what poets are the best poets who have ever lived in the world?

Question

list as many as possible please!

Answer 1

Beginning with the classical poets:

Catullus, the greatest of Latin lyric poets
Homer, his works begin the Western Canon
Horace, leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus
Li Po (aka Li Bai), the best of China's classical poets
Sappho, legendary Greek love poet
Tu Fu (aka Du Fu), a friend & contemporary of Li Po's
Virgil, one of the greatest of the Latin poets
Ovid, one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature

Medieval Poets:

Beowulf, first great English masterpiece
Giovanni Boccaccio
Geoffrey Chaucer, the first great poet of the English language
Dante Alighieri, The Divine comedy is Italian's greatest work
William Langland, 14thc.English dream-vision Piers Plowman
Francesco Petrarch, the "father of humanism"

Renaissance Poets:

Thomas Campion
Mary Herbert, one of 1st English women to achieve reputation
Christopher Marlowe, born the same year as Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, The Bard
John Skelton, tutor to young Henry VIII
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

17th Century Poets:

Aphra Behn, 1st English woman to earn her living by writing
John Donne, best known of the English Metaphysical poets
John Dryden
George Herbert, one of the primary Metaphysicals
Ben Jonson, dramatist, gifted poet and author
Andrew Marvell, remembered for his lyric poems
John Milton, long considered the supreme English poet
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

18th Century Poets:

William Blake, visionary poet and artist
Robert Burns
Thomas Chatterton, early exemplar of the Romantic poet
Thomas Gray
Jupiter Hammon
Alexander Pope, 17th century satirist & translator of Homer
Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poet

19th Century Poets:

William Wordsworth, British Romantic poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, greatest of the English poetesses
Robert Browning, major influence on 20th c modernists
George Gordon, Lord Byron, lasting influence
John Clare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson, “Belle of Amherst”
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, 1st African-American to gain acclaim
John Keats, influence on other poets has been immense
Edgar Allan Poe, one of the leaders of Romantic movement
Arthur Rimbaud
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter
Percy Bysshe Shelley, among the finest lyric poets in English
Walt Whitman

20th Century Poets

William Butler Yeats, mystical/historical Irish poet
Pablo Neruda
Federico García Lorca
Sylvia Plath
Robinson Jeffers
Richard Eberhart
Robert Creeley, poet of short lines
Philip Lamantia, visionary, ecstatic Surrealist poet

Contemporary poets:

Jack Gilbert, a poet’s poet
Linda Dyer

Enjoy!

Answer 2

Omiros the ancient greek poet!

Answer 3

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