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Throughout history, several women have used poetry for self-expression, to offer awareness of important issues and fearlessly offer insight into the general human condition. From the likes of Maya Angelou to Sappho and Rupi Kaur, these women have used poetry to express the full range of human emotions from love to loss and joy to pain.
This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born.
With groundbreaking form, style, and subject matter, these twelve female poets have elevated the genre as a whole. Sappho – c. 630-c.570 BC. To kick off the list, we’re throwing it back to Ancient Greece. Sappho was a poet who lived on the island of Lesbos, where she was known for her lyric poetry. Affectionately known as the “tenth muse ...
Who are the most famous female poets? Our list includes world-renowned and Pulitzer Prize female poets of all time. Find out who they are.
Christina became one of the Victorian age’s finest poets. She was the author of numerous books of poetry, including Goblin Market and other Poems (1862), The Prince’s Progress (1866), A Pageant (1881), and The Face of the Deep (1882). Rossetti’s poetry has never disappeared from view.
Largely on the strength of Ariel, Plath became one of the best-known female American poets of the 20th century. The writer A. Alvarez, writing in The Savage God, believed that with the poems in Ariel, compiled and published by Hughes, Plath made “poetry and death inseparable.
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century American poets. The author of more than 20 books, she was highly regarded even during her lifetime and had the distinction of being the first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also the first Black woman to hold the role of Consultant in Poetry to the ...
If poetry makes you think of stuffy classrooms and impenetrable verse, think again. Holly Williams takes a look at the female poets revolutionising the art form.
These 15 women poets have transformed the literary world with their profound verses and continue to inspire poets around the globe. 1. Sappho (c. 630–570 BC) Sappho, a poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, is one of the earliest and most influential female poets in history.
Ten key American women poets who have been popular in their day or after, even if not necessarily lauded by the critics.