Favourite poet - William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is one of the most famous poets and playwrights in history.
He is a very intriguing man. He wrote multiple poems as well as dramas. Although Shakespeare was considered as the foremost dramatist of his time, he looked towards poetry for his enduring fame. But Shakespeare was not only a dramatist and poet. He was also an inventor. He greatly contributed to the English language by inventing thousands of words, often combining or contorting Latin, French and native roots. His inventions included arch-villain, birthplace, bloodsucking, courtship, dewdrop, downstairs, fanged, heartsore, hunchbacked, leapfrog, misquote, pageantry, radiance, schoolboy, stillborn, watchdog, and zany. Shakespeare was probably a person with a great love for poetry and the literary arts. During his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote more than thirty plays. His earlier plays were mainly comedies, but over the next few years, he wrote some of his most amazing works, including Hamlet and Macbeth. His works have inspired many and are currently being studied all around the world.
His poetry includes:
The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
The Sonnets of Shakespeare (1609)
Venus and Adonis (1593)