Famous Poets

Who was the poet pictured here? She wrote "Hope is a Thing with Feathers".

• Maya Angelou

• Jane Eyre

• Janis Joplin

• Emily Dickenson

Author of "The BFG", he also wrote many poems. Who is he?

• Roald Dahl

• Charles Dickens

• Robert Louis Stevenson

• Shel Silverstein

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.", is a famous line from one of his Sonnets, who is this poet?

• Walt Whitman

• Daniel Defoe

• William Shakespeare

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

The creator of limerick poetry, this poet wrote short often inappropriate poems of five lines

• Edward Lear

• Rhoald Dahl

• Langston Huhes

• Robert Bisch

This poet wrote many poems during the Harlem Renaissance. Early innovator of the literary art form called jazz poetry.

• Chubby Checker

• Christopher Pike

• Langston Hughes

• Edgar Allen Poe

As one of the most innovative poets of his time, he experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A typical poem by him was spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically placed on the page. Between the ages of 8 and 22 he wrote a poem a day.

• T.S. Eliot

• S.E. Hinton

• J.K. Rowling

• E.E. Cummings

This poet is also credited with parenting two other popular genres: science fiction and the detective story. He began writing poetry as an adolescent. His poem, "To Helen" is a three stanza lyric that has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language.

• Lord Byron

• John Keats

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Rudyard Kipling

This poet had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. She was also a civil rights activist. One of her most famous works is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

• Harriet Tubman

• Maya Angelou

• Rosa Parks

• Bess Carter

This poet wrote mostly in free verse. One of his most well known poems is "Fog".

• Carl Sandburg

• John Keats

• George Orwell

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

This poet wrote the narrative poem, "The Highwayman". He published his first book of poetry when he was 21 years old. He became a teacher at Princeton University

• John Keats

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Alfred Noyes

• W.E.B. Du Bois