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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian writer (1901-1968)
Eugenio Montale
Italian poet (1896-1981)
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet (1887-1914)
Wallace Stevens
American poet (1879–1955)
Imagism
thumb|The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, [[Des Imagistes, published in 1914.]] Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctr
Mário de Andrade
Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer (1893–1945)
Vicente Huidobro
Chilean poet
Leah Goldberg
Israeli poet (1911–2070)
Gunnar Ekelöf
Swedish writer (1907–1968)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Portuguese poet (1890–1916)
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Brazilian poet (1902–1987)
Artur Lundkvist
Swedish writer (1906-1991)
Srečko Kosovel
Slovene poet (1904–1926)
Manuel Bandeira
Brazilian writer (1886–1968)
Oliverio Girondo
Argentinian poet and writer (1891–1967)
Paul van Ostaijen
Belgian poet, writer (1896–1928)
José Juan Tablada
Mexican poet, art critic and diplomat (1871-1945)
Roberto Juarroz
American poet (1925–1995)
Julio Herrera y Reissig
Uruguayan poet and writer (1875-1910)
August Stramm
German poet (1874–1915)
Murilo Mendes
Brazilian writer (1901–1975)
Shamsur Rahman
Bangladeshi poet, writer, journalist (1929–2006)
Santōka Taneda
Japanese poet (1882–1940)
Gunnar Björling
Swedish-speaking Finnish poet (1887-1960)
Maša Haľamová
Slovak poet (1908–1995)
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Yiddish author (1886-1932)
Edip Cansever
Turkish poet (1928–1986)
Elsa Grave
Swedish novellist, poet and artist (1918–2003)
Sems Kesmai
Iranian poet
Max Harris
Australian writer
Aristide Blank
Romanian economist (1883-1960)
Rut Hillarp
Swedish poet
Einar Bragi
Icelandic poet (1921-2005)
Ernst Meister
German writer, poet, and philosopher (1911–1979)
Kazimiera Zawistowska
Polish poet (1870–1902)
Labhshankar Thakar
Gujarati language author from India
Sudhindranath Dutta
Indian poet, journalist, essayist, literary critic, lecturer (1901–1960)
António Maria Lisboa
Portuguese surrealist poet
Anil Joshi
Indian writer (1940–2025)
Taufīq Ṣāyiġ
Palestinian writer
Jón Óskar
Icelandic poet (1921-1998)
Monta Kroma
Latvian writer (1919-1994)
Lionel Richard
French poet
Renate Freund
German poet
Adolfo Casais Monteiro
Poet and writer (1908–1972)
Srul Bronshtein
Romanian writer (1913–1943)
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