Read Shakespeare and Milton and all of the rest Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth are some of the best Read Ted Hughes and Sylvia, Motion, Duffy They say what I want to say better than me
Read Homer and Ovid, Basho and Su **** Chaucer and Boccaccio they've stood the test Read Donne, Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson and Raleigh Read Shakespeare and Milton and all of the rest
Read Swift, Pope, Blake, Tennyson, and Rossetti The two Barrett Brownings are of interest For feelings romantic as true as can be Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth are some of the best
Read Larkin and Betjeman if you're depressed Read Wendy Cope to enjoy all of life's zest Yes please don't think I despise modernity Read Ted Hughes and Sylvia, Motion, Duffy
And how about all those I haven't addressed Yeats, Auden, Joyce, Longfellow, Poe and Shelley And all of the others I'm bound to have missed They say what I want to say better than me
But what of the poet, with poets obessed? In prose I am prolix, in speech stuttery: So where will you find my emotions expressed? On MySpace, on Twitter, read my poetry It says what I want to say