Who are the most famous English poets? What is each most well-known for?
Who are the most famous English poets? What is each most well-known for?
Renee Porter, College English instructor, writer, a…
Shakespeare and Chaucer can easily be named as the “most famous” and the best of the English poets; but, for each period of English literary history, there are still shining stars among the more mundane wordsmiths. Dozens of great English poets easily come to mind, but their poems cannot compare to the poetry of Shakespeare or Chaucer, either in form, originality, or historical impact.
Shakespeare’s sonnets and even the poetry used within his plays are simply the finest examples of English literature ever known. Chaucer, however, represents a tremendous sea change in the written literature of England. His Canterbury Talesand The Book of the Duchess represent a movement toward a unified and vernacular English literature and a movement away from imported Norman French forms.
One must also consider that the question is qualified by the term “English”. Had the phrase “English language” been used as a qualifier, the response would have encompassed a greater variety of poets, from William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot to Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou.
3 8 月, 2012
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