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rilke
12-Jun-05, 20:31

Name your 10 favorites Poets of all time.
Name your 10 favorites Poets of all time. Trace your search from The Ancient World,The Orient, The middle east,Latin,Romantic period,Classical.....through The Modern World.
I know 10 is hard to choose, so you can add more if you wish.
redhill144
12-Jun-05, 21:38

Top 10+3
There a quite a few poets who have written a few poems I like; however, I have listed below only those poets whose collected works I have read and continue to read. These are the poets I come back to year after year after year, always finding deeper meaning or a fresh interpretation of their work, my masters of the craft.

W. B. Yeats
Thomas Hardy
T. S. Eliot
Dylan Thomas
William Shakespeare

Wilfred Owen
Edward Arlington Robinson
Edgar Alan Poe
A. E. Housman
Walt Whitman

D. H. Lawrence
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
rilke
12-Jun-05, 23:22

My Poets
Shakeaspeare
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rumi
Dante
Emily Dickinson
Rimbaud
Federico Garcia Lorca
Pablo Neruda
Walt Whitman
W. B.Yeats


Also:

Jore Luis Borges
Pushkin
W. H. Auden
Octavio Paz
William Blake
John Keats
Robert Frost


rilke
12-Jun-05, 23:27

The Orient
I must add the great Haiku poet Basho!
artjones
22-Jun-05, 12:41

There is only two:
Homer: the father of poetry and, E.E. Cummings: the father of graphic verse
baseline
22-Jun-05, 15:49

Bob Dylan anyone?
kansasjayhawk
22-Jun-05, 17:25

John Donne
Langston Hughes
Charles Bukowski
rilke
23-Jun-05, 10:27

Robert Burns and Shelly
Burns and Shelly are the classic on the english language.
xena
27-Jun-05, 23:47

Pablo Neruda
Emily Dickinson
Sarah Teasdale
Shakespeare
Byron
Shelley
Wordsworth
Sylvia Plath
Rabindrath Tagore
The Bronte Sisters
pagodapanicdog
13-Sep-05, 23:26

Favorite poets
T.S. Elliot
William Blake
E.A Poe
Carl Sandburg
E.E. Cummings
J.R.R. Tolkien
ironbutterfly
14-Sep-05, 07:21

Favorite poets!
These are only those poets with at least several great lyric poems:
(so no epic poets like Homer, Dante; narrative poets like Browning, etc.)
Matsuo Basho
William Shakespeare
Taniguchi Buson
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
John Keats
William Wordsworth
Matthew Arnold
ee cummings
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
R. M. Rilke
Dylan Thomas
William Carlos Williams
Elizabeth Bishop
Anne Sexton
Theodore Roethke
Wallace Stevens
Richard Wilbur
daverundle
02-Dec-05, 06:08

poets
I'm shocked that no one has mentioned purple ronnie!



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