Who is your favourite Poet?

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Reply 80

Ra Ra Ra

Auden, I think. But there are so many I love! Yeats, Poe, Hardy and Tennyson are some of my favourites too :smile:

Reply 81

WillowSummers

T.S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire.

Reply 82

Rahul.S

Original post by extricated

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Reply 83

spacepirate-James

I really love William Carlos Williams. At the moment he's my favourite poet. :smile:

Reply 84

battycatlady

I really like W.H Auden.

And Rupert Brooke.

Reply 85

username430180

Auden isn't terrible, I suppose, so him. I have to study Dante next year at uni, but hopefully I'll be able to find it on Sparknotes or something like that.

Reply 86

Norfolkadam

Toss up between Philip Larkin, WH Auden and John Betjeman. I think Larkin just about edges out because reading his poetry aloud is joy.

Reply 87

Norfolkadam

I uploaded these for something else but they can work here:

My poetry shelves: (Click for full-size)

Dylan Thomas.

Heaney

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Plath.

e.e. cummings, with T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Sylvia Plath battling it out for second

Reply 92

Teofilo

Original post by Id and Ego seek

Plath.

Really? Every time I think of her I see myself sitting in my old English Lit class reading To Eva Descinding the Stair absolutely bored out of my tree.

For me its a toss-up between Yeats, Hughes, Kavanagh, and Larkin.

Reply 93

username115564

Original post by Gandalf_is_a_girl

Well, I translate them myself in my spare time with the help of a friend and I can't say I feel anything but underwhelmed. Some Arabic poems are delightful though. People only likes his poetry because.....well, he's a Sheikh.

Thomas Hardy is a bit hit and miss for me as well. At times he can be so incredibly seasoned and dexterous in his penmanship but then he goes ruins it all for himself with Tess d'Urbervilles.

It is generally considered a great shame that Hardy's prose career was foreshortened, given that he was a better novelist than he was a poet.

Marshall Mather.

Shane Koyzcan! Search him, he's honestly amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwq6niDk1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrZE8MCnIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dkGLXw8RMs&feature=player_embedded

Reply 96

jsb123

Larkin.

(Milton comes in at a close second, but that rests almost solely on Paradise Lost.)

Reply 97

Em8980

Definitely Dylan Thomas.

Reply 98

Zubby77

La Belle Dame Sans Merci and The Raven are my favourite poems, so John Keats and Edgar Allen Poe are right up there

Reply 99

holly6946

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And Kavanagh.