Often referred to as the father of free verse Whitman is one of the most influential American poets of all time.

Famous male poets names. 10 Greatest English Sonnets Concerning Other Poets. By Edgar Allan Poe. Dylan Thomas achieved tremendous popularity during his lifetime and remains popular after his untimely death at the age of 39.

Recognizable names from famous poems include Annabel Lenore and Uriel. Also an essayist and a philosopher Paul Valery is best known for his poetic works. 10 most famous British poets including Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Alfred Lord Tennyson and T.

Wordsworth was known for his poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Prelude and The Solitary Reaper. Walt Whitman was an American poet journalist and essayist. 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.

The Bulletin provided Paterson a widely read platform for his poems which appeared under the pseudonym of The Banjo the name of a racehorse owned by his family. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a British poet. The king of dystopia and satire George Orwell the pen name adopted by Eric Arthur Blair was a well-known novelist and critic of the 20th century.

After writing only a few early poems Valery experienced a severe emotional breakdown in 1892 and by 1898 he quit writing altogether. Famous Poems-Daffodils 1807 Tintern Abbey 1798. He also served as the Poet Laureate.

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. Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Maya Angelou Edgar Allan Poe Robert Frost Emily Dickinson Elizabeth Barrett Browning E. 2 Each poems ranking is based off of its relative fame within the English language.