![]() ![]() He went a bit too far in one poem the lines that brought him fame eventually destroyed his reputation (funny how that works). 1936) The rip-roaring ballad is too rip-roaring for academia-which has taken over poetry in a manner today we can hardly understand and why the barroom music of Rudyard Kipling is an underrated treasure. This entire underrated list includes poets like Amy Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (who wrote a lot more than Shall I Count the Ways? including heaps of dramatic verse and was far more famous than he was when she eloped with Robert), as well as an army of 19th and 20th century women-Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Fanny Osgood, Alice Cary, Anna Hempstead Branch, Elinor Wylie, Dorothy Parker, Ellen Wheeler Wilcox, Lucy Larcom, Emma Enbury, Emma Lazarus, Frances Harper, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Helen Whitman, Genevieve Taggard, Inna Donna Coolbrith, Lydia Sigourney-and the list goes on.ĮIGHT. 1894) Yet another representative of a chorus of neglected females languishing in the shadow of the two average poets who rode the Pound clique to some notoriety among academics-H.D. and Marianne Moore and who certainly rival Bishop, Plath, and Sexton, and clamor for second or third place behind Dickinson and Millay-and one of these is Teasdale, sadly neglected. 1933) There are hundreds of women poets better than H.D. Elizabeth Oakes Smith-poet, women’s rights activist. ![]()
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