Who are your favorite poets? All languages welcome.
O'Hara. The only man to make New York desirable.
Not favorite but his poems have a perfection I can't explain. Everytime I am surprised by what I find at the end of the verse and everytime I am certain it can't be any other way.
Keats in English, for his references to mythology and rich prose regarding nature. And perhaps it’s a cliché choice for Russian, but Pushkin. Reciting his poetry is sweeter than honey in one’s mouth; and I love his discussions of chivalry and heartbreak, the seasons, religion, the Russian soul. He really does embody the Golden Age.
William McGonagall has a special place in my heart, he's so babygirl.
Seamus Heaney. Is 'Digging' the most artful poem ever written? Not by a long shot. Is it the most forceful claim ever made to a vocation? It may be. This poem is a stake in the ground; a manifesto that mandated the lifetime that it entailed.
Recommend 'Casualty' or 'Clearances' among more mature works.
I was looking at beowulf in the original old english and am just amazed at the time it must have took.
> Wyrce se þe mote domes ær deaþe Þæt bið drihtguman, unlifgendum, æfter selest
Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.
bros, the d sounds in 'domes ær deaþe
Þæt bið drihtguman' are perfect.
Does anyone have any modern english alliterative poems they like?
I'm the person who made the miami thread, the poetry festival they hold every year was really great, and they have their own publishings too
omiami(.)org