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Who is your favourite Poet?

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Reply 100
Dante wins by lightyears for me!!
Keats or Rimbaud.
Original post by Dahut
I realise this has probably been done a lot of times before so I apologise. :sorry: But who is your favourite poet? Mine is Rimbaud. :biggrin:


Nice, nice choice!
Reply 103
Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe and Christina Rossetti :h:
E.E Cummings! I love the beauty and transcendentalism that runs through his work and how his poems are so irreverent and playful in their use of language.
In my opinion he wrote the best erotic love poetry in the history of literature- and his tributes to spring are just sublimely perfect.
Some may say he writes like he's just broken his typewriter, but I get him. He wanted poetry to be visual as well as semantic and musical.
E.E Cummings is my true muse. I adore him and I always will.

I also love Mary Oliver, Keats, Kim Addonizio, Wilde, Derek Mahon, Plath, and Carol Ann Duffy.
Edgar Allan Poe (obviously haha), Allen Ginsberg, Andrea Gibson, Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, Rumi, Emily Dickinson, Akala, Wilfred Owen, Grace Nichols, Robert Browning, John Agard, Ted Hughes.. I could go on forever but those are my favourites!
Because I don't think he's been mentioned yet (and certainly deserves to be), Geoffrey Hill.

September Song

born 19.6.32 - deported 24.9.42

Undesirable you may have been, untouchable
you were not. Not forgotten
or passed over at the proper time.

As estimated, you died. Things marched,
sufficient, to that end.
Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented
terror, so many routine cries.

(I have made
an elegy for myself it
is true)

September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the wall. The smoke
of harmless fires drifts to my eyes.

This is plenty. This is more than enough.
Original post by rosefelicis
E.E Cummings! I love the beauty and transcendentalism that runs through his work and how his poems are so irreverent and playful in their use of language.
In my opinion he wrote the best erotic love poetry in the history of literature- and his tributes to spring are just sublimely perfect.
Some may say he writes like he's just broken his typewriter, but I get him. He wanted poetry to be visual as well as semantic and musical.
E.E Cummings is my true muse. I adore him and I always will.

I also love Mary Oliver, Keats, Kim Addonizio, Wilde, Derek Mahon, Plath, and Carol Ann Duffy.


I agree. e.e.cummings writes pure beauty. Makes one's coronary arteries tingle.
John Hegley :colondollar:
Rumi
Reply 110
Marshall Mather
Reply 111
Sylvia Plath, Yeats, Carol Ann Duffy.
Reply 112
Dylan Thomas or Walter de la Mare.
Max Ehrmann....i love Desiderata
Dylan Thomas is the man!
It's the month of October, so Poe.
Hardy, Blake and Auden are givens.

Aside from that, I've always been enamoured with the 1910s war poets: Sassoon, Graves and especially Owen.


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'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas

Thomas Hardy
Linton Kwesi Johnson. Just amazing.

EDIT:

I changed my mind I'm going to nick Killuminati1989's choice :biggrin:, Rumi is wonderful.

In order:

Rumi
Sanai
Kwesi Johnson


Another good one is Ghalib
(edited 11 years ago)
Philip Larkin. Such a depressing bastard, but a fantastic poet.

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