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Poets in the Secular or Eclectic tradition
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Poets in the Secular or Eclectic Tradition

AE (George William Russell) (1867 - 1935)
Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966)
A. R. Ammons (1926 - 2001)
Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)
  Elsa Barker (1869 - 1954)
Bernart de Ventadorn (1145? - 1180)
Wendell Berry (1934 - )
Stewart Bitkoff (Contemporary)
William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Philip Booth (1925 - 2007)
Francis Brabazon (1907 - 1984)
  Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848)
James Broughton (1913 - 1999)
Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929)
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
  Andrew Colliver (1953 - )
e. e. cummings (1894 - 1962)
Arnaut Daniel (? - 1210?)
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Georg Feuerstein (1947 - )
  John Fox (1955? - )
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Giraut de Bornelh (1165? - 1210)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Guilhem IX of Poitou (1071 - 1126)
Jane Hirshfield (Contemporary)
Friedrich Holderlin (1770 - 1843)
Dick Holmes (1949 - )
Marie Howe (1950 - )
Rolf Jacobsen (1907 - 1994)
Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881 - 1958)
Kalidas (Lawrence Edwards) (1952 - )
Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
Heinrich Khunrath (1560? - 1605)
Irina Kuzminsky (1959 - )
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
Li-Young Lee (1957 - )
Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997)
Stephen Levine (1937 - 2016)
Ramon Llull (1232 - 1315)
Leza Lowitz (1962 - )
Antonio Machado (1875 - 1939)
Michael Maier (1562 - 1622)
Merrit Malloy (1950 - )
Chris McCombs (1947 - )
W. S. Merwin (1927 - )
Czeslaw Milosz (1911 - 2004)
Gabriela Mistral (1889 - 1957)
Lisel Mueller (1924 - )
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
Nirmala (1950? - )
Novalis (1772 - 1801)
John O'Donohue (1956 - 2008)
  Colin Oliver (1946 - )
Mary Oliver (1935 - 2019)
Ram Tzu (Wayne Liquorman) (1950 - )
Jay Ramsay (Contemporary)
  Elizabeth Reninger (1963 - )
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
Gabriel Rosenstock (1949 - )
May Sarton (1912 - 1995)
Gunter Saure (Contemporary)
Frithjof Schuon (1907 - 1998)
Laura Jan Shore (Contemporary)
silent lotus (1952 - )
Gary Snyder (1930 - )
Vladimir Solovyov (1853 - 1900)
William Stafford (1914 - 1993)
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Anna Swir (1909 - 1984)
Wislawa Szymborska (1923 - 2012)
Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)
Chase Twichell (1950 - )
Lynn Ungar (Contemporary)
  Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695)
Dorothy Walters (1928 - )
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
David Whyte (1955 - )
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Richard Wright (1908 - 1960)
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)







Related Links:

  The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org
An excellent resource for information on Western poets: biographies, poetry, more.
  Famous Poets and Poems
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/
A very good site, nicely organized and easily searchable.
  PoemHunter.com
http://poemhunter.com/
A good resource for poetry of all sorts.
  Culture Shock News
http://www.cultureshocknews.com/
Culture Shock News is a 24/7 cultural entertainment show, using poetry, video, music, spoken word, dance, fine artists, slam performers and social commentaries to express the multicultural creative nature of our world today. Interviews with writers, poets, social commentators and musicians.
  KPFA Drama & Literature Podcasts
http://kpfa.org/dramaandlit/
Several excellent podcasts on poetry and fiction. Definitely worth a listen!
  Poetry Festival of Medellin - Links
http://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/pub/en/Enlaces/index.htm
Several interesting, multi-cultural poetry links worth exploring.
  Poetry Through the Ages
http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/nodes.html
A very good, creatively designed site on the history of (mostly western) poetry. I really like the "node map" navigation, like walking through a cluster diagram of ideas and interrelationships. Take a look!
 

Secular or Eclectic