A man with a strong mind of his own Orwell never backed down from stating his views on the socio-political climate he lived in which he expressed profusely through his influential essays and novels.

Famous male poets names. Often referred to as the father of free verse Whitman is one of the most influential American poets of all time. American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest poets in American history. He also served as the Poet Laureate.

10 most famous British poets including Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Alfred Lord Tennyson and T. Ballou 18371916 American poet and suffragist. Walt Whitman was an American poet journalist and essayist.

A Australia B Barbados Bo Bosnia C Canada Ch Chile Cu Cuba D Dominica De Denmark E England F France G Germany Ga Gambia Gd Grenada Gh GhanaGold Coast Gr Greece Gu GuyanaBritish Guiana Gy. Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Maya Angelou Edgar Allan Poe Robert Frost Emily Dickinson Elizabeth Barrett Browning E. Dylan Thomas achieved tremendous popularity during his lifetime and remains popular after his untimely death at the age of 39.

Also an essayist and a philosopher Paul Valery is best known for his poetic works. Main country of residence as a poet not place of birth. Nature dominates his poetry and some of the best known poems on the subject have been written by him including Daffodils and Tintern Abbey.

Yeats to ancient poets like Homer and Dante Alighieri to American treasures like Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. 2 Each poems ranking is based off of its relative fame within the English language. Since Theres No Help by Michael Drayton 1563-1631 It may be a bad augury to begin with a poem by a loser but there it is.

Wordsworth was known for his poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Prelude and The Solitary Reaper. Drayton a contemporary and possible acquaintance of the Bard evidently had come to the unhappy end of an affair when he. 10 Greatest English Sonnets Concerning Other Poets.