The document provides biographical information on five famous poets - Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and Maya Angelou. It notes that Dickinson lived a reclusive life and wrote unconventionally formatted poems about death and immortality. Whitman worked various jobs and self-published his major work Leaves of Grass. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote well-known poems like The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Hughes' signature poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers appeared in his first book. Angelou is known for her series of autobiographies starting with I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings and uses imagery and rhyme