#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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