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Id just like to see what u guys like in books. So ill ask u this.
Whos ur favorite Author or Poet.

Id have to go with Edgar Allen Poe personally or C.S. Lewis
THEY ROCK

I think there is already a thread like this but I guess we'll see.

I don't really have a favorite author. But I can say that if the two of my friends actually continue with their storylines and such they will certinally be my favorite authors ^^;

Favorite poet is pretty much the same, though I do love Frost and Longfellow. But if you want absolute favorite over all else and not worldly know yet ... that'll be one of my friends mentioned above who is also a very inactive member here (Drackner). Don't know what I'm going to do with him.

^^;

Author: The Holy Spirit.

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Ted Dekker. Suspense, baby.

Hmm... I think we do have a thread like this somewhere... Oh well...

For me, that would be either Poe or Lawhead or Eddings.

Now there's an ecclectic mix...

Favourite poet - Edgar Allen Poe
Favourite author - Oscar Wilde

Franz Kafka is definitly my favorite author. Not sure about poets though... i'll have to think about that some more

-Daniel

With regards to prose, I'd have to say that Kurt Vonnegut is my all time favourite author.

As far as poets go, Yeats is one of may favourites but there's quite a few that I like, especially among the Romantics.

mine is a toss up between Timathy Zhan (THrawn Trilogy) and Lawence Yep (Dragon's Gate/ Dragon Wings)

My favorite poet is Homer (as in the ancient Greek epic poet), and my favorite prose author is David S. Landes.

Yessss! I get the first to say J.R.R. Tolkien!! *posts before someone else does*

Tolkien's was not only a great author, but a magnificent poet as well. He has a whole index in LotR soley for all the poems/songs found in the books! And there are many memorable songs in The Hobbit and The Silmarillion as well. He even wrote poems in Elvish, the language that he made up o.o

Favorite Author is probably John Grisham. He's cool. As for favorite poet....Hmm. I don't read much poetry, so none..

Poets that I think are brilliant at either presenting truth, or evaluating society and culture, who could turna phrase into a thing of beauty, and could make something commonplace seem devine. Here are a few...
Poets:

- John Donne - Once he got over his "love" poems, he wrote some of the most insightful Christian poems I've found. Read some of the Holy Sonnets sometime.

- William Butler Yeats - Here's a fabulous example of someone who could make words beautiful. I don't know that I agree much with his personal mythology, but some of my favorites of his work are "When You Are Old," "The Circus Animal's Desertion" (that one is the best ever!), "The Second Coming," and "Sailing to Byzantium." Pretty cool stuff.

- Wilfred Owen - A painter of word pictures who wrote of the horrors of WWI, he leaves images that remain unendingly. Read absolutely, no questions asked "Dulce Et Decourum Est" (and no, it's not all in latin)

- T. S. Eliot - I think of all the poetry I've read, Eliot's is the most memorable, leaves the greatest impression, and seems the most carefully crafted. Incredible. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Preludes," can't remember the others. Anything after he became a Christian.

I think that will do it for me here.

Another favourite that I'd forgotten: Charles DeLint. The books are essentially urban fantasies with an interweaving of Celtic and Indian myhtologies.

favorite author- mary higgins clark or john grisham
favorite poet- emily dickinson or robert frost

I don't think I have any favorite.... There is so many to like...

maybe CS Lewis because of the Narnia books

Favourite Poet: Edgar Allen Poe

ConvoyButterfly - I absolutely LOVE Mary Higgins Clark's books. ^_^ She's such an engaging author.

Spirit Wolf - Tamora Peirce is a great author as well...I loved her Song of the Lioness series. LOL...that's the series that spawned my nickname Lady Ninja. OH! Since you love wolves, you might enjoy the book "Through Wolf's Eyes" by Jane Lindskold.

I'm a big fan of Poe, Jack London, Shakespere, and H.G. Wells

I'm gonna have to jump on the bandwagon with Poe for poetry, don't know why but creepy peoms about demonicesque birds entertain me, and for books, whew thats tough, i guess i'd have to officially go with... shesh i'm gonna have to go by category to actually pick anyone but i guess humor-Douglas Adams, fantasy-C.S. Lewis, scifi-Ray bradberry, history-um who ever wrote "daughter of time" good book thats all i can think of now

Hmm...non-fiction: Watchman Nee and Elizabeth Elliot
Fiction-- Mindy Starns Clark, Linda Chaikin
Poet-- Amy Carmichael..her poems are awesome :c)

Good night Poe is popular! I never would have guessed he was the poet of choice for everyone here. Oh well. He's cool. Maybe just not my type of subject matter, that's all.

i really couldnt say (that took me forever to type) anyhoo. They are all good all though............i like a lot of manga authors like clamp and all but there are too many good writers. Some who have multiple stories have good and bad ones. but i guess i could say that i never really hate them...just dont really aprove you know? ok well thats all i have to say...peace out!
-Meeh >")> (hey look its kirby!)

Oh, another one of my favorite poets is Shel Silverstein. I just love his books ^_^