#poet  a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
  supertype:  professional_writer__writer__author  writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  instance:  Alcaeus  Guillaume_Apollinaire  Matthew_Arnold  Jean_Arp  Wystan_Hugh_Auden  Charles_Pierre_Baudelaire  William_Blake  Giovanni_Boccaccio  Bertolt_Brecht  Rupert_Brooke  Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning  Robert_Browning  Robert_Burns  Sixth_Baron_Byron_of_Rochdale  Pedro_Calderon_de_la_Barca  Giosue_Carducci  Thomas_Carew  Gaius_Valerius_Catullus  Geoffrey_Chaucer  John_Anthony_Ciardi  Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge  Pierre_Corneille  Harold_Hart_Crane  Cynewulf  Dante_Alighieri  Walter_John_de_la_Mare  Emily_Dickinson  John_Donne  John_Dryden  Thomas_Stearns_Eliot  Edward_Fitzgerald  Robert_Lee_Frost  Frederico_Garcia_Lorca  William_Schwenk_Gilbert  Allen_Ginsberg  Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe  Thomas_Gray  Robert_Herrick  Hesiod  Hugo_von_Hoffmannsthal  James_Hogg  Homer  Gerard_Manley_Hopkins  Horace  Alfred_Edward_Housman  Edward_James_Hughes  Victor-Marie_Hugo  Henrik_Ibsen  Randall_Jarrell  John_Robinson_Jeffers  Juan_Ramon_Jimenez  Benjamin_Jonson  Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt  John_Keats  Francis_Scott_Key  Friedrich_Gottlieb_Klopstock  Nicholas_Vachel_Lindsay  Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow  Richard_Lovelace  Amy_Lowell  Robert_Traill_Spence_Lowell_Jr.  Titus_Lucretius_Carus  Archibald_MacLeish  Stephane_Mallarme  Osip_Emilevich_Mandelstam  Giambattista_Marini  Christopher_Marlowe  Jose_Julian_Marti  Martial  Andrew_Marvell  John_Edward_Masefield  Edgar_Lee_Masters  Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Mayakovski  George_Meredith  John_Milton  Marianne_Craig_Moore  Thomas_Moore  William_Morris  Louis_Charles_Alfred_de_Musset  Alfred_Noyes  Omar_Khayyam  Ovid  Francis_Turner_Palgrave  Petrarch  Pindar  Ezra_Loomis_Pound  Aleksandr_Sergeyevich_Pushkin  James_Whitcomb_Riley  Rainer_Maria_Rilke  Jean_Nicholas_Arthur_Rimbaud  Edwin_Arlington_Robinson  Alan_Seeger  Anne_Sexton  William_Shakespeare  Percy_Bysshe_Shelley  Taras_Grigoryevich_Shevchenko  Sir_Philip_Sidney  Dame_Edith_Louisa_Sitwell  Robert_Southey  Sir_Stephen_Harold_Spender  Edmund_Spenser  Wallace_Stevens  Sir_John_Suckling  Algernon_Charles_Swinburne  Arthur_Symons  Torquato_Tasso  John_Orley_Allen_Tate  Sara_Teasdale  First_Baron_Tennyson  Thespis  Dylan_Marlais_Thomas  John_Trumbull  Tristan_Tzara  Johann_Ludwig_Uhland  Paul_Verlaine  Francois_Villon  Virgil  Andrei_Voznesenski  Robert_Penn_Warren  Isaac_Watts  Phillis_Wheatley  Walt_Whitman  John_Greenleaf_Whittier  William_Carlos_Williams  William_Wordsworth  Sir_Thomas_Wyatt  Elinor_Morton_Hoyt_Wylie  William_Butler_Yeats  Yevgeni_Aleksandrovich_Yevtushenko  Edward_Young
  subtype:  bard.poet  a lyric poet
  subtype:  elegist  the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
  subtype:  poetess__poetes  a woman poet
     instance:  Edna_Saint_Vincent_Millay__Millay__Edna_Millay  Sappho
  subtype:  Poet_Laureate  the poet officially appointed to the Royal Household in Great Britain; "the Poet Laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions"
  subtype:  sonneteer  a poet who writes sonnets

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