Purely From Curiosity

This was really hard to do, and there are hundreds of other poets I love apart from those named here, but I was just too curious. The order of this list no doubt changes with my daily mood or taste or even needs, but this is the official list of my top 20 favorite poets.

1.       Emily Dickinson

2.      John Milton

3.      William Butler Yeats 

4.      Theodore Roethke

5.       Rainer Maria Rilke

6.      Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

7.      Mathew Arnold

8.      Robert Hayden

9.      Christina Rossetti

10.   Sir Thomas Wyatt

11.   Derek Alton Walcott

12.   Paul Laurence Dunbar

13.   Dylan Marlais Thomas

14.   William Wordsworth

15.   Charles Baudelaire

16.   Sylvia Plath

17.   Hilda Doolittle

18.   Dante Gabriel Rossetti

19.   Wilfred Owen

20.  Arthur Symons

Dickinson and Milton are the only two poets that alternate as my top favorite poet.