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Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseyevich
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian poet and prose writer, composer, critic, and translator who was one of......
Kálvos, Andréas Ioannídis
Andréas Ioannídis Kálvos was a Greek poet who brought an Italian Neoclassical influence to the Ionian school of......
Kästner, Erich
Erich Kästner was a German satirist, poet, and novelist who is especially known for his children’s books. He was......
Kölcsey, Ferenc
Ferenc Kölcsey was a Hungarian Romantic poet whose poem “Hymnusz” (1823), evoking the glory of Hungary’s past,......
Körner, Theodor
Theodor Körner was a German patriotic poet of the war of liberation against Napoleon in 1813 whose death in Lützow’s......
Kürenberger, Der
Der Kürenberger was the earliest of the German poet-musicians called minnesingers known by name. Probably an Austrian......
Kūkai
Kūkai was one of the best-known and most-beloved Buddhist saints in Japan, founder of the Shingon (“True Word”)......
Ásgrímsson, Eysteinn
Eysteinn Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic monk, author of Lilja (“The Lily”), the finest religious poem produced in......
Éluard, Paul
Paul Éluard was a French poet, one of the founders of the Surrealist movement and one of the important lyrical......
Ólafsson, Eggert
Eggert Ólafsson was an Icelandic poet and antiquarian, an outstanding figure in the history of Iceland’s fight......
Ørjasæter, Tore
Tore Ørjasæter was a Norwegian regional poet who worked in the tradition of the ballad and of folk and nature lyrics.......
Øverland, Arnulf
Arnulf Øverland was a Norwegian poet, painter, and socialist whose poems helped inspire the Norwegian resistance......
Ōoka Makoto
Ōoka Makoto was a prolific Japanese poet and literary critic who was largely responsible for bringing contemporary......
Ōtomo Yakamochi
Ōtomo Yakamochi was a Japanese poet and the compiler of the Man’yōshū. Born into a family known for having supplied......
Śrīharsha
Śrīharsha was an Indian author and epic poet whose Naiadhīyacarita, or Naiadha, is among the most popular mahākāvyas......
Şeyhi, Sinan
Sinan Şeyhi was a poet who was one of the most important figures in early Ottoman literature. Little is known of......
Şinasi, İbrahim
İbrahim Şinasi was a writer who founded and led a Western movement in 19th-century Turkish literature. Şinasi became......
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī was a Syrian mystic prose and verse writer on the cultural and religious thought of his......
ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm
ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm was a pre-Islamic Arab poet whose qaṣīdah (“ode”) is one of the seven that comprise the celebrated......
ʿAqqād, ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-
ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād was an Egyptian journalist, poet, and literary critic who was an innovator of 20th-century......
ʿAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn
Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār was a Persian Muslim poet who was one of the greatest Sufi (mystical) writers and thinkers,......
ʿIrāqī
ʿIrāqī was one of the most outstanding poets of 13th-century Persia. Very little is known about ʿIrāqī’s early......
ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah
ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah was one of the greatest early Arabic poets. ʿUmar belonged to the wealthy merchant family......
ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, al-
Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī was a theologian, mathematician, jurist, and astronomer who was a major......
Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah
Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah was an anthologist of Arab antiquities credited with collecting the seven early odes known as......
Ḥarīrī, al-
al-Ḥarīrī was a scholar of Arabic language and literature and government official who is primarily known for the......
Ḥassān ibn Thābit
Ḥassān ibn Thābit was an Arabian poet, best known for his poems in defense of the Prophet Muhammad. Ḥassān had......
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ was one of the finest lyric poets of Persia. Ḥāfeẓ received a classical religious education, lectured on......
Ṣāʾib
Ṣāʾib was a Persian poet, one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized......
Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd
Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd was an Arab poet, author of the longest of the seven odes in the celebrated collection of pre-Islamic......
Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Ṭāhā Ḥusayn was an outstanding figure of the modernist movement in Egyptian literature whose writings, in Arabic,......