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Nov 10, 2024 9:47 AM

   Since April is National Poetry Month, this seems like a perfect time to look at some of the most poetic of baby names. We’ve already seen starbabies named Poet (Soleil Moon Frye), Sonnet (Forest Whitaker), Auden (Noah Wyle), Tennyson (Russell Crowe), and of course any number of Dylans (traceable back to poet Thomas). By some quirk of fate — or maybe it’s prophecy fulfillment — poets in general seem to have more poetic surnames than prose writers do.  Here are some poet-name possibilities:

  ANGELOU

  AUDEN

  BARAKA

  BLAKE

  BLYBOGANBRONTE

  BYRON

  CAMPBELL

  CAREW

  CHAUCERCORSOCRANE

  DANTE

  DICKINSON

  ELIOT

  EMERSON

  FLETCHER

  FROST

  HARDY

  HERRICK

  JARRELL

  KEATS

  KENYONKIPLINGLANDOR

  LARKIN

  LORCA

  LOWELL

  MACAULAY

  MARLOWEMARVELLMERRILL

  MERWIN

  MILLAY

  MILTON

  MISTRAL

  MORRISON

  NERUDA

  OLIVER

  OWEN

  PAZ

  POEQUARLESRUMIRUSKIN

  SHELLEY

  SPENSER

  TENNYSON

  THOREAU

  VAUGHANVERLAINEWHITMANWHITTIERWYATT

  YEATS

  Another group of poetically romantic names consists of the idealized Greek, Latinate, and other names used by the early English pastoral poets, in verse dedicated to their “coy mistresses” and such:

  ALTHEA

  AMARANTHA

  AMINTA

  ANTHEA

  AUDRIA

  CELIA

  CLORINDA

  CORINNA

  CHLOE

  CHLORIS

  DELIA

  DORINDA

  FAWNIA

  FLORA

  GRATIANA

  ISABELL

  JULIA

  LAURA

  LUCASTAPERILLAPHILOMELA

  PHILLIDA

  PHILLIS

  PHOEBE

  ROSALIND

  ROSALINE

  SABRINASAMELASILVIA

  VEVINA

  And then there are the names connected to poetry via goddesses, muses, and other poetic associations–here are just a few of the almost endless possibilities:

  ARIEL— The name of Sylvia Plath’s most famous group of poemsBEATRICE — Dante‘s muse in The Divine ComedyBRIANA –one of many symbolic names in Spenser‘s The Faerie QueenBRIGID — Celtic goddess of poetry and songCALLIOPE — The Greek muse of epic poetryCERIDWEN — Legendary Welsh enchantress said to possess the cauldron of poetic inspirationCLARINDA — Invented by Edmund Spenser and used by Robert Burns in Verses to ClarindaDEVIN — Gaelic name meaning musical poetELAINE and ENID –Revived by Tennyson in Idylls of the KingERATO –The Greek muse of love poetryEULALIE — Subject of a Poe poemEVANGELINE — Popularized via the Longfellow poemFIAMMETTA — From Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando FuriosoIANTHE — Appears in the poetry of Byron and Shelley; the latter used it for his daughterLEILA — Arabic name popularized in the works of Byron

  LENORE — An Edgar Allan Poe favoriteMALVINA — invented by the Scottish poet James MacphersonPAMELA — invented by pastoral poet Sir Philip SidneyTHALIA — Greek muse of idyllic poetryUNA — Symbolic name used in Spenser‘s The Faerie QueenVANESSA — Created by Jonathan Swift for his autobiographical poem Cadenus and VanessaZULEIKA — Heroine of one of Byron‘s narrative poems

  And finally there are the word names that cut straight to the chase:

  BALLADBARD/BAIRDCADENCECANZONEHAIKULYRIC

  MUSEOTTAVAPOEM

  POESY

  POETPOETICAQUATRAINSESTINASONNETVILLANELLE

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