Who was the greater poet, Dante or Shakespeare?

Question

Who was the greater poet, Dante or Shakespeare?

Answer 1

Shakespeare

Answer 2

It's a heard question, I'm not that familiar with dante's works, so I might go for shakespeare. But I might have mistaken...who knows.

Answer 3

DANTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ALL THE WAY he was a beautiful person and what a soul and how he describes love not just the physical but the spiritual he is a creative man :)))

As Dante says"I am one who, when love breathes in me, note it, and expound it after whatever manner he dictates".............

I love Shakespeare to But I feel I warmth towards Dante maybe due to the spiritual things he writes about that love encompesses all these things..............and not just on this earth plane

Answer 4

Moliere.

Answer 5

Alighierri or Rossetti?

SONNET LXXVII.

SOUL'S BEAUTY.

Under the arch of Life, where love and death,

Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw

Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,

I drew it in as simply as my breath.

Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath,

The sky and sea bend on thee,—which can draw,

By sea or sky or woman, to one law,

The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath.

This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise

Thy voice and hand shake still,—long known to thee

By flying hair and fluttering hem,—the beat

Following her daily of thy heart and feet,

How passionately and irretrievably,

In what fond flight, how many ways and days!

~Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Answer 6

Dante