My 5 Favorite Poets

A rather awkward and at times ungrammatical video about my favorite poets and why you should read poetry. Not like, "it's your moral duty!!!," more like "it's really cool you know, I think you should try it."

If you want to dive into the works of the poets I mention in the video (here listed in alphabetical order), here are some good starting points as sold on Amazon. (I'm an affiliate, so if you click these links you'll help me pay my books!):
Robert Browning: http://amzn.to/1OVeaIx
Robert Frost: http://amzn.to/1nlppn3
(and since we're at it, Kendall's The Art of Robert Frost is an awesome and totally accessible book of analysis on many of Frost's most famous works: http://amzn.to/1nlprvs )
GM Hopkins: http://amzn.to/1OVehDK
Wallace Stevens: http://amzn.to/1OVeiaY
(a good reader's guide (and trust me, you'll need one AND you still won't get his poems, but it's still all worth it) is Cook's: http://amzn.to/1nlpBmm )
WB Yeats: http://amzn.to/1nlpNlN
(Ellman's The Man and the Masks is an excellent critical biography that is short and addictive, although a bit too unkind with Yeats' early works: http://amzn.to/1OVes25 )

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