What are the best poets and their poems?

17, The New Poetry Handbook · Mark Strand. 18, Funeral Blues · W. H. Auden. 19, Touched by An Angel · Maya Angelou. 20, The Raven · Edgar Allan Poe. 21, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night · Dylan Thomas. 22, A Word to Husbands · Ogden Nash. 23, Bear In There · Shel Silverstein. read more

The most popular famous poets of all time. A resource and list of the 50 most prominent, influential, and famous poets in history, with their best poetry and links to biographical information. read more

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By doing this I hope you'll be able to learn the names of poets you've not come across before and, in turn, get to know a little about their work, perhaps for the first time. For many followers of English poetry, true modern work began in the middle of the 19th century. read more