/lit/ - Literature

>>11214024
Yeah, sorry but only two of the guys on that list are romanticists (Keats and Clare). Clare and Eliot were both hyper-religious, they're unified in that sense and much of their poetry was dedicated to the subject of God.

Manley Hopkins was a highly innovative writer and even though he preceded the modernists (kind of), he was more interesting and poetically experimental than most of the poets that came after him.

I shouldn't have to defend Yeats on this board, but if you can't see the similarities between Yeats and Eliot then you're mentally dimmed. Both wrote retreated into their respective spiritual beliefs as a reaction against the societal dissolution they saw around them. They're different in style, but spiritually they're of the same stock.

It's understandable that you don't like Lawrence. In some ways, he was stylistically similar to Eliot, but he was of course a harsh man with a chip on his shoulder.

The only thing I find is embarrassing is that you classified my list as romanticist. If you don't like the poets, that's fine, but it seems by your classification of them that you perhaps don't know them as well as you think you do.