Poet Biography Links

Poet Bios Links on Poetry Foundation (or elsewhere)

 Emily Dickinson  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emily-dickinson

William Blake  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-blake

William Shakespeare  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-shakespeare

John Donne  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-donne

John Keats http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-keats

Walt Whitman  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/walt-whitman

Horace http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/horace

William Wordsworth http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/samuel-taylor-coleridge

Percy Bysshe Shelley  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/percy-bysshe-shelley

George Gordon, Lord Byron http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron

Gerard Manley Hopkins  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gerard-manley-hopkins

Paul Laurence Dunbar http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/paul-laurence-dunbar

Robert Frost http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-frost

Robert Herrick http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-herrick

A. E. Housman  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/a-e-housman

Robinson Jeffers http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robinson-jeffers

D. H. Lawrence http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/d-h-lawrence

Omar Khayyam http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/omar-khayaam

Edward Fitzgerald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_FitzGerald_%28poet%29

Edward Lear http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edward-lear

Andrew Marvell http://www.poetryfoundation.org/search/?q=andrew+marvell

William Oldys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Oldys

Edgar Allan Poe http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edgar-allan-poe

Alexander Pope http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alexander-pope

Sir Walter Ralegh http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sir-walter-ralegh

Edmund Spenser http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edmund-spenser

Sir John Suckling http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sir-john-suckling

Alfred, Lord Tennyson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alfred-tennyson

William Butler Yeats  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-butler-yeats

T.S. Eliot http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/t-s-eliot

William Carlos Williams http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-carlos-williams

James Elroy Flecker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elroy_Flecker

Matthew Arnold http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/matthew-arnold

Lewis Carroll http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lewis-carroll

Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-louis-stevenson

Horace http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/horace

John Dryden http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-dryden

Edmund Waller http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edmund-waller

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/henry-wadsworth-longfellow

Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ralph-waldo-emerson

Samuel Daniel http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/samuel-daniel

John Milton http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-milton

Robert Graves  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-graves

George Herbert  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/george-herbert

Thomas Hardy  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-hardy

Edgar Lee Masters http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edgar-lee-masters

William Cowper  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-cowper

John Clare  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-clare

Thomas Campbell http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/thomas-campbell

Leigh Hunt http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/leigh-hunt

Emma Lazarus  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emma-lazarus

Robert Burns  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-burns

Amy Lowell http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amy-lowell

Ben Jonson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ben-jonson

G. K. Chesterton http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/g-k-chesterton

Charlotte Smith http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charlotte-smith

William Cullen Bryant http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-cullen-bryant

Thomas Hood  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-hood

Walter de la Mare  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/walter-de-la-mare

Clement Clark Moore  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/clement-clarke-moore

Robert Southey  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-southey

Wallace Stevens   http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wallace-stevens

Edna St. Vincent Millay  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edna-st-vincent-millay

Lizette Woodworth Reese  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lizette-woodworth-reese

Helen Hunt Jackson  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson

Rupert Brooke   http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rupert-brooke

Hillaire Belloc  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hilaire-belloc

Edith Matilda Thomas  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edith-m-thomas

Christina Rossetti  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/christina-rossetti

Michael Drayton  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/michael-drayton

Walter Savage Landor http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/walter-savage-landor

Sarah Orne Jewett  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sarah-orne-jewett

George Meredith    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/george-meredith

James Russell Lowell   http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-russell-lowell

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/h-d

Rudyard Kipling  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rudyard-kipling

Lola Ridge  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lola-ridge

 Wilfred Wilson Gibson    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wilfrid-wilson-gibson

Georgia Douglas Johnson  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/georgia-douglas-johnson

Robert Browning  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/elizabeth-barrett-browning

Claude McKay  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/claude-mckay

Marianne Moore  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/marianne-moore#poet