Greatest English Language Poets

John keats's offerings to english poetry is great that it made the section very much attractive in all areas.

Keats is an example of a great genius and talent. his odes are those epic milestones that shall live immortally till the whole ship of literature submerges.

When you consider that Keats died at age twenty five, his genius is magnified. If you can write ten immortal poems in a long life, you have achieved quite a lot. Keats' Odes are among the best poetry ever written. If you want to recommend one poet, he is the one that touched the pinnacle of grace and art.

Geoffrey Chaucer is remembered as the author of Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature.

The Father of English poetry, still illusive and ironic - laughing at humanity

Gotta be in the top 10 as the best American and British poet of the last century

When T.S. eliot died, wrote Robert Giroux, "the world became a lesser place. "

"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "

Greatest English poet of the twentieth century ad still a massive influence. No-one can use an adjectival phrase quite the same nowadays

Yes, greatest English poet of the 20th century. And very entertaining.

One of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of inner anguish. In his view of nature, the world is like a book written by God. In this book God expresses himself completely, and it is by “reading” the world that humans can approach God and learn about Him.

My wife and I had an outstanding Milton scholar as a professor in college. He started out the course by acknowledging that most people consider Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer as the greatest writers in the English language. By the end of the course, he said he hoped we might consider Milton THE greatest of the three. And, by the end of Paradise Lost, we were convinced.

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Paradise Lost is the single, most essential poem in the English language. Milton (more than Shakespeare, even) establishes the very idea of what it means to be a serious poet in the modern world.

The greatest English poet after Shakespeare is Milton for sure. Paradise Lost says it all.

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears,
Ah! She did depart!

Soon as she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly
He took her with a sigh.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as a manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for the.

I loved his poems as a teenager and their music has never really left me. Another one who died too young.

At the time of his death in January, 1963, Frost had achieved a degree of fame unequaled by any modern American poet. He was not merely a celebrated writer but a public figure who seemed to embody a certain native national wisdom. In front of television cameras, radio microphones, or crowded lecture halls, Frost played with poised perfection the role of the philosophical farmer-poet. His appearance at John Kennedy's 1961 Presidential inauguration still ranks as the most famous public appearance in the history of American literature.

Il miglior fabbro as t S Eliot said, such an inspiration to so many

The greatest American poet of the last century, whose poems can only get more and more famous.

He got me interested in poetry after reading his verse plays and has always stayed with me

But a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? - Browning draws characters and expresses complex human emotions so beautifully.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

In an era that makes a better claim than most upon the familiar term transitional, Andrew Marvell is surely the single most compelling embodiment of the change

Dover Beach is a poetic masterpiece. Maybe one poem doesn't make the poet, but nevertheless "Dover Beach" is far above the other Victorian works.

The woman was a genius, beyond comparrsion. Her poetry was unique. Modern, yet with class. Her or Robert Frost should be number 1. With Shakespeare and Yeats second and third!

I experience as deep a spiritual connection reading Whitman aloud as I have with any poet I've encountered so far.

The best writer about animals in the English language.

A much better poet than his ex-wife though she seems to get all the attention because of her mental problems.

Probably the greatest Scottish poet, though little read, maybe because his language is too antique and dialectal

Redemption


Having been tenant long to a rich Lord,
Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,
And make a suit unto Him, to afford
A new small-rented lease, and cancel th' old.
In heaven at His manor I Him sought:
They told me there, that He was lately gone
About some land, which He had dearly bought
Long since on Earth, to take possession.
I straight returned, and knowing His great birth,
Sought Him accordingly in great resorts--
In cities, theatres, gardens, parks, and courts:
At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth
Of thieves and murderers; there I Him espied,
Who straight, "Your suit is granted, " said, and died.

The funniest poet I've ever read Could even claim to be the greatest Scot - he's far better than Burns, for example

Thomas's poems are noted for their attention to the English countryside and a certain colloquial style. A short poem of Thomas's serves as an example of how he blends war and countryside throughout his poetry.

Andrew Motion puts him in the top ten.
His genius was blown to pieces

He wrote a huge amount but the few last great poems of solitude are something no other poet has ever reached.

Brought the vernacular into poetry - much more readable than Owen, and has a deeper, more lasting effect

a voice for Israel in poetry

dies before his time

way ahead of his time too

Comic poets are far too far down this list. Poetry isn't just about feeling sombre. JB is among the very best of chucklers.

I can never forget his poem about stealing food from the fridge :)

After independence she became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She was the first woman governor in India.

He wasn't just a novelist - he also wrote some of the most tragic poems in English - and they are great achievements in their own right

That�'s because of him that we know Mr. Bob Dylan. See Anthony Hopkins reading Dylan Thomas on youtube...

I don't think John Massey wrote the Gawain Poem? Nobody knows. But it's an amazing poem all the same

Displays great appreciation for traditional skill and craftsmanship

An American classicist... very unusual, and unusually talented. He has a lovely grasp of rhythm too.

Underrated but really has a great way of looking at things and a surprising and novel way of expressing it and her reputation will hopefully rise

Gotta be given some kudos for being the first... Guess he never realized what things would lead to

Her poetry poses interesting questions which is notably intriguing and she uses a conversational tone in many of her poems with contributes to her uniqueness as a poet. She offers a wide range of themes-all with similar stylistic features, hich proves in itself the talent she possessed.

"How violently rumours do blow the sails of popular judgments, and
How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness,
Between shows and substance. "

An inspiration and not just in terms of his verse... Who knows what he might have done had he not died so young.

The best of the Mersey Beat poets - the only one with a real sense for poetry - Tonight at Noon for example

Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

A master of light, whimsical, and sometimes nonsensical verse