20th Century Poetry

by Piero Scaruffi
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Stevens (1879, USA)
Eliot (1888, USA)
Pound (1885, USA)
Cummings (1899, USA)
Crane (1899, USA)
Berryman (1914, USA)
Lowell (1917, USA)
Merrill (1926, USA)
Ashbery (1927, USA)

Yeats (1865, Ireland)
Auden (1907, Britain)
Thomas (1914, Britain)
Larkin (1922, Britain)
Gunn (1929, Britain)
Ted Hughes (1930, Britain)
Sylvia Plath (1932, Britain)
Seamus Heaney (1939, Ireland)

Claudel (1868, France)
Valery (1871, France)
Apollinaire (1880, France)
Saint-John Perse (1887, France)
Eluard (1895, France)
Michaux (1899, France)
Char (1907, France)
Bonnefoy (1923, France)

Hikmet (1902, Turkey)
Elitis (1911, Greece)
Ritsos (1909, Greece)
Kavafis (1863, Greece)
Seferis (1900, Greece)

Ungaretti (1888, Italy)
Saba (1883, Italy)
Montale (1896, Italy)
Penna (1906, Italy)
Bertolucci (1911, Italy)
Caproni (1912, Italy)
Sereni (1913, Italy)
Luzi (1914, Italy)
Pasolini (1922, Italy)
Zanzotto (1921, Italy)

Machado (1875, Spain)
Jimenez (1881, Spain)
Pessoa (1888, Portugal)
Salinas (1892, Spain)
Aleixandre (1898, Spain)
Garcia Lorca (1898, Spain)
Alberti (1902, Spain)

George (1868, Germany)
Rilke (1875, Germany)
Benn (1886, Germany)
Trakl (1887, Germany)
Celan (1920, Germany)
Bachmann (1926, Germany)

Belyi (1880, Russia)
Blok (1880, Russia)
Chlebnikov (1885, Russia)
Achmatova (1889, Russia)
Pasternak (1890, Russia)
Mandelstam (1891, Russia)
Cvetaeva (1892, Russia)
Majakovskij (1893, Russia)
Evtusenko (1933, Russia)
Voznesenskij (1933, Russia)
Achmadulina (1937, Russia)
Josif Brodsky (1940, RUssia)

Seifert (1901, Czech)
Holan (1905, Czech)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911, Poland)
Rozewicz (1921, Poland)
Szymborska (1923, Poland)

Tagore (1861, India)
Ali Ahmad "Adonis" Said (Syria, 1930)

Neruda (1904, Chile)
Borges (1899, Argentina)
Dario (1867, Nicaragua)
Vallejo (1892, Peru)
Paz (1914, Mexico)
Mistral (1889, Chile)
Andrade (1902, Brazil)
Guillen (1902, Cuba)

Chronology


Tagore (1861, India)
Kavafis (1863, Greece)
Yeats (1865, Ireland)
Dario (1867, Nicaragua)
Claudel (1868, France)
George (1868, Germany)
Valery (1871, France)
Machado (1875, Spain)
Rilke (1875, Germany)
Stevens (1879, USA)
Belyi (1880, Russia)
Blok (1880, Russia)
Apollinaire (1880, France)
Jimenez (1881, Spain)
Saba (1883, Italy)
Pound (1885, USA)
Benn (1886, Germany)
Trakl (1887, Germany)
Saint-John Perse (1887, France)
Eliot (1888, USA)
Pessoa (1888, Portugal)
Ungaretti (1888, Italy)
Mistral (1889, Chile)
Achmatova (1889, Russia)
Pasternak (1890, Russia)
Mandelstam (1891, Russia)
Vallejo (1892, Peru)
Salinas (1892, Spain)
Majakovskij (1893, Russia)
Eluard (1895, France)
Montale (1896, Italy)
Aleixandre (1898, Spain)
Garcia Lorca (1898, Spain)
Michaux (1899, France)
Cummings (1899, USA)
Crane (1899, USA)
Borges (1899, Argentina)
Seferis (1900, Greece)
Seifert (1901, Czech)
Andrade (1902, Brazil)
Guillen (1902, Cuba)
Alberti (1902, Spain)
Hikmet (1902, Turkey)
Neruda (1904, Chile)
Holan (1905, Czech)
Penna (1906, Italy)
Char (1907, France)
Auden (1907, Britain)
Ritsos (1909, Greece)
Bertolucci (1911, Italy)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911, Poland)
Elitis (1911, Greece)
Caproni (1912, Italy)
Sereni (1913, Italy)
Thomas (1914, Britain)
Berryman (1914, USA)
Luzi (1914, Italy)
Paz (1914, Mexico)
Lowell (1917, USA)
Celan (1920, Germany)
Zanzotto (1921, Italy)
Rozewicz (1921, Poland)
Pasolini (1922, Italy)
Larkin (1922, Britain)
Bonnefoy (1923, France)
Szymborska (1923, Poland)
Bachmann (1926, Germany)
Merrill (1926, USA)
Ashbery (1927, USA)
Gunn (1929, Britain)
Ted Hughes (1930, Britain)
Ali Ahmad "Adonis" Said (Syria, 1930)
Sylvia Plath (1932, Britain)
Evtusenko (1933, Russia)
Voznesenskij (1933, Russia)
Achmadulina (1937, Russia)
Seamus Heaney (1939, Ireland)
Josif Brodsky (1940, RUssia)

My favorite poets

  1. Eliot
  2. Rilke
  3. Paz
  4. Yeats
  5. Pessoa
  6. Heaney
  7. Pound
  8. Montale
  9. Valery
  10. Garcia Lorca
  11. Majakovskij

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