Our list of the most famous poems ever written would not be complete without the work of William Blake, one of the most iconic poets of the English language. “A Poison Tree” explores the ...

List of Famous Poets in the World and Their Lines. William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

His poetry should be declaimed and not read, the sonorous quality of the blended and interwoven Latin, Welsh and Old English having a haunting quality, not merely metrical but musical.

Pride, a leading editor at the New Hampshire-based Concord Monitor beginning in 1978, finished “Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat” shortly before he died in April, 2023.