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Mine would be Bukowski. The way he presents his coarse subject matter is brilliant.
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Factotum
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Favourite??
After working here with these oldies for nearly 4 years it's hard for me to have a favourite. I'm a huge fan of Australian Bush Verse (each contains it's own history lesson) The Naming of Cats by T S Eliot - that series is a huge favourite, Charles Hanson Towne, I was drawn to him after reading his poem 'Beyond the Stars' (after having been asked to read at a funeral this poem found me) Spike Milligan, a man of both humour and pathos, lol OK I'll stop now....
Von -
Most folk who know me will know of my preference for Cicely Fox Smith but people like Rudyard Kipling, Robert Service, Marriot Edgar and others have a great appeal to me too.
I like anyone who can tell a good story with a bouncing rhythm; and the occasional burst of humour doesn't do any harm either.
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My favorite "old poets" are Yeats, Whitman and Blake. Yeats doesn't blanket his anger with his aging process; his poetry makes me learn more about his life. Whitman impresses me with his constant editing of his work. He was an astounding recorder of his time period, had opinions about everything, revealed compassion for those despised by society (ex. "The City Dead House"), hated injustice, and showed that the "body electric" is a wonderous thing of beauty. Blake's poetry has so many layers that are still debated. His illustrations are "eye candy" (even the trauma of the Red Dragon tatooed on Ralph Finnes' back--from the movie, Red Dragon--Hannibal Lechter series, yeah). I enjoy haiku, but have no particular favorite poet of this genre (BUT, Richard Wright is my favorite modern writer of haiku).
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I do admire much of what Cicely Fox Smith wrote, and detest much of her early work. I also like Masefield, Harry Kemp, Hamish Maclaren, and Kipling.
Charley Noble -
oldpoetry.com/opoem/62776
Taigu Ryokan
has become a new favourite of mine since I had to type some of his poetry to add to OP. Mesmerising poetry.
Vonnie -
My poet and my 'old' poet
My poet is Neruda for his historically conscience and naturalist tones... but of the so called 'old' I would have to say that it is Andres Bello... but Ruben Dario gets credit as well. -
It's not the poets I like so much, it's their poems.
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So Many
I like old poetry and many old poets are my favorites, wordsworth, keats, Shelley, W.Blake, W.B. Yeats, Byron, Pushein,R. Browning and many more. I think Pushkin is my Favorite. -
It has been more than a year since I last added to this thread and although the poets I mentioned [Cicely Fox Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Service, Marriot Edgar] are still high on my list, I am currently getting much enjoyment out of reading the works of Arthur Guiterman ( http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Arthur_Guiterman ) and Edgar Albert Guest (http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Edgar_Albert_Guest ).
Their homely wisdom and sense of fun combine to give some really excellent poetry that can be read and re-read to both relax and entertain. -
I'd have to say my favorite old poet right now is Edgar Allen Poe, followed by Lord Byron and Robert Burns. But that's today, I love different poets for different moods and so this changes daily.
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i like the transendetalists...well i like mostly Ralph Waldo Emerson...then there is Edgar Allen Poe...and William Shakespear...(i can't spell right now..lol) there is more but their names escape me.
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Emerson
Emerson is basically an outstanding prose writer. His essays are masterpieces in English literature but he is also a very nice poet. Some of his poems are matchless, like;
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/6324-Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Give-All-To-Love
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11847-Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Fable
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11814-Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Bacchus
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11851-Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Fate
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/23774-Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Ode-To-Beauty
Among his essays, my favorites are ,
Self-Reliance (also: Understanding "Self-Reliance")
Spiritual Laws
Love
Friendship
The Over-Soul
Circles
Intellect
Art
The Poet
Experience
Character
Manners
Gifts
Nature
Nominalist and Realist
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Self-Reliance is a good one..we read it in class last year. i read Nature...i didn't quiet get it because i was half asleep when i read it...there was another one that we read as a class...i do not remember the name...lol
there was another like him...altho i am not comeing up with a name...i know there were only 2 transendentalists..i enjoy Emerson alot..if i could i would read him everyday..lol he has inspired me a little..
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The more I read the more my tastes change. I am currently spending a lot of time reading through the works of the old dialect poets such as Lancashire's Edwin Waugh http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Edwin_Waugh , Yorkshire's John Hartley http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/John_Hartley and, of course, Scotland's master - Rabbie Burns
http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Robert_Burns
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Lets bump this up and see if our tastes have changed over the years!
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