Greatest Poets of All Time

I love how he,ade so many inspiring poems and how it was a calming to think thing for him to do. I made a probe about him and it was fun to research all about the famous poet William Shakespheere
Well, DUH! Of course William Shakespeare would make this list, but he will always be destined to be number one on every list. I don’t really know why he’s so famous in his poetry, but it’s most likely the world’s greatest love story of all time, “Romeo and Juliet.” I heard about him when I was 5! This has to be the worlds greatest poet, and no one who sees that, pretty much needs to understand how much work he put into all his poetry. He wrote Hamlet of his son. This is how amazing Shakespeare is. He is, was, and always will be the worlds greatest writer, in English or more. I love you, William!
He is the most successful poet I have ever loved and read about. He is of course the best.
Definitely number 1

I literally laugh out loud'd when I saw Tupac on this list - let alone being at number 1! Edgar Allan Poe's style may be too much for some people to comprehend but if you can understand it, the reward is amazing. He must have put a ton of effort into getting you to sympathize with his characters. He never asked you to feel any sympathy. You just did.
Very sadly underrated. An outstanding poet of great fascination and great poetry.
Poe just obliterates Shakespeare in terms of word play, syntax, and readability
He is so underrated. His poems are dark and mysterious and so interesting

Saadi is the Great Iranian Poet. His lyrics are the best.
All of persian grammer is made but his hands.
I proud of him. I'm iranian
The greatest of all time!

She writes from her heart.
well she a great women and she writes from her heart
she writes from her heart


Dante should be considered the best poet in the whole world. He is definitely the greatest poet of all Italy. T. S Eliot called him second only to Shakespeare. Although he is not recognized today as a huge poet, his writings are still heavily studied and used by scholars. His poems have flourished for eight hundred years! Longer than Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer. They all being moderately influenced by Dante, the influencer of the greatest poets, the Florentine who was exiled in one of the most brutal times in Florentine history, and the poet who exposed the wrongs of humanity, the beauty of Paradise, wrote in new ways and challenged the meaning of love and what people will do to find it.
To suggest that dante singularly stands over and above every other poet in history would be an understatement.
Read Dante,he is the master of us all.
He had the ambition to show humanity how to obtain salvation. And he fulfilled it greatly.
Greatest poet of all times.

Arguably the best poet that came out of the Romantic Era. Tintern Abbey is fantastic. If you haven't read it, please stop what you're doing and enjoy a masterpiece.
A true poetry composer, deserves to be in best of 3 on here...
He should be number 1. His poems are natural and real

Emily Dickinson's is AMAZING. Not only was she completely unknown during her time and was published posthumously, but her poetry resonates deeper than anything I've ever read. While some poems (these are in Life) talk about the angels and heaven, others are emotional insecurity and fear of society and the outside world. READ EMILY DICKINSON!
She is without a doubt, the most insightful poet Ever!
Perhaps the single greatest. only Shakespeare is a near contender.
Mother of free verse, ‘nough said!

Ferdowsi was as great or even greater than Homer. The sad fact is that even if you translate his Shahnameh you might get the stories and epics right, but the beauty and music of the words and poetry will be lost. and this true of all Persian poets like Saadi and Hafiz.
Ferdowsi is a poet with an epic story called Shahnama which is superior to Homer's Illiad and Odyssey. It's such a pity that such great poets are unknown just because they are not European.
He saved the Persian language. Otherwise, the Iranians would speak Arabic like Egyptians who became Arabic.
What a poet for ever

He is a great Persian poets and one of the greatest in the world. His poems are all moving your heart and your mind
Without a shadow of a doubt he is far greater than Shakespeare and other poets.
I haven't read them all, but for me, now he is celestial and the best!
By far rumi is purest and the greatest poet of all time

Men that see are blind. Blind men do see.
On His Blindness is a masterpiece.

really good, one of a kind

"poetry is not measure with fine figment of fantasy or cognitive creativity in form of phrases, though a poetry is purely measured with true stature of sympathy and simplicity and this man is the greatest example of it"

Poet, Lyricist, Music Composer, Novelist, Dramatist, Painter et all.
Is there anyone else who has straddled the art world so completely?
The greatest! Europeans were never able to understand his philosophy. They can't... Because when they translate his work in English it dies
Superb poet. Being a Bengali I'm proud of myself that I read those stuffs he wrote in Bengali and English also
If his works would perfectly translated, he would of course regarded the best poet of all time

For me he is number1

Greatest of all time

He was a great man.
he was a reference to satan in john milton's paradise lost




Best poet of all time. He should be in top 1
One of the Greatest Minds of it's time, way ahead of his Era, his beautiful work has been translated in almost ll languages. HAFEZ, the famous lyric poet of Persia in the fourteenth century, is sometimes called the Persian Anacreon.
His love poems in persian language are exceptional... No one could bring love into literature like him
Hafez is eternal but only if you know Persian
The poet speaks to you

Best lyricist ever. And music is poetry. Waters needs to be up there


Very underrated!