19 19th century Czech poets

Eduard Albert, was a Czech surgeon, professor and historian.

František Ladislav Čelakovský was a Czech poet, translator, linguist, and literary critic. He was a major figure in the Czech “national revival”. His most notable works are Ohlas písní ruských and Ohlas písní českých.

Josef Václav Frič was a Czech poet, journalist and radical democrat revolutionary. He was a participant in the revolution of 1848.

Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.

Adolf Heyduk was a distinguished Czech poet and writer. Many of his poems were later set to music by Antonín Dvořák. The best known and most widely performed is the poignant and tender Songs My Mother Taught Me with its hauntingly exquisite setting, included in the repertoire of many renowned instrumentalists and vocalists.

Karel Hlaváček was a Czech Symbolist and Decadent poet and artist.

Boleslav Jablonský was a Czech poet and Catholic priest.

Alois Isidor Jeitteles was an Austrian doctor, journalist and writer, best known for Ludwig van Beethoven's setting of his poem sequence, An die ferne Geliebte.

Josef Jungmann was a Czech poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language.

Václav Kliment Klicpera was a Czech playwright, author, and poet. He was one of the first presenters of Czech drama, and was especially influential in the foundation of comedic Czech theatre.

Eliška Krásnohorská was a Czech feminist author. She was introduced to literature and feminism by Karolína Světlá. She wrote works of lyric poetry and literary criticism, however, she is usually associated with children's literature and translations, including works by Pushkin, Mickiewicz and Byron.

Rudolf Mayer was a Czech poet. He was a member of the Májovci group of Czech novelists and poets and is best known for his poem "Midday".

Božena Němcová was a Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement.

Karel Sabina was a Czech writer and journalist.

Stanislav Kostka Neumann was Czech writer, poet, and journalist. He has undergone many stages of creative: symbolist, anarchist, landscape lyric, civilist, communist and others. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He was a mentor of Jaroslav Seifert.

Josef Kajetán Tyl was a significant Czech dramatist, writer, and actor. He was a notable figure in the Czech National Revival movement and is best known as the author of the current national anthem of the Czech Republic titled Kde domov můj?.

Jan Erazim Vocel was a Czech poet, archaeologist, historian and cultural revivalist. Though as heir to his father's trade he was to become a baker, his parents, observing his youthful enthusiasm for Gothic history, eventually heeded his academic calling.

Jaroslav Vrchlický was a Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature eight times.

Julius Zeyer was a Czech prose writer, poet, and playwright.