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<blockquote data-quote="babysinister" data-source="post: 57976" data-attributes="member: 714"><p>My favorite lyric poets, among the ones that I read more often, are John Keats (Nightingale, To Autumn, La Belle Dame, etc.) and William Butler Yeats (The Song of Wandering Aengus, Byzantium, Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Second Coming, etc.). I've memorized many poems by both these bards. As a lyric poet, in my opinion, Shakespeare ranks third, although he is peerless as a dramatic/tragic poet. But I think he was not quite to the manner born when it came to the format and meter of the English sonnet of his time. I've also memorized a lot of his stuff - from his plays. One sonnet of his that I do love, however, is "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes..." I must confess that I have a guilty liking for many poems by "the jingle-jangle man" - Poe, and for his prose too. Among poets born in the 20th century, I like Dylan Thomas, Patrick Kavanagh, and Leonard Cohen. Yeats, Kavanagh and Cohen, curiously enough among poets, just seemed to get better with time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="babysinister, post: 57976, member: 714"] My favorite lyric poets, among the ones that I read more often, are John Keats (Nightingale, To Autumn, La Belle Dame, etc.) and William Butler Yeats (The Song of Wandering Aengus, Byzantium, Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Second Coming, etc.). I've memorized many poems by both these bards. As a lyric poet, in my opinion, Shakespeare ranks third, although he is peerless as a dramatic/tragic poet. But I think he was not quite to the manner born when it came to the format and meter of the English sonnet of his time. I've also memorized a lot of his stuff - from his plays. One sonnet of his that I do love, however, is "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes..." I must confess that I have a guilty liking for many poems by "the jingle-jangle man" - Poe, and for his prose too. Among poets born in the 20th century, I like Dylan Thomas, Patrick Kavanagh, and Leonard Cohen. Yeats, Kavanagh and Cohen, curiously enough among poets, just seemed to get better with time. [/QUOTE]
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