
For instance, friend to, was an important patron for the Augustan poets, including both and. For a history of poetry, see In, professional poets were generally sponsored by, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. This is about the history of the poet profession. Throughout each and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, either expressing ideas in a literal sense, such as writing about a specific event or place, or metaphorically.

The Italian was mentioned by the University of Birmingham as 'one of the most radical and challenging of nineteenth-century thinkers'.
