Poets whose ur fav????

Question

give 5 favorite poets along with a breif explaination about them?Plz answer
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Answer 1

THE GREATEST OF THE GRETATEST ARE----------------

1----------------WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE



When & Where was William Shakespeare born?
THE BIRTH & BAPTISM OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare was believed to have been born in the Shakespeare family home in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England

His actual date of birth cannot be substantiated as at this time in England births were not formally registered and Birth Certificates were not produced

His birth date can, however be guessed as due to the high mortality rate of infants it was the custom of Elizabethan parents to have their children baptised three days after their birth

There is a record of William's baptism in the register of the Holy Trinity Parish Church in Stratford dated 26th April 1564

The baptismal register of the Holy Trinity parish church, in Stratford, shows the following entry, in Latin, for April 26, 1564: Gulielmus Filius Johannes Shakespeare

Therefore the birthday of William Shakespeare has been set as April 23rd 1564

This date has importance to England as April 23rd is St Georges Day - the Patron Saint of England

William Shakespeare was the third child of John and Mary - the two previous children, Joan and Margaret, sadly died of the Bubonic Plague (also known as the Black Death)
HIS MOST POULAR SONETS-----------
## - O thou my lovely boy

## - My Mistress' eyes

## - When in disgrace with fortune

## - Let me not to the marriage of true minds

## - Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

The cause of Shakespeare's death is unknown - he died April 23rd 1616 at the age of 52 (William Shakespeare's birth date has been estimated as 26th April 1564)


2-------------WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland. His father, John, was a lawyer, and he encouraged his 5 children to pursue learning. When Wordsworth's mother Anne died in 1778, young William was sent to attend grammar school away from home.

William was sent to Cambridge, and upon graduation he graveled in Europe for a time, but when the money ran out Wordsworth returned home. He published two poems, Descriptive Sketches, and An Evening Walk, which were not well received.

At this time Wordsworth met poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the two became firm friends. They collaborated on a volume of Romantic verse called Lyrical Ballads (1798), which was notable for its attempt to use ordinary language in a poetic fashion.

William published a two-volume set of his poetry in 1807, and once more it was met by public indifference and scathing reviews (by Lord Byron among others).
He was still Poet Laureate when he died of pleurisy in 1850.


3---------------JOHN MILTON---------

Around 1600, the poet's father married Sara Jeffrey (1572 – 1637), and the poet was born on December 9, 1608, in Cheapside, London, England.

Milton was educated at St Paul's School, London. He was originally destined for a ministerial career, but his independent spirit led him to give this up. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1625 and studied there for seven years before he graduated as Master of Arts *** laude on July 3, 1632. At Cambridge, Milton tutored the American theologian Roger Williams in Hebrew, in exchange for lessons in Dutch. There is evidence to suggest that Milton’s experiences at Cambridge were not altogether positive and were later to contribute to his views on education. On graduating from Christ's College, Milton undertook six years of self-directed private study in both the ancient and modern disciplines of theology, philosophy, history, politics, literature and science, in preparation for his prospective poetical career. As a result of such intensive study, Milton is considered to be among the most learned of all English poets. In a Latin poem, possibly composed in the mid-1630s, Milton thanks his father for supporting him during this period.

After completing his private study in early 1638, Milton embarked on a tour of France and Italy in May of the same year, meeting with the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei during his journeys. This was cut short 13 months later by what he later termed 'sad tidings' of civil war in England. In June 1642, at the age of 33, Milton married 16 year-old Mary Powell. One month later, she visited her family and did not return. Over the next three years, Milton published a series of pamphlets arguing for the legality and morality of divorce. The first was entitled The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, in which he attacked the English marriage law (which had been taken over almost unchanged from medieval Catholicism, sanctioning divorce on the grounds of incompatibility Around 1600, the poet's father married Sara Jeffrey (1572 – 1637), and the poet was born on December 9, 1608, in Cheapside, London, England.

Milton was educated at St Paul's School, London. He was originally destined for a ministerial career, but his independent spirit led him to give this up. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1625 and studied there for seven years before he graduated as Master of Arts *** laude on July 3, 1632. At Cambridge, Milton tutored the American theologian Roger Williams in Hebrew, in exchange for lessons in Dutch. There is evidence to suggest that Milton’s experiences at Cambridge were not altogether positive and were later to contribute to his views on education. On graduating from Christ's College, Milton undertook six years of self-directed private study in both the ancient and modern disciplines of theology, philosophy, history, politics, literature and science, in preparation for his prospective poetical career. As a result of such intensive study, Milton is considered to be among the most learned of all English poets. In a Latin poem, possibly composed in the mid-1630s, Milton thanks his father for supporting him during this period.

