❦ Cross-Century Conversation
Modern & Classic Poetry

Cross-Century Conversation

All Poets

Every poet featured across the ten pairings, with a short biography and links to more of their work.

Poets

HomerGreece · 8th c. BCE Margaret AtwoodCanada · b. 1939 Dorothy ParkerUSA · 1893–1967 Walt WhitmanUSA · 1819–1892 Emily DickinsonUSA · 1830–1886 William WordsworthEngland · 1770–1850 Wallace StevensUSA · 1879–1955 William ShakespeareEngland · 1564–1616 Carol Ann DuffyScotland · b. 1955 William BlakeEngland · 1757–1827 Langston HughesUSA · 1901–1967 Alfred, Lord TennysonEngland · 1809–1892 Wilfred OwenEngland · 1893–1918 Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEngland · 1772–1834 Federico García LorcaSpain · 1898–1936 Percy Bysshe ShelleyEngland · 1792–1822 Wisława SzymborskaPoland · 1923–2012 John DonneEngland · 1572–1631 Dylan ThomasWales · 1914–1953