Interesting Literature 10 of the Most Accessible Poets in English Literature interestingliterature 51 years ago How many times have you heard someone say, ‘I don’t read poetry. I just don’t get it.’ Or perhaps, ‘Why can’t poets just come out and say what they want to say? Why say something in such a way?’ For many people, poetry is ‘difficult’. But whilst it’s true that poets like John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein among many others can present their readers with an intellectual challenge, others – such as the 10 poets listed below – are altogether more accessible to readers. So that’s what this post offers: 10 of the most famous accessible poets writing in English. William Wordsworth. Of all the English Romantic poets, Wordsworth (1770-1850) was perhaps the most accessible and direct: as his 1800 preface to Lyrical Ballads made clear, he wanted to use the language of ordinary people rather than the more artificial and ‘heightened’ language ...