100 great poets of the world from different eras
List of the most famous poets of the world and the years of their lives, presented by century and historical era.
Ancient world
Homer (c. VIII century BC)
David (X Century BC)
Solomon (c.965 - c.928 BC)
Hesiod (late 8th - early 7th century BC)
Archilochus (7th century BC)
Sappho (c. 612 BC - c. 572 BC)
Valmiki (between 5th-4th centuries BC)
Gaius Valerius Catullus (87 or 84-54 BC)
Publius Virgil Maro (70-19 BC)
Quintus Horace Flaccus (65-8 BC)
Publius Ovid Nason (43 BC - 17 or 18 BC)
Qu Yuan (c.340 - c.278 BC)
Middle Ages
Kalidasa (circa 5th century)
Li Bo (701-762)
Du Fu (712-770)
Abu Abdallah Jafar Rudaki (c.860-941)
Abulkasim Firdowsi (between 932 and 941-1020 or 1030)
Omar Khayyam (1048-1123)
Li Qing-zhao (1084-1151)
Peter Borislavich (XII Century)
Shota Rustaveli (XII Century)
Chrétien De Troy (c.1130 - c.1191)
Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
Saadi Muslihiddin Shirazi (between 1203 and 1210-1292)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
Hafiz Shamsiddin (1325-1389 or 1390)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Renaissance
François Villon (1431 or 1432-1463)
Alisher Navoi (1441-1501)
Sebastian Brant (c.1458-1521)
Ludo vico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Luis Vazha de Camões (1524 or 1525-1580)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
François de Malherbe (c.1555-1628)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
17th century
John Milton (1608-1674)
Savignen Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695)
Nicolas Boileau-Depreo (1636-1711)
Jean Racine (1639-1699)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
18th century
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
James Macpherson (1736-1796)
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1746-1832)
Evariste Parny (1753-1814)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
André Marie Chenier (1762-1794)
19th century
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Pierre Jean Beranger (1780-1857)
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)
Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky (1783-1852)
George Gordo n Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803-1873)
Henry Longfellow (1807-1882)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Alfred De Musset (1810-1857)
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov (1814-1841)
Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko (1814-1861)
Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (1820-1892)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877/1878)
Apollon Nikolaevich Maikov (1821-1897)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)
Paul Marie Verlaine (1844-1896)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
20th century
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873-1924)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921)
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)
Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)
Thomas Eliot (1888-1965)
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (1895-1925)
Paul Eluard (1895-1952)
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky (1910-1971)
Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky (1940 - 1996)
Top 30 World Poets of All Time
according to the editors of the Selection portal
When compiling the rating, the following factors were taken into account: world fame of the poet, national popularity and significance, historical impact on world and national poetry, the number of publications of the poet's works in all countries and for all time, places occupied in authoritative ratings and voting
1. William Shakespeare
2. Homer
3. Dante Alighieri
4. George Gordon Byron
5. Alexander Pushkin
6. Rabindranath Tagore
7. Virgil
8. Li Bo
9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. William Wordsworth
11. Francesco Petrarca
12. Heinrich Heine
13. Ferdowsi
14. Matsuo Basho
15. Rainer Maria Rilke
16. Percy Bysshe Shelley
17. Mikhail Lermontov
18. John Keats
19. Robert Frost
20. Charles Baudelaire
21. William Blake
22. Horace
23. Du Fu
24. William Butler Yeats
25. Paul Verlaine
26. Friedrich Schiller
27. Federico Garcia Lorca
28. Saadi
29. Ovid
30. Emily Dickinson
100 Greatest Poets of All Time (Ranker List)
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is an English poet, playwright and actor, considered the greatest writer in the English language and the world's foremost playwright.
The legendary ancient Greek poet Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The ancient Greeks believed that he was the first and greatest of the poetic poets.
Dante Alighieri
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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William Blake
William Blake was an English painter, poet and engraver. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a significant figure in the history of poetry and the visual arts.
William Butler Yeats
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Walt Whitman
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Rudyard Kipling
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Emily Dickinson
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henrik Ibsen
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Alexander Pushkin
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Robert Frost
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Pablo Neruda
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Rabindranath Tagore
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George Gordon Byron
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Robert Burns
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Friedrich Schiller
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Thomas Eliot
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John Keats
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William Wordsworth
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Charles Baudelaire
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Friedrich Hölderlin
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Dylan Thomas
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Vazha-Pshavela
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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Oscar Wilde
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Francesco Petrarca
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Joseph von Eichendorff
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Annette von Droste-Hulshoff
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August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
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Charles Bukowski
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Vladimir Vysotsky
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Virgil
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John Milton
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Luis de Camoens
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Edward Astlin Cummings
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Jalaladdin Rumi
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Quintus Horace Flaccus, better known simply as Horace, was the great ancient Roman poet of the "golden age" of Roman literature.
