Classical & Medieval Poets Codexery

Unfurling the codex…

Enheduanna — Earliest known named author in world history.

Epicharmus of Cos — Greek dramatist and philosopher, originator of Doric comedy.

Fujiwara no Shunzei — Late Heian poet, compiler of the Senzai Wakashū, and master of yugen.

Hipponax — Ancient Greek iambic poet known for vulgar wit and choliambic meter.

Ibn al-Farid — Sultan of Lovers: The Sufi Poet of Ecstasy

Imru' al-Qais — Pre-Islamic poet and last King of Kinda, known for his Mu'allaqa and legendary quest for vengeance.

Jarir ibn Atiyah — Umayyad-era Arab poet and satirist from Najd.

Labid — Arab poet and companion of Muhammad, author of a Mu'allaqat poem.

Li Shangyin — Late Tang poet of imagist and untitled verse

Livius Andronicus — Greco-Roman poet, first to write Latin drama and literature.

Lucius Accius — Roman tragic poet and scholar of bold language and reform.

Ludovico Ariosto — Poet of chivalric satire and the humanist smile

Lu You — Patriotic poet of the Southern Song

Ma Zhiyuan — Yuan dynasty dramatist and poet known for sanqu lyrics.

Ennius — Father of Roman poetry; author of the epic Annales.

Gawain Poet — Anonymous author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three other poems.

Gnaeus Naevius — Roman epic poet and dramatist of the Old Latin period, inventor of the Praetextae Fabulae and author of the Bellum…

Gottfried von Strassburg — Author of the Middle High German romance Tristan.

Hrotsvitha — Secular canoness, first female playwright of the Latin West.

Ibycus — Ancient Greek lyric poet of pederastic and mythological verse.

Jami — Persian Sufi poet and scholar of the Naqshbandi order.

Jayadeva — 12th-century Sanskrit poet and author of the Gita Govinda.

John Gower — English poet, contemporary of Langland, friend of Chaucer.

John Lydgate — English monk and poet of prodigious output.

Li He — Tang poet of ghostly themes, prevented from exams by taboo.

Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet and essayist, master of ci poetry.