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1287366 No.1287366 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/

I don't know if this will cause a shitstorm, lets hope not, but who do you think the best poet is. Or even best book of poetry.

>> No.1287369

Yeats is best

>> No.1287377

Yeats is great.

But if you're going to ask such a ridiculous question, I daresay the only sensible answer is Homer.

Could Yeats have written "No Second Troy" if there was not an Iliad for him to allude to?

>> No.1287385

T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. No question about it.

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1287396

William Butler Yeats.

Or Shakespeare.

>> No.1287400

Larkin, Auden, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson

>> No.1287403

>>1287377
AND there'd be no Ulysses without The Odessy

>> No.1287408

Pablo Neruda.
/thread

>> No.1287414

This is all confined to the English language, when France had Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Hugo.

>> No.1287417

>>1287414
most of us are from the UK & USA though so we speak english.

inb4 translated poetry xD lolololololololololo

>> No.1287500

>>1287414
You're an idiot, slow, or forgot to hit F5. Maybe all three. >>1287408

>> No.1287522

>>1287414
Homer was Greek

>> No.1287557

Blok

>> No.1287582

Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Notwid, Krasiński

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1287612

Best ever.