List of Ukrainian-language poets

The following is a list of Ukrainian-language poets (chronological by year of birth).

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16th century

Poet	Portrait	Date	Birthplace	Notable Works
Jan Zhoravnytskyi		15??-1589	Lutsk (?), Grand Duchy of Lithuania or Kingdom of Poland	"Khto ydesh mymo, stan' hodynu..." (1575) [1]
Herasym Smotrytskyi		15??-1594	Smotrychi (?), Podolian Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania or Kingdom of Poland	"Zry siia znameniia kniazhate slavnaho..." (1580-81), "Vsiakoho chyna pravoslavyi chytateliu..." (1580-81) [2]
Pamvo Berynda		1550s-70s - 1632		religious panegyrical poetry [3]
Vitalii		second half of the 16th century - early 17th century		Religious poetry [4]
Kyrylo Tankvilion-Stavrovetskyi		15??-1646		Panegyrical poetry [5]
Kasiian Sakovych		1578-1647	Podtelychi, Bielsk county, Galicia	Panegyrical poems for Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi [6]
Oleksandr Mytura		late 16th - first half of the 17 century		Religious poetry [7]
Stepan Berynda		late 16th - first half of the 17 century		Religious and panegyrical poetry [8]
Havryiil Dorofiievych			Lviv (?), Galicia	Religious and panegyrical poetry [9]
Damian Nalyvaiko		-1627	Ternopil region (?), Grand Duchy of Lithuania or Kingdom of Poland	Panegyrical poems for the Ostrogski dynasty [10]
Davyd Andriievych				Religious poetry [11]
Tarasii Zemka		-1632	Galicia, Ruthenian Voivodeship	Panegyrical poetry [12]
Pavlo Domzhyv-Liutkovych		-1634		Religious poetry [13]
Avraam Biloborodskyi		-17th century		"Nynu veselyi nam den' nastal" [14]
Lavrentii Zyzanii		16th century-after 1634	Lviv (?), Ruthenian Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	"Epihramma na Hrammatiku", "Stikhy ku mladentsiem, vuvudiashchiy ikh na dulo", "Typohraf mladentsiem" [15]

17th century

Poet	Portrait	Date	Birthplace	Notable Works
Ivan Velychkovskyi		16??-1726	Cossack Hetmanate (?)	Virshi het’manovi Samoilovychevi (Poems for Hetman Ivan Samoilovych) and two manuscript collections of old-Ukrainian poetry, ‘Zegar ...’ (Clock ..., 1690) and ‘Mleko ...’ (Milk ..., 1691) [16][17]
Stefan Yavorskyi		1658-1722	Yavoriv, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	[18]
Theofan Prokopovych		1681-1736	Kyiv, Cossack Hetmanate	[19]
Illia Bachynskyi		late 17th - early 18th century	western Ukraine	"Pisn svitova" [20]

