Poetry is an ancient art, with its origins well before those of recorded history (about 3,000 BC). The oldest surviving… Read More
Feature Poet: T. S. Eliot
19th Century American/British Poet
Feature Poet: Emily Dickinson
19th-century American Poet
Feature Poet: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, critic, and philosopher
Feature Poet: Gertrude Stein
American modernist writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems
Feature Poet: William Blake
18th-century poet, printmaker, and painter
Feature Poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian poet who achieved popularity during her lifetime
Feature Poet: Langston Hughes
Talented and hardworking writer, intellectual, and activist
Feature Poet: Robert Penn Warren
Renowned poet, novelist, essayist, and critic