/lit/ - Literature

Ah, a poet?

I’m sure you’re familiar with these guys:

>Becquer?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Ballask?i
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?

No? Ah, you’re just starting out. Hasn’t the hashing. Inosculate. Nitid Amateurism. Purply prose-proud. You reek of nothing. You are a rendition of another. You will never make it. Avast.

gotta give it up for Poe, especially since he's a Marylander.

is poetry for dorks?

Where should one start?

Is there way to use my alcoholism to make my writing better? As the famous quote goes:
>Write drunk, edit sober
How much truth is in this?

obligatory

Hey, I've been thinking about getting into Poe recently, but for some reason he seems almost obscure on Amazon.co.uk. It's surprisingly difficult to find his works there. Also, the problem is I don't want to invest in buying one of the few collections that are available in case I'm not a 'fan'. How do I proceed?

Thanks.

What the fuck was his problem?

Do you guys like his work, or not?