Let there be the english poetry thread. We all should know that the best english poet of the last 200 years is Edgar Poe. But who's the second best? I think Rudyard Kipling.
>>7359573
>edgar poe
OH MY GOD
>>7359573
>We all should know that the best english poet of the last 200 years is Edgar Poe. But who's the second best? I think Rudyard Kipling.
I appreciate what you are doing OP. The people on this board only appreciate poetry which they can post with a picture of an androgynous girl attached. I do not like Poe so much, but Kipling is great. Anybody who wants to be a writer can learn a lot from him, if you want to just get a gf through reading (most of /lit/) then don't bother.
I would put forward Hopkins as the best poet of the last 200 years. His voice is unique and the music of his poetry is perfectly matched to everything he describes.
>tfw first discovered The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo.
Pretty much agreed on Poe
Then you have Eliot and yeah what else you guys got going on?
>>7359573
okay, you fucking riled me up
rudyard kipling is NOT so bad
#1 t s eliot
#2 edgar allen ginsberg
#3 idk, keats? or was it spelled yeats? the one who wrote a poem about a vase
#4 Milton. Satan's a fucking badass.
#5 coleridge. rime of the ancient mariner and kubla khan are the only ones I know but they're so dark and mysterious, very poe-esque
>>7359675
>>7359640
Produce a better strophe.
"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!"
>>7359648
You have still fallen for the bait if you feel the need to let everyone know that you know it is bait.
>>7359942
If you honestly aren't trolling Poe isn't that good of a poet (his short stories are great though). Of the poets of the last 200 years he deserves a mention but is no where near the top.
>>7359959
Note that this is based on poetic skill, not preference which could put him in your top. Rating poetry is pretty dumb actually.
>>7359959
Thanks, his fame confused me then. Shall check Eliot, Hopkins and other ones mentioned.
POUND BITCH
Please say English Language poet next time, I was confused and thought that you thought Poe was from Britain.
>no posts of Yeats
>no Robert Browning
you guys blow ass
>>7359573
>not philip larkin
