List of National Poets and their Poems
AFRICA
Algeria
Si Mohand
Angola
Agostinho Neto
Egypt
Ahmed Shawqi
Ethiopia
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Mali
Fily Dabo Sissoko
Morocco
Mohammed Awzal
Nigeria
Chinua Achebe
Senegal
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Somalia
Hadrawi
South Africa
Mazisi Kunene
Sudan
Gely Abdel Rahman
Tanzania
Shaaban bin Robert
Tunisia
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
ASIA
Afghanistan
Khushal Khattak, Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi Balkhi, Hakim Sanai Ghaznavi, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil, Nasir Khisraw Balkhi, Nooruddin Abdul Rahman Jami, Alisher Nawai
Azerbaijan
Fuzûlî, Imadaddin Nasimi, Samad Vurgun
Bangladesh
Kazi Nazrul Islam
China
Du Fu, Li Bai, Lu Xun
Cambodia
Preah Botumthera Som, Krom Ngoy, Chuon Nath
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indonesia
Chairil Anwar
Iran
Ferdowsi, Hafez, Saadi, Omar Khayyám, Simin Behbahani, Adib Boroumand
Iraq Maarouf Al Rasafi
Israel
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Japan
Koizumi Yakumo, Murasaki Shikibu, Matsuo Bashō
Jordan
Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal
Kazakhstan
Abai Qunanbaiuli
Korea
Kim Sowol, Ko Un
Kurdistan
Khana Qubadi
Kyrgyzstan
Toktogul Satylganov
Lebanon
Kahlil Gibran, Said Akl
Malaysia
Usman Awang
Mongolia
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Byambyn Rinchen, Hadaa Sendoo
Myanmar
Min Thu Wun
Nepal
Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Motiram Bhatta
Pakistan
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Palestine
Mahmoud Darwish
Philippines
Francisco Balagtas
Saudi Arabia
Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi
Sri Lanka
Ananda Samarakoon
Syria
Nizar Qabbani
Tajikistan
Rudaki, Sadriddin Ayni, Gulnazar Keldi
Thailand
Sunthorn Phu
Turkmenistan
Magtymguly Pyragy
Uzbekistan
Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Mirtemir
Vietnam
Nguyễn Du, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Hàn Mặc Tử
Yemen
Abdullah Al-Baradouni
EUROPE
Albania
Gjergj Fishta, Naim Frashëri
Andorra
Albert Salvadó
Armenia
Hovhannes Tumanyan, Sayat-Nova, Yeghishe Charents
Austria
Franz Grillparzer, Peter Rosegger, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
Belarus
Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas
Belgium
Emile Verhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck
Flanders
Hendrik Conscience, Guido Gezelle, Hugo Claus
Bosnia and Herz.
Izet Sarajlić
Republika Srpska
Aleksa Šantić, Gordana Kukić
Bulgaria
Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov
Croatia
Marko Marulić, Miroslav Krleža
Cyprus
Vasilis Michaelides
Czech Republic
Karel Hynek Mácha, Božena Němcová, Jan Neruda
Denmark
Adam Oehlenschläger
Faroe Islands
William Heinesen
United Kingdom
William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Estonia
Lydia Koidula, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Finland
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Elias Lönnrot
France
Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
Georgia
Shota Rustaveli
Germany
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller
Gibraltar
Héctor Licudi
Greece
Homer, Dionysios Solomos
Guernsey
George Métivier
Hungary
Sándor Petőfi, János Arany
Iceland
Jónas Hallgrímsson, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Halldór Laxness
Ireland
Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats
Italy
Dante Alighieri, Giosuè Carducci, Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Gabriele D’Annunzio
Latvia
Rainis, Andrejs Pumpurs
Liechtenstein
Peter Kaiser
Lithuania
Kristijonas Donelaitis, Maironis
Luxembourg
Edmond de la Fontaine, Michel Rodange, Michel Lentz
Macedonia
Kočo Racin, Georgi Pulevski and Kole Nedelkovski
Malta
Dun Karm Psaila
Moldova
Mihai Eminescu, Grigore Vieru
Monaco
Louis Notari
Montenegro
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
Netherlands
Joost van den Vondel, Jacob Cats
Friesland
Gysbert Japicx (or Japiks)
Norway
Henrik Wergeland
Poland
Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Jan Kochanowski, Cyprian Norwid
Portugal
Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa
Romania
Mihai Eminescu
Russia
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Dagestan
Rasul Gamzatov
N.Ossetia-Alania
Kosta Khetagurov
San Marino
Pio Chiaruzzi
Scotland
Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Barbour, Edwin Morgan
Serbia
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Vladislav Petković Dis, Oskar Davičo, Desanka Maksimović (Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro)
Kosovo
Din Mehmeti, Ali Podrimja
Slovakia
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Slovenia
France Prešeren
Spain
Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Federico García Lorca
Catalonia
Jacint Verdaguer, Salvador Espriu
Galicia
Rosalía de Castro
Basque Country
Xabier de Lizardi, Nicolás Ormaechea, Gabriel Aresti
Sweden
Carl Michael Bellman, Gustaf Fröding, Verner von Heidenstam, Esaias Tegnér
Switzerland
Gottfried Keller, Carl Spitteler
Turkey
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko
Valencian
Vicent Andrés Estellés
Wales
Dylan Thomas, Dafydd ap Gwilym
NORTH AMERICA
Canada
Pauline Johnson
Quebec
Émile Nelligan, Gaston Miron, Octave Crémazie, Gilles Vigneault, Félix Leclerc
Cuba
José Martí
Dominican
Pedro Mir
Guatemala
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Haiti
Jacques Roumain
Mexico
Ramón López Velarde, Octavio Paz
Nicaragua
Rubén Darío
Panama
Ricardo Miró
Saint Lucia
Derek Walcott
United States
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou
OCEANIA
Australia
Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Dorothea Mackellar, A. B. “Banjo” Paterson
New Zealand
James K. Baxter, Allen Curnow
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina
José Hernández, Jorge Luis Borges, Leopoldo Lugones
Brazil
Gonçalves Dias, Olavo Bilac, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Machado de Assis
Chile
Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral
Colombia
Rafael Pombo, José Asunción Silva
Ecuador
José Joaquín de Olmedo, Jorge Enrique Adoum
Peru
César Vallejo
Uruguay
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
Venezuela
Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco
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