<p>does anyone have any suggestions... if you are willing to recommend someone, I would prefer if he/she has plenty of criticism/information readily available, at most libraries. I have so much other homework to do that I am having a difficult time deciding on any specific poet. Yeah, so some recommendations would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Emily Dickinson!
Just because she's the first one that popped into my head.</p>
<p>Or you could always go for one</a> of the classics</p>
<p>Is this a serious, legit research paper or as part of a class? If its the former I would suggest finding someone relatively new or someone who isn't as well known as the Yeats, Plath and Eliot types. The market is already flooded with papers on them so it would be difficult to find some aspect of them that has not already been exhaustingly examined.</p>
<p>Donald Hall or Jane Kenyon</p>
<p>t.s. eliot - there is a ton of criticism over the wasteland at modern american poetry website</p>
<p>T.S. Eliot is awesome, but a bit overdone. Still, there are so many facets to his work I'm sure you could find one that hasn't already been done.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how much criticism or information is available for him, but I'm a fan of Billy Collins. He writes modern poetry that's pretty easy to understand and analyze, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Walt Whitman--I actually wrote like a 25-page "book" (about 20 pages typed single-spaced) on him for an english midterm. they weren't essays but biographies, critiques, etc. I can help if you need it</p>
<p>^ I second Walt Whitman. He's one of my favorite poets of all time.</p>
<p>Whitman is pretty good.</p>
<p>Eliot will just depress you.</p>
<p>I like John Donne...although he would be harder to find material on.</p>
<p>Whitman or Kerousac.</p>
<p>don't go for the obvious poets. check out shamus haney.</p>
<p>Tell a little about yourself.</p>
<p>No man is an island... I like John Donne. </p>
<p>Find someone that agrees with your literary tastes. I'm not much help, since almost all the poets I like write in Spanish. </p>
<p>Or, alternatively, if there's a period of history that you are really interested in/know a lot about, you could pick a poet from that period, so you'd already have a general idea of what was going on during the time period.</p>
<p>Allen Ginsburg and Gregory Corso are also good.</p>
<p>Personally, I really enjoy Corso. He has a free style, interesting poems like "The Mad Yak" and "Marriage" but still has strong messages. You'll have to be sure to really look deeply for them though; he has a way of understating them sometimes.</p>
<p>whitman is wonderful.</p>
<p>and ginsberg or kerouac if you're into the beats. they're simply crazy. and great.</p>