Synonyms for poet

writer, poemwriter, bard, versifier, dilettante, minstrel, troubadour, jongleur, verse maker, maker of verses, scribbler of verses, metrist, lyrist, parodist, author, lyricist, librettist, dramatic poet, dramatist, lyric poet, writer of lyrics, rhymester, poetaster; see also artist 1, writer.

Major poets include --- British: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Robert (Bobbie) Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron (George Gordon), John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Dylan Thomas; American: Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, James Schuyler, Sylvia Plath; Classical Greek: Homer, Sappho, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; Latin: Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Juvenal; Italian: Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Ludovico Ariosto, Gabriele d'Annunzio; French: Voltaire, François Villon, Jean de La Fontaine, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Guillaume Apollinaire; Spanish: St. John of the Cross, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda; Portuguese: Luis Vaz de Camoëns; German: Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht; Russian: Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Mayakovski, Boris Pasternak, Yevgeni Yevtushenko.