Parnassians. 1867-99. French detached anti-Romantic poetry school. Leconte de Lisle. Sully-Prudhomme. Verlaine. Gautier. Baudelaire.

Paz, Octavio. 1914-98. Mexican poet. La estacíon violenta. Labyrinth of Solitude 1950.

Perrault, Charles. 1628-1703. French poet. Mother Goose 1697.

Persius. 34-62. Roman satirical poet. Stoic.

Petöfi, Sándor. 1823-49. Hungarian lyric poet. Hero of the 1848-9 revolution. Poetry of Liberation. János Vitéz 1845.

Petrarch. 1304-74. Italian humanist author, lyric poet, philosopher. To Laura 1366. Dialogue with St. Augustine.

Pindar. c522-443BC. Greek Epicurean lyric poet of odes celebrating athletic victories.

Planudes Maximus. 1260-c1310. Byzantine monk. Edited Greek Anthology of prose and poetry 1302.

Plautus. c254-184BC. Roman comic poet: Amphitryon.

Pleiad. c280BC Alexandrian tragic poets.

Pléiade, La. 16C. French Renaissance poets, aimed to enrich French language. Ronsard, Bellay, Belleau, Jodelle, Dorat, Baïf, Tyard.

Poe, Edgar Allan. 1809-49. US poet and horror story writer: Tales of the Grotesque 1840. Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841. The Raven 1845.

Politian. 1454-94. First vernacular Italian poem 1475.

Pope, Alexander. 1688-1744. English satirist, poet and philosopher: On Criticism 1711. Rape of the Lock 1712-4. Essay on Man 1732-4.

Pound, Ezra. 1885-1972. US poet/translator of Oriental and Provençale poetry. Pisan Cantos. Pro-Fascism led to incarceration in an asylum 1946-58.

Pratt, E.J. 1883-1964. Canadian Nationalist poet. Brébeuf and his Brethren 1940.

Prior, Matthew. 1664-1721. English epigrammist/poet: City Mouse and the Country Mouse.

Propertius, Sixtus. c47BC-15 AD. Roman poet of elegies.

Qu Yuan. c277BC. First great Chinese poet.

Quasimodo, Salvatore. 1901-68. Italian humanist Hermetic poet: La Vita non e sogno. Oboe Somerso 1932.

Ramayana. c300BC. Sanskrit epic poem. Life of Rama.

Read, Herbert. 1893-1968. English critic, poet: Art and Society 1936.

Régnier, Mathurin. 1573-1613. French satirical poet.

Rimbaud, Arthur. 1854-91. French Symbolist poet: Illuminations. Anticipated Freud’s ideas.

Roberts, Charles. 1860-1943. Poet, “Father of Canadian literature”. Songs of the Common Day 1893.

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