Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich von Kleist

male, deceased (1811)
Frankfurt an der Oder, poet, Playwright, wannsee, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, committed suicide
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 Frankfurt an der Oder, Prussia – November 21, 1811 Wannsee, near Berlin) was a German poet, dr...
Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn

male, deceased (1956)
poet, National Socialist German Workers Party, From Brandenburg, third reich, expressionist, Essayist…writer
Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 - July 7, 1956) was a German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early...
Finnegan The Poet

Finnegan The Poet

male, 40 years old
Buffalo, Bisexual, cbgb, LGBT writer, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Surf Reality…poet, writer
Finnegan the Poet (born March 17, 1969) is a bisexual queer American expatriate poet, writer and performance artist of Afro-Caribbean, Irish and...
Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

male, 68 years old
folk music, singer-songwriter, guitarist, blowing in the wind, poet, Robert Allen Zimmerman…writer
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in...
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

male, deceased (1616)
poet, macbeth, hamlet, English poet, Authors whose works are in the public domain, Lord Chamberlain's Men…British writer, writer, National poet
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's...
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

male, deceased (1900)
brilliant wit, incarcerated celebrity, socialist, Playwright, writer, novelist…poet
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of...
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
poet, gay, realism, New York writer, queer studies, Bisexual writer…American spiritual writer, writer, LGBT writer
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Cocktail Party, Eliot family, Writer-illustrator, Murder in the Cathedral, From st. louis, missouri…Missouri writer, Modernist poet, writer, poet
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

female, deceased (1886)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, American women writer, lesbian, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, from Amherst, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College alumnae…Massachusetts writer, writer, poet
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
poet, Short story writer, Romanticism, Horror writer, American, Detective fiction…Philadelphia writer, Maryland writer, Virginia writer, The Simpsons writer, New York writer
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...