List of Slovak poets
The following is a list of notable Slovak poets.
Renaissance (1500–1650)
Baroque (1650–1780)
- Juraj Tranovský or Tranoscius
- Daniel Sinapius-Horčička
- Hugolín Gavlovič
Classicism (1780–1840)
Romanticism (1840–1850)
- Ľudovít Štúr
- Samo Chalupka
- Andrej Sládkovič
- Janko Kráľ
- Ján Botto
- Janko Matúška
- Michal Miloslav Hodža
Realism (1875–1905)
Modernism (1905–1918)
Between the World Wars (1918–1948)
Surrealism
Contemporary (since the 1960s)
- Krista Bendová
- Miroslav Válek
- Milan Rúfus
- Ľubomír Feldek
- Milan Richter
- Jana Kantorová-Báliková
- Juraj Kuniak
- Dana Podracká
- Viera Prokešová
- Pavol Hudák
- Eva Kováčová