Lewys was one of the foremost poets of the sixteenth century.

Frostenson is one of Sweden's foremost poets, of a style both experimental and archaic.

He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century.

Jouve believed that he was first and foremost a poet.

For I am rock's foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch!

It is 18 years since Alison Stanhope, the country's foremost poet, died.

St. John of the Cross is considered one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language.

Subsequently, Broniewski became an important political figure and was proclaimed by the authorities as a foremost national poet.

For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement.

"profuse, fluent, versatile" and "the foremost South African poet of his generation."