Poets' rankings

Name poets whomst you would consider god tier, good tier, mid tier, shit tier, and rupi kaur tier.

Blake - Chad Mystic tier

Wordsworth
Blake
Keats
---------- ELDER CHAD
Yeats
Tennyson
Milton
Byron
Coleridge
---------- Feasting with the Gods

• God Tier
Keats
Blake
Whitman
Dante
Dickinson
Shelley
Frost
Shakespeare

• Good Tier
Wilde
Pound
Byron

Aaaand I'm lazy to finish this

rimbaud pound

1. The master creator: Homer; Dante; Shakespeare.
2. The master craftsman: Virgil; Horace; Petrarca; Camoens; Tasso; Gongora; Milton; Goethe; Leopardi;
3. The consummate follower: Whitman; Yeats; Eliot; Pessoa; Kavafis.
4. The poet: most names in the canon, people like Elizabeth Bishop or Richard Crashaw.
5. The good poetry-maker: people like Ford Madox Ford, Edna Millay, and most translators - readable, very fine, but not necessary;
6. The bad poetry-maker: people like 99% of those who publish poetry.
7. The terrible verse-maker: McGonagall and such.
8. The average talker: Rupi Kaur.

THE DEFINITIVE ANGLOPHONE POET TIERS

GOD TIER
Hopkins, Dickinson, Eliot, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare

GOOD TIER
Tennyson, Wordsworth, Milton, Donne, Burns, Yeats, Pound, Stevens, Byron

MID TIER
Browning, Coleridge, Shelley, Thomas, Swinburne, Rossetti, Hughes, Pope, Whitman, Housman

You can't rank Dante over Virgil as a master creator when Dante makes Virgil his guide through Hell off of the fact that Dante saw himself walking in Virgil's footsteps--switch their positions with each other.
Also Gilgamesh must be a master creator as well.

This 1 trillion times

god tier:
Rimbaud
Shakespeare
good tier:
Wilde
Tennyson
mid tier:
Dickinson
Browning
shit tier:
Frost

>Stevens not God tier
Bloom's man love for him aside, he's probably the best poet of the 20th century

>not a single mention of spenser

SHAKESPEARE IS NOT A GOOD POET. HE IS A GREAT PLAYRIGHT. HIS SONNETS ARE GARBAGE

elder chads:
Milton, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Virgil, Chaucer
chads:
Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Cicero, Vondel, Yeats, Keats.
shit
Poe

Gilgamesh is an author?

Idiot

God: Shelley, Blake, Whitman
High: Ginsberg, Rimbaud

W. B. Yeats is hands down my favorite and I'd put him in god tier. Admittedly, I haven't read that much poetry and I'll probably get shit on for this, but I personally love Plath.

>lord brian over shelley and coleridge
waaht

one time I identified a spenser as gay without asking him first

MID TIER: Houellebecq

TIL that artists can't exceed the capabilities of the people they admire.

Stupid pleb. Dramatic poetry is a form of poetry

>god tier
Ricardo Reis
>good tier
Alberto Caeiro
>mid tier
Fernando Pessoa
>meme tier
Álvaro de Campos

Immagine actually thinking like this

>mid tier: Coleridge and Pope next to Hughes

Come on. The rest is on point, however