Influences

[camus]

Some of my influences:

The Smiths, Philip Larkin, Bob Dylan, Victoria Wood, Derek and Clive, Alan Bennett, Simon Armitage, John Cooper Clarke, Albert camus, Walter Mosely, Roger McGough, George Orwell, Dostoyevsky, Carl Sandburg, Simon Armitage, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owen, Truman Capote, The Velvet Underground.

Another jumbled list, hurrah.

Shit its 2.45 am and I have a long long fence to paint in the morning.

[pseud]

Good topic of discussion

Mine are (Shakespeare and Dante givens):

Neil Peart, Roger Waters, Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, George Orwell, William Golding, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Lennon, Mark Knopfler, Douglas Adams, Alexander Pope, James Joyce, Billy Joel, James Taylor, George Herbert, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Kerry Livgrin, Aldous Huxley...

[pseud]

*Christopher Marlowe should be added to the list of givens, I suppose.

It appears you and I are the only influenced people camus. Everyone else, 100% original. Fascinating.

[camus]

Man I could easily add to the list. I guess they just can't be bothered.

Reverse psychology, see them contribute like tired badgers.

[cameron]

Lao Tzu, Andy Warhol, David Nobbs, Rodin, Evelyn Waugh, Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, Swift, Shelley, Sidney Grapes, Tolkien, Stella Gibbons, Harold Pinter, Beckett, Dali, Munch, Hughes, Lakin, Betjeman, Heaney, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Roger Waters, Monty Python, Spike Milligan, Van Gogh, Arnold Wesker, John Osbourne, Shaw, Shakespeare, Tom Sharpe, William Golding, John Le Carre, The Smiths, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, The Kipper Family, John Sullivan, David Renwick, Croft/Perry, Curtis/Elton, Clements/Le Frenais, Eliot, Hardy, MacNeice, Chuang Tzu, Roald Dahl, James Joyce, Graham Greene, The Goodies, Douglas Adams, Woody Allen, Billy Connolly, David Bowie, Peter Reading, Adrian Mitchell, Douglas Dunn, John Cooper Clarke, Scott FitzGerald, Yeats, Whitman, Picasso, Henry Moore, Sylvia Plath, Tony Harrison, ALan Watts, Peter Sellars, Graham Swift, Joni Mitchell and Arthur Miller.

Well you did ask (not so tired badger after all)

Cam

[alex69williams]

Mine's Beyonce!!

[camus]

LOL,

The goodies. The giant cat one is a classic.

[pseud]

Peter Sellars

classic...good choice cam.

[Bombadil]

Tolkien, Heaney, Thoreau, Plath, cummings, Dickinson, Dostoevsky, Achebe, Allende, Twain, Neruda, Counting Crows, and some guy named Pound.

[Sean Kinsella]

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Wiliam Wordsworth, William Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas.

Also Poe for his gloriously inspired:-

"Is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream?"

Brilliant...It's used as the header theme for one of John Carpenter's films.

BEST REGARDS
SEAN KINSELLA

[Bombadil]

shit...I forgot Bob.

please forgive me.

[pseud]

and what about bob?

[cameron]

Keith, just to let you know that Pablo Neruda will be the next one to get the Poets' Graves treatment.

It was a bit spooky the other night. As I was thinking about Neruda, while drinking a glass of red wine, I suddenly noticed that the bottle in question was from Isla Negra in Chile - the place where Neruda is buried. Strange but true.

Cam

[twelveoone]

T.S. Eliot (too much so)
Ezra Pound (more for his writing on, than his poetry)
Baltimore (the city, for one dead, the other living)
Jacques Derrida (who served as a starting point for my lunacy)
Dan Schneider (an excellent web site, that I read every day)
of course Keats and Yeats and Coleridge
some guy, name of Billy Ess- but more for his plays
the Longfellow of my youth, the Rossetti twins,
that Browning guy, that Byron guy - they had their days
and if I may - Hart Crane, Federico
Garcia Lorca - throw in a couple of gays,
but, but, most of all
Lou Reed

[twelveoone]

Marlon Brando?
pls expound Cam.

[Bombadil]

shite...

Cam,

Thank you thank you thank you for adding Neruda to the site. Mea maxima culpa if I hadn't said so before.

Cheers,

Keith

[cameron]

1201 .. the way he washes his head in Apocalypse Now.

Cam

[Aurora]

This is a great topic you started.Here's my contributing post.

Literary influences(they are long and varied):

Shakespeare,Milton,Dante,Spenser,Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley,Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin,John Keats,Byron,
S.T Coleridge,Wordsworth,Christina Rossetti,Emily Dickenson,Bronte sisters,Sylvia Plath,Seamus Heaney,Dylan Thomas,Anne Sexton,Adrienne Rich,Margaret Atwood,W.H Auden,W.B Yeats,George Orwell,Arthur Miller,Tolstoy,Tennyson,James Joyce,Robert Frost,Robert Browning,
Rudyard Kipling and Australian poets Les Murray and Judith Wright.

I don't have one defined style or era which I discriminately love as I like to read both modern and historic poets.There's probably a few more I haven't listed here,but this little list shall do for now.

[twelveoone]

1201 .. the way he washes his head in Apocalypse Now.

Cam

Thank you

I figured it was either that or
"Hey Johnny what are you rebeling against?''
"What have you got"

Hey, can I add Brando?
Tennyson, too, I had to recite a poem in grade school,
Yeh, Volleyed and Thundered, and all that cal