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Great Wyrm

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I'm willing to bet that most people who write poetry can point to a poet (other than themselves) and say that person is their favorite.

Mine is probably Thoreau, but then, I have a soft spot for nature poetry, and I think Walden is wonderful.

How about the rest of you?
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It's hard for me to nail down a specific favorite. I generally tend to think of older poets, as they're the ones we're all taught in school, so I'd have say my favorite is probably Poe, since I like the fact that he was a darker side in classes full of nature stuff.
On the other hand though, I do enjoy Milton's Paradise Lost ...
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I don't really have a favorite. There isn't one person whose stuff I like enough (overall) to call a favorite; rather, I live a couple of poems by a lot of different poets.
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I find that two works which bring out the master of expression and emotions, are Tennyson's
'In Memorium' and then 'Death of Arthur'.
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Much of Sylvia Plath, W.H.Auden, and perhaps one that I regard as the Rockwell of the written word...Edgar Guest.
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