Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean ...

His work often focused on the lives of ordinary Black people, capturing their struggles, dreams, and resilience. Why “The ...

Many famous black poets have made significant contributions to Black history. For example, Langston Hughes' poetry is often centred around the everyday lives of Black people. Maya Angelou's poems ...

No list of famous poems would be complete without a contribution ... read by Bill Wyman Kipling's 1895 poem If has a place in many people's hearts, especially after Des Lynam recited it to ...

Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Alex Dimitrov, in his ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Yet each of the poems feels alive, pointing to the fact that our foundational myths can still be reconsidered—and that Indigenous people are still here to rewrite them. Sweetness recurs in Gay ...

and recited one of her poems at a US presidential inauguration. But more than that, Maya’s life, work and wisdom inspired some of today’s most famous names to achieve great things too.

This man told me that things work together. Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas; Poems with lies in them, but they help a little. Robert Bly is the author of many books, including Iron ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...