Who is the best poet and why?

Ginsberg, Whitman. Their energy is good

Just.

I like Byron

the usual reasons. Master of form and meter, great imagination, a good bridge between premodernism and modernism.

he was kinda crazy tho.

In the words of Pound himself "Dante is the only poet."

Or maybe that was Beckett.

Whats with the Pound meme? Is it because being a fascist is in this year?

It's the edgiest dankest meme right now.

Fuck Dante.

What should I read by him?

Despite his stupid politics and half the cantos being over-written schlep he is still one of the greatest poets just from sheer ability.

>Pound.
>Eliot.

Wallace stevens or Hölderlin

He's just a good critic

+1 Hölderlin. Also Rilke because he wrote " Orpheus.Eurydice.Hermes"

>Fuck Dante.

Stop reading. You are shit at it.

Whitman
Shakespeare
Dan Schneider

My aim is to reinvent reading.

what a shitty ambition

Not even good

You're not a poet.

I love William Carlos Williams

Homer is the safe answer. A beauty so pure and innocent, yet so deep and vast.

I don't know. I've never been able to find an epub of his Cantos.

this is a bad thread for multiple reasons

Are you implying they are bad? top kek
Also Dante, forgot Dante.

dickinson and stevens

César Vallejo

Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of all time dudes and dudettes.

Why are all poets atheists?

Because there are so many gods, you can only believe in a few

Having been tenant long to a rich lord,
Not thriving, I resolvèd to be bold,
And make a suit unto him, to afford
A new small-rented lease, and cancel th’ old.

In heaven at his manor I him sought;
They told me there that he was lately gone
About some land, which he had dearly bought
Long since on earth, to take possessiòn.

I straight returned, and knowing his great birth,
Sought him accordingly in great resorts;
In cities, theaters, gardens, parks, and courts;
At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth

Of thieves and murderers; there I him espied,
Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.

+420 cringe points

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Aesop Rock aka Aes aka Ian Matthias Bavitz

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I think all poets are atheists because they haven't surrendered a part of their minds to an all-knowing being.

They are forced to, by nature of the responsibility of being poets, to pick up all of their ideas, wherever they came from, and elucidate them.

>American poets

You've had some decent novelists but come on now.

Gertrude Stein, obv.

In English?

Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, arguably John Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, arguably Blake, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Tennyson, arguably Walt Whitman though he's not my favourite, arguably Swinburne.

After that, I think it's too soon to tell. Maybe we can allow Yeats a spot on the list, though not a prominent one. Certainly not Pound. Eliot is more of a minor poet.

I should have left out Swinburne and included Byron; other than that I am willing to answer for my selections and omissions.

He writes beautifully, I don't give a shit about politics one way or the other.

Why is it a competition?

Poets are not petty swine like thee.

"not giving a shit" is one way

Why even try.

Sorry you feel that way, I guess.

Seriously, what do readers see in Dante nowadays?

Would be interesting in reading your motivations behind those choices, though that is quite a lot to ask.

Mystical poetry is overrated. Sa'di is better.

My favorites:
Neruda
Transtromer
Li Po

>come at me bro

my nigga

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I read his imaginations for class last semester. I was pleasantly surprised.

>Being too much of a pussy to go by William Williams

Bill Williams

a real american guy's guy

Might as well include Elizabeth Bishop, since I know no one else will.

Why wouldn't anyone else include her? I think she's decent, although at times a bit too facile for my taste (but then that goes for most poets working in the latter half of the 20th century).

Her books aren't on the Veeky Forums charts.

Read his book and find out.

More like homo haha

But yeah this

Are they?

Very few poets are on the Veeky Forums charts, they aren't as meme-friendly.