20th Century Poetry

by Piero Scaruffi
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By language


Stevens (1879, USA)
Eliot (1888, USA)
Pound (1885, USA)
Cummings (1899, USA)
Crane (1899, USA)
Berryman (1914, USA)
Lowell (1917, USA)
Merrill (1926, USA)
Ashbery (1927, USA)

Yeats (1865, Ireland)
Auden (1907, Britain)
Thomas (1914, Britain)
Larkin (1922, Britain)
Gunn (1929, Britain)
Ted Hughes (1930, Britain)
Sylvia Plath (1932, Britain)
Seamus Heaney (1939, Ireland)

Claudel (1868, France)
Valery (1871, France)
Apollinaire (1880, France)
Saint-John Perse (1887, France)
Eluard (1895, France)
Michaux (1899, France)
Char (1907, France)
Bonnefoy (1923, France)

Hikmet (1902, Turkey)
Elitis (1911, Greece)
Ritsos (1909, Greece)
Kavafis (1863, Greece)
Seferis (1900, Greece)

Ungaretti (1888, Italy)
Saba (1883, Italy)
Montale (1896, Italy)
Penna (1906, Italy)
Bertolucci (1911, Italy)
Caproni (1912, Italy)
Sereni (1913, Italy)
Luzi (1914, Italy)
Pasolini (1922, Italy)
Zanzotto (1921, Italy)

Machado (1875, Spain)
Jimenez (1881, Spain)
Pessoa (1888, Portugal)
Salinas (1892, Spain)
Aleixandre (1898, Spain)
Garcia Lorca (1898, Spain)
Alberti (1902, Spain)

George (1868, Germany)
Rilke (1875, Germany)
Benn (1886, Germany)
Trakl (1887, Germany)
Celan (1920, Germany)
Bachmann (1926, Germany)

Belyi (1880, Russia)
Blok (1880, Russia)
Chlebnikov (1885, Russia)
Achmatova (1889, Russia)
Pasternak (1890, Russia)
Mandelstam (1891, Russia)
Cvetaeva (1892, Russia)
Majakovskij (1893, Russia)
Evtusenko (1933, Russia)
Voznesenskij (1933, Russia)
Achmadulina (1937, Russia)
Josif Brodsky (1940, RUssia)

Seifert (1901, Czech)
Holan (1905, Czech)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911, Poland)
Rozewicz (1921, Poland)
Szymborska (1923, Poland)

Tagore (1861, India)
Ali Ahmad "Adonis" Said (Syria, 1930)

Neruda (1904, Chile)
Borges (1899, Argentina)
Dario (1867, Nicaragua)
Vallejo (1892, Peru)
Paz (1914, Mexico)
Mistral (1889, Chile)
Andrade (1902, Brazil)
Guillen (1902, Cuba)

Chronology


Tagore (1861, India)
Kavafis (1863, Greece)
Yeats (1865, Ireland)
Dario (1867, Nicaragua)
Claudel (1868, France)
George (1868, Germany)
Valery (1871, France)
Machado (1875, Spain)
Rilke (1875, Germany)
Stevens (1879, USA)
Belyi (1880, Russia)
Blok (1880, Russia)
Apollinaire (1880, France)
Jimenez (1881, Spain)
Saba (1883, Italy)
Pound (1885, USA)
Benn (1886, Germany)
Trakl (1887, Germany)
Saint-John Perse (1887, France)
Eliot (1888, USA)
Pessoa (1888, Portugal)
Ungaretti (1888, Italy)
Mistral (1889, Chile)
Achmatova (1889, Russia)
Pasternak (1890, Russia)
Mandelstam (1891, Russia)
Vallejo (1892, Peru)
Salinas (1892, Spain)
Majakovskij (1893, Russia)
Eluard (1895, France)
Montale (1896, Italy)
Aleixandre (1898, Spain)
Garcia Lorca (1898, Spain)
Michaux (1899, France)
Cummings (1899, USA)
Crane (1899, USA)
Borges (1899, Argentina)
Seferis (1900, Greece)
Seifert (1901, Czech)
Andrade (1902, Brazil)
Guillen (1902, Cuba)
Alberti (1902, Spain)
Hikmet (1902, Turkey)
Neruda (1904, Chile)
Holan (1905, Czech)
Penna (1906, Italy)
Char (1907, France)
Auden (1907, Britain)
Ritsos (1909, Greece)
Bertolucci (1911, Italy)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911, Poland)
Elitis (1911, Greece)
Caproni (1912, Italy)
Sereni (1913, Italy)
Thomas (1914, Britain)
Berryman (1914, USA)
Luzi (1914, Italy)
Paz (1914, Mexico)
Lowell (1917, USA)
Celan (1920, Germany)
Zanzotto (1921, Italy)
Rozewicz (1921, Poland)
Pasolini (1922, Italy)
Larkin (1922, Britain)
Bonnefoy (1923, France)
Szymborska (1923, Poland)
Bachmann (1926, Germany)
Merrill (1926, USA)
Ashbery (1927, USA)
Gunn (1929, Britain)
Ted Hughes (1930, Britain)
Ali Ahmad "Adonis" Said (Syria, 1930)
Sylvia Plath (1932, Britain)
Evtusenko (1933, Russia)
Voznesenskij (1933, Russia)
Achmadulina (1937, Russia)
Seamus Heaney (1939, Ireland)
Josif Brodsky (1940, RUssia)

My favorite poets

  1. Eliot
  2. Rilke
  3. Yeats
  4. Pound
  5. Pessoa
  6. Montale
  7. Valery
  8. Garcia Lorca
  9. Neruda
  10. Majakovskij

Best poetry books


Claudel: Cinq Grandes Odes (1908)
Apollinaire: Alcools (1913)
Ungaretti: Allegria di Naufragi (1919)
Valery: Charmes (1922)
Eliot: Waste Land (1922)
Yeats: The Tower (1928)
Cummings: Viva (1931)
Stevens: Harmonium (1923)
Auden: For the Time Of Being (1942)
Michaux: Exorcismes (1943)
Eliot: Four Quartets (1943)
Lowell: Land Of Unlikeness (1944)
Thomas: Deaths and Entrances (1946)
Char: Les Matinaux (1950)
Bonnefoy: Du Mouvement et de l'Immobilite` de Douve (1953)
Larkin: The Last Deceived (1955)
Penna: Poesie (1955)
Montale: La Bufera (1956)
Saint-John Perse: Amers (1957)
Hughes: Lupercal (1960)
Luzi: Nel Magma (1963)
Pasolini: La Religione del Mio Tempo (1963)
Sylvia Plath: Ariel (1965)
Sereni: Gli Strumenti Umani (1965)
Zanzotto: La Belta` (1968)
Pound: Cantos (1969)
Saba: Canzoniere (1981)