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Poets with tag Pessimism:

Pessimism is a state of mind in which one anticipates undesirable outcomes or believes that the evil or hardships in life outweigh the good or luxuries. Value judgments may vary dramatically between individuals, even when judgments of fact are undisputed. The most common example of this phenomenon is the "Is the glass half empty or half full?" situation. The degree in which situations like these are evaluated as something good or something bad can be described in terms of one's optimism or pessimism respectively. Throughout history, the pessimistic disposition has had effects on all major areas of thinking.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
James Thomson	1700-1748	SCO	Blank verse, Classicism, Pessimism	91	353
Giacomo Leopardi	1798-1837	ITA	Atheism, National, Pessimism, Philosophy, Romanticism	41	286
Edward Fitzgerald	1809-1883	ENG	Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Pessimism	8	274
Matthew Arnold	1822-1888	ENG	Didactism, Pessimism, Sage writers, Victorian	63	25
Algernon Charles Swinburne	1837-1909	ENG	Aestheticism, Decadents, Pessimism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Symbolism, Victorian	225	117
Thomas Hardy	1840-1928	ENG	Agnosticism, Pessimism, Realism, Romanticism, The Movement, Victorian, War	250	20
Ernest Christopher Dowson	1867-1900	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Decadents, Pessimism, Rhymers club, Victorian	81	217

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