18th century

Poet	Portrait	Date	Birthplace	Notable Works
Oleksandr Padalskyi		18th century	Transcarpathia (?)	"Pisn' o sviti" (Song about the world, 18th century) [21]
Ivan Pashkovskyi		18th century	Myshkovychi, Ternopil Region (?)	"Poky zh dumaty, bozhe, dai znaty" (1764) , "Musysh ty sia pryznaty", "Tiazhkaia rich liubyty", "Okh, mni zhal ne pomalu" [22]
Fedir Kastevych		18th century		"Pisnia o sviti marnom" [23]
Yakiv Semerzhynskyi		18th century		"Kara z neba, sertse moie, yak zhadaiu...", religious poetry [24]
Vasyl Pashkovskyi		18th century		"Pisn o bidnom syroti" [25]
Ioann		18th century		"O slvanykh voienykh diisviiakh voisk zaporozkykh vkratsi z raznykh istorii prostorichno sochyneni" (1784) [26]
Semen Klymovskyi		1705 (?) -1785 (?)	left bank Cossack Hetmanate or Lower Zaporozhian Host	"Ikhav kozak za dunai" (A Cossack rode beyond the Danube, mid 18th century) [27]
Hryhorii Skovoroda		1722-1794	Lubny Regiment, Cossack Hetmanate	The Garden of Divine Songs that Sprang from the Seeds of Holy Scripture[28]
Antin Holovatyi		c. 1732-1744 - 1797	Novi Sanzhary, Cossack Hetmanate	"Oi bozhe nash, bozhe mylostyvyi", Ei, hodi nam zhurytysia, pora perestaty" (Song of the Black Sea Army upon receiving the highest decrees on land, 1792) [29][30]
Ivan Pastelii		1741-1799	Transcarpathia	"Pastyriu dushevnyi" [31]
Ivan Nekrashevych		1742- after 1796	Vyshenky, Chernihiv regiment, Cossack Hetmanate	‘Spor dushi i tila’ (The Struggle of the Soul and the Flesh, 1773), versified dialogue ‘Ispovid'’ (Confession, 1789), and ‘Iarmarok’ (The Marketplace, 1790) [32][33]
Yuliyan Dobrylovskyi		c. 1760-1825	Zinkiv, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	"Dai, zhe Bozhe, dobryi chas" (Lord grant us a good time) and "Stan'mo brattia v kolo" (Let's gather in a circle brothers)[34][35]
Ivan Kotliarevskyi		1769-1838	Poltava, Russian Empire	Eneida (1789), Natalka Poltavka (1819)[36]
Vasyl Gogol-Yanovskyi		c. 1777-1825	Kubyntsi, Malorossia Governorate, Russian Empire	[37]
Stepan Pysarevskyi		178?-1839	Sloboda Ukraine Governorate, Russian Empire	‘Za Neman' idu’ [I’m Going beyond the Neman], ‘De ty brodysh moia dole?’ [Where Are You Roaming, My Fate?][38]
Petro Hulak-Artemovskyi		1790-1865	Horodyshche, Novorossiya Governorate Russian Empire	‘Rybalka’ (The Fisherman) and ‘Tvardovs’kyi’[39]
Yakiv Kukharenko		1799-1862	Stanytsia Medvedivska, Kuban Region	"Kharko, zaporoz'kyi koshovyi" (Kharko, the zaporozhian Kish Otaman) [40]

