Thirteen Famous Poets
As this is Fiction Scribe, there are a few things that I don’t talk about very often, like poetry, biographies and other non-fiction. However, April is National Poetry month, so it’s only right that I touch on poetry a little bit… (Plus, I used to like to write poetry for a long time and still have an appreciation for the craft.)
For this week’s Thursday Thirteen, I’m listing thirteen famous poets, including a few favourites if mine. Add on your favourite poets (and poems as well) in the comments section to help celebrate poetry month as well as maybe give me some new reading material.
Happy Thursday Thirteen!
1. Edgar Allen Poe
2. Jane Austen
3. E. E. Cummings
4. Emily Dickenson
5. Samuel Coleridge
6. Elizabeth Jennings
7. Geoffrey Chaucer
8. Maya Angelou
9. Aleister Crowley
10. Anais Nin
11. T.S. Eliot
12. Sylvia Plath
13. Robert Frost
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I’ve always liked Robert Browning. I’d read a poem or two by him and liked it, then when my Uncle George came over to visit from Britain, he gave me a nice volume of Browning, and inscribed it to me in Gaelic.
Which, of course, leads me to think also of Bobbie Burns, the Scottish poet. Why are the two so linked in my mind? An old joke; a teacher, illustrating a method for remembering names, told students to picture an English policeman in a bonfire and to link that mental picture with Bobbie Burns. One of the students piped up: “But how is one to be sure it doesn’t represent Robert Browning?” The result, which I’ve no doubt infected all who read this comment with, is an inability to think of one without thinking of the other.
Then, of course, there is Archibald MacLeish. A truly great poet, in my opinion. And Christine de Pisan set some wonderful verses of her own down on paper (or perhaps parchment). Francois Villon was not in the league of either Archibald MacLeish or Christine de Pisan, but he wrote well and some of his verses are extremely amusing.
Yes, as the clever reader has deduced, I do have a leaning towards poets of long ago.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Yes, I do get the feeling you’re rather fond of poets long ago.
I can’t claim the same affection by any means, but I can stand back and admire a well written poem.