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Shakespeare
Milton
Blake
Byron
Shelley
Keats
Tennyson
Swinburne
Whitman
Dickinson

>> No.22233741

>>22233733
Perse
Whitman
Rimbaud
Neruda
John of the Cross
Rilke
Lawrence
Byron
Hardy
Williams
Ferlinghetti

>> No.22233746

>>22233741
I didn’t see see the English part. Forgive me

>> No.22233750

>>22233741
>Lawrence
DH Lawrence? I’ve been meaning to read his poetry. What are your favorites of his?

>> No.22233801

>>22233733
Where's Biggie?

>> No.22233805

>>22233750
I like a lot but Mosquito is my favorite. His nature ones in general

>> No.22233844

>>22233733
Yeats is better than half this list.

>> No.22233871

>>22233844
I wouldn’t even include Yeats if I expanded the list to 15 poets. I would pick Donne, Spenser, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and TS Eliot over Yeats. Top 20, maybe.

>> No.22233884

>>22233733
where the fuck is Chaucer you retard

>> No.22233892

>>22233884
On my list of most overrated poets with the likes of Dante, where he belongs.

>> No.22233893

>>22233733
>No Chaucer
>No Spenser
>No Pope
>No Coleridge

>> No.22233897

>>22233893
See >>22233871 and >>22233892

>> No.22233908

>>22233892
ok pleb

>> No.22233921
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22233921

ENTER CHADFELLOW

>> No.22233981

>>22233733
Basedshake
Basedton
Onions
Basedron
Basedlley
Soys
Tennysoy
Basedburne
Basedman
Dickinsoy

>> No.22233987

>>22233981
>Calls Blake onions
>Calls Whitman based
How can you like one but not the other? They’re basically the same poet. Swinburne said their similarities is the greatest evidence of transmigration of souls.

>> No.22234045

>>22233987
My intention was to write so1 in every name but the wordfilter works in weird ways
captcha: 88p onions

>> No.22234052

onions
onions
onions
basedbased

>> No.22234071

>>22233733
Dickinson over Poe.

Are you out of your ever-loving mind?

>> No.22234140

>>22233733
imo, Byron and Shelley do the absolute bare minimum of what a good poet should do. I'm not impressed with Whitman. Blake in his prophecies imo is a better "cadenced-but-not-quite-metrical" poet and mystic. Most of Whitman reads like prose with poor syntax desu and his pantheism feels lazy.

I agree with the rest of your list, but if I'd replace Byron, Shelley, and Whitman with Spenser, Coleridge, and Blake.

>>22233987
Blake does everything Whitman does but better. Blake has a better command of sound and stress and better imagery, As a mystic, his mysticism is more elaborate and feels genuine unlike Whitman's,

Could you send me a link to the essay where Swinburne compares Whitman to Blake? I don't see how a metempsychosis could have taken place since Whitman was born while Blake was still alive.

>> No.22234248

People still read poetry? Seriously? Someone actually sits down and reads a "poem" by Swinburne and Tennyson?

Sheesh.

>> No.22234265

>>22234140
He says it towards the end in William Blake: A Critical Essay
>The points of contact and sides of likeness between William Blake and Walt Whitman are so many and so grave, as to afford some ground of reason to those who preach the transition of souls or transfusion of spirits.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35995/pg35995-images.html

>> No.22234292

>>22234248
Kek. I reread Maud a few days ago just because I felt like it..
Got me high, babe

>> No.22234323

>>22233733
Agreed in general, though I'd switch Dickinson and Byron in ranking, and substitute Coleridge for Swinburne. As for Chaucer, he's not quite English, technically, if obviously one of the world's greatest poets.

>> No.22234330

>>22233733
>Shelley
mary or percy?

>> No.22234338

>>22234330
Percy

>> No.22234362

>>22233981
Based: Tennysoy wrote the Lady of Shallot.

>> No.22234365

>Great poet
>English language

Does not compute.

>> No.22234377

>>22234248
I still read good translations of "Longinus" and Seneca now and then. Sit down sometime and read Shelley's The Triumph Of Life, one of the most shocking pieces ever written, because and not despite its strange and almost complete lack of the sense of humor. Dante was a riot by comparison.

>> No.22234387

>>22234365
Imagine being this filtered.