Favorite poets

[rocklobster]

Like it says
Here are mine

• William Blake
• Edgar Allan Poe
• e.e. Cummings
• Langston Hughes
• Emily Dickinson
• Carl Sandburg

[mitsuki lover]

*William Shakespeare
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
*Emily Dickinson
*William Blake
*John Milton
*John Keats
*Robert Burns
*Sir Walter Scott
*William Butler Yeats
*Robert Frost
*Eugene Field
*Edgar Guest
*John Greenleaf Whittier
*Oscar Wilde

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

T.S. Eliot was the first poet that captured me. It was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" that did it. I found a voice for my soul at the time, words that meant so much more than just text, but life and loneliness, the modernist conflict, on and on. It is one of the reasons I was an English major for a year of college.

That's a start.

[mitsuki lover]

I named two of my cats from T.S.Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats:
Rumtum from The Rumtum Tugger and Macavity.

[Zarn Ishtare]

T.S Elliot is my current favorite. The Wasteland...amazes me.

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

T.S Elliot is my current favorite. The Wasteland...amazes me.

Yeah. What a crazy, beautiful, brilliant piece of work. I feel like T.S. Eliot was almost singularly responsible for turning the tide from romanticism to modernism in poetry, and there's a reason why. He's just brilliant. And you know he became a Christian. The Four Quartets is one of his Post-Conversion works and it is remarkable.

[mitsuki lover]

He was Anglo-Catholic Anglican to be more exact.C.S.Lewis didn't get along with him too well though,at least not early on.

I don't really care for the more modern poets.And as far as Christian poets go,I perfer someone like Milton myself.

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

He was Anglo-Catholic Anglican to be more exact.C.S.Lewis didn't get along with him too well though,at least not early on.

I don't really care for the more modern poets.And as far as Christian poets go,I perfer someone like Milton myself.

My second poet I was going to list is John Donne. He is a master of expressing the complicated emotions and anxieties that often accompany the Christian life. His stuff is fairly straight-forward to understand, but leaves much to think about.

I'm not a huge advocate of all modern poetry. T.S. Eliot is my favorite by a long shot, but many of my other favorites would fall in the Metaphysical period during the Renaissance (Donne, Herbert, etc).

[the_wolfs_howl]

I'm not very good at appreciating poetry, because too often (at least with modern poetry) I can't understand what they're trying to say. I dabble a little bit in writing poetry myself, but that's just because I like exploring what words rhyme.
Still, I like Edgar Allan Poe. His poems have such a lilting, sing-song sort of quality. My favorite of his poems is "Annabel Lee"; I even tried writing a poem of my own that tries to mimic that style.
I also like Ogden Nash, because his poems are witty, and use rhymes to make things funny.

[Jih]

Whitman, Dickinson, Shakespeare. Does Milton (Paradise Lost) count?

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

Does Milton (Paradise Lost) count?

Absolutely. Milton, in addition to that epic poem, wrote many other short poems. You should check out "On His Blindness" if you like Milton.

[mitsuki lover]

He actually wrote two epic poems,there's also a much less known Paradise Regained.

[The Liar XIII]

My favorite Poet.. Possibly my good friend, Joey Lawrence.
He is very talented in his writing skills. He has a novel out now titled "'Till Death Do Us Part", you may want to check it out sometime.

[Miss WWE 2007]

My favorite poets are

Poe...
Maya Angelou
Shakespeare

[mitsuki lover]

Oh Jih you should google The Milton Society.They have a lot of his prose and poetry on line.
Also he wrote three and not two epic poems:PARADIES LOST, PARADIES REGAIN'D,SAMSON AGONISTES.