List of well-known epigrammatists
The list of well-known epigrammatists includes well-known epigram writers from ancient times to the present.
Antiquity
Greek antiquity
- Asklepiades by Adramyttion
- Asklepiades of Samos
- Antipater of Sidon
- Antipater of Thessalonica
- Hegesippos
- Meleager of Gadara
- Poseidippus
- Simonides of Keos
Greek late antiquity
Latin antiquity
Latin late antiquity
Renaissance and early modern times
Baroque
enlightenment
Classic
- Friedrich Rückert
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Christian Auernhammer = Christian Wallis (1793–1862) wrote epigrammatic experiments and other epigrammatic works.
present
- Josef Eberle Poeta laureatus
- Erich Kästner wrote in a nutshell: Epigrams. Cologne and Berlin 1959.
- Edgar Lee Masters , for example in his Spoon River Anthology
- Alan J. Perlis wrote humorous epigrams about programming ( Epigrams in Programming )