Lamartine, Alphonse de. 1790-1869. French Romantic poet. Méditations Poétiques 1820.

Lamb, Charles. 1775-1834. English poet and essayist. Essays of Elia 1820-33.

Langland, William. 1330-1400. English Christian allegorical poet. Piers Ploughman 1362.

Layamon. c1200. English poet. First mention of King Arthur, Lear, Merlin.

Leconte de Lisle, Charles. 1818-94. French Parnassian poet.

Lermontov, Mikhail. 1814-41. Russian Romantic Caucasus poet: Hero of Our Time 1840. Exiled 1837-38,40.

Li Po. 701-62. Chinese free spirited, playful, fantasy poet. Drowned, drunk, reaching for moon’s reflection.

Livius Andronicus. c284-204BC. Roman epic poet. Translated Greek plays, Odyssey.

Llull, Raimon. 1235-1316. Catalan Neoplatonic Idealist mystic poet, alchemist. Tried to convert Moslems. Felix 1288.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 1807-82. US poet. Evangeline 1847. Hiawatha 1855. Paul Revere’s Ride 1863.

Lucan. 39-65. Roman poet. Conspired vs Nero. Bellum Civile.

Lucillius, Caius. 180-102BC. Poet. Originated Latin satire.

Lucretius. 99-55BC. Roman poet: De rerum natura, advocating moral truth without religious belief.

MacDowell, Edward. 1860-1908. US piano composer. Symphonic poems. Saracens 1891.

MacLeish, Archibald. 1892-1982. US poet laureate of the New Deal. Happy Marriage 1924.

Maerlant, Jacob van. 1225-91. Flemish didactic poet. Spiegel Historiael 1282-91.

Maeterlinck, Maurice. 1862-1949. Belgian Symbolist poet/playwright. Pelléas et Mélisande 1892.

Malherbe, François de. 1555-1628. French poet. Foreshadowed classicism. Odes 1601.

Mallarmé, Stéphane. 1842-98. French poet, initiated Symbolism. Après-Midi d’un faune 1865.

Martial, Marcus. c40-103. Roman epigrammatic poet.

Marvell, Andrew. 1621-78. English satirical poet. To His Coy Mistress. Poems on Affairs of State 1689.

Masefield, John. 1878-1967. English poet laureate 1930-.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir. 1893-1930. Russian Revolution poet. Backbone Flute 1915. Cloud in Trousers 1915.

McCrae, John. 1872-1918. Canadian physician/poet. In Flanders Fields.

Meredith, George. 1828-1909. English manners novelist. Intellectual, witty and poetic. Ordeal 1859. Egoist 1879. Dianna of the Crossways 1885.

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