Saturday, 3 May 2014

Bank Holiday Special - Top 100 Poets

Top Favourite Poets of mine, quite obviously once you take a look.

They are the first 100 names I thought of and then the first 45 have been put in some sort of order and then the rest is in no particular order. I'm sure I have forgotten some quite important names but they can't be that important, or candidates for the Top 20 if I still hadn't thought of them once I'd put in Dante, who I have only read in the O'Brien version, for example. It started to become difficult. You don't know how hard it can be.
It just goes to show how futile list making can be but it was interesting for a while.

Thom Gunn
Philip Larkin
John Donne
W. H. Auden
William Shakespeare
Ovid
T.S. Eliot
Sylvia Plath
Sean O'Brien
Thomas Hardy
Seamus Heaney
Andrew Marvell
August Kleinzahler
Edward Thomas
Tony Harrison
John Keats
Fulke Greville
e.e. cummings
Thomas Wyatt
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paul Muldoon
Julia Copus
Elizabeth Bishop
Derek Mahon
Anon Wulf and Eadwacer
Ted Hughes
Horace
W.B. Yeats
Alfred Tennyson
Louis MacNeice
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Martin Mooney
David Harsent
Carol Ann Duffy
Andrew Motion
Alun Lewis
Roddy Lumsden
John Betjeman
Don Paterson
Catullus
Michael Daugherty
Douglas Dunn
Charles Baudelaire
Tibullus
John Burnside
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Matthew Arnold
Timothy Steele
Wislawa Symborska
Mina Loy
Percy Shelley
Adrienne Rich
Glyn Maxwell
Paul Durcan
Christopher Marlowe
Philip Sidney
Richard Wilbur
Kathleen Jamie
Petrarch
Dante Aligheri
Craig Raine
Stuart A. Paterson 
Wilfred Owen
Simon Armitage
Colette Bryce
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Juvenal
James Fenton
Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Donaghy
Ian Duhig
Robert Lowell
Dylan Thomas
R.S. Thomas
A.E. Housman
George Szirtes
Ruth Padel
John Cooper-Clarke
Donald Davie
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Ben Jonson
Kathryn Simmonds
Geoffrey Hill
Marianne Moore
William Wordsworth
Francois Villon
Ivor Gurney
Stevie Smith
Tom Paulin
Sue Hubbard
William Langland
George Herbert
Robert Frost
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Wendy Cope
Sinead Morrissey
Weldon Kees
Michael Longley
Michael Drayton
John Clare