Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-lerbert • Langston Hughes • Ikkyu • Robinson Jeffers • John Keats • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • Philip Larkin • Li Po • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Robert Lowell • Heather McHugh • W. S. Met-win • Edna St. Vi

Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-lerbert • Langston Hughes • Ikkyu • Robinson Jeffers • John Keats • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • Philip Larkin • Li Po • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Robert Lowell • Heather McHugh • W. S. Met-win • Edna St. Vi

Louise Gliáck • Thomas Gray • Thomas Hardy • Robert Hass • Seamus Heaney • Zbigniew I-lerbert • Langston Hughes • Ikkyu • Robinson Jeffers • John Keats • Kenneth Koch • Stanley Kunitz • Philip Larkin • Li Po • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Robert Lowell • Heather McHugh • W. S. Met-win • Edna St. Vi

l myself a poet, since that’s already a tad vainglorious. For better or verse, I’m a Jack of that trade too. The true poets in my pantheon begin with Keats and Masefield. I haven’t found a clear choice for third. There are awesome things in Milton, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Emily, Houseman, Robinson, D