Hey Everyone,
Here is your chance to celebrate your all-time favorite poets, you will be able to choose a few of the ones in this list who have moved you the most. Tick the boxes next to the poets you treasure the most. These poets were shortlisted from an exhaustive and subjective review of the literature.
If you don’t see your favorites, let us know we can add a few more!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/363WYDH
Choose the poets who most impacted your own writing, those rare poets who truly you feel are the most influential poets in your life.
Do note: That some of the classical cannon have been omitted from the list quite on purpose: Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Dante, Goethe, Hugo, etc… (to name a few) to give a chance for more recent and unusual poets to be listed. We’d very much like to add more non-European poets if possible from foreign countries with equal footing for female and male poets represented.
We consider this list to be informative as to some of the best poetic literature humanity has produced recently, so if you don’t know some of these names, I suggest you look them up. Let us know if you “discover” anyone on this list that impresses you.
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Shel Silverstein! (And I say that as an English man who was looking for the likes of Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Wordsworth on here 🙂 )
Shel and Seamus of those can expand the list 🙂
King David and his psalms and William Shakespeare!
Shakespeare, Dante and Milton have been excluded from the list on purpose as those are a given and I’d really prefer to focus on more recent poets. King David though is an intriguing prospect.
And Oh yes, and the Songs Of King Solomon!!!
Yes I can see you have a taste for biblical verse!?
Well…Rumi and YOU! Ha ha.
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 15:19:53 +0000 To: maltuh123@hotmail.com
Well certainly Rumi could not have not made this list 😛
I would be remiss to exclude Jane Hirshfield, Basho, and Buson.
Sure, these are good additions.
Might I talk you into adding Gwendolyn Brooks? I am distantly related to Robert Frost and should probably vote for him out of principle. I’ve even created some beautiful choreography to Maya Angelou’s works… but Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks gets me every time. http://www.poemhunter.com/gwendolyn-brooks/poems/
Love,
Lady Grey
Great okay I’ve added Langston Hughes as well for good measure 🙂
I also promised you a little poem today. Here it is… https://stringofpearls2.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/my-boy/
My favorite poets are Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers…and On Reaching Forty are my faves. But, I love their most popular classics, too – Hope is the Thing with Feathers and Phenomenal Woman.
I would not be surprised at all if Emily Dickinson won this survey, since the majority of the responders will be American.
I am a Nigerian and mine is also Emily Dickinson :D. Its amazing, the depth of her poems and the volumes they carry with just few words.
Yes it’s a strange clarity for sure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,perhaps ?
Okay I have added Cloeridge
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Wuji, I would like to see Kenneth Rexroth’s name added to the list and would dearly love to see Charles Bukowski’s name added to a list of the most profane, no-talent non-poets of all time!!
Ron
Yes I feel the same way about Bukowski, some of the famous poets are just so bad it’s funny.