British and American Poets

British and American Poets

British and American poets are considered to be some of the most exceptional poets in history. There was a British and American movement that started a little over 200 years ago with William Wordsworth. Once the movement started with Wordsworth, it was mostly British writers, however, the past hundred years or so was filled with equally awesome American Poets. However, there was an already world-renowned poet 300 years before that, by the name of William Shakespeare. Nonetheless, both British and American poets were phenomenal, and they could be both similar and divergent in various ways.

Langston Hughes and William Wordsworth were two marvelous poets who had very dissimilar backgrounds. Hughes was an African-American writer of the 20th century, while Wordsworth was a British poet from the 1700s. Hughes actually started writing because of his being elected class poet in school, and that was for the reason of him being an African-American, which apparently were stereotyped for having rhythm. Wordsworth, however, drew inspiration from his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, to write about nature and the world around him.

Another group of poets would be ee cummings and Gerard Manley Hopkins. They were both known as modernists who differed satisfactorily, first off being nationality, cummings being American, Hopkins being British. Hopkins did indeed have several modernist attributes, with the overuse of hyphens and accent marks. Cummings, however, is a modernist in a way only a modernist can. He throws every possible writing rule you can throw out the window, out the window. They are both modernists, just in completely discrete ways.

Now for the first of each country, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. Tho...

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...lliam Blake, to Walt Whitman, to Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, then to Ginsberg. Other poets will have individual reasons and uses for allusion.

So, there are many distinct British and American poets throughout the past few hundred years who have affected the world quite a bit. They did many things in poetry and no matter the nationalism had an excruciating large amount of differences and similarities. A poet can never truly die if he has done a extraordinary life and made an impression on the world. There are several reasons a poet will write poetry depending on inspiration, and it can be anything from relatives to imaginary beliefs to straight up self-reliance. Anyone can be a wonderful poet, no matter where a person is from, what a person’s skills are, or what a person like, and everyone can be considered an amazing poet no matter who it is.