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The following is a list of Ukrainian-language poets (chronological by year of birth).
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16th century
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| Poet | Portrait | Date | Birthplace | Notable Works |
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| 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] |
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17th century
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| Poet | Portrait | Date | Birthplace | Notable Works |
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| 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] |
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18th century
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| Poet | Portrait | Date | Birthplace | Notable Works |
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| 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] |
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19th century
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| Poet | Portrait | Date | Birthplace | Notable Works |
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| 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 |
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20th century
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| Poet | Portrait | Date | Birthplace | Notable works |
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| 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 |
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