Who is the Most Famous Poet Ever?

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Freud coined the term "penis envy".  In the literary and dramatic arts, one might re-phrase the term as "Shakespeare envy", as no other writer casts a longer, more encompassing shadow than he.  I recall the eminent literary scholar Harold Bloom's term "the anxiety of influence" when referring to artists attempting to escape beyond the shadows of those predecessors who influenced them the most in their artistic viewpoint and stylistic endeavors.  It's hard to be original and talentedly so in this way.  It's a beautiful and sometimes culturally earth shaking thing when it happens.  Pushing the ball further.  Artistic thunderbolts.  The momentous achievement of true and lasting cultural relevancy.  

Shakespeare just happens to be the giant amongst all giants in this literary and dramatic way.  Just the way it happened.  Just the way it is.

And I say that Shakespeare was just one of several big names in the European literary tradition, along with Homer, Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, Goethe, and the Russians. 
That's just the way it is.