After completing his private study in early 1638, Milton embarked on a tour of France and Italy in May of the same year, meeting with the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei during his journeys. This was cut short 13 months later by what he later termed 'sad tidings' of civil war in England. In June 1642, at the age of 33, Milton married 16 year-old Mary Powell. One month later, she visited her family and did not return. Over the next three years, Milton published a series of pamphlets arguing for the legality and morality of divorce. The first was entitled The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, in which he attacked the English marriage law (which had been taken over almost unchanged from medieval Catholicism, sanctioning divorce on the grounds of incompatibility Around 1600, the poet's father married Sara Jeffrey (1572 – 1637), and the poet was born on December 9, 1608, in Cheapside, London, England.

Milton was educated at St Paul's School, London. He was originally destined for a ministerial career, but his independent spirit led him to give this up. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1625 and studied there for seven years before he graduated as Master of Arts *** laude on July 3, 1632. At Cambridge, Milton tutored the American theologian Roger Williams in Hebrew, in exchange for lessons in Dutch. There is evidence to suggest that Milton’s experiences at Cambridge were not altogether positive and were later to contribute to his views on education. On graduating from Christ's College, Milton undertook six years of self-directed private study in both the ancient and modern disciplines of theology, philosophy, history, politics, literature and science, in preparation for his prospective poetical career. As a result of such intensive study, Milton is considered to be among the most learned of all English poets. In a Latin poem, possibly composed in the mid-1630s, Milton thanks his father for supporting him during this period.

After completing his private study in early 1638, Milton embarked on a tour of France and Italy in May of the same year, meeting with the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei during his journeys. This was cut short 13 months later by what he later termed 'sad tidings' of civil war in England. In June 1642, at the age of 33, Milton married 16 year-old Mary Powell. One month later, she visited her family and did not return. Over the next three years, Milton published a series of pamphlets arguing for the legality and morality of divorce. The first was entitled The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, in which he attacked the English marriage law (which had been taken over almost unchanged from medieval Catholicism, sanctioning divorce on the grounds of incompatibility
Around 1600, the poet's father married Sara Jeffrey (1572 – 1637), and the poet was born on December 9, 1608, in Cheapside, London, England.

Milton was educated at St Paul's School, London. He was originally destined for a ministerial career, but his independent spirit led him to give this up. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1625 and studied there for seven years before he graduated as Master of Arts *** laude on July 3, 1632. At Cambridge, Milton tutored the American theologian Roger Williams in Hebrew, in exchange for lessons in Dutch. There is evidence to suggest that Milton’s experiences at Cambridge were not altogether positive and were later to contribute to his views on education. On graduating from Christ's College, Milton undertook six years of self-directed private study in both the ancient and modern disciplines of theology, philosophy, history, politics, literature and science, in preparation for his prospective poetical career. As a result of such intensive study, Milton is considered to be among the most learned of all English poets. In a Latin poem, possibly composed in the mid-1630s, Milton thanks his father for supporting him during this period.

After completing his private study in early 1638, Milton embarked on a tour of France and Italy in May of the same year, meeting with the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei during his journeys. This was cut short 13 months later by what he later termed 'sad tidings' of civil war in England. In June 1642, at the age of 33, Milton married 16 year-old Mary Powell. One month later, she visited her family and did not return. Over the next three years, Milton published a series of pamphlets arguing for the legality and morality of divorce. The first was entitled The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, in which he attacked the English marriage law (which had been taken over almost unchanged from medieval Catholicism, sanctioning divorce on the grounds of incompatibility
taken over almost unchanged from medieval Catholicism, sanctioning divorce on the grounds of incompatibility or childlessness only). In 1645, Mary finally returned. In 1646, her family, having been ejected from Oxford for supporting Charles I in the Civil War, moved in with the couple. They had four children: Anne, Mary, John, and Deborah. Wife Mary died on May 5, 1652, from complications following Deborah's birth on May 2, which may have affected Milton deeply, as evidenced by his 23rd sonnet. In June, John died at 15 months; his three sisters all survived to adulthood. On November 12, 1656, Milton married Katherine Woodcock. She died on February 3, 1658, less than four months after giving birth to their daughter, Katherine, who died on March 17. On February 24, 1663, Milton married Elizabeth Minshull, who cared for him until his death on November 8, 1674. He is buried in St Giles-without-Cripplegate church in the City of London.


