marzials
The Matthew poems
Mazeppa (poem)
Jenny McCudden
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Meeting at Night
Melion
Anna Mendelssohn
The Mental Traveller
Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken
Messiah (Latin poem)
Midas (Shelley play)
Avram Miletić
Miscellany
Mississippi–1955
Monody on the Death of Chatterton
Mont Blanc (poem)
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Julia A. Moore
George Pope Morris
Mother to Son
Martha Moulsworth
Doris Mühringer
Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang
María Josefa Mujía
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
Murzynek Bambo
My Country
Myrthen
Nachuk Tahate Shyama
Chūya Nakahara
Imadaddin Nasimi
National Poetry Month
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
Nebuchadnezzar (Blake)
Ion Negoițescu
Negro Poets and Their Poems
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
William Neville (poet)
New Zealand Poet Laureate
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu
Niggers in the White House
The Night of Enitharmon's Joy
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem
Niu Yingzhen
Mehmet Niyazi
Cyprian Norwid
Not Waving but Drowning
Wilfrid Noyce
Nuyorican Poets Café
Nyanyi Sunyi
The Nymphs (poem)
O Armatolos
O Captain! My Captain!
Daniel O'Connell (journalist)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on the Departing Year
Ode to Psyche
Ode to Youth
Odyssey
Oenone (poem)
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
The Old French Tristan Poems
Magnus Olsen
Olympian 1
On Quitting School
On Receiving an Account
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
On being asked for a War Poem
On the Pulse of Morning
On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture
Orc (Blake)
Władysław Orkan
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Ida Ospelt-Amann
Out of All the Masts
Ovi (poetry)
Ovid in the Third Reich
Padamu Jua
The Paddock and the Mouse
Pain: Composed in Sickness
The Palace of Pleasure (poem)
Palinode
The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Larin Paraske
The Pardoner's Tale
Pasquinade
The Passion (Milton)
Augusta Peaux
Samuel Minturn Peck
Theodora Agnes Peck
Peirol
Anne Penny
Il Penseroso
Jackie Hill Perry
Kishen Pershad
Personification
Ștefan Petică
Maria Petrovykh
Hannes Pétursson
Picasso's written works
Pierrot lunaire (book)
Maya Pindyck
Edward Coote Pinkney
Arshi Pipa
Charlotte Pistorius
Pity (William Blake)
Henry Poe
The Poem Tree
Poema Morale
Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne
Poems and Songs of Middle Earth
Poet Laureate of New Jersey
Poet Laureate of Washington
Poetic diction
Poetry of Maya Angelou
The Poets and Poetry of America
Vasile Pogor
Politics (poem)
Yakov Polonsky
Poor Dionis
N. Porsenna
Christian Heinrich Postel
A Prayer for My Daughter
Laurent de Premierfait
The Present Crisis
Dmitri Prigov
Prince of Poets
The Princess Saves Herself in This One
Prise d'Orange
Prometheus (1998 film)
Prussian Nights
Ilie Purcaru
The Queen of Hearts (poem)
Pere de Queralt
Thomas Ragle
Dimitrie Ralet
Works of Rambhadracharya
Rambhadracharya's literary style
Korrie Layun Rampan
Reel (poetry collection)
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
Reginald of Canterbury
Christa Reinig
Eugen Relgis
Religious Musings
The Mysteries: Renaissance Choros
Rhymed prose
Charlotte Caroline Richardson
Richmond Park
William Nauns Ricks
James Whitcomb Riley
Pearl Rivers
Alexandru Robot
Roderick the Last of the Goths
Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara
Gerson Rosenzweig
Annie Rothwell
Round of Applause (Lecrae song)
Nahapet Rusinian
Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer
Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan
Profira Sadoveanu
Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari
Salma (writer)
Salut d'amor
Kazim al-Samawi
Halvor J. Sandsdalen
Francesco Antonio Santori
Iman Budhi Santosa
Sappho
Epes Sargent (poet)
Tayseer Sboul
Anton Schnack
Lynda Schraufnagel
Christian Schreiber (philosopher)
