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Originally Posted by Romantic Raven
You would be, now, wouldn't you? :P
I have to admit, I haven't read anything he's written. And as for Sylvia Plath, I don't admire her or her life, but her poetry is amazing for all its intensity.
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He writes a lot of nature stuff, but not in a romantic, Wordsworth kind of way - it's mostly pretty dark and primal. He was really into the savage side of everything. Plus, he's written two of the few really good love poems I've ever read. His two best-known collections are Birthday Letters (which he wrote about Plath years after she died) and Crow, which is based around this trickster figure he created. He was a huge iconoclast too, and wrote quite a lot of stuff about the Bible, messing with the stories in Genesis. It's interesting shit, I'd recommend checking him out if you're into that kind of thing.
I've always found Plath annoyingly self-indulgent, but that's a personal preference, and she HAS written some good poems.