Random Greatest Poets of All Timereport

Otar Chiladze

[ranking: 279]
Otar Chiladze was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era.

Nikki Giovanni

[ranking: 217]
Rosa, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, Cotton candy on a rainy day Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

Hafez

[ranking: 116]
Divan-e-Hafez, Ghazalhā-yi Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān-i Ḥafiẓ Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ranking: 59]
Give All To Love, Fate, The Bell Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

John Betjeman

[ranking: 108]
Slough, False Security, Diary of a Church Mouse Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

John Keats

[ranking: 29]
A Thing of Beauty (Endymion), Bright Star, When I Have Fears John Keats was an English Romantic poet.

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Who are the best poets of all time? It includes poets such as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, and Sylvia Plath. Poetry has captivated readers for thousands of years. Regardless of the time period during which they wrote, the great poets on this list have used their talents and ways with language to connect with readers of all ages.

Written works have the ability to make us feel. They make us want to believe, be inspired, and live vicariously through the stories on the page. Whether short or long form, poetry is often illusory, and full of rich imagery or hidden meaning. It is these elements which provoke readers to dig deeper. The best poems and poets are read throughout the ages. They are passed from generation to generation and taught throughout school to young students.

Poets and their poetry have the ability to take readers places and into worlds they've never imagined. Poets can often be tortured souls or great thinkers who allow readers a new view on the world which they never would have imagined. These greatest poets provide the kind of emotional connection to the written word that few can.

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