List of Surrealist poets
This is alist ofSurrealistpoets,known for writing material within the Surrealistcultural movementthat began in the early 1920s.
Surrealist poets[edit]
- Will Alexander(born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright
- Louis Aragon(1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist reviewLittérature[1]
- Braulio Arenas(1913–1988) -Chileanpoet and writer, founder of the surrealistMandrágoragroup
- Antonin Artaud(1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the "Theatre of Cruelty"
- André Breton(1896–1966) - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism
- Jorge Cáceres(1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member ofLa Mandrágora,a Chilean Surrealist group
- Jibanananda Das(1899–1954) - Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language
- Aimé Césaire(1913–2008) - French andMartinicanSurrealist poet and a founder of the Negritude movement
- Andrei Codrescu(born 1946) - Romanian-American poet, novelist, screenwriter,NPRcommentator
- Garrett Caples(born 1972) - American poet and former music and arts journalist
- Teofilo Cid(1914–1964) - Chilean poet, member ofLa Mandrágorasurrealist group
- René Crevel(1900–1935) - French writer
- René Daumal(1908–1944) - French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet
- Robert Desnos(1900–1945) - French poet and member of the French resistance against the Nazis
- Paul Éluard(1895–1952) - French poet
- Andreas Embirikos(1901–1975) - Greek poet and psychoanalyst
- Nikos Engonopoulos(1907–1985) - Greek poet and painter
- David Gascoyne(1916–2001) - English poet and translator
- Enrique Gómez Correa(1915–1995) - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat
- Janet Hamill(born 1945) - American poet and novelist
- Helen Ivory(born 1969) - English poet, artist and editor
- Andrew Joron– American poet, three-time winner of theRhysling Award
- George Kalamaras- American poet and professor, formerpoet laureateofIndiana
- Noelle Kocot(born 1969) - American poet
- Philip Lamantia(1927–2005) - American poet and educator
- Michel Leiris(1901–1990) - French writer
- Joyce Mansour(1928–1986) - Egyptian-French author and poet
- Ciaran O'Driscoll(born 1943) - Irish surrealist poet
- John Olson(born 1947) - American Surrealist poet and novelist
- Valentine Penrose(1898–1978) - French surrealist poet, author, and collagist
- Benjamin Péret(1899–1959) - French poet and a founder of the French Surrealist movement
- Gisèle Prassinos(1920–2015) - French writer
- Franklin Rosemont(1943–2009) - American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of theChicago Surrealist Group
- Penelope Rosemont(born 1942) - American visual artists, writer, publisher, and social activist
- Stuart Ross(born 1959) - Canadian surrealist poet and publisher
- Tomaž Šalamun(1941–2014) - Slovenian surrealist poet
- Philippe Soupault(1897–1990) - French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist
- James Tate(1943–2015) - American Surrealist poet andPulitzer Prizewinner
- Tristan Tzara(1896–1963) - Romanian French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
- César Vallejo(1892–1938) - Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist
- Ocean Vuong(born 1988) - Vietnamese-American poet, novelist, and educator
- John Yau(born 1950) - American poet and critic
- Dean Young(1955–2022) - American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Martin Travers (2001).European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice.A&C Black. pp. 176–.ISBN978-0-8264-4748-7.
