Great Poets of the World

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Great Poets of the World
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A is for Maya Angelou

• Poet, playwright and novelist
• Some of her most renowned poetry includes A Brave
  and Startling Truth and Just Give Me a Cool Drink
  of Water 'fore I Diiie

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B is for Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• English poet of the Romantic movement
• Most renowned for her Sonnets from the
  Portuguese, love poems written to her husband

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C is for e.e.cummings

• Renowned for his radical style which abandoned
  traditional syntax and punctuation
• One example of his poems is anyone lived in a
  pretty how town

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D is for Emily Dickinson

• American poet
• Greatly influences by metaphysical poets
• Her poetry reflects her solitude

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E is for Ralph Waldo Emerson

• American poet, essayist, and philosopher
• Best known for his Transcendentalism
• One of his great poems is Song of Nature

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F is for Robert Frost

• American poet known for traditional verse forms
  and metrics
• His poems have a theme of life and landscape of
  New England
• One of his renowned poems is Stopping By Woods
  on a Snowy Evening

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G is for Jorge Guillén

• Spanish poet
• Member of the Generation of 1927
• Renowned for his inventiveness of expressing the
  common in an uncommon manner

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H is for Homer

• Ancient poet born 750 BC
• Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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I is for David Ignatow

• American poet noted for his numerous poems which
  depict events in everyday life
• One of his poems is Hollow Legs

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J is for James Weldon Johnson

• American poet
• Most renowned for his poem Lift Ev'ry Voice and
  Sing written on the occasion of Lincoln's
  birthday

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K is for John Keats

• English romantic poet
• Most renowned for the three finest poems pof the
  English language including Ode to a Grecian Urn

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L is for Federico García Lorca

• Most important Spanish poet of 20th century
• Influenced by surrealism
• Member of Generation of 1927
• Author of the poem La Guitarra

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M is for Osip Mandelstam

• Polish-Russian poet
• Noted for his development of Acmeism
• Mixture of poetics and moral doctrine
• Poems include A Speechless Sadness

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N is for Pablo Neruda

• World famous poet from Chile. Best known for his
  poems of angst.

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O is for Ovid

• Ancient Roman poet born in 43 BC
• Greatly influenced writers of the middle ages and
  the renaissance
• Most noted for The Metamorphoses

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P is for Jack Prelutsky

• American poet
• Author of humorous poetry written for children
• Works include As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed
  andBe Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

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Q is for Salvatore Quasimodo

• Italian poet and critic
• Known for both his hermetic poetry and
  post-hermetic poetry
• Poems include Day After Day and Life is not a
  dream

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R is for Mary Ruefle

• American poet
• Poems include The Daze

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S is for Shel Silverstein

• Renowned childrens poet. Some of his works
  include Falling Up and Where the Sidewalk Ends

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T is for Henry David Thoreau

• American poet and writer
• Renowned for his masterpiece Walden and Poems of
  Nature

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U is for John Updike

• American poet and novelist
• Author of more than 50 books
• Poetry volumes include Facing Nature and Tossing
  and Turning

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V is for Reetika Vazirani

• Indian poet
• Poems include Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seetaand
  Dream of the Evil Servant

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W is for Walt Whitman

• American poet
• Self taught
• Developed unique style of poetry
• Most famous for the collection of poems entitles
  Leaves of Grass

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Y is for W.B. Yeats

• Irish poet
• Traditional verse with influence of mysticism
• Renowned for The Lake Isle of Innisfree  and
  Leda and the Swan

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Z is for Zawgee

• Burmese poet
• Renowned for Way of the Hyacinth

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