who do you think is the best poet that has ever been?

Answer 1

1: I don't play favorites.

2: it would depend on preference.

3: how many people have read all the work of all the famous poets? And just how famous do you to be anyway?

I wouldn't put 1 above the other 'cause some kids who flunk English know their name. Sorry.

Answer 2

So many great poets, how to pick one? No, I won't say me, but I wish I was that good. I will say my favorite is Robert Louis Stevenson, but I also agree that Poe is a master. I also must agree with kilroy's sister that shakespeare talks funny(that's a new one for me), and he is really hard to understand.

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And for the record, Ted Nugent, I don't think coined the phrase Wang dang, sweet poon tang, unless he did it in the mid 50's. That's when I first heard it.

Answer 3

best American poet ever been - Walt Whitman
best oriental poet ever - Lao Tzu
best Latin American poet ever - Pablo Neruda
best Middle Eastern poet ever - Nawal el Saadawi
best African poet ever - (not Wole Soyinka!) Sedar Senghor
best European poet - W. B. Yeats
best Caribbean poet ever - Derek Walcott

Best poet of all time - yes! . . . William Shakespeare.
I am aware that I may be biased but you asked for my opinion!

good luck

Answer 4

I really like Oscar Wilde's Ballad Of Redding Goal, but gonna say Edgar Allen Poe.

Answer 5

Without a doubt, it must be Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
besides Shakespeare talks funny. He had some kind of speech impediment, I think.

Answer 6

Chaucer

Answer 7

Langston Hughes and Tupac

Answer 8

Ted Nugent. Anyone that can coin the phrase:
"Wang dang, sweet poon tang"
has my vote.

Answer 9

picking one best poet is impossible. it's like asking what's best... cats or dogs; strawberries or potatoes; pink or blue.......

Answer 10

shakespear