do you have a favorite poet or a favorite book of poems?

I have a very old book of poetry by local authors. But I can't remember anyones name lol.
I love Dr. Suess though. He came up with the best words.

Edgar Allan Poe definitely. Annabel Lee is one of my favorites. I memorized The Raven, I think. Well, I memorized a few random, scattered stanzas.

But Annabel Lee is so... I dunno. I like that poem a lot.

Theodore Roethke has a book of poetry out called "Words for the Wind: Poems of Theodore Roethke".

It's fantastic :]

I'm currently reading "The Courtship of Miles Standish". The original copy has a few dates, but the newest was 1888. Not a typo. Over 100 years old. Used as someone's textbook in 1907 and even though the actual poetry (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) is in public domain now I do believe, the version I have has all kinds of annotations at the bottom which help explain things, for example the names of people aren't random, it is an embellished biographical incident of the Puritian Pilgrims once they settled in Massachusetts Bay.

Robert Frost ftw! I loved the poem in The Outsiders... "Nature's first green is gold," Brilliant.

so i finally got the names of my poetry books :P took me long enough. all of them are very old, like falling apart old.

so here goes

POEMS
- john greenleaf whittier (hardcover)

complete tuppers poetical works
- martin tupper (written in 1862) (hardcover)

POE
- edgar allan poe (hardcover)

poems and essays (HOWE)
- the hon, joseph howe (written in 1874) (hardcover)

immortal poems of the english language
- oscar williams (soft cover)
this one has poetry from 150 different poets

i'm going to try to find out when the others were made, i'm interested in seeing how old they really are.

I've always loved Edgar A. Poe, and I especially love the wide variety of poetic devices he used in "The Raven" and the singsong-y rhythms he used in a lot of his other poems. I also have a fondness for Emily Dickens.

The Raven was the first poem I memorized, when I was 10 or so.. I was really into Poe and Dickenson. Then it was T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland." And then I became obsessed with beat poetry.. and Harlem renaissance stuff. There are a ton of poets I like nowadays. :oops:

I still love Emily Dickenson. :heart:

I would have to say that Poe is one of my favorite poets

My favorite poets would have to be Robert Browning and Sir Walter Scott =)