/lit/ - Literature

It's time.

>muh rainbow

Can we agree that he (Keats) is the greatest poet ever?

>muh rainbow

Sup lit.

I just coughed up a little bit of blood I think. Does this mean I can be a great poet now? Or will I most likely just die in my sleep.


It could just be chili that I ate earlier mixed with some mucus though because it stopped now.

A few of my favourites:

>A Vision - John Clare
>Dover Beach- Matthew Arnold
>The North Ship - Larkin (Although it's more the poems which follow it but are still part of the same story. Can't find them online though)
Canto nottore di un pastore errante dell'Asia - Leopardi
Consalvo - Leopardi
The Second Coming - Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium - Yeats
Ode to a Nightingale - Keats
The Poet - Tennyson

>>3089153
Oh not masses. Not pretending to be a poetry buff by any means but i've got a few anthologies of the 'western canon'... maybe some Auden, like Musee des Beaux Arts:
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

Gives a pretty strong sense of 'existential loneliness'.

Also that other Auden, '...stop all the clocks,' if only for that one line.

Er, Keate's Ode to a Grecian Urn....http://www.bartleby.com/101/625.html gives a real sense of the scale of time and our insignificance..amongst other stuff. Just feel it's a beautiful thing.

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>>3052234

I dunno, we could just call it Keats

Second Generation English Romantics>First Generation English Romantic Poets

Wordsworth and Coleridge were definitely important in sort of working out the theory of Romantic poetry, but Keats, Shelley, and Byron were much better poets.

Keats alone wrote such beautiful poetry.

I find it so heartwarming to read of sincere appreciation for another human being.

From Keats' "To my Brother George"

As to my sonnets, though none else should heed them,
I feel delighted, still, that you should read them.

Tell me why you don't think John Keats is the boss of the all romantic poetry.