tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16962681.post1259631383778154472..comments2023-12-28T22:56:36.259+00:00Comments on Owsblog...: Opinionated observation...Span Owshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10144861546996033462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16962681.post-82762009310546394172010-04-24T07:08:27.716+01:002010-04-24T07:08:27.716+01:00I know lists are always subjective anyway but your...I know lists are always subjective anyway but your response shows what a great library of poets we have in this country. I have 'local' connections with both Shelley and Hardy of course. <br /><br />Robert Browning came to mind as soon as I had pressed the 'post' button and of course The Rime (not rhyme) Of The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge is astonishing and meets the criteria for people who think poetry should always ryhme (with an h).Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15984687997030721919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16962681.post-41914075057499333462010-04-23T22:36:40.776+01:002010-04-23T22:36:40.776+01:00You have put me to shame; you're right of cour...You have put me to shame; you're right of course and there probably a good deal more to ad to not make a lot of people's top 20 or more! I was getting carried away with so many literary nmaes born/died on 23rd April! <br /><br />Heres some more...from memory and in not the order or particular favourites (and even some not English!): William Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, 'Pisco Sour' Shelley, Edmund Spenser, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris. <br /><br />T. S. Eliot (OK, he started as a yank! And by complete coincidence I commented on 'The Hollow Men in the Gaurdian today!) W. H. Auden (who did the opposite swap to Eliot re citizenship, Dylan Thomas (boyo), Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis...Re Brooke I know your preferred Sassoon from the Remembrance Day posts. There's aslo Wilfred Owen.<br /><br />And to add to my shame I hadn't even considered modern poets. I did "Poets of our Time" at school and really enjoyed it (along with Romeo and Juliet amongst other things in Eng Lit, got an A!!!) Ted Hughes and John Betjeman (they're "modern" but not as per your Ben Zeph modern! but they're the ones I most remember)<br /><br />May 6th...hehehehe...bring it on!Span Owshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144861546996033462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16962681.post-11670531071429124302010-04-23T20:36:50.877+01:002010-04-23T20:36:50.877+01:00"William Wordsworth and Rupert Brooke - both ..."William Wordsworth and Rupert Brooke - both surely in anyone's Top Ten (or even Top 5!) English poets -"<br /><br />I wouldn't have either to be honest. Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Gray, Benjamin Zephaniah, Rudyard Kipling and Lord George Gordon Byron would be the Top 5 followed by A E Housman, Milton, Donne, Shakespeare and Keats.<br /><br />I agree with a lot of the rest of your piece apart from May 6th - that's just being silly!Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15984687997030721919noreply@blogger.com