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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.
Sylvia Plath and Robert Browning. Plath wrote a really good short story that I studied.
Ted Hughes and Robert Browning although I do like the women too.
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?"
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.
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.
Plath all the way.
Robert Browning because that's the only name I know of from that whole list and he and his wife did quite well.
What is a credo poem?
by Answerbag Staff on May 18th, 2010
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by Death Note57 on December 5th, 2011
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Romantic poetry differed from Romantic novels in what way?
by Welder23 on September 22nd, 2011
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Can I see/hear some of your own personally written poetry?
by Unicorn Man on October 31st, 2011
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Does anyone else write poetry when they are hurting? It is an outlet for me...
by Nancy is really struggling right now... on November 21st, 2011
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You're reading Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath? Elizabeth Barrett or Robert Browning?
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