Sonneteers

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of survivin

Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

French poet and critic (1821–1867)

Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973)

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English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)

British Romantic poet (1792–1822)

English Romantic poet (1795–1821)

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)

American poet (1874–1963)

16th-century Portuguese poet

English poet and cleric (1572-1631)

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate (1901–1986)

Italian poet (1544–1595)

King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)

English poet (1806–1861)

Spanish writer (1580-1645)

English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)

English poet (c. 1552 – 1599)

French poet (1524-1585)

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

English poet (1830–1894)

American author (1894–1962)

English poet, courtier, diplomat (1554-1586)

American poet (1892–1950)

French writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade (1522–1560)

British novelist and poet (1828–1909)

English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771)

Italian poet (1258-1300)

English poet (1887–1915)

English poet and diplomat (1503-1542)

French poet (1842-1905)

English poet (1844–1889)

Russian Symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)

Italian poet and noble

German poet and dramatist (1616–1664)

Croatian national poet and European humanist

American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)

English poet (1793-1864)

Israeli poet (1911–2070)

Portuguese poet (1842–1891)

English poet (1793-1835)

French poet (1590-1696)

American poet (1869–1935)

Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic (1854-1920)

American poet (1921-2017)

16th-century English nobleman; (1516-1547)

English poet

Jamaican American writer, poet (1889–1948)

Bengali poet and dramatist (1824–1873)

Italian poet

Italian poet (1523-1554)

Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)