Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential Greek poets such as Homer, Sappho, Anacreon, and Odysseus Elytis.

Greek poetry in antiquity -- Greek poetry since 1820 -- Macedonian poetry -- Archilochus -- Callimachus -- Constantine P. Cavafy -- Odysseus Elytis -- Ugo Foscolo -- Hesiod -- Nazim Hikmet -- Homer -- Nikos Kazantzakis -- Leonidas of Taretnum -- Meleager -- Nikos Pentzikis -- Pindar -- Yannis Ritsos -- Sappho -- George Seferis -- Dionysios Solomos -- Theocritus -- Theognis.