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Ah, a poet?

I'm sure you're familiar with:
>Tagore
>Schiller
>Holderlin
>Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
>Heine
>Francis Tancred
>Allen Upward
>Chia
>Zukofsky
>George Oppen
>Basil Bunting

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its orginal Italian, no?
Haven't you gone on your own Renaissance tour, seeing Rome in its Glory, Greece in its History?
Haven't you held the Nowell, the Julian?
Ever been to Lambeth?
The Vatican?
Have you paid your respects at St. Oswald's Church? At St. Giles without Cripplegate?
Have you memorized any narratives?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its orginal Italian, no?
Haven't you gone on your own Renaissance tour, seeing Rome in its Glory, Greece in its History?
Haven't you held the Nowell, the Julian?
Ever been to Lambeth?
The Vatican?
Have you paid your respects at St. Oswald's Church? At St. Giles without Cripplegate?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its orginal Italian, no?
Haven't you gone on your own Renaissance tour, seeing Rome in its Glory, Greece in its History?
Haven't you held the Nowell, the Julian?
Ever been to Lambeth?
The Vatican?
Have you paid your respects at St. Oswald's Church?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its original Italian, no?
Don't you know your figures of speech? Chiasmus? Dysphemism? Merisms?
Haven't you mastered the trivium?
How have you been appreciating the gamboge canvas of fall this year as a true poet should?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its orginal Italian, no?
Raided Lambeth for the Finnesburg Fragment?
Lighted a candle to read The Hildebrandslied?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its orginal Italian, no?
Haven't you raided the cases of Lambeth for Hicke's transcription of the Finnesburg Fragment?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Attila József?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Lihn?
>Lopez Velarde?
>Nervo?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?
>De Rokha?

And I'm sure you've read La Divina Commedia in its orginal Italian, no?

Ah, a poet?

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

>Becquer?
>Quevedo?
>John of the Cross?
>Mandelstam?
>Gumilyov?
>Longley?
>Durken?
>Ady?
>Ballask?
>Cats?
>Bredero?
>Mullisch? ?
>Reve?
>Vercelli (in Northumbrian, of course?)
>Schiller?
>von Kleist?
>Bunin?
>Hoch?
>Nicarcus?
>Oppian?
>Sappho?
>Lesches?
>Leopardi?
>William Cullen Bryant?
>Joseph Drake?
>Holmes?
>Mariano de Larra?

Ah, a poet?

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

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

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?

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?
>Blacklock?
>H. E. Bates?
>L. S. Bevington?
>Ikkyu?

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.

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?
>Blacklock?
>H. E. Bates?
>L. S. Bevington?
>Ikkyu?

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?
>Blacklock?
>H. E. Bates?
>L. S. Bevington?
>Ikkyu?

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.