Who's your favorite poet, and why?

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I dunno why but my favourite poem is Catullus 51. I wouldn't even call Catullus my favourite poet, or even favourite Latin poet, I just really like Catullus 51.

Also Horace Ode 4.15.

Probably Keats. I find his poetry stunningly gorgeous and after having read his letters, I find him an immensely interesting person. Would recommend reading both his poems and letters.

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In English, Shelley. He has an astonishing poetic sensibility.

I would say Dante or Homer but I haven't read them in their own words, unfortunately.

Either Whitman or Frost

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Outside of the Greeks- Yeats, Eliot, Kipling, Cavafy, Blake, Shelley, Dylan Thomas, Crane, Auden, and Baudelaire.

what's your favourite poem by her?

He would have become the greatest poet of all time if he had lived at least ten years longer

Cavafy is fuckin Greek

Agreed, would have been better than Shakespeare.

Shelley wanted to teach him Greek...fuck, can you imagine?

Is Russell Crowe really that good tho?

Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Ansel Adams is your favorite photographer.

Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Frank Lloyd Wright is favorite architect.

Donne was already better than Shakespeare.

Saying Robert Frost is like saying Noam Chomsky is your favorite linguist.

And saying any of those things is a problem... why?

Only a pseud would ever make such a ridiculous statement.

Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Michael Jordan is your favorite basketball player.

Saying Robert Frost is favorite poet is like saying Sigmund Freud is your favorite psychologist.

Saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet is like saying Robert Frost is your favorite poet.

I like J. Alfred Prufrock because he wrote that Love Song poem. Not too much else, though.

Using this meme is like saying reddit is your favorite website.

I never said that.

Are you reading Inferno?

It's really a hard-to-read book, I had trouble just getting through first few pages

I meant the Ancient Greeks. I suppose I should have been clearer though. Thanks for lookin' out, family.

Milton
Herbert
Southwell

I just really like 16-17th century religious allegorical poetry.

Saying Rober Frost is your favourite poet is like saying you enjoy the poetry of Robet Frost.

I'll get called a pleb for this, but I like Bukowski's non-/r9k/ stuff.

His latin was apparently very good. He actually translated the Aeneid.

He definitely learnt Latin and translated the Aeneid, but that was standard for every educated literary man at the turn of the 19th century.

That's not a pleb choice OP, well done. Most of Veeky Forums just looks for the most obscure person they can find, reads them for a bit, and says that's their favorite.

Did you know the Bushes are related to George Herbert? Imagine that.

Could I get a brief summary of the analogy on Chomsky here?

I guess the first three that come to my head are Whitman, Milton, and Eliot.

I love both intense, focused academic poetry and casual, breezy beat poetry, so my list is a little plebby

William Blake
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
Allen Ginsberg
Frank OHara
Walt Whitman (honestly I have no idea whether I love him or think hes mediocre, but ive had a history with him)
Arthur Rimbaud
Francisco Garcia Lorca
Pablo Neruda
Lawrence Ferlenghetti

second

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oh and Yeats
and maaaaaaybe Dylan Thomas

My two favorites

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Underrated

Sexton
C. Rossetti
Swinburne

In that order.

Shakespeare and Poe for most cases. Dante is the shit, though, and I also had a blast reading Chaucer, especially the Knight's Tale.

You also can't go wrong with Percy Shelley.

No idea, but I know that Autobiography of Red is a good starting point.

My favorite poet is probably Brecht.

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Rudyard Kipling. Just for "If" though.

One of the best is Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, amazing
Ozymandias, amazing

Everyone should take the time to read Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

I once worked in a government call center and we had a really racist guy who would call in to complain about policies and immigrants and then he would start beautifully reciting Kipling poems. It was honestly worth getting blasted by his screaming about niggers and kikes because his thick northern England accent was just perfect somehow.

top pleb son

Whitman, closely followed by Blake.
Brooklyn Ferry and The Sick Rose are my favourite poems.

Come on m8, it's the height of boy scout literature.

Do you find Blake hollow at all, for lack of a better word? Aesthetically stunning but without substance, perhaps because his chosen topics were often nebulous to begin with. I haven't read him since I was a teenager so perhaps it's time to go back.

Chaucer
Dante

Modern poetry is quite unreadable usually.

I had no idea. But I did know that George Herbert has a distant Polish relative, who is also a poet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert

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the fuck? source? thats hilarious

Probably Whitman. What's the general opinion of him on this site?

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Idk what the "general" opinion is, but Whitman is my favorite American poet, BY FAR. He's the closest thing America has ever had to matching Shakespeare.

This guy gets it. Keats is so beautiful and tender without being flamboyant or saccharine. His poems are those to meditate on.