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Who are the most essential, must-read English-language poets, poets only a disgusting philistine retard would be unfamiliar with?

>> No.6918104

>>6918088
Tao Lin.
Kolsti.
Sanjay Shepdar.
Basho.
Nietzsche.

>> No.6918108

>>6918104
based anon

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>>6918104
>Kolsti
Dead meme is dead, mate.

>> No.6918160

>>6918104
chicken quesadilla is better than all of these people's poetry

>> No.6918261

Shakespeare
Milton

Anyone else close to this level?

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>>6918088
>English-language poets

>> No.6918272

Milton, Shakespeare, Blake, Chaucer, Keats, Donne, Shelley, Eliot, Byron, Coleridge.

>> No.6918281

>>6918261
In that thing where Nabokov is critiquing authors and calling them second-rate and puffed up, he says Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy, and Joyce are geniuses.

>> No.6918290

Yeats.

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Don't you tossers forget about me.

>> No.6918426

>>6918151
I heard bitches was talkin shit

>> No.6919272

>nobody has yet mentioned Pope or Tennyson

do any of you even read poetry

>> No.6919292

>>6918088
Lord Byron

>> No.6919350

some more hitherto unmentioned

whitman
frost
housman
hardy
dickinson
Spenser (for shame, /lit/)
hopkins
cowper
fucking wordsworth
rosetti
pound (whether or not you like him, you should be familiar)
cummings
dryden
stevens

there's more I'm forgetting, and this is is all stuff that ends up in anthologies of english literature. It's okay to not know one or two as well as you'd like, but you should be familiar with most of them at least a little bit

oh and you guys tend to overrate Blake

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>>6918088
Grab The Norton Anthology of Poetry (cheap used, especially older editions).
Read it (all 2000 pages). It's easy, and a great use of your time. Enjoy life.
Contents: http://media.wwnorton.com/cms/contents/na_poetry5e_UP.pdf

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