Articles about famous writers and their most famous works including facts about poets, list of their most famous poems and quotes from famous novels and plays.
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10 Most Famous Female Poets And Their Best Known Works
Sappho, an ancient Greek poet, is one of the earliest known poets in history. She was renowned in antiquity and was referred to as "The Poetess" just as Homer was referred to as "The...
10 Most Famous Poems In French Literature
The Song of Roland, composed between 1040 and 1115, is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. It is an example of the chanson de geste, a literary form that celebrated legendary deeds....
10 Most Famous Poems About Wars And Battles
War poetry is poetry about war either written by a person who participates in a war and writes about his experiences; or by a non-combatant. One of the oldest extant works of Western literature,...
10 Most Famous French Poets of All Time
Medieval French literature was dominated by courtly love but perhaps the most famous poet of the era, Francois Villon, rejected courtly love and instead focussed on the lowlifes. The Renaissance in the 16th century...
10 Most Famous Poems In English Literature
The earliest surviving English poetry may have been composed in the 7th century. It is written in Old English or Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English. The highest poetic achievement in Old English...
10 Most Famous Poets From The United Kingdom
The earliest surviving English poetry was composed as early as the 7th century. It was written in Old English or Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English. Most Old English poems are recorded without...
10 Most Famous Poems In American Literature
Poetry in the United State arose first when colonists wrote poetry to add to the poetic voices in the United Kingdom. As expected, early American poetry closely matched the British models of poetic form,...
10 Most Famous Poets From The United States
A distinctly American lyric voice of the colonial period was Phillis Wheatley (1753 – 1784). An African woman sold to slavery, Wheatley became a renowned poet in not only the American colonies but also...
10 Most Famous Modernist Poets And Their Famous Works
Literary modernism is difficult to define as it encompasses a wide variety of movements and as many writers who are termed as modernists were not affiliated with these movements. Broadly, modernist literature is characterized...
10 Most Famous Poems By John Donne
John Donne (1572 – 1631) was an English poet who has been often termed as the greatest love poet in the English language. He is also noted for his religious verse. Donne is the...
