Favourite poets.

So who are your favourite poets /book/?

When I'm asked, I usually say Tennyson or Bukowski, depends on the mood I'm in.

>>40
How old are you 12? Its either that or you're clearly retarded either way. I'd rather be 5ft 6 than be as retarded as you.

>>41
>Its either that or you're clearly retarded either way.

I'd work on my English if I were you. Especially if you plan on calling any more people retards.

Also, Ginsberg is a fine poet. I am not going to let scarf-wearing hipster faggots ruin his poetry for me.

>>42
Wow so you really are 12 and retarded. Ginsberg was a scarf-wearing hipster faggot, he was a posturing asshole who actually didn't say or do anything of substance. Granted, poetry is subjectively liked, but I am almost certain Ginsberg is your favorite poet because you've read very little poetry. Not trying to be elitist, it's just that Ginsberg sucks.

>>43

I've gone through Poe, Yeats, Frost, Dickinson, Basho, Paterson, Byron, William Wordsworth and some others.

I've only just got into Ginsberg, so he is my favourite of the moment. I am enjoying reading through his poetry.

I don't see what's wrong with that. Perhaps it is just a phase, but I am drawn to his poetry at the moment.

>>44
Poe, Yeats, Frost, Dickinson, Basho, Paterson, Byron, William Wordsworth and some others.
LOL. Some others? I'm willing to bet not many. Face it, the poets you listed are all meh at best, they are only well known due to sleazy showmanship tactics.
I don't see what's wrong with that. Perhaps it is just a phase, but I am drawn to his poetry at the moment.
Yes, being twelve is a phase. What is wrong with is you are posting on this board while being twelve, wait ten years and then come back here to post about poetry.

Donne, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gibran, Neruda

>>45
Wordsworth and Yeats were sleazy showmen? Have you even read them?

Ginsberg and Baudelaire are my leftovers from high school and college respectively.
Still my favourites, though.

>>45

I am twenty-two. You know, for a board full of "literate intellectuals", /book/ can be rather childish sometimes. "You don't share my opinion, so you must be twelve years old" is the kind of non sequitur logic I expect to see on /b/.

By "some others", I meant poets I have only touch upon (read a couple of their poems at best). The ones I listed are poets I have read significant portions of. I like Keats, Baudelaire and Blake from what I have read. But I will admit it is not very much.

>>49
Why is it that people always feel obliged to post their age when someone on the internet accuses them of being a child? I'll never understand

>>50

I was merely drawing my accuser back to reality. A reality where it most certainly has been ten years since I was twelve years of age.

And a reality where it will take more than "they suck" to drive home an opinion about some rather well-liked poets.

Byron

Byron was the worst of the Romantics. Well, maybe Coleridge.