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Robert Browning because that's the only name I know of from that whole list and he and his wife did quite well.
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Ted Hughes and Robert Browning although I do like the women too.
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Sylvia Plath (actually Sylvia Plath out of all four - Ariel (the collection) is a real masterpiece) And Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/288.html (that's a recent discovery of mine) I could never get into Elizabeth Barret Browning's stuff somehow.
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Sylvia Plath and Robert Browning. Plath wrote a really good short story that I studied.
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Sylvia Plath hands down. She is my favourite poet of all time. I prefer Elizabeth Barrett's works but Browning's works are great as well.
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Plath all the way.
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While Plath was genius in many works, she was brought down countlessly by her dim view of inter-relational situations. She was terribly self-centered, unable to see beyond her own life, and that doomed her to death. the Brownings, on the other-hand, managed a marriage (read the letters reading up to said consummation) that united two of the 19th century's most pioneering poets--one a feminist, and one an experimental artiste, both consistently excellent. Read Aurora Leigh or the Ring and the Book and put that against anything Hughes or Plath wrote and you'll see Brownings were on a different plane in terms of relational creativity. Still, I love Plath, but Brownings did more for poetry than Plath did, therefore, I pick Brownings.
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I haven't read Hughes. Plath's poems are first rate. "Daddy" is a killer. I prefer Bob to Liz. How many lines of E.B.Browning's poetry can you quote besides "How do I love thee, let me count the ways?"
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