Favorite poet?

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   habeeposted 14 years ago

   Who's your favorite poet of all time? I choose Thomas Hardy.

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      Lyriaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      My favorite: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, especially the Ancient Mariner. #2 would be Shakespeare - the Sonnets.

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      L. Andrew Marrposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Eugh - I have to study The Return of the Native for school and I can't stand it. I would have to say my favourite poets are John Clare, Rudyard Kipling and Philip Larkin.

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   wrenfrost56posted 14 years ago

   Tough question......I'de guess i'de have to say Seamus Heany.

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      wrenfrost56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I think I killed the thread Sorry!

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   habeeposted 14 years ago

   I love Seamus Heany.

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   maven101posted 14 years ago

   Walter Benton...A poet of passion and pain, love and despair..

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   habeeposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for introducing me to him, Larry!

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   William Wordsworth and Robert Burns...I'm a Romantic

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   habeeposted 14 years ago

   I love them, too, UW!
   
   Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey" and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"
   
   Burns: "My Heart's in the Highlands"
   
   My favorite English romantic is John Keats.

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   Leta Sposted 14 years ago

   Too many to name all, but:  Rilke, Shelley, Levine, Kizer, Harjo, Ginsberg....even Shakespeare as a poet.  I'm now actually reading Neruda due to someone on Hubpages.
   
   Rilke will always be at the heart of my heart, however.

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   Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

   Edgar Allen Poe with Emily Dickenson coming up second

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    Draxposted 14 years ago

    for me it has to Akhmatova, then Bukowski, then Montague and then about 50 others that really make an impact on me... so little time so much poetry...

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       Leta Sposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Ah, Akhmatova! Her Holocaust poem with the "black milk."

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    rebekahELLEposted 14 years ago

    Ranier Maria Rilke ~~ love his work.
    
    John Keats~
    
    so many more

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    Ken R. Abellposted 14 years ago

    Can't get it down to only one.  My top three...
    
    Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Robert W. Service

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    Zenaniposted 14 years ago

    Maya Angelou

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    prettydarkhorseposted 14 years ago

    political poet, Dalai lama, philosopher
    
    
    I like Pablo Nerudas poems

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    LEWJposted 14 years ago

    Miss Emily Dickinson

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    poetlorraineposted 14 years ago

    i*n*v*i*c*t*u*s Of hub pages

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       I*n*v*i*c*t*u*sposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       you are so sweet! Thank you

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          poetlorraineposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          don't know that many, but you take the biscuit for me

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    blondepoetposted 14 years ago

    Rodney Rude.

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    Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years ago

    

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       Pacal Votanposted 14 years agoin reply to this

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    manlypoetrymanposted 14 years ago

    Banjo Patterson : The Man from Snowy River

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    I*n*v*i*c*t*u*sposted 14 years ago

    Rumi

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       Justine76posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       happy b day. I made you thread this morning but it got lost. Hope your having a good day!!

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          I*n*v*i*c*t*u*sposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Awww, Thank you So much!! Sorry I missed it! It has been a lovely day!

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             Justine76posted 14 years agoin reply to this

             your welcome. Im glad.

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          Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          It magically re-appeared!

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             Justine76posted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Its not magic!! That took a lot of hard work!! errr well, ok, Im just sitting here aviding washing the dishes..but still..its not magic!!'
             and invictus,I meant it, have a good day.

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    Myles54posted 14 years ago

    Anis Mojgani

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    theageofcakeposted 14 years ago

    Walt Whitman.

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    Chad A Taylorposted 14 years ago

    "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Dylan Thomas

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    philip carey 61posted 14 years ago

    Walt Whitman, if I was forced into a corner to choose. There are just so many excellent poets.

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