Featured biographies of famous poets through the ages. From Homer and Virgil to Keats, Shakespeare and Dickinson.
Homer (c. 8th Century B.C.) Considered the greatest of the ancient Greek poets. Homer wrote two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey. His work was hugely influential in shaping Greek culture and literature.
Laozi (Lao Tsu) (c BCE) Laozi was a Chinese poet and philosopher. He was the author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism.
Sappho (c BCE) One of the first published female writers. Much of her poetry has been lost, but her immense reputation has remained. Plato referred to Sappho as one of the great ten poets.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Roman poet. Virgil wrote three epics; Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid.
Kalidasa (4th–5th Century CE) Indian classical poet. Kalidasa is considered the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language.
Rumi (–) Sufi mystic and poet. Born near modern day Afghanistan, Rumi settled in modern day Turkey. Rumi&#;s mystical poems express aspects of the Divine romance between man and God. His longest work was the Masnavi.
Dante Alighieri(–) Italian
William Wordsworth () was a major Romantic poet, based in the Lake District, England. His greatest work was &#;The Prelude&#; &#; dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Prelude is a spiritual autobiography based on Wordsworth&#;s travels through Europe and his observations of life. His poetry also takes inspiration from the beauty of nature, especially his native Lake District.
Early life &#; William Wordsworth
Wordsworth was born on 7 April in Cockermouth, in north-west England. His father, John Wordsworth, introduced the young William to the great poetry of Milton and Shakespeare, but he was frequently absent during William&#;s childhood. Instead, Wordsworth was brought up by his mother&#;s parents in Penrith, but this was not a happy period. He frequently felt in conflict with his relations and at times contemplated ending his life. However, as a child, he developed a great love of nature, spending many hours walking in the fells of the Lake District. He also became very close to his sister, Dorothy, who would later become a poet in her own right.
In , William was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire; this separated him from his beloved sister for nearly ni
Famous Poets from England and Around the World
These great poets are forever immortal in their works. Their thoughts and dreams and fears are forever impressed upon those who care to read their works.
In fact many famous poets have helped to shape the form of modern thought and have had huge cultural contributions not only in their life times but in today's society too.
Famous English Poets
William Shakespeare: was born in He was The Bard of Avon and at the same time a highly revered poet and playwright. In fact, he is considered to be the greatest English writer in the field of drama and literature. England hails him as its national poet, and the world is grateful for his literary contributions.
William Blake: More than just a poet, William Blake was also recognized as a painter as well as a mystic. He claimed that he was influenced by divine forces. Such radical views caused damage to his reputation at the time but after his death his talent become known far and wide. Perhaps his most famous prose was The Tiger.
Rudyard Kipling: born in and died in His father taught arts and crafts at a school of art in Bombay, India. At the time India was of course ruled by the Brit
William Wordsworth
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Who Was William Wordsworth?
Poet William Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads (). The collection, which contained Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," introduced Romanticism to English poetry. Wordsworth also showed his affinity for nature with the famous poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." He became England's poet laureate in , a role he held until his death in
Early Life
Poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, , in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at Despite these losses, he did well at Hawkshead Grammar School — where he wrote his first poetry — and went on to study at Cambridge University. He did not excel there, but managed to graduate in
Wordsworth had visited France in — in the midst of the French Revolution — and was a supporter of the new government’s republican ideals. On a return trip to France the next year, he fell in love with Annette Vallon, who became pregnant. However, the declaration of war between England and France in separated the two. Left adrift and without income in England, Wordsworth was influenced by radicals
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