Robert Frost Ogden Nash Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare Edgar Allan Poe T.S. Eliot William Wordsworth Leonard Cohen Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Dickinson
And one of my favourite poems . . .
For Anne
With Annie gone Whose eyes to compare With the morning sun?
Not that I did compare But I do compare Now that she's gone.
- Leonard Cohen
(Kinda felt like my post needed a little pizazz. Maybe she was taken by an alien?)
1. William Blake 2. William Shakespeare 3. Emily Dickinson 4. T.S. Eliot 5. William Butler Yeats 6. Dylan Thomas 7. Robert Burns 8. Edgar Allen Poe 9. ee cummings 10. Charles Bukowski
In no real order of preference, and ten is such a small number when listing our favorites or our major influences. But There you go.
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alexandar pushkin antoan cheeckov shakspeare milton t.s.eliot victor hugo leo tolstoy fedor distovisky henry balzak henerik absen fredrech sheller yohan gotha arnest himngway somerest moum nazar qabany,arab sorry it is my own opion and really thanks for ur useful sharing mrs.shakspeare
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The_Kansan: Robert W. Service W.D. McCrary (my father) S. Omar Barker Waddy Mitchell Baxter Black Edward Louis Henry William Wordsworth Kris Kristofferson Ambrose Bierce James Stewart
Not a lot of people realize Kris is a Rhodes Scholar because of his rugged, country-western appearance. Nevertheless, the man is highly educated and in a classical sense.
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