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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

s of Slovak literature.

Renaissance (1500–1650)

* Martin Rakovský (1535–1579) * Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier (Laurentius Benedictus Nudozierinus) (1555–1615)

Baroque (1650–1780)

Juraj Tranovský Juraj is a given name used in a number of Slavic languages, including Czech, Slovak, and Croatian. The English equivalent of the name is George. Notable people * Juraj Chmiel (born 1960), Czech diplomat and politician * Juraj Dobrila (1812–1 ...

or Tranoscius (1592–1637) * Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (1640–1688) * Hugolín Gavlovič (1712–1787)

Classicism (1780–1840)

Pavel Jozef Šafárik Pavel Jozef Šafárik (; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was a Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists. Family His father Pavol Šafárik (17 ...

(1795–1861) *

Ján Kollár Ján Kollár (; 29 July 1793 – 24 January 1852) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, Lutheran pastor, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism. Life He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg (Pozsony, ...

(1793–1852) *

Ján Hollý __NOTOC__ Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Borský Mikuláš, Bur-Szent-Miklos – 14 April 1849, Dobrá Voda, Trnava District, Jókő) was a Slovakia, Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak ...

(1785–1849)

Romanticism (1840–1850)

Ľudovít Štúr Ľudovít Štúr (; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, politician, and writer. As a leader of the Slovak nationalism, Slovak national revival in the 19th century and the c ...

(1815–1856) * Samo Chalupka (1812–1883) * Andrej Sládkovič (1820–1872) *

Janko Kráľ Janko Kráľ (; 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 Romanticism, romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr g ...

(1822–1876) * Ján Botto (1829–1881) * Janko Matúška (1821–1877) *

Michal Miloslav Hodža Michal Miloslav Hodža (; 22 September 1811 – 26 March 1870) was a Slovak national revivalist, Lutheran pastor, poet, linguist, and representative of the Slovak national movement in 1840s as a member of "the trinity" Štúr-Hurban-Hodža. He ...

(1811–1870)

Realism (1875–1905)

* Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849–1921) * Martin Kukučín (1860–1928) *

Janko Jesenský Baron Ján Jesenský (30 December 1874 in Tučiansky Svätý Martin (), Kingdom of Hungary (present day Martin, Slovakia) – 27 December 1945 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak lower nobleman of the House of Jeszenszky, poet, prose ...

(1874–1945) * Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1872–1951)

Modernism (1905–1918)

* Ivan Krasko (1876–1958) *

(1874–1945) * Martin Orgoník-Kunovský (1887–1916)

Between the World Wars (1918–1948)

* Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955) * Martin Rázus (1888–1937) * Ján Poničan (1902–1978) * Peter Jilemnický (1901–1949) * Laco Novomeský (1904–1976) * Fraňo Kráľ (1903–1955) * Maša Haľamová (1908–1995)

Surrealism

* Štefan Žáry (1918–2007) *

Ján Brezina Ján Brezina (1 January 1917 in Východná – 4 August 1997 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, literary historian and theoretician. He was an employee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences (, or SAV) is the mai ...

(1917–1997)

Contemporary (since the 1960s)

* Krista Bendová (1923 –1988) * Miroslav Válek (1927–1991) * Milan Rúfus (1928–2009) * Ľubomír Feldek (born 1936) * Milan Richter (born 1948) * Jana Kantorová-Báliková (born 1950) * Juraj Kuniak (born 1955) * Dana Podracká (born 1954) * Viera Prokešová (1957–2008) * Pavol Hudák (1959–2011) * Eva Kováčová (1951–2010)

Contemporary poetry (since 1995)

* Radovan Brenkus (born 1974) *

Radoslav Rochallyi Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1 May 1980), Bardejov, Czechoslovakia is a philosopher, contemporary painter, and writer living in Malta, and the Czech Republic. Early life and education Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia in a family with ...

(born 1980)

References

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