Good poets?

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

Gregory Corso

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.

id say

keats
emily dickinson
e.e. cummings
issa & basho

once you begin you'll know what to read