Alcaeus

Alcaeus

male
social class, poet, of Mytilene, Alcaic verse, aristocratic, Lesbos…lyricpoetry, lyric, Pederastic poetry
Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene (c. 620 BCE-6th century BCE), Greek lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse; he was an older contemporary...
Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

male, deceased (1926)
lyricpoetry, poet, lyric, Duino Elegies, Sonneteers, Valais
Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of...
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

male, deceased (1822)
poet, The Revolt of Islam, Romantic poet, To a Skylark, Ozymandias, Adonais…lyricpoetry, Lyric poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English...
Paul Celan

Paul Celan

male, deceased (1970)
Jewish, poet, lyricpoetry, lyric, european, Jewish person
Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. Celan is widely considered...

Stesichorus

male
Alexandria, poet, Pederastic poetry, ancient greek, hellenistic, ancient greece…lyric, lyricpoetry, Lyric poet, nine lyric poet, nine respected lyric poet
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...

Ibycus

male
from the Province of Reggio Calabria, Aeolia, Canonical, canon, tyrant, nine lyric poet…lyricpoetry, lyric, Pederastic poetry
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...
Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

male, deceased (1856)
Jewish, romantic, Travel writer, journalist, German literature, From Dusseldorf…lyricpoetry
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for...
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

female, deceased (1950)
Sonneteers, LGBT writer, from Maine, bohemian, Maine writer, American…Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, lyricpoetry
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the...
Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach

male, deceased (1220)
Middle High German literature, Minnesang, Minnesinger, Epic poetry, lyricpoetry, Medieval writer
Wolfram von Eschenbach (born c. 1170, died c. 1220) was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a...