Bill Scott (author)
Sechs Lieder, Op. 59 (Mendelssohn)
Second circle of hell
Serenade (poetry collection)
Seyrani Monument
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Shav Vahini Ganga
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
She'r-e Nimaa'i
Niall Sheridan
Stepan Shevyryov
Badr Shirvani
Falaki Shirvani
Farouk Shousha
Sijo
Sintax the Terrific
Sir Galahad (poem)
Lovro Šitović
Sivion
Per Sivle
Juliusz Słowacki
A slumber did my spirit seal
Christopher Smart
Charlotte Smith (writer)
Snow-Bound
So God Made a Farmer
A Song for Simeon
The Song of Los
A Song to David
Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch
Songs of Muad'Dib
Songs of the Pixies
Sonnets on Eminent Characters
Soup the Chemist
Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt
Spectre (Blake)
St. Simeon Stylites (poem)
Statue of Robert Burns (Milwaukee)
Dimitrie Stelaru
C. J. Stevens
Petre Stoica
The Story of Rimini
Patience Strong
Jacquie Sturm
Margareta Suber
Sukhakarta Dukhaharta
Sara Copia Sullam
Sekou Sundiata
A Supermarket in California
Ale Ahmad Suroor
Alan Swallow
Syair Siti Zubaidah Perang Cina
Symeon of Polotsk
Sympathy (poem)
Kyoshi Takahama
Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said
Mustafa Wahbi Tal
Tamar (poem)
Tears, Idle Tears
Păstorel Teodoreanu
Francisco de Terrazas
Testament mój
Thalaba the Destroyer
Tharmas
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
The Sleepers (poem)
Thebaid (Latin poem)
There is a green hill far away
Third circle of hell
This Dust Was Once the Man
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
D. M. Thomas
Three Bards
Edwin Thumboo
Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu
Chidiock Tichborne
Francis Orray Ticknor
Ștefan Tita
Tithonus poem
To Autumn
To Bowles
To Burke
To Erskine
To Fayette
To Fortune
To Godwin
To Kosciusko
To Lord Stanhope
To Mrs Siddons
To Pitt
To Priestley
To Sheridan
To Southey
To a Young Ass
To the Fourth of July
To the River Otter
Constant Tonegaru
Tornada (Occitan literary term)
The Treatise (Walter of Bibbesworth)
Sandu Tudor
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Ibrahim Tuqan
Gabriel Turville-Petre
Iase Tushi
Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea
Tyolet
Universes (theatre ensemble)
The Unsex'd Females
Upon the Circumcision
Urizen
Urmuz
Urthona
Uta-awase
Vala (Blake)
Vala, or The Four Zoas
Valerik (poem)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Mary Custis Vezey
Vi vil oss et land
José García Villa
The Village Blacksmith
Villanelle
Triztán Vindtorn
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn
The Vision of Dorotheus
A Vision of the Last Judgement
Visionary Heads
I. C. Vissarion
Von guten Mächten
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
David Wagoner
Wall poems in Leiden
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Rebecca Ward
Hans Warren
The Waste Land
We Are Seven
We Wear the Mask
Whitey on the Moon
William of Blois (poet)
Anna Williams (poet)
Jane Williams
Forceythe Willson
Yolanda Wisher
Tibor Wlassics
The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
Early life of William Wordsworth
Edward Alexander Wyon
Yang Jiong
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yusuf Meddah
Sajida Zaidi
Zahida Zaidi
Zhang Jiuling
Zhang Ruoxu
Zhao Luanluan
Zuhayr ibn Janab
Katka Zupančič
Rajzel Żychlińsky
Featured portals
editGood article nominees
editFormer featured articles
editAlliterative verse
American poetry
Mário de Andrade
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Samuel Beckett
Cædmon
The Cantos
Duino Elegies
English poetry
Hrafnkels saga
Muhammad Iqbal
Irish poetry
Rudyard Kipling
Krazy Kat
Modernist poetry in English
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Objectivism (poetry)
Poetry
A Song for Simeon
Rabindranath Tagore
Former featured lists
editFormer good articles
editDeveloping articles: Suggestions, policies, guidelines
editNotability
edit- All articles on poets, poetry and topics related to poetry must meet the general notability guidelines.
