Out of all these modern poets, who is the easiest (or easier)to understand and read?

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Matthew Arnold
Elizabeth Bishop
Countee Cullen
Robert Graves
Seamus Heany
Gerard Manley Hopkins
AE Housman
TE Hulme
Marge Piercy
Ezra Pound
Adrienne Rich
Theodore Roethke
Anne Sexton
Jean Toomer

thanks

Answer 1

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Well, probably A. E. Housman.

"Poet and author A. E. Housman captures this feeling of fleeting youth and yet maintains the romantic outlook common to the period through his simplicity of diction, his irony, and his pervading morbidity.
In his writings, Housman used language that was predominately simple and easy to understand. "

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thanks!!!

Answer 2

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Answer 3

Elizabeth Bishop is pretty easy, I'd say.

Answer 4

I agree - AE Housman. An even easier to read and understand modern poet you left out of your list is Leonard Cohen who I highly recommend. Also, you might want to give Sharon Olds a read.