Can you quote a few lines from his/her work?
2006-10-28 23:54:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i like wordsorth,robert frost and rabindranath tagore
2006-10-29 01:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, strictly speaking, it has to be Shakespeare,
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
But if you stretch the point a bit and say Shakespeare was a playwright, then I'd vote for Wordsworth as the greatest English poet,
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
2006-10-29 07:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me, Shakespeare - for his insight, his poetic concepts through which to express them, and the music of his poetic expression itself. Just an amazing intelligence, and use of words. And then, there's John Donne, for similar reasons, without Shakespeare's prodigious range, and with wonderful complexity of thought. Readers of German might say Goethe; Americans might say Whitman ... and so it goes on. But I'd stick to old Bill.
2006-10-29 07:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't get any right,,,or wrong answers here. It's a matter of personal preference by enlarge.
Beyond that GREAT is subjective and relative, and defined in multiple ways.
Willie is very likely considered in that category, globally, but again, for those who don't GET him, or follow what he wrote, it's not an issue.
Rev. Steven
2006-10-29 07:14:21 · answer #4 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wordsworth. English I think
2006-10-29 07:05:01 · answer #5 · answered by waltzsingmatilda2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Shakespeare: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is far more red then her lips red..."
2006-10-29 08:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like william shakespeare..
What's in a name? Aha. and another one, when there is a will, there's a way. I like it.
2006-10-29 07:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by wonder why 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Ruskin. lines escape me at present.
2006-10-29 07:00:58 · answer #8 · answered by edison 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To be or not to be? That is the question."
-william shakespear
2006-10-29 06:58:02 · answer #9 · answered by zo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