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Maturing is realizing that Wordsworth was always the best Romantic poet.
>inb4 Keats
If he was such a good poet, why did he die of tuberculosis? clearly God hated him.

>> No.20192407

What an utterly infantile thing to argue about.

>> No.20192411

>>20192382
Maturing is realizing I don't need to pretend to know who Wordsworth is to make a shitpost about him

>> No.20192426

Keats was lucky enough to die in his prime instead of living long enough to become a boring old boomer.

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>>20192382
Keats didn't die of tuberculosis, he died of sadness...

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>>20192426
>never got to read the finished version of Hyperion

>> No.20192485

I like Blake, smart (if you count him) and Coleridge (and Keats ) more than Wordsworth, I’ve read all of Wordsworth though, what do you like about him best OP?

Here’s a favorite poem.

http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/research/around-1800/FR/salisbury-plain.html

>> No.20192496

>>20192461
He abandoned it before he died, he wasn't going to finish it anyway.

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Meanwhile, Shelley appreciators knew they were always right

>> No.20192541

>>20192382
Kek. Even for a baity shitpost, this is stupid as fuck. Don't get me wrong, he had his moments with "The Idiot Boy" and sections of "The Prelude," but Wordsworth was nothing compared to Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Blake. Fuck, even his writing companion/friend Coleridge was a superior poet and literary theorist. His three poems, "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are better than everything Wordsworth wrote put together. In "Literaria Biographia" he rips Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction.

>> No.20192559

>>20192485
OP here. Of all the romantics Wordsworth was the least philosophical, yet, I think the most innately talented at conveying a strong sense of joy and beauty from simple natural scenes. Blake is good too though, I didn't think of him.

a personal favorite:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45553/a-slumber-did-my-spirit-seal

>> No.20192560

>>20192507
Shelley was a fucked up Redditor

>> No.20192563

>>20192541
Man, the Rime is so good

>> No.20192566

>Wordsworth
>Writes worthy words

>> No.20192590

>>20192507
I can’t help but feel that Shelley was by far the smartest of the bunch, he clearly had a genuine interest in philosophy and ideas, which have unfortunately had the opposite effect in making his poems unpalatable to most modern readers who look for muh emotions. Too bad he didn’t live as long as even Coleridge, but hey on the bright side, the way he died could have been something he wrote a poem about (same with Byron actually now that I think of it, sorry Keats)

>> No.20192612

>>20192485
Have you checked out Smart? Here’s an excerpt from a poem of his, very famous excerpt I think you’ll like him if you want joy/beauty.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45173/jubilate-agno

>> No.20192617

>>20192559
Whoops sorry wrong post >>20192612

>> No.20193801

>>20192382
I love Wordsworth book covers

>> No.20193824

>>20192590
>he clearly had a genuine interest in philosophy and ideas,
But so did Coleridge. And Blake's mysticism at least wasn't as vague and feel good as the other romantics (looking at you Keats). There was a real content behind it.