There have been various famous poets during different periods in history. They have been famous for distinct reasons. If we start mentioning the famous poets from the Greek era, the very first name that might come to mind is Homer. He is, probably, the founder of Epic in Europe. His famous works include "Iliad" and "Odyssey". We have various other poets in Greek era as well. E.g. We have Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. But these poets were more into play writing. After the Greek period, we have the Roman period. In this period we find Virgil writing Aeneid. The next famous era in English Literature is The Middle Ages, in which we see poets like Chaucer, Gower, Guillaume de Lorie etc. But Chaucer is probably the most famous of all. When we come to the Renaissance and Elizabethan period, we come across some of the giants of English Poetry like Milton and Shakespeare. Though Shakespeare is more known for his plays but still he was in poetry as well and his plays also had strong poetic dialogues. Many of his dialogues can be treated as separate individual poems. With the end of the Renaissance we move onto the next golden era of English Poetry i.e. The Romantic Age. Here, in this era, we again find some of the Titans of English poetry. These poets include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Dryden etc. In the modern and post modern age, we have poets like Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Ted Hughes, John Ashebury, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney etc.
