Favorite poets

[burstroman]

Who are your favorite poets?

Mine are (for now):
John Donne
Jorge Guillen
Walt Whitman

[thalbergmad]

Who was it that wrote the famous poem about smugglers??

Thal

[brewtality]

Dorothy McKellar
Banjo Paterson
Henry Lawson 

Ted Hughes
Seamus Heaney
I like Slyvia Plath too, but don't like how she has been lionised by feminists. She was a nutter.

[living_stradivarius]

Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Butler Yeats
John Keats

[ada]

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe.

You go brewtality. Have you read the Bell Jar? And Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams? Sylvia Plath is sheer genius, although some of her earlier stuff sucked.

Daddy has got to be the creepiest, chilling, most disturbing f**cked up piece of writing ever. Poem for three voices also great and everything in Ariel.

Sorry but don't get me started on SP. I have read everthing she's ever written. Ever.

You do not do
you do not do ...

[brewtality]

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe.

You go brewtality. Have you read the Bell Jar? And Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams? Sylvia Plath is sheer genius, although some of her earlier stuff sucked.

Daddy has got to be the creepiest, chilling, most disturbing f**cked up piece of writing ever. Poem for three voices also great and everything in Ariel.

Sorry but don't get me started on SP. I have read everthing she's ever written. Ever.

You do not do
you do not do ...

I've read the Bell Jar and Ariel but not the others. I agree about Daddy; some rezpecable fury right thurr. I like Ted Hughes responses to some of her poems in 'Birthday Letters', we studied this for the HSC and that's how I become familiar with Plath. It's hard not to be captivated by her.

[ada]

you should try and get yourself a copy of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, it's a collection of short stories, some very pedestrian but you still get a sense of her development, and worth it just for the main story, Johnny Panic.

I used to have a copy but I lent it to someone and never got it back. Haven't been able to replace it.

[thalbergmad]

I used to talk regularly to a local poet/painter called Bill Lewis. He has written some cool stuff.

He is also a member of the Stuckist movement.

Me fave poet is probably Edward Lear.

Thal

[pianistimo]

very cool to find local poets.

i had forgotten about john donne, as burstroman mentioned him.  i think i like him, too.  he had a way of combining two very different ideas into one (forget the name for it) and yet the poems come out very well.  ok.  i found it at wikipedia 'john donne, master of the 'conceit,' an extended metaphor that combines two vastly unlike ideas into a single idea, often using imagery.'  john would use metaphysical conceits - as with 'a valediction: forbidden mourning' where he compares two lovers separated to the two legs of a compass.

tend to like christian poetry the best - but, there's been poems of byron (stanzas for music) and others that suits my fancy, too.  i think that whatever one is in the mood for.  it's like music.  if you have too much of one - you get tired and want something different. 

american poetry is full of views of nature and patriotic pride.  probably katharine lee bates is my fav. 

cecil francis alexander, conrad aiken, john quincy adams, sarah flower adams

lots of poetry here:  www.theotherpages.org/poems/poem-ab.html

love ballades.

[thorn]

I like Aloysius Bertrand. He wrote the poems that go with Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, and i liked them so much that i bought the actual book Gaspard de la Nuit. It's amazing.

[yooniefied]

Goethe!