Who are your favorite 19th or 20th century poets? I love Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. I am beginning to get into T.S. Eliot as well.
Who are your favorite 19th or 20th century poets? I love Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. I am beginning to get into T.S. Eliot as well.
I agree on Anne Sexton. I’d add Frank O’Hara, Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, W H Auden, J H Prynne, and Geoffrey Hill to the list.
I have never heard of those poets. I’ll definitely check them out!
@Phoebe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42661/to-the-harbormaster
Have you read T.S. Eliot? This is probably my favorite. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
@Phoebe I have. I too love Prufrock.
many! and evolving … but maybe Paul Verlaine and Emily Dickinson
Are there any particular English translators of Verlaine you would recommend?
@Joshua probably a combination of Google translate plus any one or two trending translations. Then listen to a YouTube reading of the original French and look at the text. Verlaine is about musicality, but accessible.
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot (*especially* Four Quartets), Geoffrey Hill.
I don’t know much of Kathleen Raine’s work, but I definitely want to explore more of her poetry.
Oh, and I’ve been getting into John Clare, who offers a different perspective among the Romantic poets.
yes, I can’t help going to Clare every so often
Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfred Owen, but also the less well-known U. A. Fanthorpe. Her pamphlet of Xmas poems published by Peterloo Poets, is a total joy, and I always read something from it at the December meeting of my poetry group, when we read poems we haven’t written ourselves, for a change.
Keats, Hopkins, Tennyson, Browning (Robert, not Elizabeth), Yeats, Eliot, Hughes, Heaney, Owen.
I do like the poems of Hardy that I’ve read.
I have the collected works of Geoffrey Hill, but, to my shame, I haven’t read him! Ditto Emily Dickinson.
Coleridge and Tennyson
Hardy. ?
Tennyson and Coleridge
Christina Rossetti and George MacDonald. Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth are enjoyable too, and while this pair is better known for their prose, the poetry of C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien can bring me great pleasure too.
I like both Sexton and Plath. I’m currently reading a biography of Sexton.
@Nancy what book is that?
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook
Yeats, Millay, Thomas, Frost…
Oh, yes, I failed to mention Millay!
I read “The Great Modern Poets” ed. by Michael Schmidt to discover many new ones to me.