Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese) / Christopher Marlowe (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) / Sir Walter Raleigh (The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd)
John Keats, Byron, Tennyson, Ted Hughes, James K. Baxter, Algernon Swinburne, Wilfred Owen, T.S Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Adrian Henri, Robert Browning.
Frost, Neruda, Emily, Coleridge, Vikram Seth, cohen, Maya Angelou. I love almost every classic ones. Also, The Rye high productions spoken poems on sound cloud.
Billy Collins
Pablo Neruda, Nikki Giovanni. Love poetry.
Anne Sexton. Elizabeth Bishop. Yeats.
Rupi Kaur, Alexander Blok, others
Louise Glück, Wallace Stevens, Billy Collins, Pablo Neruda, Keats, Adrian Rich
Dylan Thomas
Rupi Kaur, Maurice Sendak, Dylan Thomas, Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, e.e. cummings to name a few, I love poetry.
Li-young Lee
Whitman
@Jen
Robert Frost most likely because I was a choral teacher and many of his poems are set to music!
One of my non musical favorites is Mending Wall… thank you to my H.S. English teacher!
Also Tagore, who I learned about in an Asian Studies class
Naomi Shihab Nye!
I discovered her writing in her YA book Habibi. Love at first sight!
Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings
Mark Nepo, May Sarton, Mary Oliver, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost, Naomi Shibab Nye, Danna Faulds
John Berryman. He deserves more recognition.
e e Cummins and Robert Frost
Langston Hughes and Paul Eluard (trans from French)
Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats
Sara Teasdale
Wendell Berry
The Peace of the Wild Things is one of my faves!
Donald Hall
Shel Silverstein. I know it’s a little contemporary and maybe not as sophisticated as some that have been mentioned. But it reminds me of childhood.
Robert Frost
Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Ted Kooser
Edna St. Vincent Millay. William Carlos Williams. Nikki Giovanni. Mary Oliver. Vachel Lindsay. Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Gabriela Mistral
Mary Oliver
Ditto
Maya Angelou
I am not a big poetry fan, but a woman I work with introduced me to Pablo Neruda, 20 Love Poems and A Song of Dispair. Stunning.
Audre Lorde.
And her essays are also amazing! Read her!!
Yeats, Eliot, Sharon Olds, Han Shan (Cold Mountain)
Olds is excellent.
Yes! We saw her live, and I recommend it. Wise and good
Mary Oliver
T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, Neruda, H.D.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Myself.” she replied humbly. 😉
@Danèlle
Gerard Manly Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St Vincent Millay
Walt Whitman.
For me it’s John Berryman, but that’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea.
Byron (and a number of Hungarian poets). ?
Fernando Pessoa
Pablo Neruda – not that I speak Spanish but the English versions are still so good!
Stephen Crane. You may not know him as a poet, (author of The Red Badge of Courage) but he was great.
TS Elliot, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickenson, Carl Sandberg, Sylvia Plath is good too
Rimbaud, ee cummings, Plath, Kerouac, Ginsberg.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese) / Christopher Marlowe (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) / Sir Walter Raleigh (The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd)
MARY OLIVER!
WORD.
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I’m agreeing with you – Oliver is the best 🙂
Billy Collins
Keats. Sylvia Plath.Indian poets Gulzar, Nida Fazli and Sahir.
Theodore Roethke.
Jack Gilbert, Mary Ruefle.
Robert Louis Stevenson and Emily Dickinson
David Whyte, Mary Oliver
John Keats, Byron, Tennyson, Ted Hughes, James K. Baxter, Algernon Swinburne, Wilfred Owen, T.S Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Adrian Henri, Robert Browning.
Terry Pratchett, Robert Louis Stevenson, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Roald Dahl
poets?
Ts Eliot
Margaret Atwood, Ann Sexton, Sharon Olds, Rilke.
Mary Oliver
Poe
Robert Frost.
Edgar Allan Poe
Ted Kooser
Rumi,Naomi Shihab Nye
Pablo Neruda, Poe,
Dr Suess.
For real though, Plath, Tennyson and Poe.
Plath, Sexton, Naomi Shihab Nye, Eliot.
TS Eliot, Wallace Stevens
e.e.cummings, maya angelou, naomi shihab nye, shane koyczan, billy collins, ellen bass,
Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Lee Masters, Edgar Allan Poe, John Donne, Thomas Carew. Langston Hughes.
George Bacovia
Naomi Nye and Billy Collins.
Sylvia Plath, Madalyn Beck, W.B.Yeats
Brazilians, Ferreira Gullar, Manoel de Barros, Cora Coralina; Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa; T S Eliot, Emily Dickinson, e e cummings
Mary Oliver
e. e. cummings
Pablo Neruda, Ranier Rilke, e e cummings
Erica Jong , Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Another Mary Oliver lover ?
Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg
Yes! Carl Sandburg. “The fog came in on little cats feet”
Khalil Gibran
Mary Oliver and Leonard Cohen
Rumi, Khalil Gibran
József, Attila http://www.magyarulbabelben.net/works/hu/J%C3%B3zsef_Attila-1905/A_hetedik/en/54608-The_Seventh_One?interfaceLang=en
Frost, Neruda, Emily, Coleridge, Vikram Seth, cohen, Maya Angelou. I love almost every classic ones. Also, The Rye high productions spoken poems on sound cloud.
I was wondering the other day if anyone read poetry anymore. I need to look into Mary Oliver
I not only read it, but write it as well … ?
@Richard very impressive!
Mary Oliver