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LITERATURE
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Greatest Poets Of All Time (Forbes)
This list features the greatest poets in history according to Forbes.
RANK | POET | WORKS | LIFESPAN |
1 | Maya Angelou | "A Plagued Journey" (1983) | 1928–2014 |
2 | Shel Silverstein | "The Giving Tree" (1964) | 1930–1999 |
3 | Emily Dickinson | "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (1896) | 1830–1886 |
4 | Langston Hughes | "Dreams" (1922) | 1901–1967 |
5 | Robert Frost | "The Road Not Taken" (1916) | 1874–1963 |
6 | Rudyard Kipling | "If" (1910) | 1865–1936 |
7 | Sappho | "Fragment 31" | 630–570 BC |
8 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | "Ode to Silence" (1931) | 1892–1950 |
9 | e.e. cummings | "Tulips and Chimneys" (1923) | 1894–1962 |
10 | Pablo Neruda | "Every Day You Play…” (1952) | 1904–1973 |
References
Forbes, (2023). Best poets. [online] Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-poets/ [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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