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Ok but who are everybody’s unproblematic faves? Are there any?
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Robert Frost, as far as I know. Probably Hopkins too.
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I think Frost had some dark secrets
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Dark secrets as in depression and family problems? Or like Nazi sympathizing?
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Family I think. Maybe just tragedy. I shouldn’t speculate
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Realized I’d uncharacteristically left out Dr Johnson and Auden
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Auden not without his sordid stuff but also deliberately kept quiet about many good works which I think tips him into the “good one” column
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a tweet that still lives in my head: in the eyes of the Lord, we’re all problematic faves.