Old Globe Masterminds

Work-in-progress chronicles a list of all-time top-of-the-charts eclectic heavyweights of poetic influence, tradition and lineage.

				Cave Painting (15,000 BC)
		History of Writing (4000 BC)
Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia 28th C BC)
			Enheduanna (Sumeria/Akkadia 23rd C BC)
	Homer (Greece 8th/7th BC)
				Sumangalamata (India 7th BC)
		Sappho (Greece 7th BC)
	Lao Tzu (Chinese 4th C BC)
Anyte of Tegea (Arcadia 3rd BC)
			Ovid (Rome 1st BC- 1st AD)
	Kalidasa (India 1st BC – 5th AD?)
				Ban Zhao (China 2nd AD)
		Auvaiyar (India 3rd AD)
Bodidharma (India/China 6th C)
			The Mu’allaqat; or Seven Ancient Arabic Prize Poems (7th C)
	Khansa (Arabia/Saudi Arabia 7th C)
				Layla al-Akhyaliyyah (Iraq 7th C)
		Du Fu (China 8th C)
Li Bai (China 8th C)
			Rabia al Basri (8th C Iraq)
	Han Shan (China 9th C)
				Xue Tao (China 9th C)
		Yu Xuanji (China 9th C)
Yeshe Tsogyal (Tibet 9th C)
			Lady Ise (Japan 10th C)
	Sei Shonagon (Japanese 11th C)
				Beowulf (England 11th C)
		Omar Khayyan (Persia 12th C)
Akka Mahadevi (India 12th C)
			Li Qingzhao (China 12th C)
	Milarepa (Tibet 12th C)
				Rumi (Persia 13th C)
		Dante (Italy 13th C)
Dogen (Japan 13th C)
			Mechthild of Magdeburg (Germany 13th C)
	Petrarch (Italy 14th C)
				Lalla (India 14th C)
		Leonor Lopez de Cordoba (Spain 15th C)
Geoffrey Chaucer (England 15th C)
			Francois Villon (French 15th C)
	Christine de Pizan (France 15th C)
				Kabir (India 15th/16th C)
		Mirabai (India 16th)
John Skelton (England 16th C)
			Joachim du Bellay (France 16th C)
		Pierre de Ronsard (French 16th C)
	Teresa of Avila (Spain 16th C)
				Wang Wei (China 17th C)
		Basho: Narrow Road to the Deep North (Japan 17th C)
Lope de Vega (Spain 17th C)
			Miguel de Cervantes (Spain 17th C)
	Shakespeare (England 17th C)
				Ben Jonson (England 17th C)
		Thomas Campion (England 17th C)
John Donne (England 17th C)
			Bulleh Shah (Pakistan 18th C)
	Olympe de Gouges (France 18th C)
				William Blake (19th C England )
		William Wordsworth (19th C England)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (19th C England)
			Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (19th C England)
	Charles Baudelaire (19th C French)
				Arthur Rimbaud (19th C French)
		Geronimo (20th C Chiricahua Apache)
Black Elk (20th C Oglala Souix)