favorite period

[billy]

which period is your favorite period of poetry.

mines the romantic period. the stuff between Elizabeth Barret Browning and her beau

i particularly like.

how do i love thee, by her

and she walks in beauty, by him

[digna_sofia]

I'm afraid I don't have a particular period that I favor. While I do like the style and theme of romanticism, it does tend towards excessive idealism. 20th century poems were a little more straightforward and realistic, but I felt that too many of them were either defensive or preachy.

I suppose I'm more of style + theme than era? Although I did have a Keats obsession back in high school.

[addy]

I like 20th century poetry, but only because of the diversity in themes and styles.... true poetry is still to a large extent dogmatic in academic/literary circles, but elsewhere poetry has become as thematically rich as any prose

[billy]

like all thing i enjoy.
on a singular level I'm eclectic.
i love poems old and new with as much reverence.
I'm always open to new poems though am pretty stolid in my dislikes of certain poets. never could get to grips with the Snyder, Kerouac and Ginsberg of the beat poetica scene. and yes i know Kerouac wooed a nation, he just never wooed me.

my fave music is northern soul (fast dance music) originating in the north of England during the 60's and Motown, but that doesn't preclude me liking other music that ranges from Acker Bilk's stranger on the shore to George Macreays rock the boat.

so too is my taste in poetry. i love, or should i say enjoy the romantical period but will read anything, given the time and inclination. now and again when advised to read such and such a poet i get lucky. i got lucky reading Stan Rice's hamburger on the say-so of addy and digna. i got equally as lucky reading Sara Teasdale and her especially perfect;
There will come soft rains, well worthy of a read.