/lit/ - Literature

>>22233205
Based

>>19608043
probably an anthology of romantic poets, preferably English, and then buying selected or completed poetry editions of poets you particularly enjoyed.

>it's another "you should appreciate random enjambment in poetry dude, my professor English lit said so even though I can't give a coherent argument in its defense" thread

How did Lord Byron get so good at swimming? What was his routine?

Who are your favorite Romantic poets?

And if you hate Romanticism which poetry movements do you prefer

I will never grow old

I made the switch in Fall 2017 from writing prose--short stories and novels--to writing poetry. It's gone really well so far; I've gotten five poems published since then, and I've begun to work on a cycle of long poems that will, hopefully, form a massive epic cycle that tells a huge story, a story I've had in mind since I was in high school. I've had this story in my mind for years, but I think I'm finally ready to tell it.

In "lifestyle" news, I've been requesting more student loans from the government than I need for my master's degree, and I've been using the subsequently enormous refunds to pay off my substantial credit card debt. This, of course, means that as my credit card debt goes down my student loan debt goes up. Once I have my MA it's all going to come due. I am debating, once I have my degree, whether or not to pull a Lord Byron and flee the country to stiff my creditors.

We of the craft are all crazy...

I have Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving" memorized, along with several Shakespeare soliloquies and monologues.

>>11300650
Not a bad point. Maybe this will be one of the few instances where thoughtless algorithms work in our favor.

Nobody fucking reads poetry any more and this makes me angry. I'm not angry at the public, I'm angry at academia and the literary establishment for cordoning poetry off into this faggy little club that nobody is a member of but them. Ask yourself: can you name five contemporary poets? Of course not.

It wasn't always this way. Byron was a fucking bestseller. People used to read Homer for fun. And people still like the old poets. There are recordings of actors reading Keats on YouTube that have six-figure views. Poetry COULD be popular like it used to be, but it isn't, and I hate that. It has to change.

So we'll go no more a roving,
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.

You've read Don Juan, haven't you, /lit/?

>read up on Byron's biography
>turns out he was abused and molested by his governess as a child

Well, fuck, now I feel bad for him. I guess that also starts to explain the extent to which he'd fuck anything that moved.

It goes without saying that Byron is a good poet. Maybe even a very good poet.

But is he a GREAT poet, purely on the merits of his art? Or is he merely a good or very good poet whose outrageous personal reputation and celebrity elevated him above his artistic station?

Free verse isn't poetry. It's not a "different kind of poetry," it's just not poetry in any way. Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, and all other free verse writers need to be tossed out of the poetry canon. They can all go fester in some word-art ghetto that isn't related to poetry.

Lord Byron can get absolutely fucked.

He is patient zero of the terrible trend of writers making their public personas more important than their work, thereby giving rise to insufferable faggots like Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway. Byron is the whole reason anyone wants to "be a writer," without actually wanting to do any of the work to get there.

And his poetry isn't even that good! Don Juan is awful and trite and the metrics don't work. His other poems are worse. He was a mediocrity whose fame was primarily driven by his personality, and the only reason anyone knew about that personality was his wealth and status as a noble. He was the Taylor Swift of his day, using his already-considerable social status to launch a less-than-impressive artistic career that the plebs gobbled up.

The only noble things he ever did were die for Greece and create the woman who invented computers.

What's with his politics? Why did he hate Castlereagh?

>>5959650
Most of us that are above 18 can't just walk into a high school to pick up books. Must be nice still being in high school though!

Anyone on /lit/ read any Romantic era poetry? I'm hooked.

I'm a fan of Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron. Anyone want to discuss anything or have any other poets they enjoy reading?

>>5589411

They say that Lord Byron was not only a great womanizer, but also extremely handsome (imagine how easy it was for him, with the appearance that he had, to compete with all the other ugly brits) and, finally, the owner of a huge cock.

His poetry, however, is not very good; it is often mediocre. It did not aged very well.

>Do anybody here know's something about Tolstoy's dick?

>Byron is shite. We are going to beat you up for ever mentioning him.

In respect to valentines day rapiddly approaching, post your favourite love poems

What are some of your favourite romantic poems?