Good poets?

HeyHeyMyMyHeyHeyMyMy Posts: 11
So, I am relatively new to reading poetry, I write a ton... who would everyone recommend to read?
five, five, five against one...
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  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    Gerard Man Man Man ly Hop Hop Hop Hip HOp Hop Hipllllllly kins

    and my man.....Byron....ron ron ron......da doo ron ron...

    and also.....Shakespeare...queer queer queer....

    and ralph waldo emerson em 'er son....em 'er son....er son.....
    and .......the doo ron ron....

    both Brownings

    both Rossettis

    both fee fi fo fum.....

    Chaucer....in a saucer.....

    and because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me...
    and Yeats......and all the twee tree peeeeeeots......

    and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.....

    Kipling Kavanagh Plath......

    Tom Thumb......

    my bum....Bob

    Dylan Thomas.....

    and the Laureates...

    feted...metred....beaten

    em....Robbie Burns.....

    Tennyson./.....my son my son my son.....

    Lorca....drives me crazy.....
    and.....

    tennis girl guy......

    song of solomon.....
    and I

    Isaiah.......

    oh jus fukkin read anything....it'll do you the world of god
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • HeyHeyMyMyHeyHeyMyMy Posts: 11
    Have read some Yeats, Tennyson, Shakespeare of course, enjoyed them all. Thanks for the suggestions, let the reading begin.
    five, five, five against one...
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Gregory Corso
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    William Mathews and Stephen Dobyns are among my favorites
  • I don't intend to construct any canon of essential poetry here, but I have benefitted enormously by reading the following:

    (1) Richmond Lattimore's translations of Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey";

    (2) Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf";

    (3) Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales";

    (4) Medieval poetry by that ubiquitous pre-feminist phenomenon "Anonymous";

    (5) Sonnets by Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare;

    (6) Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience";

    (7) Anything by John Clare;

    (8) Anything by Yeats;

    (9) TS Eliot's " ... Prufrock" and "The Waste Land";

    (10) Joyce's "Pomes Pennyeach";

    (11) "The Great Hunger" by Patrick Kavanagh, plus his canal bank poems;

    (12) Some Auden, Plath, Beckett, Miroslav Holub, Tony Harrison.

    That's my choice.
  • jboelhowjboelhow Posts: 170
    Just a few choices (that cover different voices):

    Langston Hughes
    Robert Frost
    Charles Bukoski
    Ezra Pound
    William Wordsworth
    Live the life you dream

    "Cause I can't wait to figure out what's wrong with me
    So I can say this is the way I use to be" -- John Mayer
  • BooBooBooBoo Posts: 25
    id say

    keats
    emily dickinson
    e.e. cummings
    issa & basho

    once you begin you'll know what to read :)
    but their heart turned cold and they dropt their wings - sappho
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