Ethnocentrism in the Face (+ Some Mysogyny)

It is, by definition, extremely hard to see our blind spots, but this (partial) Wiki  list of National Poets is a move in the right direction.
We may know a few of these writers… but beyond those, the extent of our blindness is apparent.

• Afghanistan – Khushal Khan Khattak
• Albania – Gjergj Fishta
• Argentina – José Hernández
• Austria – Peter Rosegger, Franz Grillparzer, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
• Australia – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson, Dorothea Mackellar, A. B. “Banjo” Paterson
• Azerbaijan – Fuzûlî, Nezami Ganjavi, Imadaddin Nasimi, Samad Vurgun
• Bangladesh – Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Belarus – Adam Mickiewicz, Yakub Kolas, Yanka Kupala
• Brazil – Gonçalves Dias, Olavo Bilac, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Machado de Assis.
• Bulgaria – Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov
• Catalonia – Jacint Verdaguer
• Croatia – Marko Maruli?, Miroslav Krleža
• Czech Republic – Karel Hynek Mácha, Jan Neruda
• Chile – Pablo Neruda
• Dagestan – Rasul Gamzatov
• Denmark – Adam Oehlenschläger
• Dominican Republic – Pedro Mir
• England – William Shakespeare
• Finland – Johan Ludvig Runeberg
• France – Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
• Galicia – Rosalía de Castro
• Georgia – Shota Rustaveli
• Germany – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich von Schiller
• Guernsey – George Métivier
• Hungary – Sándor Pet?fi
• Iceland – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Halldór Laxness
• Israel – Yehuda Amichai, Hayyim Nahman Bialik
• Iran – Ferdowsi, Hafez, Nezami, Saadi, Khayyam, Rumi, Naser Khosrow, Adib Boroumand
• Ireland – Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats
• Italy – Dante Alighieri
• Jews – Yehuda Halevi
• Kashmir – Mahjoor
• Latvia – Rainis
• Lebanon – Gibran Khalil Gibran, Said Akl
• Lithuania – Adam Mickiewicz
• Luxembourg – Edmond de la Fontaine, known as “Dicks”
• Macedonia – Ko?o Racin
• Malta – Dun Karm Psaila
• Moldova – Mihai Eminescu
• the Netherlands – Joost van den Vondel, Jacob Cats
• Nicaragua – Ruben Dario
• Nigeria – Chinua Achebe
• Ossetia – Kosta Xetagurov
• Pakistan – Allama Muhammad Iqbal
• Palestine – Mahmoud Darwish, (1917-2003), “the poet of Palestine”
• Panama – Ricardo Miró (1883-1940)
• Peru – César Vallejo
• Philippines – Francisco Balagtas
• Poland – the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz S?owacki, Zygmunt Krasi?ski
• Portugal – Luís de Camões (author of the national epic, The Lusiads), Fernando Pessoa (author of the epic-lyric poem, Mensagem)
• Quebec – Émile Nelligan, Gaston Miron, Octave Crémazie, Gilles Vigneault, Félix Leclerc
• Republic of India – Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Subramanya Bharathi, K. V. Puttappa, Govind Pai, Kavi Pradeep, G.S. Shivarudrappa, N.L. Shraman
• Romania – Mihai Eminescu
• Russia – Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev
• Saudi Arabia – Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi
• Scotland – Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Barbour, Edwin Morgan
• Serbia and Montenegro – Petar Petrovi? Njegoš
• Slovakia – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
• Slovenia – France Prešeren
• Somalia – Hassan Ganey – Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade – Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame ‘Hadrawi’
• South Africa – Mazisi Kunene
• Spain – Miguel de Cervantes
• Syria – Nizar Qabbani
• Tunisia – Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
• Turkey – Naz?m Hikmet Ran
• Ukraine – Taras Shevchenko
• United States – Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
• Venezuela – Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco
• Vietnam – Nguyen Du
• Wales – Dylan Thomas, Dafydd ap Gwilym