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Do you love to read poetry? Are you passionate to express your ideas and views in rhythmic ways that have lyricism and lucidity? If yes, then you are a poet. Poets have enriched the aspect of literature from the very beginning of human civilization. In every country poets always acted and is still acting as the major modes to foster her cultural and social aspects. History speaks that every age has been witnessing the development and achievements of the poets since the old era. In the arena of poetries those who have gained their fame through their creative genius of poetries came to be known as famous poets. The list of the famous poets include the poets of ancient age to the post modern era.
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Most of the famous poets have surpassed their national boundaries and achieved universalities through their immortal poetic creations. Poets like Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Arnold, Tennyson, Tagore will live as long as civilization will sustain. Their works speak of the cosmic truth along with celebrating the facets of human life and nature. Famous poets are of all ages. Apart from creating the immortal works of poetry the famous poets also act as the social reformer or presented their contemporary world through their pens.
Be it the odes of John Keats or the sonnets of William Shakespeare all breath the very ideas and views of the general people. When you are reading the famous poetic work of Chaucer like The Canterbury Tales you will find the poet portraying his age. The characters transcending the world of Chaucer attained universal features that deny the limit of time.
If you want to know about some of the famous English poets who add new dimensions to the English literature you can read the works of the poets like:
- William Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Edward Taylor
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- John Milton
- John Keats
- George Eliot
- Dylan Thomas
- William Blake
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Sir John Suckling
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Robert Southey
- John Dryden
- John Donne
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Edmund Spenser
- Siegfried Sassoon
- John Ruskin
- Juliet Wilson
- Liam Wilkinson
- Hugo Williams
- Thomas Warton
- Joseph Warton
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Christina Rossetti
- Alexander Pope
- Andrew Marvell
- Christopher Marlowe
- John Masefield
- Walter de la Mare
- David Herbert Lawrence
- Philip Larkin
- Ben Jonson
- Rudyard Kipling
- Samuel Johnson
- James Henry Leigh Hunt
- Ted Hughes
- Abraham Cowley
- William Cowper
In the arena of poetry the American poets have created records. Some of the most famous American poets are Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Billy Collins, Lucile Clifton, Raymond Carver and many others. The Irish poets are no less impressive in dominating the world of poetry. Famous Irish poets such as Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney and James Joyce prove their excellence in ruling the Irish along with the world's literature.
The lovers of Australian poetry will find the famous poets of Australian literature offering their creations for them. The famous Australian poets like Judith Wright, Douglas Stewart, Andrew Barton Paterson, Dorothea MacKellar, Chris Mansell, Dorothea Mackeller, Les Murray, Henry Lawson, Alec Derwent Hope, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Dame Mary Gilmore and Ivan Donn Carswell glorify the Australian literature.
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