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Great Poets of the World
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
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
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
D is for Emily Dickinson
• American poet• Greatly influences by
metaphysical poets• Her poetry reflects her
solitude
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”
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”
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
H is for Homer
• Ancient poet born 750 BC
• Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
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”
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
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”
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”
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”
N is for Pablo Neruda
• World famous poet from Chile. Best known for his poems of angst.
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
P is for Jack Prelutsky
• American poet• Author of humorous
poetry written for children
• Works include “As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed” and“Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face”
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”
R is for Mary Ruefle
• American poet• Poems include “The
Daze”
S is for Shel Silverstein
• Renowned childrens poet. Some of his works include Falling Up and Where the Sidewalk Ends
T is for Henry David Thoreau
• American poet and writer
• Renowned for his masterpiece Walden and Poems of Nature
U is for John Updike
• American poet and novelist
• Author of more than 50 books
• Poetry volumes include Facing Nature and Tossing and Turning
V is for Reetika Vazirani
• Indian poet• Poems include
“Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta”and “Dream of the Evil Servant”
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
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”
Z is for Zawgee
• Burmese poet• Renowned for “Way
of the Hyacinth”
Created By:Liz Martin
Media SpecialistSaluda Trail Middle School
Rock Hill, SC 29732