- The merits for inclusion of biographical articles on poets ought to be considered against the minimum criteria for biographies WP:ANYBIO and the notability guidelines for creative professionals (known as WP:AUTHOR or WP:CREATIVE); or if the poet is an academic, the notability guideline for academics measured by their academic achievements (known as WP:ACADEMIC). Articles on people who do not meet these criteria can be proposed for deletion. Articles on poets and other persons who are still living must comply with the policies regarding biographies of living persons (WP:BLP).
- Articles on poetic movements or groups must be the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself, in considering the criteria of WP:AUTHOR and the very similar application toward bands and musicians, WP:BAND or WP:MUSBIO.
- Articles on books—be it poetry collections, anthologies, chapbooks, pamphlets, or works of literary scholarship or criticism need to be eligible for inclusion under Wikipedia:Notability (books), with special attention to the criteria listed at WP:BKCRIT.
- Articles on individual poems should be considered as we consider articles on individual songs or albums, per WP:NSONGS, in that they must be the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself.
- If an individual poem does not meet similar notability standards, it is generally advisable to discuss any material on that individual poem in an article on the collection it was from, or at the biography article for the poet. Per the notability guideline for derivative articles, WP:BKD, "it is a general consensus on Wikipedia that articles on books should not be split and split again into ever more minutiae of detail treatment, with each split normally lowering the level of notability." This would be applicable to articles on less-than-notable individual poems—despite however beautiful or meaningful the poem may be.
- Many poetry prizes, poetry journals, literary magazines are often not notable. If a prize, journal, or magazine is to be considered notable, like other topics, must be the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the prize, journal, or magazine.
Article naming and title formatting
editUnfortunately, Wikipedia's Manual of Style and its Naming Conventions are often in conflict or inconsistent when it comes to the naming of articles on creative works. For more information about titling articles, see: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, Wikipedia:Article titles, Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Titles of works, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles.
- Generally, article titles are based on what the subject is called in reliable sources. When this offers multiple possibilities, editors choose among them by considering several principles: the ideal article title resembles titles for similar articles, precisely identifies the subject, and is short, natural, and recognizable.
- In foreign names, the choice between anglicized and local spellings should follow English-language usage—settling on the usage that predominates in English language reliable sources (per WP:UE).
- If a poem, lyric or composition has a title, it is usually formatted in title case. If it is an untitled work and that poem, lyric, or composition uses the first line of text as its title, the title should be formatted in sentence case.
- If an article title is the name of a book or long poem, the title should be presented in italic text. In order to italicize the name of an article, add {{Italic title}} at the top of the article. Mentions of the poem title throughout the article should be italicized. See WP:ITALICTITLE, MOS:ITALIC.
- If an article is about a short poem or lyric, italicization is not necessary, and the title of the poem should be placed in quotation marks. Do not add quotation marks in the name of the article.
- The distinction between a short poem and a long poem is never well-defined and an editor is advised to exercise judgment. The Chicago Manual of Style (8.179) advises to place poem titles in quotation marks except for "very long poems" that could be book length which should be italicized. A good suggestion is that a poem of 80 lines or less can be considered a short poem; and poems greater than 80 to 100 lines, a long poem.
- Example (short poems): Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking" (42 lines)
- Example (long poems): Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (206 lines)
Use of infoboxes
edit- WikiProject Poetry does not require or prohibit the use of infoboxes. Per WP:INFOBOXUSE: The use of infoboxes is neither required nor prohibited for any article. Whether to include an infobox, which infobox to include, and which parts of the infobox to use, is determined through discussion and consensus among the editors at each individual article.
- Articles with an existing infobox that was put in by consensus, or by the article's major contributors, or (on articles that don't get much editing attention) has been in place for a while, usually ought to stay in place.
- We discourage bickering on questions of whether to use infoboxes since it leads to unnecessary edit wars and bitterness. When discussing the issue to reach a consensus, focus on the article's content improvement needs—and what best conveys that content. Neither a position of "I don't like infoboxes, period", nor one of "every article needs an infobox" is a valid rationale. The needs of properly conveying content in the article are what matter.
- Useful infoboxes for our project's articles: Template:Infobox writer, Template:Infobox poem, Template:Infobox book, Template:Infobox hymnal, Template:Infobox publisher, Template:Infobox journal, Template:Infobox award,
Citing and sourcing information
edit- All articles must comply with the expectations of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on citing sources, reliable sources, and verifiability.
