/lit/ - Literature

Neruda is god.
I also like Whitman, Dickinson, Tennyson, Auden and Larkin to name a few.

>>1453106

oooh, I forgot about Tennyson tragically, but I also very much love him. I have not read much of Auden or Larkin but I should.

and yes, Neruda es como un dios seguramente. my Spanish is not as good as it could be considering the household I was raised in, but even still, his poetry is phenomenal to read both in Spanish and English. have you read his Book of Questions? it is one of my favorite works by him.

Yeats, anyone?

Charles Bukowski is a pretty cool guy.

>>1453149
I haven't read Book of Questions, but I've read many of his original poems in the original Spanish. I bought this collection when it came out and I intend to read it a little at a time until I finish it.

cliché, but Baudelaire.

cummings, Hughes, Nash, Sexton, Jeffers.

Honorable mention to Bukowski too, idgaf.

ts eliot > anyone not named ts eliot

>>1453106
Paz, Eliot, Blake

Whitman, Lowell, Trakl, Celan, Rilke, and Rimbaud.

Neruda is not his real name. He took it from a Czech poet, Jan Neruda.

So just saying "Neruda" is a bit 'tarded, seeing as there are two of them and you're not even talking about the original.

>>1453184
TS Eliot - Ezra Pound = unimpressive.

Woodsworth... no but seriously, Wordsworth.

>>1453209
You criticize, and yet you yourself never say Pablo.

>>1453228
No. I say Jan, the original.

Ovid, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Thomas Hardy

C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, J.K Rowlings uh.

Ted Hughes. His poetry gets stuck in my head and just hums around like a thousand bats. His work is so amazing.

Dean Young
Tony Hoagland
Kevin Prufer
Billy Collins
Yehuda Amichai

>>1453310
Came in here to post Young and Hoagland.

Also Matt Hart.

Stephan Crane and Dylan Thomas are really my big two. I really like the Romantic poets too, like Wordsworth and Coleridge.

>>1453209
>butthurt czechfag upset that no one has heard of his national hero

>>1453231
>admits that Pablo Neruda is the true Neruda

Poe,
Service,
Cohen

>>1453369
Guess what? Pablo heard of him.

John Donne, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy

T. S. ELIOT

>>1453171

I read his book length poem World's End not too long ago. I really enjoyed it. I couldn't put it down actually; I finished it in a day.

Ray Hsu, Garry Thomas Morse, Rimbaud and Coleridge.

TS Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Tennyson, Cummings, Rexroth

Keats, Byron, Poe, Dylan Thomas.

e.e. cummings and charles bukowski
because i'm a hipster faggot
but for reals, they're my favorites

>>1453742
>two canonical poets
>hipster faggot

SERIOUS PEOPLE STOP THROWING THIS WORD AROUND IT MEANS NOTHING

>>1453744
>Bukowski
>canonical
I agree with the "hipster is overused and meaningless" thing, but Bukowski is not a canonical poet by any stretch of the mind.

Also, I always thought EE Cummings was a gimmicky no-one poet. Then I read The Bell Jar and saw that Esther and her boyfriend were reading EE Cummings together, out loud. That's when I realized he was a serious poet worth considering. I still haven't started any of his collections yet but I am excited too.

>>1453750
I guess by "canonical" I meant taken seriously by the poetry programs I've been a part of.

>>1453744
>>1453750
it was a joke, dudes. man, you c/lit/s sure are wound up pretty tight.

T.S. Elliot
Loved the rhythm in Wasteland

>>1453765
>read one 400 line poem
>author is my favorite poet

/lit/ why don't you read more poetry. Expand your minds. Read poets that weren't in your high school poetry anthology.

>>1453768

The only book I in high school I had to read was Animal Farm. I don't like poetry, sorry but it's boring to me. I was just stoned enough at Barnes and Noble to pick up Wasteland and I loved it. Feel lucky I actually read poetry

Why am I the only one is this thread to like Paz?

>>1453768
In general, this.

/lit/ has the attitude that there are five or so poets you must choose from.

Simonides of ceos

>>1453772
I'm glad you found poetry you enjoyed. I don't mean to sound like a grump and a snob, it's just that /lit/ has a notoriously shallow view of the poetry world. I'm working on a poetry roulette and need more names and more poems.

Wasteland is great - a lot of people are turned on to poetry through Eliot. There is so much poetry outside of the early 20th century, and outside of our high-school English classes, though. It's a shame more people don't get to experience it.

Every person who learns to enjoy poetry can point to one particular poet or poem, one moment, in which they realized how powerful poetry can be. For Sylvia Plath it was Hans Christian Andersen. In one essay she remembers getting goosebumps as her mother read one of his poems to her. His words were magic. Her body was electric.

I hope, in the next month or so, to bring more poetry to this board. More people deserve to read more poems. More people deserve to have their poetry moment. More people deserve to feel goose bumps as they experience the power of words, of sound, or ideas, of prosody, of alliteration, of consonance. More people deserve to have their eyes opened.

Larkin is my favorite poet. SORRY YALL. Honestly, it's kind of bad, the extent to which my favorite poets / favorite writers in general are English writers. Also love Gerard Manley Hopkins, Keats (ofc), Auden & Betjeman (for some reason I always think of them as a pair). I'm not an Anglophile, I swear. Outside of England, I love Ginsberg, I love Robert Penn Warren.

Poetry is rad.

>>1453778

No, it's cool. Anything you'd recommend to stretch my horizons?

>>1453796
If you've read very little poetry I do recommend the /lit/ staples: Whitman, Neruda, Dickinson, Tennyson, Auden, Larkin, etc.

If you can, get an anthology. At a used bookstore a good anthology (either Modernist poetry or a little further back) won't cost more than a few dollars. Each author will get three or four poems. Work through a couple poets or poems whenever you have a chance, pretty much at random. If you have a spare moment before bed or in the morning, flip to a random page and read. You'll soon start to learn what sorts of themes and styles you like.

Yeats, Auden, Byron, Barrett-Browning and Eliot.

>>1453778

This-- with Yeats. Trite, but true.

>>1453796
Also, check out some stuff that's currently being published.

http://www.octopusmagazine.com/
http://www.thediagram.com/

Both are free, web-based literary journals.

>les châtiments
>les contemplations
>la légende des siècles

And no one on this fucking board to mention Hugo? You classless faggots.