EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -
Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
The only other one who has touched me so deeply was ee cummings. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__...oems/14205
Lately I've been reading Blake and Rimbaud, but a friend lent me Borges and I love it.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limits/
Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
The only other one who has touched me so deeply was ee cummings. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__...oems/14205
Lately I've been reading Blake and Rimbaud, but a friend lent me Borges and I love it.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limits/
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