John Ruskin called it the greatest long poem of the nineteenth century.

The poem was known as one of the greatest poems written at the time of the Civil War.

His greatest poems, most of them written in that same year, are elegies wrapped as odes.

It has been described as the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.

It is considered to be her greatest poem.

She told me how you could write the greatest poems for birthday cards.

Paul Valéry considered it to be the greatest poem in French literature.

Whitman famously called the United States of America "the greatest poem."

"My plan was to finish the universe's greatest poem and then go home," said Silenus.

The majority ranked it as one of Wordsworth's greatest poems.