The book tells about the biographies and historical events against which the lives of one hundred great poets of the world of all times and peoples took place. The reader will become acquainted with the destinies of Homer and Virgil, Li Qing-zhao and Dante, Omar Khayyam and Camões, La Fontaine and Basho, Derzhavin and Schiller, Pushkin and Mitskevich, Tsvetaeva and Lorca and many other brilliant poets, whose creativity enriches our world and makes ours more beautiful life. Biographies of poets help to learn about the main poetic schools, theories and principles of the existence of poetry in different times and among different peoples.