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The town in South Otago named after an English poet is Milton, named after the poet John Milton.
Lord Byron.
Dylan is named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas
William Whitehead - English poet - died in 1785.
William Whitehead - English poet - was born in 1715.
John Smith - English poet - was born in 1662.
John Smith - English poet - died in 1717.
percy bysshe shelly was the famous english poet was drowned
Robert Herrick, the English poet, died on October 15, 1674. It is important to note that there was also a novelist named Robert Herrick who was an American science fiction writer, but he is not as widely known as the English poet.
If you are referring to the often quoted English phrase "A fool and his money are soon parted" it was coined by an English farmer/poet named Thomas Tusser who lived from 1524 to 1580.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, and he is the most famous one of all time.
No, Toni Morrison was not named poet laureate. She was a renowned American novelist and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.