Poets from 1500 to 2000 By Benelyon Period: Apr 26, 1564 to Apr 23, 1616 William Shakespeare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare.jpg Period: Apr 7, 1770 to Apr 23, 1850 William Wordsworth Period: Aug 4, 1792 to Jul 8, 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley Period: Jun 2, 1840 to Jan 11, 1928 Thomas Hardy Period: Feb 17, 1864 to Feb 5, 1941 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson Period: Jun 13, 1865 to Jan 28, 1939 William Butler Yeats Period: Jun 6, 1867 to Sep 2, 1922 Henry Lawson Period: Mar 26, 1874 to Jan 29, 1963 Robert Frost Period: Mar 10, 1893 to Nov 4, 1918 Wilfred Owen Period: Feb 28, 1930 to Feb 6, 2011 Bruce Dawe Alive - present day Period: Sep 21, 1934 to Feb 6, 2011 Leonard Cohen Alive- Present Day Period: May 24, 1941 to Feb 6, 2011 Bob Dylan Alive - Present day