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 | | Some consider the best poetry to be, to some extent, timeless, and to address issues common to all humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular and ephemeral qualities. |
 | | In the English language, poets generally considered to be of the most influential and profound include Chaucer, W.B. Yeats, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, John Milton, and William Shakespeare. |
 | | American poet Walt Whitman was one of the first poets to write a kind of poetry now called free verse, though French poet Jules Laforgue was also writing in free verse around the same time as Whitman. |
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