19th century

Poet	Portrait	Date	Birthplace	Notable Works
Mykola Markevych		1804-1860	Dunaiets, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire	Ukrainskiia melodii (Ukrainian Melodies, 1831) [41]
Levko Borovykovskyi		1806-1889	Myliushky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	'Marusia' (1829)[42]
Viktor Zabila		1808-1869	Kukurivshchyna estate (now Zabilivshchyna), Borzna county, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire	‘Hude viter vel’my v poli’ (The Wind Is Blowing Much in the Field) and ‘Ne shchebechy soloveiku’ (Don't Sing, Nightingale) [43]
Markiyan Shashkevych		1811-1843	Pidlyssia, Złoczów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[44]
Ivan Vahylevych		1811-1866	Yasen (today in Kalush Raion), Stanisławów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[45]
Antin Mohylnytskyi		1811-1873	Pidhirtsi, near Kalush, Stryi county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[46]
Yevhen Hrebinka		1812-1848	Ubizhyshche, (today – Marianivka), Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	‘Ukrainskaia melodiia’ (A Ukrainian Melody, 1839) [47]
Yakiv Holovatskyi		1814-1888	Chepeli, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[48]
Taras Shevchenko		1814-1861	Moryntsi, Zvenyhorodka Raion, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire	Kobzar [49]
Amvrosii Metlynskyi		1814-1870	Sary, Hadiach county, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	Dumky i pisni ta shche deshcho (Thoughts and Songs and Some Other Things, 1839) [50]
Kostiantyn Dumytrashko		1814-1886	Zolotonosha, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	‘Chorniï brovy, kariï ochi’ [Black Eyebrows, Hazel Eyes, 1859]
Mykhailo Petrenko		1817-1862	Sloviansk, Sloboda Ukraine Governorate, Russian Empire	"Dyvlius ya na nebo" (I look up to the sky)
Panteleimon Kulish		1819-1897	Voronizh, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire	[51]
Yakiv Shchoholiv		1823-1898	Okhtyrka, Sloboda Ukraine Governorate, Russian Empire	‘Priakha’ (The Spinner), ‘Cherevychky’ (Shoes), and ‘Zymovyi vechir’ (A Winter’s Evening) [52]
Leonid Hlibov		1827-1893	Veselyi Podil, Khorol county, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	'Zhurba' (Sorrow) [53]
Stepan Rudanskyi		1834-1873	Khomutyntsi, Vinnytsia county, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire	‘Povii vitre, na Vkraïnu’ (Blow, Wind, on Ukraine) [54]
Yurii Fedkovych		1834-1888	Putyla, Bukovina District, Austrian Empire
Anatolii Svydnytskyi		1834-1871	Mankivtsi, Lityn county, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire	[55]
Oleksandr Konyskyi		1836-1900	Perekhodivka, Nezhinsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire	Prayer for Ukraine [56]
Sydir Vorobkevych		1836-1903	Chernivtsi, Bukovina District, Austrian Empire	[57]
Pavlo Chubynskyi		1839-1884	Hora, Pereyaslav county, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	Shche ne vmerla Ukraina
Mykhailo Starytskyi		1840-1904	Klishchyntsi, Zolotonosha county, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	[58]
Vasyl Mova		1842-1920	khutir near Starodereviankivska, Kuban Region, Russian Empire	[59]
Ivan Manzhura		1851-1893	Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire	Stepovi dumy ta spivy (Steppe Dumas and Songs, 1889) [60]
Ivan Franko		1856–1916	Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[61]
Uliana Kravchenko		1860-1947	Mykolaiv, Zhydachiv county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[62]
Borys Hrinchenko		1863-1910	Vilkhovyi Yar khutir, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire	[63]
Hryts’ko Kernerenko		1863-1941	Huliaipole, Russian Empire
Pavlo Hrabovskyi		1864-1902	Pushkarne, Okhtyrka county, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire	Prolisok (The Glade, 1894) and Z pivnochi (From the North, 1896) [64]
Volodymyr Samiilenko		1864-1925	Sorochyntsi, Mirgorod county, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	Z poezii Volodymyra Samiilenka (From the Poetry of Volodymyr Samiilenko, published 1890), Ukraïni (To Ukraine, 1884-1906) [65]
Osyp Makovei		1867-1925	Yavoriv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire	[66]
Mykola Cherniavskyi		1868-1948	Torska Oleksiivka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire	Pisni kokhannia (Songs of Love, 1895), Donets'ki sonety (Donets Sonnets, 1898), and Zori (Stars, 1903) [67]
Lesia Ukrainka		1871-1913	Zviavel, Volynia Governorate, Russian Empire	[68]
Mykola Voronyi		1871-1938	Rostov-on-Don, Don Cossack Region, Russian Empire	[69]
Vasyl Shchurat		1871-1948	Vysloboky, Lviv county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	[70]
Ahatanhel Krymskyi		1871-1942	Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Volynia Governorate, Russian Empire	three books of lyrical poetry on Oriental themes entitled Pal’move hillia: Ekzotychni poeziï (Palm Branches: Exotic Poems, 1901, 1908, 1922) [71]
Bohdan Lepkyi		1872-1941	Krehulets, Husiatyn county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	[72]
Mykhailo Yatskiv		1873-1961	Lesivka, Stanyslaviv county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	[73]
Petro Karmanskyi		1878-1956	Chesaniv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	[74]
Vasyl Pachovskyi		1878-1942	Zhulychi, Zolochiv county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	[75]
Oleksandr Oles		1878-1944	Bilopillia, Sumy county, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire	Z zhurboiu radist' obnialas' (Joy and Sorrow Embraced, 1907) [76]
Hrytsko Chuprynka		1879-1921	Hoholiv, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire	[77]
Stepan Charnetskyi		1881-1944	Shmankivtsi, Chortkiv county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	V hodyni sumerku (In the Twilight Hour, 1908), V hodyni zadumy (In the Hour of Contemplation, 1917), Sumni idem (Unhappy We Go, 1920) [78]
Khrystia Alchevska		1882-1931	Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire	[79]
Mykyta Shapoval		1882-1932	Sriblianka, Bakhmut county, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire	Sny viry (Dreams of Faith, 1908) and Samotnist’ (Loneliness, 1910) [80]
Ostap Lutskyi		1883-1941	Luka, Sambir county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	[81]
Sydir Tverdokhlib		1886-1922	Berezhany, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire	V svichadi plesa (In the Mirror of the River's Surface, 1908) [82]
Mykola Zerov		1890-1937	Zinkiv, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire	[83]
Pavlo Tychyna		1891-1967	Pisky, Kozelets county, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire	Soniashni kliarnety (Clarinets of the Sun, 1918; repr 1990) [84]
Mykola Khvylovyi		1893-1933	Trostianets, Akhtyrsky Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire	[85]
Maksym Rylskyi		1895-1964	Kyiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire	Synia dalechin’ (The Blue Distance, 1922), Poemy (Poems, 1924), Kriz’ buriu i snih (Through Storm and Snow, 1925), Trynadtsiata vesna (The Thirteenth Spring, 1926), Homin i vidhomin (The Resonance and the Echo, 1929), and De skhodiat’sia dorohy (Where the Roads Meet, 1929). [86]
Volodymyr Sosiura		1898-1965	Debaltseve, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire	Love Ukraine, The Late Summer (Babyne Lito), To Maria, Stalin

