Poetry Recommendations

[Mairin]

Any authors people would recommend to read? I started reading Robert Burns and I like his works, but I have no clue as to any other authors out there.

[Fran]

I love William Butler Yeats ... especially his early poems. But I am Irish so I may be biased.
I also like T S Eliot, Emily Dickinson and recently I came across the poetry of a Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (beautiful & heart breaking)

[Mairin]

I love William Butler Yeats ... especially his early poems. But I am Irish so I may be biased.
I also like T S Eliot, Emily Dickinson and recently I came across the poetry of a Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (beautiful & heart breaking)

Ooo.. Russian you say??!! LOL I am a huge fan of foriegn authors... I feel it gives me a good perspective on life outside of the states. I will definately look into William Bulter Yeats as well!! Thanks for the recommendations.

[laci_baby]

Yeats is fantastic, i very rarely hear of anyone reading him. Have you tried Christina Rossetti? She rather strange and dark yet very open minded about life. She's by far my favorite, so i always recommend her to people. Hope you find a great poet, either way.

[Mairin]

Yeats is fantastic, i very rarely hear of anyone reading him. Have you tried Christina Rossetti? She rather strange and dark yet very open minded about life. She's by far my favorite, so i always recommend her to people. Hope you find a great poet, either way.

Thanks for the recommendation. I find that any poetry I write tends to be on the darker side so I'm sure I would find her stuff interesting.

[Clinton.hewitt]

I am a new poetry author im not sure if you would like my poetry or not, its more of random thoughts put together. But you could always check it out.

[thsavage2]

Keats is also great. Edgar Allan Poe, if you like something a bit darker. Emily Dickinson is in the same vein. The Romantic poets, like Shelley, Byron, and Tennyson are also some of my favorites. And Shakespeare, of course! If you're into epic poetry, try Dante or Milton, and the Odyssey.

[zedie12]

Andrew Marvell is among my favorite poets. Then there is Oliver Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott and Allen Ginsberg

[Ryan]

I would recommend Keats too, with Byron and Wordsworth. I also love Andrew Marvell, John Donne and John Milton. Oh, and have a read of Beowulf (by anon.) -- it's an Anglo-Saxon text but there are many really great translations available. The best I've read is by Seamus Heaney and it's very faithful to the original poem. Diane di Prima is very interesting, as are Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope. And finally, I'd have to recommend Wilfred Owen -- a war-time poet with some great poems that you probably already know

[librarydancer]

I have really been enjoying the poem of the day program. Every day I get an email -- I believe the source is poetry.org. During the week it's modern poetry with a few sentences talking about the poem; and on the weekends it's classic poetry.

[Amna Khalid]

Najwa Zebian and Amari Soul

[Tori_J]

You can try some Nigerian poet. Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe are quite the talent.

[Li En Foo]

There's a type of poetry that I think is really cool. Unfortunately, I don't now what it's called, but its written by women and the way it's written is so that it seems to be love poems to their lovers but at the end it's revealed that the people they love is food. It's really cool!

Lang Leav, Edgar Allen Poe, and Faruoq Jwaydeh are some of my favorites

[usef nahg]

Aphrodite made me do it is a great book!