Hans Sachs
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Pindar, one of the most significant lyric poets of Ancient Greece, was included in the canonical list of the Nine Lyricists by scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.
Sylvia Plath
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Ulrich von Liechtenstein
Ulrich von Liechtenstein - medieval German poet of the late Minnesang period, captain (head of the land) of Styria.
Omar Khayyam
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Alexander Pope
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Giacomo Leopardi
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Mikhail Lermontov
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Sir Walter Scott
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Heinrich Heine
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John Donne
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Wallace Stephens
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Torquato Tasso
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Victor Hugo
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David Herbert Lawrence
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Paul Verlaine
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Lewis Carroll
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Johann Gottfried Herder
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Nikoloz Baratashvili
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Thomas Murner
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Philip Larkin
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Ana Kalandadze
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Ferenc Kazinci
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Robert Herrick
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Ezra Pound
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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William Carlos Williams
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Mark Twain
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Edmund Spencer
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Seamus Heaney
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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François Villon
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Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Po, he is often referred to as the greatest of Chinese poets.
Maya Angelou
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Andrew Marvell
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Langston Hughes
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Alfred Edward Houseman
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Christopher Marlo
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Matthew Arnold
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Christina Rossetti
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George Herbert
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Jan Kochanowski
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Boris Pasternak
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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John Dryden
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Lucretius
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List of the 100 Best Famous Poets in History by PoetrySoup
List of the best poets of all time, selected by the members of PoetrySoup.
Poetry Soup is a huge international community of over 30,000 poets. PoetrySoup contains over 500,000 poems written by a wide variety of amateur, professional and famous poets. PoetrySoup offers many services through its website, and its members promote and organize frequent poetry contests.
At the same time, the organizers of the voting. note that the use of the term "best poets" is probably not entirely incorrect for this list, because the list was determined by visitors to a website with a Western bias. In addition, probably more preference was given to modern poets.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
List of all poets in the world on Wikipedia (in English)
Russian literature can be called an amazing phenomenon. It is very large and varied. Russian writers wrote works that are known and loved not only in Russia, but throughout the world. A great contribution to world literature was made not only by prose writers, but also by poets. Although continuity is visible in their works, they still have their own unique features. Among all Russian poets, one can single out the most significant and beloved ones who have made a special contribution to the culture of the country. Together with the site about poetry morestihov.ru, we have prepared a rating of the 10 most famous poets of Russia.
Mikhail Lomonosov
This man is considered one of the greatest in the history of the state. He was a universal man, but poetry can also be named among his merits. He introduced innovations into it that influenced the work of many poets who worked in the 19th century. He made poetry more popular and also more understandable to people. It is important to note that before his innovations, poetry in Russia was incomprehensible and rather rude.
He did a very great job, bringing together the theoretical knowledge about versification, which he developed on his own. He himself wrote solemn odes, which other poets began to write more and more often after him. Among his works can be called an ode to Catherine the Great. In this work, pathos and turns are visible, which are characteristic of most of Lomonosov's works.
Alexander Pushkin
Even Tsar Nicholas I recognized the unique mind of this great poet. This is evidenced by historical fact. The tsar spoke this way about Pushkin after many hours of conversation with him. In this poet, an ardent character was combined with a developed intellect. Pushkin was able to notice things that a more ordinary mind could not comprehend. He had the ability to vividly and accurately describe the feelings experienced by the human soul at different moments of life. Pushkin is considered the greatest poet today. No one has been able to surpass this genius of poetry. He could beautifully and poetically convey the most subtle human feelings. Most of Pushkin's poems are written in Byron's style, and also have features of romanticism in general.
The poet could have fun at balls, have fun talking with his comrades, but at the same time he could very seriously discuss the most serious questions concerning the fate of Russia. This man wrote a lot of great works, but his novel written in verse "Eugene Onegin" can be called the pinnacle. The poet worked on it for many years. Pushkin's style became an example for all the poets who worked after him. Many of them were very talented. But could someone reach the same heights that this brilliant man reached?
