Favorite Poets, Writers, & Authors

Who are your faves of each?
Mine.........

POET: Miya Angelou

WRITER: Edgar Allen Poe- "The Raven"

AUTHOR: Les Brown- "Live Your Dream"
Bill Phillips- "Body For Life"

I just love Oscar Wilde. His plays are good (The Importance of Being Earnest, anyone?) but his little one-liners are amazing. What are those called again, aphorisms?

Jane Austen is a favorite, as is Shakespeare. (Duh.)

Joyce Carol Oates has some awesome short stories. I love short stories.

Hmmm can't think of anyone else crucial at the moment.

Shakespeare, Hamlet -

This most excellent canopy the air, look you, this mighty o'rehanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire; why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in aprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, this paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust. Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, nor women neither

No one beats the poetry of John Donne. He is excellent.


As for writing, I'm a fan of mysteries, so I like James Patterson, John Sandford, and John Grisham.

As far as authors go, I have always enjoyed the Bronte sisters. Although I do enjoy the stories written by my friend Guy.

Poets: Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickenson.. there's more, too many to list.

Authors: Stephen King, Kathleen Eagle, Ray Bradbury, Walter Dean Myers, Jackie French Koller, and more..

I also enjoy well-written historical non-fiction, such as "Band of Brothers", by Stephen Ambrose, "Indian Givers" by Jack Weatherford, and "Seabiscuit", by Laura Hillenbrand.

Other non-fiction:

Iyanla Van Zant, Deepak Chopra, Dwayne Dyer, and the like.

poet...SYLVIA PLATH....WOOOOOOW

WRITER...CURRENTLY(LIVING)...JOHN IRVINGGGGG

Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Writer: Banana Yoshimoto

Author: Amy Tan, John Irving


...just off the top of my head.