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Who is your favorite old poet?


  • LockedCellar
    Jun 21 12:46 PM 2006
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    Mine would be Bukowski. The way he presents his coarse subject matter is brilliant.

  • live4sun
    June 28, 2006
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    Factotum

    ya i love bukowski! ! ! did you know that they are turning Factotum into a movie pretty soon? i think mid august- apperently it's soundtrack kicks butt too

  • rufina caraid
    June 28, 2006
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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

  • I-Like-Rhymes
    July 7, 2006
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    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.
    Jim

  • mermaid7
    July 28, 2006
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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).

  • Charley Noble
    November 21, 2006
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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

  • rufina caraid
    November 22, 2006
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    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

  • Carlos Perez
    November 26, 2006
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    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.

  • Nam
    February 2, 2007
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    It's not the poets I like so much, it's their poems.


  • Ahkam
    September 23, 2007
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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.

  • I-Like-Rhymes
    September 27, 2007
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    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.

  • Anybodys-guess
    October 20, 2007
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    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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