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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
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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
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 MartinMedia SpecialistSaluda Trail Middle SchoolRock Hill, SC 29732
