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Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri portrait

Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

ArabicClassical Arabic poetryMa'arrat Nu'man
2 Poems2 Analyses
Adrienne Rich portrait

Adrienne Rich

English20th centuryUnited States
2 Poems2 Analyses
Alison Sherriel portrait

Alison Sherriel

EnglishContemporary
2 Poems2 Analyses

B.H. Smyth

EnglishContemporary
2 Poems2 Analyses
Bashar ibn Burd portrait

Bashar ibn Burd

ArabicUmayyad and Abbasid eraAbbasid Caliphate
2 Poems2 Analyses
Carol Ann Duffy portrait

Carol Ann Duffy

EnglishContemporaryUnited Kingdom
2 Poems2 Analyses
D. H. Lawrence portrait

D. H. Lawrence

EnglishModernistUnited Kingdom
2 Poems2 Analyses
Derek Walcott portrait

Derek Walcott

English20th CenturySaint Lucia
2 Poems3 Analyses
Federico García Lorca portrait

Federico García Lorca

SpanishGeneration of '27Spain
2 Poems2 Analyses
Finuala Dowling portrait

Finuala Dowling

EnglishContemporary
2 Poems2 Analyses
Geoffrey Chaucer portrait

Geoffrey Chaucer

English14th centuryKingdom of England
2 Poems2 Analyses
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