Interesting facts about some famous poets
Interesting facts about some famous poets
1. Emily Dickinson:
a. She wrote nearly 1800 poems but published less than 12 while she was alive!
b. Death, faith and deathlessness are the main themes of her poems.
2. Charles Baudelaire
a. Baudelaire always turned to urban life for inspiration.
b. His first collection of poems, 'Les fleurs du mal' was banned in France for some years.
c. Baudelaire referred to Edgar Allan Poe as a 'twin soul'.
3. Giovanni Boccaccio
He wrote his first poem, when he was seven years old. He had never even seen a book of poetry till then!
4. John Milton
Milton's magnum opus, the blank-verse epic poem Paradise Lost, was composed by the blind and impoverished Milton from 1658 to 1664.
5 Elizabeth Bishop
'The 101 Poems' of the American poetess made her famous, though only after her death in 1979!
6. W.H.Auden
Auden is acclaimed for his love poems like 'Funeral Blues'. A pamphlet edition of 15 of his poems, 'Tell Me the Truth About Love,' sold more than 2, 75, 000 copies!
7. William Bronk
The angst and anxiety of modern life are a major feature in his poems!
8. Shel Silverstein
He wrote memorable poetry for young readers under the pen name, 'Uncle shelby'.
9. Ved Vyasa
The 'Mahabharatha' is the longest epic in the world, longer than 'The Odyssey' and 'Illiad' put together!
10.Kalidasa
He was the most brilliant gem at the court of the great king Vikramaditya of Ujjain.
11. Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore has written the National Anthem of both India and Bangladesh.
12. Christina Rossetti
She did not have a formal education.
13. Mathew Arnold
His poetry often wrestles with problems of psychological isolation.
14. Edgar Allan Poe
The famous American poet dropped out of college!
15. Alfred Tennyson
He was poet laureate during much of Queen Victoria's rule.
16. Alexander Pushkin
a. His poem, 'Ruslan and Ludmila' is one of the most controversial poems of all times.
b. He wa a Decembrist - an outlawed nobleman!
17. Ben Jonson
The word, 'Palindrome' was coined by him.
18. Omar Khayyam
There are 1000 quatrains in his 'Rubaiyat'!
19. Khalil Gibran
He is the 3rd best selling poet in the world after Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
20. Wilfred Owen
Only 5 of his poems were published during his life time!
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