Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard for its humanity.
Percy Byshshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound--the fact that it was rebellion and not reform, as he said, "Didactic poetry is my abhorrence."
The Nonsense Poets--they where the only happy poets in the 20th century.
Langston Hughes.
William Butler Yeats--because he managed to be passionate about faeries and political causes.
D.H.Lawrence--for his leaping conclusions about life that left you breathless and smug about despair; not because they were necessarily valid, but because they were beautiful.
e. e. cummings--trite, I know.
Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas.
Eudora Welty--local color as universal as it gets.
Edna St. Vincent Millay--her lyricism.
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