Mikhail Lermontov
This talented poet can be called Pushkin's successor. Unfortunately, his fate was tragic. Lermontov became famous thanks to the work "The Death of a Poet". This deep poem reflects the pain that is felt from the loss of a great genius. The poem was written in gloomy tones, but retained the romantic style inherent in Pushkin. In his works, the poet conveyed emotional experiences to people. They felt the tragedy and hopelessness that a talented, creative person experiences in the world of other people. Lermontov was a romanticist, but themes that would be inherent in the Silver Age also appeared in his works. In the poems "Masquerade", "Demon", as well as in many poems, one can trace a similar theme. Here the poet sings of love of freedom, the inevitability of fate, shows hostility to cynicism.
The poet's poems were permeated with tragic pathos. A year before the duel in which Lermontov died, he wrote the prophetic poem "Dream", which describes the corpse of a man who died from a shot.
Nikolai Nekrasov
A lot of people came to the funeral of this great poet. They belonged to different social classes. F. M. Dostoevsky was also present there. He delivered a speech in which he placed the work of Nekrasov next to the poems of Pushkin and Lermontov. After these words, one of those present shouted that Nekrasov was even higher than these poets. Nekrasov's works really represent a great legacy. His works significantly influenced the further development of literature in Russia. The poems contained themes that were touched upon by his great predecessors. This is the theme of the peasantry and patriotism. In addition to them, the poet also touched on civil themes, which have a revolutionary connotation.
Often the poet was accused of leading a secular lifestyle, which is characteristic of aristocrats. But, despite this, the poet can be called "folk". He talked a lot with peasants and the poor, describing their life and feelings. For this, the poet became loved by the people.
In addition to engaging in poetry, Nekrasov was also the editor of the journals Otechestvennye Zapiski and Sovremennik. This man was one of the first who saw the talent of Dostoevsky, Tyutchev and other great figures of literature.
Fedor Tyutchev
This poet preferred in his poems to describe not rational thoughts, but the emotions and feelings of a person. His followers were called "poets of pure art". Tyutchev, on the other hand, could be considered the founder and ideological leader of this trend in poetry. The main themes of his poems were the feelings of people, the beauty of nature.
Alexander Blok
This poet belongs to the next generation of writers. He worked in the 20th century, which was characterized by new trends in poetry. This time was a special era, which is called the "Silver Age". Alexander Blok was one of the most significant poets belonging to this generation. The current to which he belonged is called symbolism.
There is a thin line between the two worlds in his works. One world is commonplace, and the other is eternity and mysticism. The poet tried to find clues that would show him the meaning of human existence in the things that surrounded him daily. In his later work, Blok replaced his pathetic creativity, which was directed into the unknown, to fear and despair. This happened during the revolution. Separately, it is worth noting the poem called "The Twelve". This work is still not fully understood even by specialists who study the life and work of the poet in detail. It combines religious symbolism and a vague post-revolutionary mood.
Sergey Yesenin
At the very beginning of his work, this unique poet wrote poems in the style of Imagism. This trend was very fashionable at that time. But later his works acquired a peasant theme. Yesenin can be called a cult figure in history. It combined a restless disposition and a subtle, beautiful soul. Yesenin's work is based on love for the native nature, the peasants. He sings of Russian forests, lakes, Russian villages with birches and huts.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
This poet can be called an innovator in poetry. His style was like no other. The rhythm of his poems is like a knock. The theme of his works is a cry about the fate and greatness of the country, which in sound could be compared with the roar of a whole crowd of people. In addition to rebellious themes, lyrical themes were also present in his work. This speaks to the versatility and uniqueness of this person.
It is also important to note that children's poems were also present in Mayakovsky's work.
Russian poet Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (real name Gorenko), a bright representative of the creative intelligentsia, wife of the famous poet Nikolai Gumilyov until 1918. After publishing his first poems in 1912, Akhmatova became a cult figure among the intelligentsia and part of the St. Petersburg literary scene. Her second book, Rosary (1914), was critically acclaimed, who praised the virtues of deliberate, carefully crafted verse, in contrast to the vague style of the Symbolists that dominated Russian literature of the period.
Anna Azhmatova wrote a lot of lyric poetry, piercing love poetry is loved by millions of people of different generations. But her sharp attitude in her work to the excesses of power led to a conflict. Under Soviet rule, there was an unspoken ban on Akhmatova's poetry from 1925 to 1940. During this time, Akhmatova devoted herself to literary criticism, in particular the translation of Pushkin into other languages.
