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[Anonymous No.15320667]

ITT: the best poet from your country

[Anonymous No.15320701]

>>15320667
James Phillip McAuley

[Anonymous No.15320895]

>>15320667
Hard to say. Drummond? Cabral de Mello Neto? I have no conviction in any of these claims.
Help me out, hues.

[Anonymous No.15320909]

Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark.

[Anonymous No.15321208]

>>15320667
based and handsome

[Anonymous No.15321211]

>>15320667
Do you have some english version?
I know poetry is awful translated in general but still...

[Anonymous No.15321264]

My direct ancestor :)

[Anonymous No.15321363]

>>15320667
Robert Frost

[Anonymous No.15321389]

Góngora.

[Anonymous No.15321476]

>>15320667
John Ashbery

[Anonymous No.15321590]

>>15320667

[Anonymous No.15321757]

>>15320667
that’s a ridiculously good looking dude (no homo). I have no idea who he is, but damn.

[Anonymous No.15321772]

>>15321363
he's good, but no
>>15321476
correct

[Anonymous No.15321786]

>>15321590
Imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.15321794]

>>15321786
smells... designated

[Anonymous No.15322887]

>>15321264
How does it feel to be inferior to your ancestors.

[Anonymous No.15322899]

>>15321264

Fucking everyone in Ayrshire is a descendant of Burns. He was a notorious shagger. You're not special.

[Anonymous No.15322934]

for me its Gumilev

[Anonymous No.15323019]

https://www.bacdefrancais.net/les-fleurs-du-mal-baudelaire-texte.php#LES%20FLEURS%20DU%20MAL

[Anonymous No.15323034]

Pushkin
>Russia
>Ukraine
>Poland
>Albania
>et al.

[Anonymous No.15323126]

>>15321590
> this is the journey of
> surviving through poetry
> this is the blood sweat tears
> of twenty-one years

[Anonymous No.15323133]

I like it

[Anonymous No.15323846]

>>15320667
72 of them.

[Anonymous No.15323856]

[Anonymous No.15323866]

this fag

[Anonymous No.15323875]

>>15320667

[Anonymous No.15323894]

BEHOLD

[Anonymous No.15323907]

>>15321757
>I have no idea who he is, but damn.
Mihai eminescu

[Anonymous No.15323917]

>>15321211
considered his best work (sounds better in Romanian):
http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poezii_tr/eveningstar.php

http://www.gabrielditu.com/eminescu/drowsy_birds.asp
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/ro/Eminescu,_Mihai-1850/Floare_albastr%C4%83/en/5432-Blue_flower
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/sara-pe-deal-eve-hill.html-0

[Anonymous No.15323942]

>>15321208
"the Jew does not deserve any rights anywhere in Europe because he is not working." he said. Yes, I think he was based

[Anonymous No.15323952]

>>15323907
the dude is cash

[Anonymous No.15323965]

>>15323894
> DUDE LMAO let me just repeat the same rhyme scheme for 80000 lines! Beatrice will be so impressed XD

[Anonymous No.15323969]

>>15320667

[Anonymous No.15324007]

>>15323969
is this what Finland used to look like?

[Anonymous No.15324056]

>>15323856
based

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[Anonymous No.15324083]

Poświatowska could have been the greatest tho if she didn't die at 32. So sad

[Anonymous No.15324147]

>>15324083
qt

[Anonymous No.15324162]

Rumi

[Anonymous No.15324208]

>>15324007
Yes. Also if I had to give non-meme answer, it still would be Lönnrot, while he mostly recorded old Finnish poems and songs, he also made some of his own where bits and pieces were missing, and even those are great.

[Anonymous No.15324212]

>>15321264
Any favorites anon? I love "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which manages to be supremely comfy and epically heroic at the same time

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[Anonymous No.15324262]

>>15323875
>Bob Dylan

[Anonymous No.15324291]

>>15324232
>this eagle-beak-nosed son of a gun
correct

[Anonymous No.15324392]

>>15320667
>serbia
>momcilo nastasijevic

[Anonymous No.15324758]

>>15323894
Leopardi >

[Anonymous No.15324859]

>>15320667
hair goals

[Anonymous No.15325184]

>>15323965

That's the Genius. He used the same ryhme scheme and still managed to be original in every chant.

[Anonymous No.15325205]

>>15323965
thats how it is in the italian language

[Anonymous No.15325208]

this fella

[Anonymous No.15325269]

>>15323846
>72 of them
What does it mean????

[Anonymous No.15325325]

Either him or Georg Heym.

[Anonymous No.15325398]

Eino Leino, no question about it.

[Anonymous No.15325428]

the Sappho of the Anglosphere

[Anonymous No.15325536]

>>15321264
hahahaha.
burns isn't very good./

[Anonymous No.15325544]

>>15325536
>>15321264
I forgot to say.
Ossian is much better than Burns. Ossian is the best poet in the world. Burns couldn't write good poetry by the fact he wrote in English.

