Famous Writers and Poets
The best training for any aspiring writer is to read extensively. There is no substitute for sampling the works of writers of all styles and abilities. When you read some of the great writers and then read writers of lesser quality and skill, the differences will be obvious. Going through the works of some of the great writers is like a master … Keep Reading → class in the art of writing. Not surprisingly, many of the best writers will also be some of the most famous names in literary history. Names like Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Shaw, Hemingway, Austen, and Dickens are but a few. Some masters who focused on poetry include T.S. Eliot, John Milton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson, and William Wordsworth. Reading the works of these writers as well as the many other great writers can’t help but make you a better writer.
