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)
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Showing 50 of 289 poets · Letter: AllLaurence Dunbar
1872–1906
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1919–20211 work
L. E. L.
1802–1838
Leonard Cohen
1934–20161 work
Lewis Carroll
1832–18982 works
Li Bai
701–762
Lionel Johnson
1867–1902
Li-Young Lee
b. 1957
Liz Berry
Dates unknown1 work
Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809–18926 works
Lorraine Hansberry
b. 1963
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Dates unknown1 work
Louise Erdrich
b. 19541 work
Louise Gluck
Dates unknown
Louis MacNeice
1907–19633 works
Lucille Clifton
1936–20102 works
Marcus Aurelius
121–1801 work
Margaret Atwood
b. 19391 work
Marianne Moore
1887–19721 work
Mark Doty
b. 19531 work
Martial
40–104
Mary Oliver
1935–20191 work
Mary Robinson
1857–1944
Matthew Arnold
1822–18883 works
Maura Dooley
Dates unknown1 work
Maya Angelou
1928–20142 works
Michelangelo
1475–1564
Naomi Shihab Nye
b. 1952
Nicholas Christopher
b. 1951
Nikki Giovanni
1943–2024
N. Scott Momaday
1934–2024
Ogden Nash
1902–1971
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809–1894
Omar Khayyam
1048–1131
Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
Ovid
42 BCE–172 works
Owen Sheers
Dates unknown1 work
Pablo Neruda
1904–1973
Paul Dunbar
1872–1906
Paul Laurence Dunbar
1872–19062 works
Paul Verlaine
1844–1896
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792–1822337 works
Peter Davison
1928–2004
Philip Larkin
1922–1985
Phillis Wheatley
1753–1784
Pindar
516 BCE–436 BCE
Plato
428 BCE–348 BCE
Primo Levi
1919–1987
Rabindranath Tagore
1861–19412 works
Rainer Maria Rilke
1875–19262 works
