I know a good amount about poetry and poets, I have had to study it in my pursuit of an English degree, but my focus has always been on prose and I admittedly don’t read that much poetry. Its opacity has always put me off (at least, the opacity of poetry highly regarded in academic circles).

Of the poets I’m more familiar with, my favorite is probably T. S. Eliot. Mainly because I’ve actually gone in depth analyzing a number of his poems for college courses and it made me appreciate them more (it probably had the opposite effect on me in high school).

So who is your favorite poet?

Topics: English, poetry, reading, literature, poets