- While Wikipedia does not favour any particular citation style over another, scholarly writings on topics relating to literature and the humanities typically employ the MLA or Chicago citation styles, as exemplified in the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, both official publications of the Modern Language Association (MLA); or the Chicago Manual of Style as published by the University of Chicago Press.
- The use of "Harvard Style" parenthetical citations within the article text is strongly discouraged as it reduces the readability of an article and compromises the flow of the prose.
- It is not appropriate to provide analysis or interpretation of a poem that is not supported by reliable sources. Any analysis and interpretation ought to be supported by appropriate citations to relevant books, journal articles and other scholarship from established literary scholars, critics, and historians. Anything that is not appropriately sourced may be construed as original research and removed.
- Per WP:CITEVAR, "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change." We usually defer to an article's first major contributor regarding the choice of citation style, or to the format already in use at an article. This means that an article using <ref> tags or citation templates continues to use that style, unless a consensus is established to change it. If an article's citation format is inappropriate for the article, incomplete, or inconsistently used, raise the question of converting the citation style on the article's talk page and wait at least one week to allow other contributors to comment on the proposal. It is an expected courtesy to contact any major contributors to an article for their comments on the matter.
Quoting from poems and copyright issues
edit- Do not quote poems at length or in their entirety if the poem is still under the protection of copyright. The only exception to this is the brief quotation (only a few lines) of a copyrighted text, under fair use doctrine, if it is analyzed or used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea. Any quotation of copyrighted text must be attributed through an appropriate citation. Any text that is copyrighted and inappropriately used may be removed immediately.
- Quoting a poem at length or in its entirety is only permissible if and only if (a) if the material is in the public domain or copyright has otherwise expired; or (b) permission has been given by the copyright owner.
- For more information, see Wikipedia's policy on non-free content and the guideline for quoting song lyrics and poetry. If you have any questions, ask. If you are in doubt as to the copyright status of a work, ask.
Style for quoting from poems
edit- Do not italicize quoted text.
- All quotations should be cited, either with an appropriate reference tab or citation template, or with a simple parenthetical, like "(lines 31–35)" at the end of the quoted text.
- For discussion of how to format or present scansion, the rhythmic and metrical analysis of verse, see the section on Scansion below.
- If you are quoting only one line of poetry, treat it like any other short quotation.
- If you choose to quote two or three lines of poetry, most style guides advise to quote them within the structure of a sentence by separating the lines by the insertion of a forward slash. While some writers prefer to set off two-line quotations as a block quotation for emphasis, it is not advisable for Wikipedia.
- Example: "Eliot began his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock with an unexpected simile: "Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table".
- If you are quoting four or more lines of poetry, most style guides advise to indent the poem as one would a block quotation. Wikipedia has several formatting methods for block quotations (see Wikipedia:Quotations), including the
{{Quote}}
and{{Quotation}}
templates, or the HTML element for blockquotes, which ought to be used with the element for poems within the blockquoted passage. See also the template{{Poem}}
.- Example of the blockquote HTML elements use, quoting T. S. Eliot "A Song for Simeon" (1928), lines 25–30:
<blockquote><poem>
According to thy word.
They shall praise Thee and suffer in every generation
With glory and derision,
Light upon light, mounting the saints' stair.
Not for me the martyrdom, the ecstasy of thought and prayer,
Not for me the ultimate vision.</poem></blockquote>
Style for rhyme schemes
edit- Articles that explain the rhyme scheme used by a type of poem or a specific poem or author, should link to the article rhyme scheme, so readers who don't know what that is can find out.
- Articles that use notation to specify a rhyme scheme (e.g. ABAB) should use the same notation as Rhyme scheme § Notation and examples so readers who have questions about the notation can learn the details.
- If the rhyme scheme being discussed in the article cannot be handled by any of the notations listed, add a new notation in a similar style to Rhyme scheme § Notation and examples, with a link back to the main article for the phenomenon (as is done for internal rhyme).
- When using mixed uppercase and lowercase, specify in the article whether capital letters represent lines repeated verbatim or if they represent masculine rhymes. (The same notation is used for two different meanings.)
