Famous Poets - List of Famous Poets - page 16
What do William Wordsworth, Charles Wright and W. B. Yeats have in common? The answer is that they were all world famous poets whose poems are still studied as a part of literature. Poets have often been described as people who step outside the bounds of the obvious and produce aesthetic and, in some cases, even rhythmic works that are meant to take the reader on a fanciful journey through the poet’s words. Poems have been a part of literature forever and it is believed that the earliest poems evolved from folk songs. A poem usually has certain characters that define it, some of which are things like the rhyme scheme, symbolism, rhetoric, rhythm and even irony. This form of literature has also been used to tell stories, the best example of which the two poems Iliad and The Odyssey, written by Homer, are the best examples. Having familiarized ourselves with poems, it’s only natural that we move onto better acquainting ourselves with the people who wrote them. To that end, what follows now is a collection of the biographies of some of the most famous poets. They include their timelines, information about their professional and personal lives along with interesting facts and trivia about them.
The Most Famous Poets | |||
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| Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
| Charles Bukowski | August 16, 1920 | German, American | Charles Bukowski was a German-born American novelist, short story writer and poet |
| Abdolkarim Soroush | December 16, 1945 | Iranian | Abdolkarim Soroush is a reformer, thinker, and Rumi scholar belonging to Iran |
| Sarojini Naidu | February 13, 1879 | Indian | Sarojini Naidu was an Indian freedom fighter and poet |
| Aleister Crowley | October 12, 1875 | British | Aleister Crowley was an occultist and ceremonial magician who founded the ethical philosophy of Thelema |
| Derek Walcott | January 23, 1930 | Saint Lucian | Derek Walcott is a West Indian poet and playwright, who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Amir Khusrow | 1253 | Indian | Amir Khusro was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar regarded as the "father of Qawwali" |
| Ahlam Mosteghanemi | April 13, 1953 | Algerian | Ahlam Mosteghanemi is a contemporary Algerian poet and novelist |
| Aeschylus | 525 BC | Greek | Aeschylus was an eminent Greek tragedian |
| John Donne | January 22, 1572 | British | John Donne was a famous English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest of his time |
| Nizar Qabbani | March 21, 1923 | Syrian | Nizar Qabbani was a poet, and is one among the most honoured men in the Arab Literary world |
John Clare
John Clare was an English poet, often referred to as a ‘Peasant poet’, considered to be one of the most important 19th century poets
Amiri Baraka
Poet and political activist, Amiri Baraka was one of the most influential African-American writers
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym used by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator and feminist who became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was a renowned American librettist and lyricist
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge was a prolific English-born Australian writer
William Morris
William Morris was an English textile designer, writer and socialist
William Faulkner
William Faulkner was a famous American writer and a Nobel Prize winner