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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
William Butler Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
Robert Frost
American poet (1874–1963)
Mel Gibson
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson is an American actor and filmmaker. The recipient of multiple accolades, he is known for directing historical films as well for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic series Mad Max (1979–1985) and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop series Lethal Weapon (1987–1998).
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
E. E. Cummings
American author (1894–1962)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet (1892–1950)
Wallace Stevens
American poet (1879–1955)
Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
Philip Larkin
English writer, jazz critic and librarian (1922-1985)
Hart Crane
American writer (1899–1932)
Paul Sorvino
American actor (1939–2022)
Robert Lowell
American poet (1917–1977)
Stephen Spender
English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)
Theodore Roethke
American poet (1907-1963)
Cecil Day-Lewis
Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)
Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
Thomas M. Disch
American science fiction author and poet (1940–2008)
Stanley Kunitz
American poet (1905-2006)
Randall Jarrell
poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914–1965)
Louis MacNeice
Irish poet and playwright (1907–1963)
Allen Tate
American poet, essayist and social commentator (1899–1979)
John Crowe Ransom
American poet (1888–1974)
Saunders Lewis
Welsh writer and politician (1893-1985)
William Empson
English literary critic and poet (1906–1984)
Countee Cullen
American author (1903–1946)
Les Murray
Australian poet and critic (1938-2019)
James Merrill
American poet (1926–1995)
Clive James
Australian writer, critic, and broadcaster (1939–2019)
Roy Campbell
South African poet (1901–1957)
Paul Muldoon
Irish poet (born 1951)
Geoffrey Hill
English poet (1932–2016)
Louise Bogan
American poet (1897-1970)
Richard Eberhart
American poet (1904–2005)
Marilyn Hacker
American writer (born 1942)
Anthony Hecht
American poet (1923–2004)
John Ciardi
American poet, professor, translator (1916–1986)
Thom Gunn
English poet (1929-2004)
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
Karl Shapiro
American poet and essayist (1913-2000)
Wendy Cope
British writer
W. D. Snodgrass
American poet (1926–2009)
Bruce Bawer
far-right American writer
A. E. Stallings
American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)
John Hollander
American poet (1929–2013)
Howard Nemerov
poet (1920-1991)
Dana Gioia
American writer (born 1950)
Agha Shahid Ali
Indian poet (1949–2001)
Yvor Winters
American poet and literary critic (1900–1968)
Joseph Pearce
English-American writer (born 1961)
James Fenton
British poet; (born 1949)
Don Paterson
poet
Marilyn Nelson
American writer
Annie Finch
American poet
Donald Justice
American poet and teacher (1925-2004)
William Jay Smith
American writer, translator, editor (1918–2015)
Weldon Kees
American artist (1914-1955)