• ‘It’s all been very interesting.’ were Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s last words
• The three biggest and best-selling poets in the world, in no particular order, are Shakespeare, Lao-Tzu, and Khalil Gibran.
• The grammatical rule stating that the ending of a sentence ending with a preposition is incorrect was invented in the 17th century by the poet John Dryden.
• The word ‘syphilis’ came to be after a poem in 1530 by Girolamo Fracastoro. Isn't that one of the most interesting and fun facts about poetry ever?
• The Greek poet Homer is said to have wrote a poem about a very stupid man called ‘Margites’.
• The most known 2-word poem is entitled ‘The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs’ and it simply reads ‘Come Home’ by a poet named George MacDonald.
• The word ‘unfriend’ dates all the way back to 1275 from the poem ‘Brut’.
• The Mahabharata is an ancient Indian poem that goes over 100,000 lines.
• The first known reference to ‘bitch’ was in a poem from the 1500’s. It was referring to a man.
• The word ‘bitch’ was first used in reference to a man in a poem from around 1500.
• There is an Elizabethan poet and reverend called Thomas Bastard.
• On the famous poet, Emily Dickinson’s gravestone are the words ‘called back’ which she chose herself.
• The German poet Gottlob Burmann hated the letter R so much he never used it in his poetry or in his everyday life.
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