Cowper, William. 1731-1800. English poet. The Task.

Cummings, e.e. 1894-1962. Eccentric US poet. Tulips and Chimneys 1923.

Cynewulf. c750. English religious poet. Ascension.

Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.

Daphnis. Greek mythological shepherd, inventor of bucolic poetry.

Davies, William. 1871-1940. Welsh peripatetic poet. Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 1907.

De La Mare, Walter. 1873-1956. English children’s poet, novelist.

Delius, Frederick. 1862-1934. English/French Impressionist opera composer. Tone poems.

Della-Cruscans. 18C. English poets of sentimental Italian verse.

Dickinson, Emily. 1830-86. Reclusive US mystical poet. Wrote >1500 poems. Poems 1867.

Douglas, Gawin. c1474-1522. Scottish poet. First English translation of Aeneid.

Dowson, Ernest. 1867-1900. English Decadent poet. -“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion”.

Dryden, John. 1631-1700. British poet laureate, playwright. Marriage a la Mode 1673.

Ekkehard. c910-73. Swiss poet. Song of Walter 929.

Eliot, T.S. 1888-1965. US/English modernist poet, playwright. Prufrock 1910. Ash Wednesday 1930. Murder in the Cathedral 1935.

Éluard, Paul. 1895-1952. French surrealist poet.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803-82. US essayist/ poet. Transcendentalist. Woodnotes 1846, Brahma 1867, English Traits 1856, Self-Reliance.

Eminescu, Mihau. 1850-89. Romanian poet, writer.

Ennius, Quintus. 239-169BC. Roman poet. Annales-History of Rome.

Erato. Greek Muse of lyric poetry.

Euripides. c480-406BC. Greek tragic poet, sceptical of myths. Medea 431. Iphegenia. Electra.

Ewald, Johannes. 1743-81. Danish lyric poet.

Firdusi. c930-c1020. Persian epic poet. Book of Kings 1010.

Frost, Robert. 1874-1963. American New England poet. Stopping by Woods 1923.

Garcia Lorca, Federico. 1898-1936. Spanish poet, dramatist. Gypsy Ballads 1928.

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