Yeats to ancient poets like Homer and Dante Alighieri to American treasures like Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.

Famous male poets names. 3 In order to create more even ground for comparison we have not included in this list nursery rhymes or poems whose fame was primarily gained from being set to music. Leroi Jones 19342014 Joel Barlow 17541812 Coleman Barks born 1937 Mary Barnard 19092001 Djuna Barnes 18921982 Jim Barnes born 1933 Catherine Barnett born 1960 Laird. Russell Banks born 1940 Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta 18341907 Amiri Baraka aka.

This is a list of English-language poets who have written much of their poetry in English. Modeled after Rumi the names of ancient poets are a particularly haute subset of poetry names. William Wordsworth is considered one of the greatest poets in English literature and he is the most famous nature poet.

He also served as the Poet Laureate. English poet William Wordsworth along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge released Lyrical Ballads in 1798 which set the tone for the Romantic Age of English Literature. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a British poet.

Often referred to as the father of free verse Whitman is one of the most influential American poets of all time. His poetry which is renowned for its powerful visual imagery served as an important influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a group of English poets and painters. Famous Poems-Daffodils 1807 Tintern Abbey 1798.

Dylan Thomas achieved tremendous popularity during his lifetime and remains popular after his untimely death at the age of 39. After writing only a few early poems Valery experienced a severe emotional breakdown in 1892 and by 1898 he quit writing altogether. 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.

Wordsworth was known for his poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Prelude and The Solitary Reaper. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh writer and poet who published popular poems such as Do not go gentle into that good night which was popularized in the 2014 movie Interstellar where Michael Caines character recites the poem throughout the film. Also a humanist Whitman played a crucial role in the shift between transcendentalism and realism.