Who is the Most Famous Poet Ever?

[busker]

Pfft. Homer or King David.

1. Because the bible is the most widely read book in the world, anyone who wrote a song or two there would be 'the most famous'. So not just David, but Solomon as well. Even, in fact, Yeshua, because 'Abunda Bishmaiyya' is a prayer and therefore a poem.
2. After that it would be Allah /Jibreel / Mohammed (the surahs of the Quran are structured in verses with meter and rhythm)
3. After that, Vyasa (the Mahabarata, blank verse)
4. After him, Valmiki (the Ramayana, blank verse)
5. After him, perhaps Li Po or one of the other famous Chinese poets of old....
6. Rabindranath Tagore and Allama Iqbal would also rank pretty high up, because of the sheer size of the populations of Bengal and Pakistan.
7. In the West, anyone who has heard of Homer has probably heard of Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. But I am not sure if a gun shop owner in Alabama will qualify. I'm skeptical as to how familiar Trump is with the Aeneid. His base even less so.

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An interesting question would also be: who is the world's most famous poet in translation (religious books not counting)? Shakespeare is famous in translation as a playwright, not a poet.