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"What poets do you have on your shelves? For the purposes of this list, they should be there by your choice (as opposed to being texts for courses, etc) and be either the collected or selected works of one single poet (anthologies and collections do not count, nor do Selections from Works which include, but do not consist exclusively of, poetry)."
Homer
William Shakespeare
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Butler Yeats
Does Dr. Seuss count as a poet? I was going to include Don Marquis, but I must have given my copy of "Archy and Mehitabel" to my mother.
My list is paltry compared to my English major mother. She adores the Beats and the Lost Generation, so her list would definitely be longer and probably more American than mine. Her shelves are filled with Ferlinghetti and Kerouac and Plath and their ilk.
I seem to prefer the Brits. I actually blame my Yeats and Tennyson interests squarely on Babylon 5. I can't hear "Ulysses" without thinking of Sinclair. Or "Second Coming" without feeling a shadow over my shoulder.
EDIT: How could I forget TS Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"? I used to know "Macavity" and parts of "The Naming of Cats" by heart.
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suricattus via marinarusalka"What poets do you have on your shelves? For the purposes of this list, they should be there by your choice (as opposed to being texts for courses, etc) and be either the collected or selected works of one single poet (anthologies and collections do not count, nor do Selections from Works which include, but do not consist exclusively of, poetry)."
Homer
William Shakespeare
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Butler Yeats
Does Dr. Seuss count as a poet? I was going to include Don Marquis, but I must have given my copy of "Archy and Mehitabel" to my mother.
My list is paltry compared to my English major mother. She adores the Beats and the Lost Generation, so her list would definitely be longer and probably more American than mine. Her shelves are filled with Ferlinghetti and Kerouac and Plath and their ilk.
I seem to prefer the Brits. I actually blame my Yeats and Tennyson interests squarely on Babylon 5. I can't hear "Ulysses" without thinking of Sinclair. Or "Second Coming" without feeling a shadow over my shoulder.
EDIT: How could I forget TS Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"? I used to know "Macavity" and parts of "The Naming of Cats" by heart.
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Date: 2003-10-20 08:37 am (UTC)W.H. Auden
James Merrill
Seamus Heaney
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Dorothy Parker
Conrad Aiken
Robert Bridges
T.S. Eliot
H.D.
Elizabeth Bishop
W.S. Merwin
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Keats
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Those are all of the single-author poetry books I own that I can think of off the top of my head. I also have many, many themed collections (medieval poetry, Beat poets, love poetry, Oxford Anthologies (Narrative Verse, Lyric Verse, etc.)) and general anthologies (Norton's British Literatue I&II, Modern Poetry, American Literature, and World Literature).
If I ever get the book collection organized, I will have to do some shelving by subject. Poetry, cookbooks, miscellaneous nonfiction, fiction, writing, crafts, mythology and religion, travel and landscapes, art, history, and so forth.