Changes in the political climate finally allowed Akhmatova to be accepted into the Writers' Union, but after World War II, there was an official decree banning the publication of her poetry. Her son, Lev, was arrested in 1949 and spent in prison until 1956. To try and win his release, Akhmatova wrote poetry praising Stalin and the government, but it was to no avail.
Although Akhmatova often faced official government opposition to her work during her lifetime, she was deeply loved and praised by the Russian people, in part because she did not leave her country during difficult political times. Her most accomplished works, Requiem (which was not published in full in Russia until 1987) and Poem Without a Hero, are a reaction to the horror of the Stalinist terror, during which she experienced artistic repression as well as tremendous personal loss. Akhmatova died in Leningrad, where she spent most of her life, in 1966.
The best poets of the world are selected according to three criteria:
1. Time. Individuals who died more than half a century ago are considered. That is how much time the admirers of poets need in order for the husk and hype to be eliminated from the name.
2. The names of the "First Poets" have been chosen. These are such pillars, the significance of which is not disputed by anyone. In Russia - Pushkin and Lermontov, in the USA - E. Poe, in Germany - Goethe, in Ukraine - Shevchenko, in England - Byron and Shakespeare, in Scotland - Burns, in Portugal - Camoens, in Italy - Dante, in Japan - MatsuoBasho , in Uzbekistan - Alisher Navoi, in Georgia - Shota Rustaveli, in China - Li Qing-Zhao and Qu Yuan, in Persia - Omar Khayyam and Ferdowsi, in Greece - Homer and Sappho, in India - Rabindranath Tagore.
These are the first figures in the political alignments and they are the first to suffer at the hands of the enemies of their countries. Terrible and bitter event - in Israel destroyed the only surviving image of the greatest poet of Georgia - Rustaveli.
3. Name on hearing. Among the many poets to choose the best - useless work. The names of poets known to every cultured person, such as Francois Villon, Serano de Bergerac and André Chenier.
The first poets of the Middle Ages
The Chinese Du Fu and Li Bo are two poet friends and associates, whose names are inextricably linked with each other in the memory of their descendants;
Li Qing Zhao is the second female poetess in the history of mankind after Sappho.
The Chinese themselves, with mild irony, tell an anecdote that when Europeans ran through the forests after an animal with clubs and dressed in skins, the Chinese already wore silk robes and composed harmonious poems on thin paper;
Persia gave the world the great poet and scientist Omar Khayyam. To this day we are reading his ingenious rubaiyat.
Dante Alighieri is a great Italian who glorified Florence with his love story for Beatrice and created the Divine Comedy.
Francesco Petrarca is another Italian whose love for the Madonna Laura brought to the world the greatest lyric poet.
The first names in the poetic history of the Renaissance
François Villon - French adventurer, great criminal poet. A fighter, a drunkard and a rogue, the author of the sensational "Ballad of the Hanged".
The Uzbek poet-intellectual Alisher Navoi is the creator of the "Treasury of Thoughts", "Khamsa" and "Divan Fani" collection.
William Shakespeare is a man of legend whose secrets he took with him. It is not known whether there was a genius, or some other great poet worked under this pseudonym, we still honor the poem “Venus and Adonis”, “Dishonored Lucretia” and read his brilliant sonnets.
Great names of poets of the 17th century.
Jean Lafontaine is the French successor of Aesop's work. Lafontaine's fables are elevated to the heights of poetic art and are relevant to this day.
Matsuo Basho. A Japanese poet and traveler who has glorified his name through the ages with precise and poignant haiku.
The best poets of the XVIII century
G.R. Derzhavin is the first Russian poet to receive the title of classic during his lifetime. In the USSR, they did not really like to mention his name, because. Gavrila Romanovich received fame for the spiritual ode "God". For "Ode to Felitsa" Catherine II granted the poet the position of Olonets, and then Tambov governor.
The great Scot Robert Burns is one of the most beloved authors in Russia. The works of Burns are known to the Russian reader thanks to the unsurpassed translations of Samuil Marshak and T.L. Shchepkina-Kupernik.
Friedrich Schiller is the genius of German and world poetry. The trilogy "Camp Wallenstein", the tragedies "Mary Stuart" and "The Maid of Orleans", "The Bride of Messina" and "William Tell". Schiller's creative translations are loved in Russia thanks to the talent of V. Zhukovsky. Such monsters of poetry as Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev and Fet did not shy away from Schiller's translations.
Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky - it is impossible to overestimate the contribution of this brilliant poet and translator to the promotion of foreign poetry in Russia. The kindest soul and talented person, Vasily Andreevich created the structure of a poetic work in such a way that you don’t even notice that you are reading a translation, the translation is so meticulously done. His ballads "Lyudmila", "Cassandra", "Svetlana" brought the poet all-Russian fame and popular love.
George Gordon Byron - the genius of English poetry, the author of Childe Harold and Manfred, Don Juan and Dante's Prophecy.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is our everything in poetry and prose, a nugget and a giant among dwarfs. The sun of Russian poetry and the representative of everything spiritual that is in the Russian personality.
The value of Pushkin is great not only for every Russian person, it is invaluable for every nation. The number of articles about the First Poet already exceeds hundreds of thousands. And one can re-acquaint oneself with his works all one's life, each time finding in them something deep, intimate.
F.I. Tyutchev
“You can’t understand Russia with the mind,
Do not measure with a common yardstick:
She has a special become -
One can only believe in Russia.”
In these lines - the whole Fedor Ivanovich.
M.Yu. Lermontov is another pillar of Russian poetry. Contemporaries said about him that, it seems, "Pushkin did not die without an heir." The poems "Mtsyri" and "A Hero of Our Time" are required to study at school, because it is impossible to consider yourself an educated person if you do not know such grandiose works.
T.G. Shevchenko is the great son of the Ukrainian people, the author of the collection "Kobzar", "Haydamaki", "Three Years".
ON THE. Nekrasov is one of the three suns of Russian poetry - one of the trinity of the best, the great ones - Derzhavin, Pushkin, Nekrasov. Author of the epic poems "Frost Red Nose" and "Who in Russia live well."
A.A. Blok - the bulk of the creative genius - the work of "The Twelve".
A.A. Akhmatova and N. Gumilyov are a poetess and a poet who married and happily united not only destinies, but also talent.
B.L. Pasternak is a brilliant poet of the Silver Age, who loved his homeland and gives us all an example of selfless service to her.
M.I. Tsvetaeva - there is hardly a cultured person who has not heard of her. A difficult fate, repression did not break the spirit of a proud woman. Even in terrible years, she found the strength to create.
V.V. Mayakovsky - man is a stone, man is a mouthpiece, man is progress. Torn poetry did not hide the soul of the romantic: “Would you be able to play the nocturne on the drainpipe flute?”
S.A. Yesenin is the brightest and most lyrical chanter of "birch Russia".
Goodbye my friend, goodbye. His last poem is impossible to read calmly:
In this life, dying is not new,
But to live, of course, is not newer.
Russian literature is a truly large-scale and grandiose phenomenon. Dozens of cult novels are revered both at home and in other countries. The wonderful Russian poetry, which has absorbed all the best that was created in Europe, deserves special attention. But, despite the obvious continuity, Russian poetry has managed to create something unique and extremely national. And, of course, among the many cult poets, there are those who are especially fond of readers and whose contribution to the development of Russian culture can hardly be overestimated.
One of the most prominent representatives of Russian history. Perhaps the most versatile person in Russia, M.V. Lomonosov was also a great poet, whose innovative inventions in the field of versification influenced a whole generation of Russian poets of the 19th century. In fact, Lomonosov was the one who popularized poetic creativity, made poetic language easier and more understandable for the reader, that is, gave it true beauty, because before Lomonosov's experiments in this area, versification in Russia was rough and difficult to understand.
Having carried out a truly titanic work in developing the theory of Russian versification, in practice Lomonosov was a master of the solemn ode, a genre that, even after his experiments, would be in great demand among Russian poets. Among the works of this genre is a cult ode to Empress Catherine the Great. Her style and rhythm very well characterize all the poetic work of a genius - typical turns and grandiose pathos like the stanzas "Come, Russian joy - Come, desire of hearts ...".
There is one noteworthy historical fact - when Nicholas I received Pushkin in the Imperial Palace and had many hours of conversation with him, the sovereign said: "Now I have met the most intelligent person in the history of Russia." This phrase of the emperor very accurately characterizes Pushkin's personality - the poet's ardent and sometimes mischievous disposition was in harmony with a very fine-minded mind, developed beyond his years. Pushkin's wisdom, his ability to subtly notice details and very successfully describe the emotional impulses of the human soul did their job - Pushkin is still considered "the sun of Russian poetry." His poems, inspired by Byron's style and romanticism in general, conveyed all the deepest feelings - love, compassion, mercy, patriotism.
