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Tonight I would say - Wisława Szymborska.
My Favorites.....
William Wordworth
Philip Larkin
Yeats
Anne Sexton
Delmore Schwartz
Charles Baudelaire
T.S. Eliot
Stevie Smith
Yeats, Frost, and Poe are all amazing... A lot of amateur poets are great too, you just have to know where to look...
try Poetry.com and look at the past winners section, there are some really awesome poems displayed...
Just know that the contest and anthologies are a scam so don't enter...
i truly enjoy the work of langston hughes. i recently just finished reading his book of his best works. it was truly magnificant.
Shakespeare!
Janine, Shakespeare is an unfair choice; he can't be eclipsed by anyone.
well shakespeare can be eclipsed by anyone. it just depends on the way you read it because his words have many different meanings that could be comprehended in different ways.
sure you can't understand most of what he says BUT you can understand if you make it understand for yourself.
but he is quite a different writer.
From the many poets I am fond of, my favourites would have to be,
William Blake
John Keats
Lord Byron
James Joyce
Fulke Greville
Snorri, and for that matter both the Eddas
and Shakespeare, but that goes without saying, really.
But quasi, I just found it unbelievable that my beloved Shakespeare had not been mentioned yet. After all, he invented some of the most used poetic devices. He is acclaimed as the greatest poet/playright in the English language; aren't I correct about this? In my opinion he can't be eclipsed by anyone, but this is not to say there are not other fine, wonderfully fine, poets out there. I have many, many more favorites, I can add to my list, but I think Shakespeare will have to remain at the top of my own choices.Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimodo1
Poe,
Baudelaire
Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" is by far the best poem I have ever read.
http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/836/
Frost
William Butler Yeats.
My literary interests are fairly neatly split between the 16th and 20th centuries, so I'll give you my favorites from both:
16th-probably John Donne, though I do love the structures that Henry Vaughan uses for his poems
20th-have to go with TS Eliot
T.S. Eliot, Thomas Dylan and E.E. Cummings are my favourite poets of all time, and then again we have to mention Edgar A. Poe and Ezra Pound for their contributing to the growth of the English literature.
But where are all those other great poets, like Homer or Goethe?
I think that every weaver of a poetic web of words needs to be mentioned in respect for all their work.