by Bragatyr » Fri Apr 11, '14, 5:20 pm
Absolutely, I love poetry. Haven't been reading nearly as much of it as I should lately, except older foreign language stuff (I thought modern English poetry could be tough, than I started reading Hebrew stuff, ha ha). But yeah, totally agree with you, my favorites have always been the Romantics. Coleridge is a fave, Shelley is awesome, I love Keats, and I still really need to get a complete collection of Byron, I've always loved him but just haven't found a good edition of his stuff yet.
I really love Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan, of course, by Coleridge, I remember loving The Witch of Atlas, Prometheus Unbound, and of course Ozymandias by Shelley, and Lamia, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and The Eve of St. Agnes are faves from Keats. I also love some Tennyson, Chaucer is amazing (a lot of anonymous Middle English poetry is great), I love Beowulf from the little Old English I can read.
In the modern era I really like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens. But my favorite modern poet is Dylan Thomas, by far. I tend to like traditional stuff with recognizable meters and that sort, but I'm pretty flexible. You kind of have to be with modern poetry.
But yeah, some of my favorite stuff is non-English, I love Old Norse Eddic poetry, some skaldic stuff, Latin and a little Greek poetry, Ovid is a fave, Catullus is cool, medieval Latin verse is often really beautiful, too. Welsh poetry like in the Mabinogion is very beautiful but often indecipherable, I think that's why Dylan Thomas is so incomprehensible, ha ha.
I do also write poetry, or used to, managed to get one single poem published a few years back, and haven't really written anything since. What kind of stuff are you interested in, Hukos? Who are your faves, and which are your favorite poems, and do you think you might share some poetry here?