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What's /lit's first language?

Who's your favourite poet in first language?

Is your country /lit relevant?

and so on

>> No.9254172

English.

Milton.

Yes.

>> No.9254193

English
Keats
England, so we're #1 most relevant in literature

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>>9253675
Just as a heads-up, if your answer to the first question isn't English, then your answer to the last is no.

>> No.9254222

Bulgarian

Geo Milev

No

>> No.9254235

English

Burns

Canada: give us another few centuries maybe...

>> No.9254236

Portuguese

Herberto Helder

No, since we are economically irrelevant in a world where money is everything.

>> No.9254245

Spanish

Owen, Sor Juana, or Tablada

Yes, just not as mainstream.

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>>9254235
I dislike Canada as much as the next guy, but don't be too down on yourselves. A Canadian wrote one of the greatest poems of all time (in my opinion at least).

>> No.9254267

>>9253675
dutch
willem elschot
yes

'het huwelijk' is the most beautiful instantiation of language ive ever encountered

>> No.9254297

>>9254263
I wasn't aware people in other countries knew of it. My nationalist Canadian poem of choice is the original french of "O, Canada." Makes much more robust demands of the government, like "(your valour will) protect our hearths and rights," etc.

>> No.9254307

>>9254297
My nationalist Canadian poem is Speak White desu

>> No.9254330
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9254330

English
P, B & Shelley
They like to think they are.

>> No.9254367

>>9254307
Its the most important but pretty shitty in itself. The only french canadian poet worth reading is Gaston Miron if you ask me.

>> No.9254441

Spanish

Góngora

Kinda

>> No.9254708

>>9253675
Spanish
Rubén Darío
No but we had Borges