Poet

The poet of my choice would be William Shakespeare.

The reason for my choice is of his astounding acheivements and his wonderful poems and plays.
A interesting fact about him, is that through his poems and plays, he invented thousands of words, often the combination or contorting of Latin, French and native roots. The impressive addition of English, which is according to the Oxford English Dictionary, includes words such as : arch-villain, birthplace, bloodsucking, courtship, dewdrop, downstairs, fanged, heartsore, hunchbacked, leapfrog, misquote, pageantry, radiance, schoolboy, stillborn, watchdog, and zany.

Thesis:
It was said that French Meres cited that William Shakespeare was "honey-tongued" for his plays and poems in 1598. My thesis is that in most of his plays or his poems, there are alway some lines which will make someone feel good.

Biography:
William Shakespreare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. He was educated at the King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. At the age of 18, he was married and had 2 daughters. He went shortly after 1585 to London to begin his acting career. But due to the plague, the theaters in London were often closed between June 1592 and April 1594. During that period, Shakespeare probably had some income from his patron, Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated his first two poems, Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). The fomer was a long narrative poem depicting the rejection of Venus by Adonis, his death, and the consequent disappearance of beauty from the world. In 1594, Shakespeare joined the Lord Chamberlain's company of actors, the most popular of the companies acting at Court. In 1599 Shakespeare joined a group of Chamberlain's Men that would form a syndicate to build and operate a new playhouse: the Globe, which became the most famous theater of its time. With his share of the income from the Globe, Shakespeare was able to purchase New Place, his home in Stratford. While Shakespeare was regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, evidence indicates that both he and his world looked to poetry, not playwriting, for enduring fame. Shakespeare's sonnets were composed between 1593 and 1601, though not published until 1609. Shakespeare wrote more than 30 plays. These are usually divided into four categories: histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. Sometime after 1612, Shakespeare retired from the stage and returned to his home in Stratford. He drew up his will in January of 1616, which included his famous bequest to his wife of his "second best bed." He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried two days later at Stratford Church.

Three of the poems written by William Shakespeare:
.Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald]
.Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]
.Three Songs

Source:
poet.org
wikipedia.org