When, and under the influence of what shaping forces, did he become a great poet?

The great poet of doom, they say, was 'out-imagined' by the real events of 9/11.

No one in the 17th century doubted his authorship, and contemporaries regarded him as a great poet.

The great poet was responding to a parliamentary bill in 1643 to regulate a free press, and he pointed to the incursions of liberty that would inevitably follow.

Let us bring in another great poet.

The former deputy central bank governor has been a published poet since he was a student and has written several books.

She was also a published poet and short-story writer.

He was a scribally published poet, but not a scribally publishing one.

He was a published poet and author, and respected as a literary critic.

He was a short story writer and published poet (writing sonnets for several magazines) as well as a soldier.

It seems it was a renowned poet in his day and wrote a number of works.

Already in 1127 he drew some attention to himself by suggesting of adding a sentence to a poem made by renowned poet.

Her aunt was a renowned poet and calligrapher in royal circles and wrote government decrees in her beautiful hand.

A renowned poet, she chronicled history, celebrated nature and relationships, and expounded scripture and doctrine.

Many of the kings were well renowned poets.

Not just any old poet, but something of a romantic poet.

As a concept, you might think that an upmarket burger bar named after a romantic poet who was also a vegetarian could prove a difficult sell.

Sometimes he was a delicate, romantic poet, with a vivid response to the scenery and atmosphere, sometimes the poet of human relationships and sometimes the eccentric or anarchic poet.

The romantic poet or the rational philosopher?

You sense that he was not made for the modern world: that name alone - he sounds as if he ought to have been a naval commander or a romantic poet.

A well-known poet (born 1914) was educated there.

They were a sort of wave that any surfer could ride-even someone like me who had never really been surfing before, who had never before interviewed a well-known poet.

From the 1840s, and despite vicissitudes in his reputation, he gained from 'general growth of a market for selective volumes from well-known poets'.

Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets.

As a graphic artist, she illustrated the works of a number of well-known poets.