Female Poets

Can you guess the names of the women who wrote the works listed? The language in which each set of works was originally written is provided as a hint.

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Original Language	Works	Poet
Sumerian	The Exaltation of Inanna; Goddess of the Fearsome Powers	Enheduanna
archaic Greek	most poems lost (only fragments of her lyrics survive)	Sappho
English	Sonnet XLIII ("How Do I Love Thee"); Aurora Leigh	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Old Japanese	several love poems in the Kokinshū	Ono no Komachi
Spanish	The Dream; Loa to Divine Narcissus	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
English	"'Hope' is the thing with feathers"; "Because I could not stop for Death"	Emily Dickinson
Francien (a precursor of French)	Lanval; Bisclavret; Laüstic	Marie de France
German	John the Baptist; Antichrist; Life of Jesus	Ava
Arabic	Elegies for Ṣakhr and Muʿāwiyah	al-Khansā
Russian	Requiem; Poem without a Hero	Anna Akhmatova
English	"Still I Rise"; "Phenomenal Woman"	Maya Angelou
Middle French	The Poem of Joan of Arc	Christine de Pizan
English	Tender Buttons; "Sacred Emily"	Gertrude Stein
Spanish	Sonnets of Death; Poem of Chile	Gabriela Mistral
English	The Colossus; Ariel	Silvia Plath