(March 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm)bozo Wrote:(March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am)dagda Wrote: No offence, but I think it is rather mediocre. Personally, I perfer Byron, Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Blake, Burns and even Edgar Alan Poe. Frost, Shakespeare and the 1st World War poets are really good too, but I have to be in the mood.
That brings up another subject; who is everyones favorite poet? Mine is Lord Byron.
Shelley.
Not for his lyrical poems but for his political stuff. He was a revolutionary and early socialist.
His epic " Queen Mab " does it for me.
I have to say, I do like Shelley. I prefer The Mask of Anarchy to Queen Mab right enough. In my opinion, Shelley is not given enough recognition as the brilliant poet. One of the great tradgeties of the English lanuage.