[Anonymous No.15325556]

>Allons! whoever you are come travel with me!
>Traveling with me you find what never tires.

>The earth never tires,
>The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
>Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d,
>I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

>Allons! we must not stop here,
>However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,
>However shelter’d this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
>However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.

[Anonymous No.15325574]

>Egypt
Ahmed Shawqi

[Anonymous No.15325590]

>>15325269
Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa#Heteronyms

[Anonymous No.15325598]

His life and work inspires me every day.

[Anonymous No.15326066]

>>15325428
But where are the erotic poems?

[Anonymous No.15326113]

Murilo Mendes.

[Anonymous No.15326478]

>>15326113
>Murilo Mendes.
Bullshit. Rec me something, fren.

[Anonymous No.15326575]

>>15326113
He's not even the best poet of his State.

[Anonymous No.15326590]

>>15323019
in every photo or drawing of him there's something haunting in his eyes. I wish I could have met him even for a very short time. What a mind.

[Anonymous No.15326594]

>>15320667
the best in the world actually

[Anonymous No.15326660]

>>15323965
mastery of form

[Anonymous No.15326671]

>>15324232
he's so good

[Anonymous No.15326676]

>>15320667

[Anonymous No.15326707]

the best America has to offer

[Anonymous No.15326723]

>>15320667
I mean, all our best poets were the Metaphysicals. I think anyone who's read poetry from the period can recognise that Donne is the reigning king
This is probably the finest love poem ever written:
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.

And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

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[Anonymous No.15326766]

>>15326728
please don't tell me that quote is one of her poems

[Anonymous No.15326777]

>>15326766
im not even gonna try bc you could never understand

[Anonymous No.15326819]

>>15320667
I'm still gonna go with this smug bastard.

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[Anonymous No.15326843]

>>15326777
go read some John Donne you pansy
get sum real poetry in ya

[Anonymous No.15326860]

>>15326728
>>15326777
does your name begin with an A and rhyme with a certain mineral
genuine question

[Anonymous No.15326882]

[Anonymous No.15327015]

>>15323856
>Nation of Goethe
>Posts some 3rd rate Jew instead

[Anonymous No.15327027]

>>15321786
I love curry

[Anonymous No.15327040]

[Anonymous No.15327423]

(hij pienkt aan de ladies, hij pienkt aan de poem)

[Anonymous No.15327571]

>>15326707
Can you lend a nigga a pencil?

[Anonymous No.15327658]

>>15326860
Aron?

[Anonymous No.15327679]

>>15321363
Generally agree, however:
underrated pic related

[Anonymous No.15327754]

Best German poet of all time.

[Anonymous No.15327755]

[Anonymous No.15327776]

Probably the best poet from England to be quite honest.

[Anonymous No.15327777]

>>15327015
goethe was fucking third rate. German poetry is basically a contraiction

[Anonymous No.15327811]

>>15327777
German morphology lends itself quite well to poetry, actually.

[Anonymous No.15327819]

>>15327777
this disrespect...

Schiller > Goethe though

[Anonymous No.15327836]

>>15327819
Schiller would have disagreed.

[Anonymous No.15327866]

>>15327819
>>15327777
>Schiller > Goethe though
to be clear:
Ayim>Schiller > Goethe

[Anonymous No.15327881]

>>15327819
>>15327836
where do Holderlin and Novalis figure into these rankings?

[Anonymous No.15327906]

>>15327881
they're in a different category alltogether but imho
Kleist > Hölderlin >>> Novalis

haven't read any of them since 2010 so I might be wrong though.

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[Anonymous No.15327944]

>>15327906
>Kleist
>poetry
Come on m8.

[Anonymous No.15327958]

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[Anonymous No.15327990]

Spain, Federico García Lorca

[Anonymous No.15327998]

>>15327881
Below Heym.

[Anonymous No.15328008]

Cesar Vallejo, the redeemer of Literature on this country of mine.

[Anonymous No.15328013]

[Anonymous No.15328233]

a rising star in the underground poetry beat

[Anonymous No.15328388]

>>15327040
Dios mio...

[Anonymous No.15328694]

The best Finnish poet is Pentti Saarikoski. Also to all the Finnish people here, stop posting the only poet you know, Eino Leino is not the only poet we have, please actually read Finnish poetry! It is quite good.
Vitun kyrvän lutkuttajat

[Anonymous No.15328769]

Rubén Darío
Certainly the best poet of the hispanic world, and, with ease, one of the greatest of the entire world.

[Anonymous No.15330171]

>>15320667

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[Anonymous No.15330249]

>>15326590
Same here. I wish I could have met all of the great French writers of that 19th century, from Balzac, Huysmans, Bloy, to D’Aurevilly etc...

[Anonymous No.15330394]

>>15320667
Fuck Borges

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[Anonymous No.15330429]

>>15327990
>>>15321389

[Anonymous No.15330463]

>>15323866
Fuckin' eh. Who cares if he was gay.

[Anonymous No.15330490]

paul van ostaijen

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