The United States of America is known by the world for having many famous people. Besides actors, actresses, and musicians, poets are also highly regarded for their work. American poetry has been around for a long time. Here is some information on American famous poets.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January nineteenth in 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. He was a poet as well as a writer, editor, and literary critic. At a very young age, he became an orphan. When he grew older, he attended the University of Virginia, but did not finish due to financial issues. His work mainly focused on macabre and mystery as subjects and themes. He wrote short stories that were fictional and early in his career, he went by an anonymous name called the Bostonian. Of his collection of poems, The Raven is his most famous and recognized work.

Walter Whitman was born May thirty first in 1819 in Long Island. He wrote essays, books, and journals in addition to poetry. He also worked as a government clerk, teacher, and volunteer nurse for the American army during the Civil War. He was known for the unusual symbolism in his poetry and also for being controversial since some of his poems dealt with sexuality.

Emily Dickinson was born December tenth in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Her poems had many subjects, such as immorality and death. She wrote almost eighteen hundred poems but in her lifetime, less than twelve were ever published. The rest were published after her death when her sister discovered them.

Robert Frost was born on March twenty sixth in1874 in San Francisco California. His work involved realistic accounts of rural life. Before becoming a poet, he attended Harvard and worked as a farmer and an English teacher. The first poem he got published was called My Butterfly: An Elegy. In his lifetime, he received four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetic works.

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September twenty sixth in 1888 in St. Louis Missouri. Before writing poetry, he studied philosophy and attended Harvard. He wrote a poem in 1915 called The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and this poem established his name in the poetic world. His most famous poems are Ash Wednesday Genrontion, The Hollow Men, Four Quartets, and The Waste Land. Each of those poems were written within a ten year period. In 1948, he received a Nobel Prize.

That was some information on American famous poets. Each one is still known today and their work is often studied in schools. Each had their own unique style of writing and produced many (sometimes award winning) works.