A Mentor:

[Leanne]

Billy, I'm surprised at you. Surely you've read Skippy's rime coo-ee -- he's very good at the tail rhymes. Lassie's not so hot -- the last one she wrote was a howler.

I'd pick Walter Scott -- not a bad poet, on the whole, but the selling point is that just about every pub in Edinburgh has a plaque saying "Walter Scott drank here". Sounds like he'd have been quite good to follow about for a while.