Alcaeus

Alcaeus

male
Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene (c. 620 BCE-6th century BCE), Greek lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse; he was an older contemporary...

Ibycus

male
Ibycus, of Rhegium in Italy, was a Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic...

Stesichorus

male
Stesichorus (lit. "he who puts up the chorus") was a Greek lyric poet from Himera in Sicily, who lived from 640 BC to 555 BC. He was included in a...
Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

male, deceased (1947)
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced // i.e. with the first syllable so...
Abu Nuwas

Abu Nuwas

male, deceased (810)
Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani al-Hakami, was a renowned Arabic poet. Born in the city of Ahvaz in Persia, he was of Arab and Persian descent. He is...

Theocritus

male
Theocritus, the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from...

John Gambril Nicholson

male, deceased (1931)
John Gambril Francis Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931) was an English school teacher and Uranian poet. He was also an amateur photographer....

Callimachus

male
Callimachus (Greek: ; ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a native of Cyrene and claimed to be a descendant of Battus. He was a noted poet, critic, and...
Charles Kains Jackson

Charles Kains Jackson

male, deceased (1933)
Charles Philip Castle Kains Jackson (1857-1933) was an English poet closely associated with the Uranian school. Beginning in 1888, in addition to a...
Mir Taqi Mir

Mir Taqi Mir

male, deceased (1810)
Mohammed Taqi (Urdu: محمد تقی, better known by his nom de plume of Mir Taqi Mir (Urdu: میر تقی میر) (sometimes also spelled as Meer Taqi Meer), was...