Who Are Your Favorite Poet(s)?

[astrum]

Some of my favorite poets include James Shirley, Shakespeare, and John Milton.

I enjoy their works because they explore timeless concerns, such as love, the transience of life, and death. The beauty and sentimentalism of their poems make reading them an all the more compelling experience.



What about you? Who are some of your favorite poet(s)? And why do you like their works so much?

[stlukesguild]

Dante
Shakespeare
Firdowsi
Blake
Keats
Baudelaire
Neruda
Rilke
Montale
Holderlin
Coleridge
Shelley
Tu Fu
Li Po
Wang Wei
Homer
Virgil
Ovid
Dickinson
Whitman
T.S. Eliot
Goethe
Verlaine
Rimbaud
Paul Valery
J.L. Borges
Octavio Paz
Richard Wilbur
Marina Tsvetaeva
Boris Pasternak
Federico Garcia Lorca
Antonio Machado
Cesar Vallejo
Fernando Pessoa
Lord Byron
Wordsworth
Frederick Tuckerman
Anthony Hecht
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Spenser
Chaucer
Robert Herrick
Thomas Traherne
Pierre Ronsard
Robert Browning
Henry Vaughan
Jorge Guillen
Rafael Alberti
Eugenio de Andrade
Leopardi
Cafavy
Yves Bonnefoy
Geoffrey Hill
and several dozen more...

[Darcy88]

Auden, Donne, Ovid, Baudelaire and Shakespeare.

[MorpheusSandman]

I'll do a Top 20:

1. John Milton
2. William Blake
3. WB Yeats
4. James Merrill
5. John Donne
6. WH Auden
7. William Shakespeare
8. Virgil
9. George Herbert
10. William Wordsworth
11. Geoffrey Chaucer
12. Wallace Stevens
13. Percy Blysshe Shelley
14. John Keats
15. Robert Burns
16. Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
17. Alexander Pope
18. Du Fu
19. Geoffrey Hill
20. John Ashbery

[tonywalt]

I like Auden and Larkin as far as the context of this list goes. There is an excellent biography on Youtube on Auden "Tell me the truth about love".

[Jassy Melson]

Dylan Thomas
Gerard Hopkins
e e cummings
Poe

[Snowqueen]

Here are some of my favourite poets.


1. Coleridge
2. Keats
3. Shelley
4. W. B. Yeats
5. T. S. Elliot

And a few names from Urdu Literature.

6. Iqbal
7. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
8. Ghalib
9. Parveen Shakir
10. Ahmad Faraz

[Ser Nevarc]

My favorite poet is Galway Kinnell

[Silas Thorne]

I tend more to have favourite poems. A poem I've really enjoyed reading recently though is the sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay quoted in my signature.

[cacian]

How about this question:
who is your favourite poet in Litnet? that would make for a greater debate since big names in poetry/literature are already classified as worthy of reading by other before us.

and to answer your question I have to admit I have no favourite as such. I have few favourite poems however but that is a different question

[Cuppa' Tea]

Shakespeare, Wilde, Keats, Poe, Shelley

[Silas Thorne]

How about this question:
who is your favourite poet in Litnet? that would make for a greater debate since big names in poetry/literature are already classified as worthy of reading by other before us.

'Worthy of reading' and what you like reading are quite different things.

[cacian]

'Worthy of reading' and what you like reading are quite different things.

that indeed is very true.

[Nicoletta]

I like analyzing every poet but only one has captured my entire attention and this is John Donne. His subject matter when he writes is the same as any other poet's theme of choice, it's even a little more base, but the way he writes is breathtaking. As a child I remember reading, "Song" for the first time. "Go and catch a falling star," and I tried for days to grip a star with my hands. When I couldn't do that I tried to, "Get with child a mandrakes root." And failing that I tried to discover who, "Cleft the devil's foot," in the passages of Revelations. I felt like an adventurer who toted around mysterious texts to accomplish mysterious ends. Anyway, I never experienced such sensations again. I'll be forever grateful to Donne for leading me into the realm of poetry appreciation.

[MorpheusSandman]

Donne was one of my first loves as well... though it seems strange to be reading "Go and Catch a Falling Star" at such a young age, given that it's basically a satire on how women can't remain faithful...