Who is the best European poet in a Romance language?
Note: The names in the poll are in chronological order. Only 40 options are available, so many good ones are missing. Feel free to add them if you consider them worth of it.
CHRISTIAN de TROYES [French language]
BERNART de VENTADORN [Occitan language]
DANTE Alighieri [Italian language]
Juan Ruiz, ARCHPRIEST of HITA [Spanish language]
PETRARCH [Italian language]
Ausiàs MARCH [Catalan language]
François VILLON [French language]
Jorge MANRIQUE [Spanish language]
GARCILASO de la VEGA [Spanish language]
Luís de CAMÕES [Portuguese language]
Pierre de RONSARD [French language]
JOHN of the CROSS [Spanish language]
Torquato TASSO [Italian language]
François MALHERBE [French language]
Luis de GÓNGORA [Spanish language]
Francisco de QUEVEDO [Spanish language]
Jean de LA FONTAINE [French language]
Alphonse de LAMARTINE [French language]
Victor HUGO [French language]
José de ESPRONCEDA [Spanish language]
Charles BAUDELAIRE [French language]
Frédéric MISTRAL [Occitan language]
Giosuè CARDUCCI [Italian language]
Gustavo Adolfo BÉCQUER [Spanish language]
Rosalía de CASTRO [Galician language]
Antero de QUENTAL [Portuguese language]
Paul VERLAINE [French language]
Jacint VERDAGUER [Catalan language]
Mihai EMINESCU [Romanian language]
Arthur RIMBAUD [French language]
Paul VALÉRY [French language]
Antonio MACHADO [Spanish language]
Tudor ARGHEZI [Romanian language]
Josep CARNER [Catalan language]
Fernando PESSOA [Portuguese language]
Tristan TZARA [Romanian language]
Federico GARCÍA LORCA [Spanish language]
Pier Paolo PASOLINI [Friulian and Italian languages]
Miquel MARTÍ i POL [Catalan language]
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Who is the best European poet in a Romance language?
Note: The names in the poll are in chronological order. Only 40 options are available, so many good ones are missing. Feel free to add them if you consider them worth of it.
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P. Virgilius Maro.
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Romance not Hellene.
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While I understand the omission of Chaucer, I have to mention him, Middle English being more French than even modern English. It was the period when almost all romance influence on the English language happened; I think he deserves at least a little consideration.
Aside from him, however, Chrétien de Troyes and Francesco Petrarca are definitely the best poets of the Romance languages.
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