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Who are some wonderful English language poets, /lit/?

>> No.1488368

shackspeer

>> No.1488377

Shelley
Thomas
Larkin
Keats
etc.
etc.
Too many to even start listing, you serious?

>> No.1488388

Yeats
Eliot

All u need bro

>> No.1488393

>>1488377
I don't want people to namedrop. Just post some favorites.

>> No.1488395

>>1488388

True this, no need for anything else in the entirety of English literature. I don't even know why they bother still printing other books.

>> No.1488405

>>1488395
ex·ag·ger·ate (g-zj-rt)
v. ex·ag·ger·at·ed, ex·ag·ger·at·ing, ex·ag·ger·ates
v.tr.
1. To represent as greater than is actually the case; overstate: exaggerate the size of the enemy force; exaggerated his own role in the episode.

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1488407

It wouldn't be much of a list if Lord Byron wasn't on it.

>> No.1488413

>English language
>poets

>> No.1488416

>>1488407

I find Byron in romance mode to be mawkish and lugubious. His travel poems are okay though

>> No.1488422

J Alfred Prufrock. I like his Lovesong the bests.

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1488424

Poe

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1488428

>>1488416

What is 'lugubious' (sic) to you is to me the very essence of his brilliance (and is as present in his travel writing as in his 'romantic mode' poetry). The Calvinism he was exposed to in Scotland imbued in him a deep sense of foreboding melancholy - a conception of his own mortality which permeated all of his best poetry and defined him as a man.

>> No.1489238

Thomas Hardy

>> No.1489254

>>1488428

>using "sic" on 4chan

Oh God, could you be any more pretentious?

>> No.1489263

W. H. Auden bitches.

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1489270

Walt Whitman

Listen! I will be honest with you,
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer
rough new prizes,
These are the days that must happen to you:
You shall not heap up what is called riches,
You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you
earn or achieve,
You but arrive at the city to which you were
destined—you hardly settle yourself to satis-
faction, before you are called by an irresistible
call to depart,
You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and
mockings of those who remain behind you,
What beckonings of love you receive, you shall
only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
You shall not allow the hold of those who spread
their reached hands toward you.

Allons! After the great companions! and to be-
long to them!
They too are on the road! they are the swift and
majestic men! they are the greatest women!

>> No.1489272

Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats to name a few. My favorites personally. Also John Milton.