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William shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech,
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age
Edgar Albert Guest
Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski was an American author known for his gritty and unflinching depictions of everyday life. His writing style, often categorized as "dirty realism,".
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He is considered a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion",
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry
T S Eliot
T.S. Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. He is a towering figure of modernist literature,
Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature
John Keats
John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a prominent American poet of the 19th century, renowned for his accessible and evocative verse.
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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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