The Master Index — Vol. I
Poetsof the open canon
A comprehensive, alphabetised directory of public-domain poets — sourced from Project Gutenberg, Wikidata, and Poets.org. Every entry opens to a fully indexed profile with works, themes, line-by-line analysis, and biography.
- Indexed poets
- 289
- Total works
- ~2,800
- Centuries spanned
- 30 (since 900 BCE)
Where to begin
Emily Dickinson
1830–1886
The pioneer of interiority and radical syntactical condensation in American poetry — start here for the slant-rhyme & dash that broke the meter.
Walt Whitman
1819–1892
The architect of free verse — an oceanic catalogue of democracy and the self that every modern American poem still answers to.
Sylvia Plath
1932–1963
Stark imagery and unblinking emotional intensity inside tight metric bounds — the canonical lens on confessional poetry.
Jump alphabetically
Showing 50 of 289 poets · Letter: AllAbraham Cowley
1618–16671 work
Adrienne Rich
1929–20122 works
A. E. Housman
1859–19366 works
Aemilia Lanyer
1569–16451 work
Alan Seeger
1888–19161 work
Alexander Pope
1688–17445 works
Alexander Pushkin
1799–18373 works
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809–189211 works
Alfred Noyes
1880–195861 works
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837–190946 works
Allen Ginsberg
1926–19974 works
Amiri Baraka
1934–20142 works
Amy Lowell
1874–192518 works
Andrew Barton Paterson
1864–19412 works
Andrew Marvell
1621–16788 works
Andrew Waterhouse
Dates unknown1 work
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1743–18251 work
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16723 works
Anne Sexton
1928–19742 works
Anthony Hecht
1923–20041 work
Archibald Lampman
1861–189917 works
Archibald MacLeish
1892–19822 works
Audre Lorde
1934–1992
Beatrice Garland
Dates unknown1 work
Ben Jonson
1572–16375 works
Billy Collins
b. 19411 work
Bob Dylan
b. 19411 work
Caleb Femi
Dates unknown1 work
Carl Sandburg
1878–19676 works
Carol Ann Duffy
Dates unknown2 works
Carol Rumens
Dates unknown1 work
Cecil Day-Lewis
Dates unknown1 work
Charles Baudelaire
1821–18673 works
Charles Bukowski
1920–19942 works
Charles Causley
1917–20032 works
Charlotte Mew
Dates unknown1 work
Charlotte Smith
1749–18061 work
Christina Rossetti
1830–189413 works
Christopher Marlowe
1564–15933 works
Christopher Smart
1722–17712 works
Claude McKay
1889–19482 works
Cornelius Eady
b. 1954
Countee Cullen
1903–19464 works
C. P. Cavafy
1863–19332 works
Czesław Miłosz
1911–20041 work
Daljit Nagra
Dates unknown1 work
Dante Alighieri
1265–13214 works
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828–18821 work
David Gascoyne
1916–20011 work
Derek Walcott
1930–20174 works
