Tu Fu. 712-70. China’s greatest poet. Pessimistic, satirical.

Tulsidas. c1543-1623. Indian religious poet. Ramcaritmanas 1574-6. Influenced Hindu culture.

Ultraismo. 1918-30. Spanish Symbolist poetry movement. Free verse, daring imagery.

Valéry, Paul. 1871-1945. French poet. La Jeune Parque 1917.

Vega Carpio, Lope Felix de. 1562-1635. “Father” of Spanish drama. 1800 plays. Italian form to Spanish poetry.

Verlaine, Paul. 1844-96. French pre-Symbolist lyric poet. Parnasse Contemporain 1866. Bonne Chanson 1870.

Viau, Théophile. 1590-1626. French pre-Classical poet, dramatist. Pyramus and Thisbe 1623.

Villon, François. 1431-63+. French bohemian poet in “jargon”, secret language of Conquillades. Banished. Le Testament 1461.

Virgil. 70-19BC Roman epic poet. Aeneid 30-19BC. Bucolics. Georgics 36BC.

Walther von der Vogelwelde. 1170-1230. German lyric poet.

Wang Wei. 699-759. Chinese poet, landscape painter.

Whitman, Walt. 1819-92. US freedom poet: Leaves of Grass 1855. Democratic Vistas 1871.

Whittier, John. 1807-92. US Quaker, Abolitionist poet: Maud Muller 1854. Snow Bound 1866.

Wieland, Christoph. 1733-1813. German Rococo poet. Oberon 1780.

William, Willis. 1883-1963. US poet. Pictures from Brueghel. In the American Grain.

Wolf, Hugo. 1860-1903. Austrian poet/song writer. Subtle interweaving of piano and vocal based on German, Spanish, Italian poems.

Wolfram von Eschenbach. 1170-1220. German lyric poet. Parsifal 1202.

Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.

Wyat, Thomas. 1503-42. English poet. Introduced Italian sonnet form to English.

Xenophanes. c560-478BC. Greek poet. Founded Eleatics. Change is an illusion. Monotheist.

Yeats, William. 1865-1939. Irish nationalist poet/dramatist: Wild Swans 1917. Deirdre. Tower 1928. Winding Stair 1933. Modernism.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. 1933-. Russian poet. Babiy Yar 1961.

Young, Edward. 1683-1765. English poet, playwright. Complaint 1742-5.