For 20th century poetry, you might try Prévert, or go off the beaten path completely and try a Québécois like Gaston Miron (avoid Émile Nelligan. A lot of people here would call me an heretic for saying this, but it's really just sub-Rimbaud).

Before your trio, La Pléiade (Ronsard, du Bellay etc.) and François Villon were of interest (for me personally, Villon much more so than la Pléiade).

Other big names would include Cendrars, Appolinaire, Lautréamont, Mallarmé, Musset, Valéry, Tzara etc.


A lot of the more meaningful francophone poetry from the 20th century has rather come from songwriters (Brassens, Ferré, Brel etc.) - a bit like it's the case with Dylan or Cohen, actually.



That might be original, at least it's not something I've seen done in French Molière scholarship. Nearly all comparative discussions center on Molière vs. de Molina.