A reverent attitude to the patriarchal nature of Russian tradition and culture was mixed with the frivolity of secular balls, cheerful friendly conversations and serious talk about the future of the Fatherland. Pushkin's many years of work, the pinnacle of his work - the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" - is not in vain called the "encyclopedia of Russian life." The style of poetry, its airy harmonious mood will become the standard of versification for decades to come, and, despite the large number of brilliant poets, only a few managed to even come close to what Pushkin created.
One of the most tragic poets in Russia, Mikhail Lermontov, rightfully became Pushkin's successor. Having become famous thanks to the touching poem "The Death of a Poet", where one feels anguished and endless pain for the fate of a genius, Lermontov also continued Pushkin's romantic tradition, embellishing it with darker tones. Lermontov showed readers his spiritual metamorphoses, feelings of extreme hopelessness and tragedy of a creative personality, the impossibility of its adaptation in the world of the 19th century. Being nominally a romanticist, in Lermontov's work one can already guess the themes on which the currents of the Silver Age will be built. His poems "Mtsyri", "Demon", "Masquerade" and numerous poems have a different plot, but touch on similar motives, namely the love of freedom, attempts to escape from the world of lies and cynicism and, of course, the inevitability of fate, fate.
The tragic pathos of Lermontov's lyrics seemed to materialize in his life, which ended so quickly, and which the poet almost accurately predicted a year before the fatal duel in the poem “Dream”: “A familiar corpse lay in that valley; In his chest, smoking, blackened the wound; And the blood was flowing in a cooling stream.
At the funeral of Nekrasov, a huge number of people gathered, and of different classes. One of the speeches was made by the great Russian writer F.M. Dostoevsky. In it, he said that Nekrasov was on the same level as Pushkin and Lermontov. The story goes about a man from the crowd who shouted that Nekrasov was even taller than them. Indeed, the legacy of Nekrasov, his touching and at the same time majestic poems and works had an undeniable influence on Russian literature. Taking from his two predecessors the theme of the peasantry and love for the Motherland, the Russian village, Nekrasov expanded it with civil, sometimes even revolutionary pathos.
Despite the fact that Nekrasov was often accused of a truly aristocratic lifestyle, the poet was still “folk”, he existed in the same reality with the peasants and the destitute, transferring their feelings and thoughts to paper.
In addition, many people forget one of Nekrasov's main achievements - his editorial work. Being a brilliant poet, Nekrasov also perfectly managed the magazines Sovremennik and Otechestvennye Zapiski. Moreover, he saw talent in such cult writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, etc., raising them to the horizon of Russian literature.
Tyutchev was one of those poets who counterposed the true nature of feelings and emotions to the rationalism and utilitarianism of art. Such poets would later be called "poets of pure art". And Tyutchev was rightfully the leader of this movement. Looking at and describing the spirit and "melodiousness" of the surrounding nature, the elements, as well as similar human feelings - these are the main and main motives of Tyutchev's lyrics.
The 20th century was marked by the emergence of new trends in Russian literature. In the future, they all took shape in one big era called the "Silver Age". One of the main figures of this era, namely the current symbolism, was an outstanding Russian poet
His work is a fine line between mysticism, something eternal, detached on the one hand, and everyday, ordinary on the other. Blok was looking for clues in the world around him that would help him understand the meaning of being. Later, when the Bolshevik plague hung over Russia, Blok's pathos, directed to space and the unknown, will be replaced by some kind of sick despair and the realization that changes in the country will inevitably destroy the freedom that Blok was trying to find. Standing apart in the poet's work is the poem "The Twelve" - still not fully understood work, where symbolism, rooted in the Gospel and the gloomy post-revolutionary atmosphere of Petrograd, was mixed in a real cocktail.
A nugget poet, who at the beginning of his career was fond of the then-fashionable imagist, Yesenin later became the main face of the new peasant poetry and, in combination, one of the most iconic figures in the history of Russia. Boundless love for the motherland, its dense forests, deep lakes, a description of the patriarchal and spiritual atmosphere of the Russian village with a hut, a key element of Yesenin's poetry - this is the foundation on which Yesenin's work rests.
An unconditional innovator in versification, whose style by outward appearance resembled a rhythmic knock. Inside the lyrics there is a loud howl about the fate of the motherland, its greatness, which sounds like the unrestrained roar of the crowd at the demonstration. Among other things, Mayakovsky was a truly touching lyricist who, in contrast to his "loud" poetry, was able to show deep love experiences.
Also, do not forget that Mayakovsky contributed to the development of children's poetry, writing several poems specifically for children.
