poll: the greatest era for English poetry

[Magpie]

I've loved Wordsworth since I was about 17 when I first read 'Lines Composed on Westminster Bridge' and then when I heard about his 'Intimations Ode' I knew it would be the poem for me, it blew me away. I suppose that its ideas and thoughts appealed to a younger me more than the cynic that I've become but it's still a beautiful poem in every way. And although Wordsworth was technically brilliant he wasn't as mystically brilliant as Blake. As for Blake, he's up there with his fellow artists/poet Michelangelo as one of the all time great creators. He was single minded, mystic and somewhat mad and this all contributed to his unbelievable genius. I've read the story about how he looked out the window one day and God was looking back at him or how he saw Angels in trees. He chose the best characters for his poems and art, characters that in the hands of most poets would be terrible cliches, you can't get better leads than God and the Devil, it's just what you do with them. I just so happened to buy another Blake book from the second hand shop the other day so am currently lost in his beautiful mythology at the moment.

However that all said I voted for post WW2 poetry and that is mostly down to Ginsburg, Hughes and Plath, they changed my views on poetry forever.