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A '''poet''' is someone who writes [[poetry]]. Poetry can be written in any language by a poet.

[[Sappho]] was an [[Ancient Greece|Ancient]] Greek poet. She lived in [[Lesbos]], [[Greece]]. She was famous for writing [[Lyric poetry|lyric]] [[love]] poems to women. She wrote in the Ancient [[Greek language]].

Famous [[English language|English]] poets are [[William Shakespeare]], [[Alexander Pope]], [[William Wordsworth]], [[William Blake]], [[John Keats]], and [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Percy Shelley]]. They wrote in the English language. Their poetry comes in different styles and forms. Often their poetry is [[Lyric poetry|lyrical]] and [[Rhyme|rhymes]].

The most famous [[American poetry|American poets]] include [[Emily Dickinson]] and [[Walt Whitman]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ward|first=David C.|title=Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and the War That Changed Poetry, Forever|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/walt-whitman-emily-dickinson-and-the-war-that-changed-poetry-forever-31815/|access-date=2020-11-12|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}}</ref> They wrote in English. Often their poetry did not rhyme. They lived in the [[19th century]] in the United States. Some [[20th century]] American poets include [[Ezra Pound]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Anne Sexton]], and [[John Ashbery]].

Modern [[French people|French]] poets are [[Arthur Rimbaud]] and [[Charles Baudelaire]]. Rimbaud was famous for his poetry collection called “Illuminations.” Baudelaire wrote of beauty, decay, and spirituality in his famous work “Flowers of Evil.”

Great [[Spanish people|Spanish]] poets are [[Garcilaso de la Vega]], [[Federico García Lorca|Frederico García Lorca]], [[Antonio Machado]], and [[Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]]. [[Vicente Aleixandre]] won the [[Nobel Prize]].

Three [[Latin America|Latin American]] [[Latin American poetry|poets]] won the Nobel prize in the 20th century. They include [[Gabriela Mistral]], [[Pablo Neruda]], and [[Octavio Paz]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dion|first=Danielle|title=LibGuides: Spanish: Hispanic Nobel Prize Winners|url=https://stmary.libguides.com/c.php?g=794277&p=5938195|access-date=2020-11-12|website=stmary.libguides.com|language=en}}</ref> They wrote in Spanish.

[[Caribbean]] poets [[Derek Walcott]] and [[Giannina Braschi]] wrote [[epic poetry]]. Winner of the [[Nobel Prize]], Walcott wrote ''Omeros'' and ''In a Green Night'' in English.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/biographical/|access-date=2020-11-12|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Giannina Braschi]] writes [[epic poetry]] in English, [[Spanglish (language)|Spanglish]], and Spanish, including ''Empire of Dreams''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-08-09|title=Giannina Braschi|url=https://pen.org/user/giannina-braschi/|access-date=2020-11-12|website=PEN America|language=en}}</ref>

Ancient [[Chinese people|Chinese]] poets are Wang Wei, Du Fu, and Qu Yuan. They wrote in [[Chinese language|Chinese]] about nature and people.

== Related pages ==
*[[poetry]]
*[[sonnet]]

== References ==
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