- When quoting from a poem and indicating the rhyme scheme line by line, use a table to line up the letters and prevent them from wrapping in a narrow browser window. (See example at the top of rhyme scheme.)
Translations into English of non-English works
edit- If you are providing a translation of a poem or text, it is advisable to present the comparison between source text and translated text in two columns—the left-hand column being the source text in its original language, the right-hand column being the translation into English. A good example of its use in an article can be found in the article on Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Alternatively, {{Verse translation}} can be used to aid formatting. If the source text is in a language whose alphabetic writing system does not use Latin scripts (i.e. Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Chinese, etc.), use three columns if possible: The left=hand column displaying the source text in its original, non-Latin characters; the center column offering the source text in an established system of transliteration or script conversion into Latin letters, and the right-hand column offering a translation in English. If you do not know how to use columns, ask another Wikipedian for help on this WikiProject's talk page.
- It is preferred that if a translation is necessary in an article on a poem or lyrical text that an editor use a verbatim or literal translation of the source text. Many translations, especially those created before the twentieth century, are not accurate because the focus of many translations is constrained by rhyme and meter or artistic license is taken by the "translator". Earlier translators either did not give priority to accurately translating the text, or their work does not accurately represent the source text.
- We can use a translation of a poem only if the translation is (a) in the public domain, (b) its copyright has expired, or (c) permission is granted to use said translation by the copyright owner. Do not use a translation of a poem that is currently under copyright. Any texts, including translations, that are under copyright must be removed per Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry#License considerations
- If you are analyzing a brief excerpt or section of a poem, you may use a brief excerpt of a translation currently under copyright under a fair use rationale provided that (1) the quoted is brief (i.e., no more than a few lines) and (2) full credit to the translator is given through compliance with policies on citing sources. Lengthy excerpts do not qualify for fair use.
- If there are no free alternatives available, a user who is knowledgeable about the foreign language of the poem and confident in translating the text is encouraged to provide their own literal translation or a close-to-literal poetic translation. A basic verbatim translation does not violate the policies on original research (WP:OR) or synthesis (WP:SYNTH), and Wikipedia's policies and guidelines encourage users to provide accurate translations, see: WP:SYNNOT and WP:NOTOR#Translation and contextualizing.
- If you do choose to provide a translation of a poem for an article, please consider asking another user to check your work. Either ask another Wikipedian directly or place a message on this WikiProject's talk page.
- If you are not proficient in a foreign language, do not translate the poem. Do not use a translation from Google, Babelfish, or any other online translation service. Please contact another Wikipedian who advertises their ability in the relevant language and ask if they could provide a translation, or request a translation on this WikiProject's talk page.
External links to material under copyright
edit- If you find the text of a poem or a translation of a poem elsewhere on the internet it can be used in an article or provided as an external link if and only if (a) if the material is in the public domain or copyright has otherwise expired; or (b) permission has been given by the copyright owner. Do not add an external link to any online source or website whose content violates the intellectual property rights of artists, poets, publishers, or other creative interests (per WP:ELNEVER)
- If a poem is currently in the public domain or copyright has otherwise expired, it should be added to Wikisource.
Other considerations
edit- The use of logical quotations is encouraged, irrespective of any rules associated with the variety of English in use. Therefore, "place all punctuation marks inside the quotation marks if they are part of the quoted material and outside if they are not".
Templates
editWhat to type: | What it makes: | What it's for | ||||||||||
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{{WPPoetry}} |
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The notice or template to indicate an article is part of the project. Place on talk pages. | ||||||||||
{{Portal|Poetry}}
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Provides a link to the Poetry portal for easy subject navigation. To be placed at the top of "see also"/"related topics" sections only. | |||||||||||
{{User WPPoetryMember}} |
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Userbox for members of the project, for display on user pages. | ||||||||||
{{User:Scepia/poetry}} |
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Userbox for readers of poetry, not necessarily members of the project. | ||||||||||
{{poetry-stub}} | The stub template for general poetry articles. | |||||||||||
{{poem-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poems. | |||||||||||
{{poet-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poets. |
Content expectations and article structure
editNational poetries
editArticles devoted to national poetries should be chronological in structure, beginning with the earliest known poetry from that country in question. The article should cover the principal periods and give brief information on the main poets, groups and movements in each period. Some attempt should be made to indicate factors that link and/or differentiate each period. Any important influences from other poetries should also be mentioned. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Some assistance may be available through WikiProject Historical Information.
