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Poets with tag Didactism:

Philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.

Poetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills. Although some poets believe that all poetry is inherently instructional, didactic poetry separately refers to poems that contain a clear moral or message or purpose to convey to its readers. John Milton's epic Paradise Lost and Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man are famous examples. See also William Blake’s “A Divine Image,” Rudyard Kipling’s “If—,” and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam.”

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Geoffrey Chaucer	1340-1400	ENG	Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular	61	38
Walter Raleigh	1552-1618	ENG	Didactism, Elizabethan	28	191
William Shakespeare	1564-1616	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism	198	3
John Donne	1572-1631	ENG	Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet	172	27
Robert Herrick	1591-1674	ENG	Cavalier poets, Didactism, Elizabethan, Fantasy, Tribe of Ben	276	40
George Herbert	1593-1633	ENG	Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Sonnet	173	102
John Milton	1608-1674	ENG	Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular	88	28
Jonathan Swift	1667-1745	IRL	Children, Didactism, Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Satire	104	132
Alexander Pope	1688-1744	ENG	Classicism, Deism, Didactism, Enlightenment, Freemasons, Satire	82	48
Samuel Johnson	1709-1784	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Enlightenment, Satire	46	166
William Blake	1757-1827	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Mysticism, Romanticism, Slavery	127	12
Mary Darby Robinson	1758-1800	ENG	Della Cruscans, Romanticism, Didactism, Slavery	143	288
Robert Burns	1759-1796	SCO	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Freemasons, Laureate, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song, Vernacular	119	31
Walter Scott	1771-1832	SCO	Didactism, Freemasons, History, Romanticism, Tory	140	123
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792-1822	ENG	Aestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet	325	18
Victor Hugo	1802-1885	FRA	Bipolar disorder, Deism, Didactism, Fantasy, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular	281	141
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803-1882	USA	Didactism, Fireside poets, Mysticism, Pantheism, Philosophy, Romanticism, Transcendentalism	113	24
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807-1882	USA	Didactism, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Vernacular, Victorian	463	29
Edgar Allan Poe	1809-1849	USA	Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Symbolism, Victorian	63	9
Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809-1892	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Victorian, War	180	16
Abraham Lincoln	1809-1865	USA	Didactism, Deism, Slavery	9	210
Charles Dickens	1812-1870	ENG	Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Victorian	10	112
Henry David Thoreau	1817-1862	USA	Anarchism, Didactism, Pantheism, Philosophy, Sage writers, Slavery, Transcendentalism	35	39
Walt Whitman	1819-1892	USA	Humanism, Realism, Transcendentalism, Free verse, Didactism, Deism, Pantheism, Bipolar disorder, War, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Expressionism, Homoerotism	331	11
Matthew Arnold	1822-1888	ENG	Didactism, Pessimism, Sage writers, Victorian	63	25
Emily Dickinson	1830-1886	USA	Bipolar disorder, Christian, Didactism, Difficult, Fantasy, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Spiritualism	1063	2
Mark Twain	1835-1910	USA	Children, Deism, Didactism, Humour, Realism, Satire, Vernacular, Victorian	7	212
Oscar Wilde	1854-1900	IRL	Aestheticism, Anarchism, Children, Decadents, Didactism, Fantasy, Freemasons, Gothic, Homoerotism, Symbolism, Victorian	105	37
Rudyard Kipling	1865-1936	ENG	Children, Didactism, Freemasons, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian, War	490	36
Robert Frost	1874-1963	USA	Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular	144	1
Hermann Hesse	1877-1962	DEU/CHE	Didactism, Freemasons	13	338
Sara Teasdale	1884-1933	USA	Didactism, Committed suicide, Bipolar disorder	313	41
Ezra Pound	1885-1972	USA	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Haiku, Imagism, Modernism, Others	253	70
Robinson Jeffers	1887-1962	USA	Anti-meter, Didactism, Pantheism, Slavery	160	108
Edna St. Vincent Millay	1892-1950	USA	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Feminism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet	166	69
E.e. cummings	1894-1962	USA	Aestheticism, Dada, Didactism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet, Surrealism, Symbolism	190	15
Langston Hughes	1902-1967	AFR/USA	Didactism, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, Modernism, Slavery	91	13
Mary Elizabeth Frye	1905-2004	USA	Didactism	1	150
Elizabeth Bishop	1911-1979	USA	Didactism, Feminism, Laureate, Modernism	69	68
Robert Hayden	1913-1980	AFR/USA	Didactism, Harlem Renaissance, Laureate, Modernism	14	195
Dylan Thomas	1914-1953	WAL	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Modernism, National, New Apocalyptics, New Romantics	100	58

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