Top Ten Favorite Poets
My stepmom has a niece who is a published poet. I read some of her poetry, and I just didn’t get it. Some of the imagery was…interesting. But I have rather low-brow tastes. I like rhyming. I like cornball. I like to have my emotions manipulated. So don’t expect all of the poets on my list to have achieved critical acclaim or even to be people you hadn’t thunk about before. Just maybe you’ll find someone here who can make your day a little brighter or tug at the heart strings a bit. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Service
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Guest
Edna St. Vincent Millay
G.K. Chesterton
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anne Bradstreet
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
March 14th, 2003 at 6:06 am
I like your list! Back in November I read a book of Anne Bradstreet’s that consisted chiefly of her letters and journal entries and copied into my journal a quote of hers written to her 8 children: "It pleased God to keep me a long time without a child, which was a great grief to me, and cost me many prayers and tears before I obtained one, and after him gave me many more, of whom I now take the care, that as I have brought you into the world, and with great pains, weakness, cares and fears brought you to this, I now travail in birth again of you till Christ be formed in you."
March 14th, 2003 at 9:04 pm
What book was it??!!
What a great quote…I’m copying it into my journal, too. Ok, Laura, did you miss the part where I asked for people’s favorite quotes? Better cough up some more ;-).