- Examples
Well-developed articles:
Other priorities:
Poetry groups or movements
editArticles covering poetry groups or movements should cover the main members of the group, the stated aims or poetic and any important dates or key publications in the group's history. Other poets or groups/movements that the group being discussed were influenced by or reacting against should also be mentioned, as should the general cultural context. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
- Example
Individual poets
editArticles discussing individual poets should adhere to normal Wikipedia biography conventions. The poet's early influences, associations with any groups or movements, and main publications should be mentioned, along with any later poets, groups or movements they may have strongly influenced. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are advised where the intention is to push the article to featured status.
- Examples
Individual poems
editIf the poem in question is quite short, it should be added to the article, per WP:L&P. If it is a long poem, it should be linked, either from WikiSource, or from another website. The text of poems which are not copyrighted should in general be placed in WikiSource.
An article on an individual poem, besides the poem itself, should describe the publication history of the poem, and the critical response to the poem. Other matters that could be covered include: the circumstances in which the poem was written, the structure and style of the poem, and references made in the poem.
- Examples
- The Waste Land
- Mr Bleaney
- In Memoriam A.H.H.
- The Cantos (and List of cultural references in The Cantos)
Styles, forms, techniques, lists, general topics
editInclude definitions, history including dates, notable poets associated and examples where appropriate. Lists should be annotated and illustrated where appropriate. Where there are red links on a list, please consider writing stubs or longer entries. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
- Examples
Poetry prizes
editScansion
editScansion is the act of analyzing and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse. Ideally Wikipedia will scan consistently across articles. Metrical verse is extremely diverse, especially across languages and over time, so universal consistency of scansion may not be possible or even desirable, but this advice will serve most English verse well, and may be useful for verse in other languages, too.
Binary marks
editIn a line of verse each syllable should be marked: ictic syllables with a slash "/", and nonictic syllables with an "x" — or preferably a multiplication sign "×". It is vital to distinguish between a metrical scansion (as is recommended here) and a rhythmic scansion (which, alone, leads to perdition). For notes on how to incorporate rhythmic notation into a valid metrical scansion, see Optional 2-line scansion below. The line of text is displayed, with a second line of scansion marks above it. Symbols are placed above the first vowel in each syllable. Both lines should begin with a space, so as to display them as monospaced characters; this allows easy WYSIWYG editing and keeps the verse text intact. The verse reference is placed on the same line as the text.
× / × / × / × / × / To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells [1]
This method of display is used in the article Scansion. For an alternate display method, see Alternate markup below.
Pipes
editThe existence, function, and explanatory usefulness of feet in English verse is disputed. Also, while syntactic pauses frequently occur within a line, English verse seldom includes a metrically structural caesura. Therefore it is recommended that both these features remain unmarked unless the specific line requires them. Either can be marked within the text by a pipe "|" or, if they are both marked simultaneously, by a single pipe "|" for feet and two pipes "||" for caesura. Words should not be hyphenated when they are broken up by foot markers.
× / × / × / × / × / × / × / The princely palace of the sun | stood gorgeous to behold × / × / × / × / × / × / × / On state | ly pill | ars build | ed high || of yell | ow burn | ished gold [2]
As can be seen, a cost of including foot or caesura notation is the fragmentation of the verse text.
Extrametrical syllables
editBoth positionally extrametrical syllables and elided syllables can be indicated with parentheses.
× / ×(×) / × /(×) × / × / (×) His acts being seven ages. | At first the infant [3]
The line above contains all 3 types of extrametrical syllables commonly found in iambic pentameter: the first (×) is elided, the second (×) is allowed by a so-called "epic caesura" — a special case in which marking a caesura in iambic pentameter can be useful — and the third (×) is a feminine ending. These distinctions are not made explicit by the scansion, so in cases like this clarification may be required in the article text.
