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.
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.
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On my list of most overrated poets with the likes of Dante, where he belongs.
>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.
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 tbh 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Perse
Whitman
Rimbaud
Neruda
John of the Cross
Rilke
Lawrence
Byron
Hardy
Williams
Ferlinghetti
I didn’t see see the English part. Forgive me
>Lawrence
DH Lawrence? I’ve been meaning to read his poetry. What are your favorites of his?
I like a lot but Mosquito is my favorite. His nature ones in general
Where's Biggie?
Yeats is better than half this list.
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.
where the frick is Chaucer you moron
On my list of most overrated poets with the likes of Dante, where he belongs.
ok pleb
>No Chaucer
>No Spenser
>No Pope
>No Coleridge
See
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Basedton
Onions
Basedron
Basedlley
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Basedburne
Basedman
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>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.
My intention was to write so1 in every name but the wordfilter works in weird ways
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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 tbh 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.
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.
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
Dickinson over Poe.
Are you out of your ever-loving mind?
People still read poetry? Seriously? Someone actually sits down and reads a "poem" by Swinburne and Tennyson?
Sheesh.
Kek. I reread Maud a few days ago just because I felt like it..
Got me high, babe
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.
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.
>Shelley
mary or percy?
Percy
>Great poet
>English language
Does not compute.