So far I’ve got:
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe
- Walt Whitman
- Allen Ginsberg
- Shel Silverstein
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- D.H. Lawrence
- Luís Vaz de Camóes
- Jim Morrison
- Robert Browning
And a recommendation to read this (formerly) obscure book:
All of this is, of course, for Birds in Beards 2: Dead Poets Edition, a new coloring book for adults. (No matter how great I make it, I don’t think I could ever make it cooler looking than Poets Ranked by Beard Weight.)
Is there a dead poet whom you would like to see drawn with a bird in his beard? If so, it is time now to leave his name in the comments section.
John Berryman: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/berryman/berryman.jpg
Bill Holm: https://flippistarchives.blogspot.com/2008/07/melancholy-quotient.html
I believe Homer had a beard, as does Beardy McBeard, who is alive and tweeting.
If you would like a Swede in your list you could go for Gustafson Fröding. He had a big beard and was a fantastic poet.
Gustaf Frödig did have a great beard: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjl18WL5YvUAhUM5YMKHYwJAswQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGustaf_Fr%25C3%25B6ding&psig=AFQjCNFXc7IGb4q_dO6Ilif8j0uOmFGclg&ust=1495827294523015
Did he write any poems with birds in them?