Milton then lived in retirement, devoting himself once more to poetical work, and publishing Paradise Lost in 1667, the epic by which he attained universal fame (blind and impoverished, he sold the publishing rights to this work on April 27 that year for £10), to be followed by Paradise Regained, together with Samson Agonistes, a drama on the Greek model, in 1671.


4--------------------JOHN KEATS----------

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work was the subject of constant critical attacks, and it was not until much later that the significance of the cultural change which his work both presaged and helped to form was fully appreciated. Keats' poetry is shown by an elaborate use of words and a sensual imagination; he often felt that he was working in the shadow of past poets, and only towards the end of his life was he able to produce his most original and most memorable poems

5-------------PERCY BYSHHE SHELLY------------

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and "The Masque of Anarchy." However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished "The Triumph of Life." Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong skeptical voice, made him a notorious and much denigrated figure in his own life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations of poets (including the major Victorian poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Butler Yeats and Subramanya Bharathy). He was also famous for his association with the contemporaries John Keats and Lord Byron. An untimely death at a young age was common to all three. He was married to the famous novelist Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein and is possibly responsible for the novel as well.

Answer 2

Gerard Manley Hopkins, practically unknown in his lifetime, a great Catholic poet
Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet who translates very well into English. Powerful evoicative writer.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, English poet who influenced entire generations of the 20th century. To read and understand "The Wasteland" is extremely rewarding.
E.E. Cummings, usually considered a minor American poet who wrote everything in lower case, including his name.. with a few exceptions. Wrote a great novel too.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Roman poet of the first century BC whose odes have inspired more great literature and thought than probably any other poet except the present self-centered and relatively ignorant one. You have to read Horace, even in translation, slowly and carefully because of his choice of words. Reading Horace was worth the agony of learning Latin.

Answer 3

Robert Frost - always been my fav because of his perspective he gives on everything, makes you think of everyday life in a different way
Emily Dickerson - because she lived her poetry.
Walter Whitman - because his poetry was so controversial at the time and made "waves" if you will. I like it when someones talent and passion makes others talk, it shows that his poetry will be remembered for a long time
Shel Silverstein - he was always my fav when I was a kid. My mom would read "Where the Sidewalk Ends" before I went to bed every night and I almost memorized the whole book.

Answer 4

From Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's "Sonnets of the Portugee": I thought once of Theocritus....of the years; the sweet years which by turn had thrown a shadow o'er cross me... Look it up on web or such, because my memory is failing me right now. My next is from the Greek tragedy, "Agamemnon" by Sophocles, translation by John Fagles, a strophe from one of the chorus parts: "The gods have laid it down as law, Zeus has led us on to know that we must suffer, suffer into truth, and we resist... Then, of couse, Shakespeare, Queen Gertrude's soliloquy from Hamlet, in which she indicates to Laertes and Claudius that Ophelia is now dead: There tree grows aslant a brook which shows its hoar leaves in the glassy stream... Frankly, for me that last one is among the most powerful poetry in the world due not just to content the also to the incredible imagery and use of language. Then, a Shakespeare sonnet: Let me not the marriage of true minds... ...Love's not love which...

Answer 5

E.E Cummings - Because she is new made me appreciate the double entendre.

Poe - Well, because he's Poe.

Chaucer - Because he entwined poetry with great stories.

Dickenson - Any woman that obsessed with death has to be cool.
That's all for now.

Answer 6

i like elizabeth barret-browning. her poem "how do i love thee" is super. it's a classic one. :) elizabeth wrote that poem for her then-bf robert browning (which eventually became her husband :p). they have this sort-of long-distance relationship. they only contact each other through letters. (sweey huh? :D)

my other faves are edgar allan poe, christopher marlowe (loooove his "the passionate shepherd to his love"

Answer 7

hum...well not sure...at the moment.
Does Edgar Allen Poe count?

Answer 8

myself--i am my favorite poet

Answer 9

tennyson

and sylvia plath