Virtual beats
editIt is often (not always) conceded that certain meters (specifically the wide family of 4-ictic Ballad meters, including Fourteeners, Poulter's measure, and Limericks, among others) allow some line-final ictic positions to be experienced silently. Depending on the context, it may not be important to scan these, in which case one merely scans the syllables present in the text. But if these "virtual beats" require notation, they can be marked with "[/]" thus:
× / × / × / × / I taste a liquor never brewed, × / × / × / [/] From tankards scooped in pearl; × / × / × / × / Not all the vats upon the Rhine × / × / × / [/] Yield such an alcohol! [4]
Note the distinction between brackets here and parentheses above. This helps to emphasize how different the virtual beat is from the extrametrical syllable — the opposite, in fact. Extrametrical syllables are positions that exist in the text, but do not count in the meter; virtual beats are positions that exist in the meter, but not in the text.
(Derek Attridge (who coined the term "virtual beat") would also scan the lines above with "virtual offbeats" (e.g. "[× /]" at the end of lines 2 and 4). This is significant for his system, but is considered counterproductive for Wikipedia; especially since virtual beats frequently pop up in contexts in which one could imagine arguments over whether one was failing to hear 0, 1 or 2 virtual offbeats!)
Alternate markup
editIf no verse text reference, or any other markup, is required on the same lines as the scansion and text, the scansion can be better integrated within the article text by using this markup:
<pre style="border:none;background-color:transparent;margin-left:1em">
- scansion
- verse text
</pre>
This method, too, allows WYSIWYG editing of the displayed lines. It is exemplified below, and is used in the article Iambic Pentameter. Unfortunately, no method allowing both this appearance and markup (like <ref>
) is currently available.
Optional 2-line scansion
editIsn't one line enough? For metrical purposes, yes. But consider these lines:
- When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw,
- The line too labours, and the words move slow; [5]
Many people will find it hard to stomach that not only are these lines metrically identical, but that they are also completely regular:
× / × / × / × / × / When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, × / × / × / × / × / The line too labours, and the words move slow;
What of Pope's alleged sonic reproduction — through over-weighting the line with heavy syllables — of strain and toil? What of the reader's or listener's real experience of that strain? What is scansion good for, if it doesn't show this? Well, metrical scansion is not good for that. Its purpose is to analyze the meter of the line, and this is a binary proposition: all the syllables either function as a beat (ictus) or not (nonictus), and in verse like this (as indeed in most verse) the number of ictuses per line remains stable throughout the poem. There is no way metrically to notate the "extra stresses" that the reader legitimately experiences. These are an issue of verse rhythm. And while scanning only a verse's rhythm leads almost inevitably to a metrical boondoggle, scanning a verse's meter and rhythm can be very enlightening.
2 4 1 4 3 4 3 4 1 4 × / × / × / × / × / When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 1 4 3 4 1 2 1 4 3 4 × / × / × / × / × / The line too labours, and the words move slow;
Here, we've added a rhythmic scansion (1 = lightest stress and 4 = heaviest stress). This closely mirrors the methods used by Otto Jespersen, James McAuley, and Timothy Steele; and serves as a useful informal approximation of the more linguistically technical scansions of Marina Tarlinskaja, Derek Attridge, and Peter L. Groves. Now we can see 1) the variety of stress interrelationships that create the distinctive stress profile of the lines, 2) how these variously stressed syllables realize ictic and nonictic positions within the iambic pentameter, and 3) how, despite the preponderance of heavy stresses, these lines relate structurally to Pope's other heroic lines.
Though relatively objective means can be used to determine fine-grained stress levels like these, they tend to be quite technical. For Wikipedia, these rhythmic scansions may best be left to the scanner's ear.
Text sources
editParticipants
editActive members
editTo join the WikiProject Poetry, edit this section and add #~~~~ and any comments to the end of the following list of members.
- Sad Lil Artsy Guy
- Smmmaniruzzaman
- Daniel C. Boyer
- Smerdis of Tlön
- Kdammers
- Stumps
- hmwith
- User:John Carter
- Wrad
- ImperviusXR
- Albeiror24-Neopanida: Spanish literature and poetry.
- Ericdn
- Easchiff - various contemporary poets (Kay Ryan, Timothy Murphy, Carl Dennis), some awards articles.
- Junius49
- Spanglej Mostly US and UK poets
- Sir Richardson
- Szfski - Classical Arabic and Russian poetry.
- Dcattell Poetry that's lovely, good, and beautiful (and that I can understand).
- Clevelander96 Middle English Poetry, Irish poets in English, Poetics
- Londonjackbooks Works by and about Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.
- Mikhailov Kusserow
- Bertaut
- Christian Roess
- hazelnutmeg -- mostly Latin and Ancient Greek poetry, occasionally editing biographical entries on German, US, or UK poets.
- JoannaSerah (talk) 05:01, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- BanWisco
- Damoon4all
- Khani100--Pakistani and South Asian poetry in English,Urdu and Punjabi
- nmcrae1 -- Contemporary American poets, poetry, and writing culture
- SenchaDragon -- Craft of poetry, new and emerging writers, translation
- Cfsibley --Contemporary poets, EM and Renaissance poetry, woman poets
- MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk · contribs)
- MiltonRoad (talk · contribs) Contemporary female poets, English-language and Spanish-language poets, contemporary poetry/movements
- Village Explainer (talk) 18:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Poet, critic, scholar of prosody
- Hillbillyholiday adds poetry to random articles. Also, recently compiled and organized 60k rhyming words in an intuitive multi-colour format with notes. Email me for a free copy as a word.doc. or if you can help wikify it!
- Drmies
- Thebaitgoat (talk) 03:02, 28 October 2013 (UTC) -- contemporary American poetry, especially Kay Ryan
- Rosario Berganza English Romantic poetry
- Voltaire&Leibniz Voltaire, satire and English romantic poetry.
- ColonelHenry - 2 FA and 8 GA poetry articles. Writes on many poetic traditions, will translate passages for articles, specializes in Eliot, Bunting, Whitman, Rilke, Metaphysical poetry. Planning to write more on Persian poets
- Gairmscoile (talk) 20:26, 25 January 2014 (UTC) - Scottish Literature (specifically Hugh MacDiarmid), Postcolonial Theory and Literary Modernism
- RodneyJ English Romantic Poetry
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- Lynn Hamilton
- Mercurywoodrose improving the poetry portal
- Perry Middlemiss (talk) 23:40, 10 January 2015 (UTC) Australian poetry
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- Josh a brewer (talk) 02:09, 24 August 2015 (UTC) Caribbean, Romantic, Modernist, Postmodern, prosody
- Daphne Lantier (talk · contribs) English Romantic and Victorian poetry.
- It's Harrison! (talk) 22:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- NotAJF Classical poetry, especially Sappho and Catullus
- ch (talk) 19:07, 20 May 2016 (UTC) Chinese classical poetry and 19th century American.
- Cogswell Crowell
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- Ænēās Québécois
- On Tangled Paths 23:42, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- Kwsherwood (talk) 19:03, 1 March 2018 (UTC) Modern, Postmodern, Ethn0poetics American and Experimental
- Maxim Stoyalov
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- Timothy.robbins
- Anthologetes
- Ozywomandias (talk) 05:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC) Indigenous and feminist poetry
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- Jake78541 Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Whitman baby
- Yitz (talk) 05:38, 25 September 2020 (UTC) working on improving pages related to Robert Browning
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- Amir Ghandi (talk) 23:37, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Eddie891 Talk Work 15:03, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- Defwe12 Interested in Gujirati poetry and Beat Poetry, Favorite poets are Tagore, Wilde, Ginsberg, and (Dylan) Thomas
- Otherart (talk) 11:59, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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- Musophilus (talk) 13:28, 29 May 2021 (UTC) Early modern English poetry. Working on increasing recognition of Samuel Daniel
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- A0630! (talk) 23:16, 18 March 2022 (EDT)
- Geoffroi American and English poetry.
- Gabriel سلیمی
- Squidditas
- Goldenrod42 (talk) 23:45, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
- Novo TapeMy Talk Page 22:37, 16 January 2024 (UTC) Hope to start working on expanding English modernists (in particular Crane, Moore, Eliot)
- ContemplativeBanana (talk) 16:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC) Modern and Contemporary American poetry, mostly.
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- Thehumuslayer
- Survivalism (talk) 16:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Kalindoscopy
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- Vergency
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