20th century

Poet	Portrait	Date	Birthplace	Notable works
Natalia Livytska-Kholodna		1902-2005	Zolotonosha, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Ivan Bahrianyi		1906-1963	Kuzemyn, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Olena Teliha		1906-1942	Ilyinskoye, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Bohdan Ihor Antonych		1909-1937	Nowica, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Leonid Vysheslavsky		1914-2002	Mykolaiv, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Iryna Senyk		1926-2009	Lviv, Lwów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Lina Kostenko		1930-	Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv okruha, USSR
Atena Pashko		1931-2012	Bystrytsia, Lwów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Emma Andijewska		1931-	Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Vasyl Stus		1938-1985	Rakhnivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Bohdana Durda		1940-	Buchach, Chortkiv Raion, Western Ukraine
Daria Chubata		1940-	Ternopil, Western Ukraine
Hanna Chubach		1941-2019	Ploske village, Vinnytsya Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Roman Kudlyk		1941-2019	Jaroslaw, Western Ukraine
Vasyl Holoborodko		1945-	Adrianopil, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Moisei Fishbeyn		1946-2020	Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Yaroslav Pavuliak		1948-2010	Nastasiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Oleh Lysheha		1949-2014	Tysmenytsia, Stanislav Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Natalka Bilotserkviets		1954-	Kuianivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[87]
Tetiana Yakovenko		1954-	Sobolivka, Teplyk Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Ihor Rymaruk		1958-2008	Miakoty, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Yurii Andrukhovych		1960-	Stanislav, Stanislav Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Ihor Pavliuk		1967-	Rozhysche Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Halyna Petrosaniak		1969-	Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[88]
Taras Chubai		1970-	Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Eugenia Chuprina		1971-	Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Marianna Kiyanovska		1973-	Zhovkva, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[89]
Mariana Savka		1973-	Kopchyntsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[90]
Tetiana Cherep-Perohanych		1974-	Stara Basan, Bobrovytsia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Serhii Zhadan		1974-	Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[91]
Yurii Ruf		1980-2022	Berezhany, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Oksana Maksymchuk		1982-	Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Kateryna Mikhalitsyna		1982-	Mlyniv, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[92]
Iya Kiva		1984-	Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Lyubov Yakymchuk		1985-	Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[93]
Iryna Shuvalova		1986-	Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[94]
Maksym Kryvtsov		1990-2024	Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[95]
Myroslav Laiuk		1990-	Smodna, Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR	[96]
Yaryna Chornohuz		1995-	Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine