/lit/ - Literature

>>14887181
Edward De Vere

>>14888233
Impossible.

http://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/UTConference/Oxford_by_Numbers.pdf
http://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/UTConference/My_Other_Car.pdf

>>14887181
Wallace Stevens

Homer is better than all of them.

>>14888874
Wallace Stevens is BASED.

>>14887181
John Donne

It could be (you)
>>14888598

>>14887181
The mystical Blake

>>14887181
Milton

>>14890006
I've been working my way through Blake's "Complete Illuminated Books" and I must say I am very impressed. I don't know if he's the "best poet" but there's no one else like him.

Unironically me, but Donne isn't far behind

Percy Shelley

>>14887181
I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits',
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound,

Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din
Was soon soused. They were slung on the snout
Of the pump and the water pumped in.

'Sure, isn't it better for them now?' Dan said.
Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he sluiced
Them out on the dunghill, glossy and dead.

Suddenly frightened, for days I sadly hung
Round the yard, watching the three sogged remains
Turn mealy and crisp as old summer dung

Until I forgot them. But the fear came back
When Dan trapped big rats, snared rabbits, shot crows
Or, with a sickening tug, pulled old hens' necks.

Still, living displaces false sentiments
And now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown
I just shrug, 'Bloody pups'. It makes sense:

'Prevention of cruelty' talk cuts ice in town
Where they consider death unnatural
But on well-run farms pests have to be kept down.

WHY DONT I GET POETRY I LOVE LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND FINE ARTS, BUT POETRY IS SO FUCKING SHIT. THE ONLY POEMS I LIKE ARE THE PATRIARCH SONNETS AND VIGIL

>>14888924
based