6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 1/23 Search on OZofe... Home » Top Poets » America’s Greatest Male Poets – 39 Famous American Male Poets America’s Greatest Male Poets – 39 Famous American Male Poets Last update: September 5, 2021 In: Top Poets — Leave a Comment In the history of the country’s formation and development, the US has contributed to the poetry and art of the world with outstanding works such as: Song of Myself, The Idea of Order at Key West, Because I could not stop for death , Directive, Middle Passage... These poems have made the name of the greatest male poets in America ALL POETS ALL TOPICS TOP POEM TOP POETS QUOTATIONS Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 2/23 Not only being the first pioneering generation poets, but American male poets also have helped to reform American poetry and taken it to a new level. Many poets have become literary topics which are debated on forums. Till this day, their poetic and literary works have always been influential not only in the United States but around the world. Here are the greatest American male poets. The list is subjective and of course, the use of the word “greatest” does not fully indicate how great influence and contribution the poets have. These are the most famous male poets in America who are voted, loved by readers, and by their contributions to American literature as well as the world’s. 1. Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. To Read: To Helen | The Raven | Ulalume 2. Robert Frost Robert Frost, in full Robert Lee Frost, (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts), was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 3/23 To Read: The Gift Outright | Acquainted With The Night | Home Burial 3. Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau, (born July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 6, 1862, Concord), was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. To Read: Conscience | Epitaph On The World | Friendship 4. T. S. Eliot T.S. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century’s major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. To Read: Morning at the Window | The Naming of Cats | The Hippopotamus 5. Langston Hughes TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 4/23 Langston Hughes, in full James Mercer Langston Hughes, (born February 1, 1902?, Joplin, Missouri, U.S. —died May 22, 1967, New York, New York), was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. To Read: The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Mother to Son | Dreams 6. Walt Whitman Walt Whitman, in full Walter Whitman, (born May 31, 1819, West Hills, Long Island, New York, U.S.—died March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey), was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. To Read: I Sing the Body Electric | I Hear America Singing | O Captain! My Captain! 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson, (born May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 5/23 abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. To Read: The Bell | Boston Hymn | Give All To Love 8. Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein, in full Sheldon Allan Silverstein, (born September 25, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died May 10, 1999, Key West, Florida), was an American writer, poet, cartoonist, songwriter and playwright. To Read: Invitation | Crocodile’s Toothache | Messy Room 9. Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski, in full Henry Charles Bukowski, Jr., (born August 16, 1920, Andernach, Germany—died March 9, 1994, San Pedro, California, U.S.), was a German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer. To Read: Let It Enfold You | Alone With Everybody | A Radio With Guts 10. Ezra Pound Ezra Pound, in full Ezra Loomis Pound, (born October 30, 1885, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.— died November 1, 1972, Venice, Italy), was an expatriate American poet and critic, a TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 6/23 major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. To Read: The Return | The Garden | The Tree 11. Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac, original name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. To Read: Tenorman | The Taste | One Flower 12. E. E. Cummings E.E. Cummings, in full Edward Estlin Cummings, (born October 14, 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.— died September 3, 1962, North Conway, New Hampshire), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. To Read: anyone lived in a pretty how town | next to of course god america i | all in green went my love riding TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 7/23 13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (born February 27, 1807, Portland, Massachusetts [now in Maine], U.S.—died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was an American poet and educator whose works include “Paul Revere’s Ride”, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. To Read: The Rainy Day | Nature | The Cross of Snow 14. Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg, (born June 3, 1926, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died April 5, 1997, New York, New York), was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. To Read: A Desolation | A Supermarket In California | An Eastern Ballad 15. Carl Sandburg Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 8/23 To Read: A Fence | A Sphinx | A Teamster’s Farewell 16. Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie, in full Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr., (born October 7, 1966, Wellpinit, Spokane Indian Reservation, near Spokane, Washington, U.S.), is a Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. To Read: Evolution | Dangerous Astronomy | Good Hair 17. Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. To Read: On The Bus | Topiary | Social Amenities 18. William Carlos Williams TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 9/23 William Carlos Williams, (born September 17, 1883, Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.