Question

name some famous poet saying of the middle period?​

Answer 1

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English: Geoffrey Chaucer; William Langland; Robert Henryson (a Scot who wrote in English)

French: Crestien de Troyes; Marie de France; Jean de Meun

Italian: Dante; Petrarch

German: Wolfram von Eschenbach

Latin: The Archpoet

Not to be omitted is Anonymous.

That’s a top-of-the-head list, and I only really know about English-language poetry.

“Great” is a tricky concept, and deprecated in advanced circles. I understand it to mean “poets you really ought to read if you’re exploring this language.”

“Poet” is limiting. That remark about Anonymous isn’t a joke, and in fact the poem I think is the greatest in Middle English, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, is by an unknown writer, as is Beowulf in Old English.

Verse was used in the Middle Ages for lots of things that we wouldn’t call “poetry”: history, manuals of agriculture, politics. Would you count hymns as poetry? There’s some fine Latin writing in hymns. Even in stuff that we would recognize as literature, you’ll notice there’s a lot more narrative verse in that list than we’d expect to find in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Answer 2

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English: Geoffrey Chaucer; William Langland; Robert Henryson (a Scot who wrote in English)

French: Crestien de Troyes; Marie de France; Jean de Meun

Italian: Dante; Petrarch

German: Wolfram von Eschenbach

Latin: The Archpoet

Not to be omitted is Anonymous.

That’s a top-of-the-head list, and I only really know about English-language poetry.

“Great” is a tricky concept, and deprecated in advanced circles. I understand it to mean “poets you really ought to read if you’re exploring this language.”

“Poet” is limiting. That remark about Anonymous isn’t a joke, and in fact the poem I think is the greatest in Middle English, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, is by an unknown writer, as is Beowulf in Old English.

Verse was used in the Middle Ages for lots of things that we wouldn’t call “poetry”: history, manuals of agriculture, politics. Would you count hymns as poetry? There’s some fine Latin writing in hymns. Even in stuff that we would recognize as literature, you’ll notice there’s a lot more narrative verse in that list than we’d expect to find in the 20th and 21st centuries.