Just discovered the poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley...

[Green_Lantern]

Can't believe what I've been missing out on. It's really good, I never thought of poetry as being interesting before.

[CTyankee]

1. Hope you will also sample John Keats, one of my favorites.

The Romantic English poets are so interesting. What an interesting era, too. I had a grad school course titled "Romanticism in the Arts of the 19th Century" and it encompassed poetry, art and music. Quite a course! I did my major paper in that course on Keats' "Ode to a Nightengale." I still revere that poem...

[Green_Lantern]

2. Keats is pretty good but I really like Gothic writers...

Like Anne Rice so I find Shelley pretty interesting.

[CTyankee]

3. Yep, Keats is more "classical."

I remember reading that Shelley drowned with a book of Keats poetry in his pocket. Those Romantics were onto something...or,in addition, ON something (I think laudenum was the drug de jour for these guys)...

[EFerrari]

5. They sure did think a lot of themselves. Miltonian.

But not as stiff as the other guys. :)

[Green_Lantern]

6. Shelley was a genius though..very inquisitive guy...

Good taste in women too.

[elleng]

7. 'On 8 July 1822,

less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner, Don Juan. Shelley claimed to have met his Doppelgänger, foreboding his own death.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

Recent, about Lerici, fyi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/travel/20next.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Lerici&st=cse

[WinkyDink]

9. Percy's wife wasn't a bad "Gothic" writer, either. ;-)

[elehhhhna]

4. you going to sell them?

lol cracking myself up

[WinkyDink]

8. You just didn't have me as your teacher! :-)

[gmoney]

10. An inspiring reading...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NLz3fEWinI

[nytemare]

11. My favorite poem - Music when soft voices die

MUSIC, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

[UTUSN]

12. There is SO much to discover: all the ancients CERVANTES, HOMER much more n/t

[Odin2005]

13. I like TS Eliot.

Yes, he was a conservative douchebag, but he was a great poet.