# Poets named Robert

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poets-named-robert/323883>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 28, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poets-named-robert/323883 "2005-09-28T17:41:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poets-named-robert/323883/1 "2005-09-28T17:41:19Z")

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Graves, Frost, Browning, Burns, Louis Stevenson …

Any others?

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poets-named-robert/323883/2 "2005-09-28T17:55:48Z")

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Herrick, Service.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poets-named-robert/323883/3 "2005-09-28T18:22:22Z")

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Bly

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poets-named-robert/323883/4 "2005-09-28T18:27:42Z")

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Lowell, Bly, Creely, Pinsky, Southwell, Herrick, Penn Warren, Fitzgerald, Hayden…