poetisas universales

1. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2. Sylvia Plath3. Emily Dickinson4. Alfonsina Storni 5. Alejandra Pizarnik 6. Marina Tsvetáyeva 7. Sophia de Mello Breyner 8. Ana Ajmátova 9. Christina Rossetti 10. Safo de Lesbos

Ruth Padel's top 10 women poets

In honour of International Women's Day, Ruth Padel, prizewinning poet and former chair of the UK Poetry Society, chooses her favourite poets who happen to be women."These are poets whose work I need, treasure, and keep learning from."

1. SapphoShe is in fragments but still astonishing. Just look at her beautiful language, her total swashbuckling trust in the image to say it all (anyone who loves haiku will love her too), her mix of gorgeous metaphor with direct emotion: "The stars are sinking; the watch goes by; I lie alone." Despite having been translated, imitated and versioned down the millennia, these fragments are still fresh, heartbreaking, memorable and strong. She lays out the stall for us all, both in what she is saying and how she says it. What do people care for? "Look at that other person also in love with you." She celebrates, and questions, and turns in the light, the beauty of what is.

2. Emily DickinsonYou can't do without her: those leaps of idea between one beautiful, surprising phrase and the next. Mysterious,

ferociously original, poignant and evocative: the power of pure thought compressed to diamond.

3. Elizabeth BishopThe poet who, as Robert Lowell put it, "makes the casual perfect". I love the observations, the natural world, the working out of mysterious feeling and above all the way she refines the exactness of her thinking and feeling by her precision of language. She addresses all the big things, but so quietly you don't notice at first, as in her poem 'One Art', which concludes "The art of losing's not hard to master/ Though it might look like (Write it!) like disaster".

4. Anna AkhmatovaA genius. Her life was terrible (she was an iconic figure for the voices repressed by Stalin) but her elegant poems are wild, strange, free and very human. She addresses every feeling, even in the midst of horror; even guilt about her son: "Sleep, my quiet one, sleep,/ my boy. I am a bad mother."

5. Marina Tsvetaeva"There are four of us," said Akhmatova of the poets who kept poetry and life going under Stalin, referring to herself, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Tsvetaeva. Tsvetaeva, like Akhmatova, was another genius. Her life, too, was hell, and her poetry is jagged, stark, passionate, self-critical, full of extraordinary images. I have seen it speak directly to audiences from Washington to Nazareth. "Your name is a bird in my hand/ a piece of ice on the tongue."

6. Sylvia PlathLike Sappho, she found, in her mature voice, a complete swift trust in the image to say everything and anything. As reader or poet, you can't do without her: the savage beauty fusing passion and language.

7. Anne CarsonSo gifted and varied. Her novel-in-verse, Autobiography of Red, is a revelation - and she has made a wonderful translation of Sappho, too.

8. Carol Ann DuffyEveryone today knows and loves The World's Wife and the recent love poems in Rapture, but she made her name by much more political work (and a different kind of love poem) during the Thatcher years; some of the strongest and freshest work that came out of the late 20th century in the UK. Yeatsian lyric grace coupled with humour, social criticism and quick, laughing, dry intelligence.

9. Jo ShapcottSo varied and original. Her words are always surprising, the thought is always subtle and new: an extraordinary poet of the body, the secret physical life, with a star-searching intelligence and imagination.

10. Nuala Ni DhomhnaillShe writes in Irish Gaelic but has been translated by Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and others: again, the language is fresh and new, and reminds you all the time of

what an extraordinary thing it is, to communicate your feeling, thought and experience of the world as truly as possible, in language - above all, in a poem. "I place my hope on the water/ in this little boat/ of the language."

The Guardian alpha. Thursday 8 March 2007 00.00 GMT

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Famous Women Poets

Women Poets (Poetesses) and their poems. A list of the top 100 best and most popular and famous women poets. This list contains the best and most popular famous women poets in history (with their best poetry).

Rank women Poets

1 Angelou , Maya

Biography | Poems (21) | Quotes (83)

Pulitzer Prize-winning African American author and an important figure in the American Civil Rights.. American Poet

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/maya_angelou

2 Dickinson , Emily


One of the quintessential American poets of the 19th century.. American poet

3 Adams , Sarah Fuller Flower


Sarah Flower Adams (22 February 1805 – 14 August 1848) was an English poet.

4 Agustini , Delmira

Biography | Poems (13)

Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914), a Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century.

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/emily_dickinson

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5 Austen , Jane


Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

6 Akhmatova , Anna


One of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th-century.. Russian poet

7 Alger , Julie Hill


Julie Hill Alger: American poet. Julie Hill Alger poems, poetry, biography, quotes, poems, Julie Hill Alger biography.

