What are your favorite poets/poems?

**Stríbog** · Thursday, July 10th, 2003

What are your favorite poets/poems?
Mine would be :
Poe's complete works
Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Homer - The Odyssey and Iliad
Robert Burns - Ae Fond Kiss
Keats - Ode to Psyche
Byron - Prometheus, Darkness
Tennyson - The Lotus Eaters
Gray's Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

I'll post more as I think of them....

**Sigrun Christianson** · Thursday, July 10th, 2003

My favs, off the top of my head:

John Donne (The most under-rated poet of all time).
Pablo Nerdua (Yeah, I know he was a commie, shut up).
Rainer Maria Rilke (My newest favorite, thanks to Phlegethon).
W. H. Auden (Yeah, I know he was gay, shut up.)
Walt Whitman (Whoa!).
Dylan Thomas (He was good, don't let his popularity fool you.)
Lewis Carroll (He was too a poet!)
e.e. cummings (I let his non-caps slide because he's good).
Ezra Pound (Just try to argue this one).
Ogden Nash (Clever, clever man).
Shel Silverstein (Yes, he was a Jew.)
Just about every English Romantic...