• in addition to his distinguished military career against the Ottoman Turks, Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha (pictured), was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer?
• the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu?
• after an accident in his teens, Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov (pictured) could write and speak only with difficulty?
• Ratchanya Yatreegam, magnum opus of Indian poet Henry Alfred Krishnapillai written in Tamil, was based on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
• Nikolay Glazkov, a Soviet poet, is credited with having coined the term samizdat, which has come to be internationally known?
• St Laurence Church, Ludlow, England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings, but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman's gravesite?
• the Korean poetic form of sijo resembles the Japanese poetic form of haiku?
• the pen-name of the Kannada poet, Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu, was derived from his full name "Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa", Kuppalli being his native place?
• upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
• when noted American poet Lucretia Maria Davidson (pictured) died at age 16, she had written over 278 poems of varying lengths?
• the work of Cornificia, a Roman poet of the first century BC, was read for centuries, but has since been lost entirely?
• the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
• the builder of the Rispenserpoldermolen, Easterein, the Netherlands, was described as a better millwright than a poet?
• the original "dreamer of dreams" was British poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy?
• Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer, magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret"?
• Itzik Manger, a Yiddish poet, is best known for his radical revisions of Biblical material?
• poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
• poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II?
• poet Anna Williams's works include On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
• Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?
• Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?
• Jamaican-born poet, playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
• poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured), known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?
• Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock"?
• Russian critics considered Armenian actor and poet Petros Adamian one of the best tragedians of the world for his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello?
• Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka helped purchase fellow poet Taras Shevchenko's freedom from serfdom in 1838?
• Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is famous for his anti-Stalinist work?
• Russian poet Dmitri Prigov wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as samizdat?
• Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
• Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Little Orphant Annie" was first published in the Indianapolis Journal?

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List of Catalan language poets

• the only known surviving work of Catalan poet Pere de Queralt is a maldit-comiat in which he accuses his lady of having three lovers in a single day?