2007-04-04 21:47:22 · 9 answers · asked by Sarah H 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
As cliche as it sounds, Poe is still my favorite poet by far. The man was a genius. (Quite possibly stark raving mad and a drug addict, but a genius nevertheless.)
2007-04-04 21:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Shane M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
without stating the obvious that william shakespeare was a genius, my other favourite poet is Charlotte Bronte. If you are looking at poetry then I would recommend you watching the dvd "Dead Poet's Society" with Robin Williams. It is an old dvd but it has some really terrific poetry in it
2007-04-05 08:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by mary c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake, and if you want something really different try this anthology Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Mutlicultural Poetry. It's free verse poetry, nothing about flowers! lol very very different from what people think of when they traditionally think poetry
2007-04-05 16:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by Aidyana Of Lothlorien 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poe definitely rocks. I am also a big fan of Emily Dickinson. Some of the English poets, too, such as John Keates, William Wordsworth and the Brownings (Robert and Elizabeth / husband and wife).
2007-04-05 05:37:57 · answer #4 · answered by OutThere5280 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books:
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
The Essential Rumi - Rumi
Poems:
Browning "Pophyria's Lover"
Auden - Unknown Citizen
Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night
2007-04-05 10:58:06 · answer #5 · answered by Dani G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WIlliam Butler Yeats is my poet of choice: wonderful stuff about life in general. His poems echo in your ear long after the book is shut!
Enjoy!! :-)
2007-04-05 08:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by CHRISOHS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"New and Collected Poems" by Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1980....My favorite line (or question) from his poem "Dedication":
What is poetry which does not save
Nations or people?
2007-04-05 05:13:48 · answer #7 · answered by kerry4535@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Frost is the rhyming king.
2007-04-05 05:37:26 · answer #8 · answered by hananimsarang 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
edgar allen poe
2007-04-05 04:50:08 · answer #9 · answered by TarasBoutiqueAtEtsy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