The following is a list of notable
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
s of
Slovak literature.
Renaissance (1500–1650)
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Martin Rakovský (1535–1579)
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Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier (Laurentius Benedictus Nudozierinus) (1555–1615)
Baroque (1650–1780)
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Juraj Tranovský or Tranoscius (1592–1637)
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Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (1640–1688)
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Hugolín Gavlovič (1712–1787)
Classicism (1780–1840)
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Pavel Jozef Šafárik
Pavel Jozef Šafárik ( sk, Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists.
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(1795–1861)
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Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár ( hu, Kollár János; 29 July 1793 – 24 January 1852) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, priest, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.
Life
He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg ( ...
(1793–1852)
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Ján Hollý (1785–1849)
Romantism (1840–1850)
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Ľudovít Štúr
Ľudovít Velislav Štúr (; hu, Stur Lajos; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), known in his era as Ludevít Štúr, (pen names : B. Dunajský, Bedlivý Ludorob, Boleslav Záhorský, Brat Slovenska, Ein Slave, Ein ungarischer Slave, Karl Wi ...
(1815–1856)
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Samo Chalupka
Samo Chalupka (27 February 1812, Horná Lehota, Brezno District – 19 May 1883, Horná Lehota) was a Slovak Lutheran priest and romantic poet.
Life
Samo Chalupka was a younger brother of Ján Chalupka, another Slovak writer. Samo stu ...
(1812–1883)
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Andrej Sládkovič
Andrej Sládkovič (born as Andrej Braxatoris, pseudonyms Andrej Braxatoris-Sládkovič, Andrej Sládkovič, Ondřej Krasislav Sládkovič; 31 March 1820 – 20 April 1872) was a Slovak poet, critic, publicist, translator and Lutheran priest.
L ...
(1820–1872)
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Janko Kráľ
Janko Kráľ ( hu, Král János; 24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) – 23 May 1876 in Zlaté Moravce) was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Š ...
(1822–1876)
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Ján Botto
Ján Botto (January 27, 1829, Vyšný Skálnik – April 28, 1881, Banská Bystrica) was a Slovak poet, writer of the Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca.
Born into a family of farmers, he began to atten ...
(1829–1881)
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Janko Matúška (1821–1877)
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Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870)
Realism (1875–1905)
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Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849–1921)
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Martin Kukučín (1860–1928)
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Janko Jesenský (1874–1945)
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Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1872–1951)
Modernism (1905–1918)
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Ivan Krasko
Ivan Krasko (real name Ján Botto, pseudonyms ''Bohdana J. Potokinová'', ''Ivan Krasko'', ''Janko Cigáň'', 12 July 1876 in Lukovištia (''Lukovistye'') – 3 March 1958 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of moder ...
(1876–1958)
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Janko Jesenský (1874–1945)
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Martin Orgoník-Kunovský (1887–1916)
Between the World Wars (1918–1948)
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Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955)
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Martin Rázus (1888–1937)
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Ján Poničan (1902–1978)
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Peter Jilemnický (1901–1949)
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Laco Novomeský (1904–1976)
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Maša Haľamová (1908–1995)
Surrealism
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Štefan Žáry (1918–2007)
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Ján Brezina (1917–1997)
Contemporary (since the 1960s)
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Miroslav Válek (1927–1991)
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Milan Rúfus (1928–2009)
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Ľubomír Feldek (born 1936)
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Milan Richter Milan Richter (born 25 July 1948 in Bratislava) is a Slovak writer, playwright, translator, publisher and a former high-ranking diplomat.
Life Early years
Richter was born in Bratislava into a Slovak-Moravian Jewish family that was almost extermina ...
(born 1948)
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Jana Kantorová-Báliková (born 1950)
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Juraj Kuniak (born 1955)
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Dana Podracká (born 1954)
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Viera Prokešová (1957–2008)
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Pavol Hudák (1959–2011)
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Eva Kováčová (1951–2010)
Contemporary poetry (since 1995)
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Radovan Brenkus
Radovan Brenkus (born 30 January 1974, Bardejov) is a Slovak writer, translator and critic.
Biography
The author finished the study at Science faculty of P. J. Šafárik University, in mathematics and physics. He worked as a teacher in Koši ...
(born 1974)
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Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980)
See also
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List of national poetries
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Slovak prose
References
{{Lists of poets
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