—died March 4, 1963, Rutherford), was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. To Read: The Red Wheelbarrow | This Is Just to Say | The Widow’s Lament in Springtime 19. John Reed John “Jack” Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and Communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the first World War, and later became best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. To Read: Coming out of Ether | Operating Room | Proud New York 20. John Updike John Updike, in full John Hoyer Updike, (born March 18, 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 2009, Danvers, Massachusetts) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 10/23 To Read: Returning Native | Pura Vida | On the Road 21. Stephen Crane Stephen Crane, (born Nov. 1, 1871, Newark, N.J., U.S.— died June 5, 1900, Badenweiler, Baden, Ger.) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. To Read: Many Workmen | The Peaks | The Man 22. Jim Harrison Jim Harrison, byname of James Thomas Harrison, (born December 11, 1937, Grayling, Michigan, U.S.—died March 26, 2016, Patagonia, Arizona), was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. To Read: Complaint | Dead Doe | Marching 23. Wallace Stevens TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 11/23 Wallace Stevens, (born Oct. 2, 1879, Reading, Pa., U.S. —died Aug. 2, 1955, Hartford, Conn.), was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. To Read: The Weeping Burgher | The Wind Shifts | Things of August 24. Ogden Nash Ogden Nash, in full Frederic Ogden Nash, (born Aug. 19, 1902, Rye, N.Y., U.S.—died May 19, 1971, Baltimore, Md.), was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. To Read: Summer Serenade | The Grackle | Reflection On Babies 25. Horatio Alger Jr Horatio Alger, also called Horatio Alger, Jr., (born Jan. 13, 1832, Chelsea, Mass., U.S.—died July 18, 1899, Natick, Mass.), was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 12/23 To Read: Apple Blossoms | Friar Anselmo | Harvard Ode IV 26. Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar, (born June 27, 1872, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died Feb. 9, 1906, Dayton), was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To Read: A Death Song | Accountability | A Career 27. Claude McKay Claude McKay, (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. To Read: The White House | Home Thoughts | The Easter Flower 28. Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee;[1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963), American poet whose verse is characterized by introspection, intense lyricism, and an abiding interest in the natural world. TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 13/23 To Read: Night Journey | The Far Field | Epidermal Macabre 29. Robert Lowell Robert Lowell, Jr., in full Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr., (born March 1, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 12, 1977, New York, New York), was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. To Read: Skunk Hour | Waking In The Blue | Dolphin 30. Richard Brautigan Richard Brautigan, in full Richard Gary Brautigan, (born Jan. 30, 1935, Tacoma, Wash., U.S.—found dead Oct. 25, 1984, Bolinas, Calif.), was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. To Read: Private Eye Lettuce | Poker Star | Tournesol TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 14/23 31. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in full Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, (born March 24, 1919, Yonkers, New York, U.S.—died February 22, 2021, San Francisco, California), was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. To Read: Oh You Gatherer | Autobiography | London Crossfigured 32. Frank O’Hara Francis Russell “Frank” O’Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O’Hara became prominent in New York City’s art world. To Read: Five Poems | Chez Jane | Why I Am Not A Painter 33. James Dickey James Dickey, in full James Lafayette Dickey, (born February 2, 1923, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died January 19, 1997, Columbia, South Carolina), was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 15/23 To Read: The Sheep Child | The Little More | The Landfall 34. William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant, (born Nov. 3, 1794, Cummington, Mass., U.S.—died June 12, 1878, New York City), was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. To Read: Thanatopsis | Summer Wind | A Presentiment 35. James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell, (born Feb. 22, 1819, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 12, 1891, Cambridge), was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets. To Read: The Street | Without And Withiin | Threnodia 36. John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier, (born December 17, 1807, near Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S. —died September 7, 1892, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire), was an American Quaker TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 16/23 poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. To Read: Worship | A Sea Dream | Autumn Thoughts 37. Hart Crane Hart Crane, in full Harold Hart Crane, (born July 21, 1899, Garrettsville, Ohio, U.S.—died April 27, 1932, at sea, Caribbean Sea), was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. To Read: Forgetfulness | Repose Of Rivers | To Emily Dickinson 38. Billy Collins Billy Collins, in full William James Collins, (born March 22, 1941, New York, New York, U.S.), is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). To Read: Traveling Alone | Sick Room | The Parade TOP POETS Greatest Male Poets – 114 Most Famous Male P... 0 0 0 0 6/9/2021 America's Greatest Male Poets - 39 Famous American Male Poets https://ozofe.com/top-poets/famous-american-male-poets/ 17/23 39. Bret Harte Bret Harte (HART; born Francis Bret Harte; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. To Read: The Ritualist | The Two Ships | Thompson Of Angels Did you enjoy the the artible “ America’s Greatest Male Poets – 39 Famous American Male Poets ” from Top Poets on OZOFE.COM? 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