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8 Browning , Elizabeth Barrett


An English poet of the Romantic Movement.. English poet prominent in the Victorian era

9 Plath , Sylvia


An American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist.. American poet novelist and short story writer; 1982 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry first to receive the honor posthumously

10 Duffy , Carol Ann


A British poet born in Glasgow, Scotland.. Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/elizabeth_barrett_browning

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/sylvia_plath

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11 Wheatley , Phillis


The first African American female writer to be published in the United States.. first African American poet

12 Cisneros , Sandra


Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is a United States author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street. She is also the author of Caramelo, published by Knopf in 2002. Much of her writing is influenced by her Mexican-American heritage.

13 Alcott , Louisa May


Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing

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in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard .

14 Teasdale , Sara


Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933), was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and after her marriage in 1914 she went by the name "'Sara Teasdale Filsinger'".. American lyrical poet

15 Walker , Alice


An American author and feminist.. American author poet and activist

16 Brooks , Gwendolyn


Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American woman poet.. African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate

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http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/alice_walker

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/gwendolyn_brooks

17 Giovanni , Nikki


Nikki Giovanni is one of the best-known African-American poets who reached prominence during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

18 Clifton , Lucille


An American poet from New York.. educator and Poets Laureate of Maryland

19 Zaran , Lisa


Lisa Zaran: American poet. Lisa Zaran poems, poetry, biography, quotes, poems, Lisa Zaran biography.

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http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/lucille_clifton

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/lisa_zaran

20 Bronte , Anne


Anne Brontë (/ ' b r n t i / ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

21 Viorst , Judith


Judith Viorst (born February 3, 1931) is an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known [ citation needed ] for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about the death of a pet) and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold over two million copies.

22 Warren , Mercy Otis


Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style] 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men. Few men and fewer women had the education or training to write about these subjects. Warren was an exception. During the years before the American

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Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties.

23 Arp , Jean


Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. A German-French sculptor, painter, and poet.. sculptor painter and poet

24 Bishop , Elizabeth


An American poet and writer.. American poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate

25 Murray , Judith Sargent


Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes—that women, like men, had the capability of intellectual accomplishment and should

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be able to achieve economic independence. Her landmark essay "On the Equality of the Sexes," published in the Massachusetts Magazine in March and April 1790 predated Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was published in Britain in 1792 and in Philadelphia in 1794.

26 Brown , Fleda


Fleda Brown (born in 1944 in Columbia, Missouri ) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson .

27 Dillard , Annie


Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut .

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/fleda_brown

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/annie_dillard

28 Mansfield , Katherine


Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

29 Moore , Marianne Craig


Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.

30 Harper , Frances Ellen Watkins


Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825-February 22, 1911), was an African-American writer, lecturer, and political activist, who promoted abolition, civil rights, women's rights, and temperance. She helped found or held high office in several national progressive organizations. She is best remembered today for her poetry and fiction, which preached moral uplift and counseled the

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oppressed how to free themselves from their demoralized condition.

31 Wright , Judith


An Australian poet.. Australian poet environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights

32 Howe , Julia Ward


Julia Ward was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

33 Stein , Gertrude


An American writer, poet, feminist and playwright.. American Modernist innovator in prose and poetry art collector

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/judith_wright

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/julia_ward_howe

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/gertrude_stein

34 Boland , Eavan


An Irish poet.. Irish poet

35 Elson , Rebecca


Rebecca Anne Wood Elson (1960 — 1999) was a Canadian - American astronomer and writer .

36 Morrissey , Kim


Janice Dales AKA Kim Morrissey Edmonton Alberta, Raised in North Battleford Saskatchewan is a Canadian poet and playwright who lives in London, England.

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/eavan_boland

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/rebecca_elson

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/kim_morrissey

37 Bachmann , Ingeborg


An Austrian poet and author.. Austrian poet and author

38 Estep , Maggie


Maggie Estep is an American poet and writer. She has published six books and released two spoken word albums: Love is a Dog From Hell and No More Mr. Nice Girl.. American writer musician slam poet

39 Hacker , Marilyn


An American poet, critic, and reviewer.. American poet translator and critic

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/ingeborg_bachmann

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/maggie_estep

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/marilyn_hacker

40 Bogan , Louise


An American poet.. American poet; fourth US Poet Laureate

41 Wylie , Elinor


An American poet and novelist who was popular before World War II.. American poet and novelist

42 Cavalieri , Grace


Grace Cavalieri (born 1932) is an award-winning American poet, playwright and radio host of "The Poet and the Poem" from the Library of Congress.

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43 Rossetti , Christina


Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.. English poet

44 Kizer , Carolyn


. American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985

45 Kumin , Maxine


. American poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–1982

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/christina_rossetti

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/carolyn_kizer

http://www.poetrysoup.com/biography/maxine_kumin

46 Padel , Ruth


. British poet author critic

47 Shelley , Mary


Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft .

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