Excluding Shakespeare, who is the greatest English-language poet of all time?
Beckett
Objectively Milton
>>7551242
dickens
Bukowski
>>7551249
This.
But I like Browning the most personally.
James McIntyre
pic semi-related, not his but similar themes
>>7551251
>>7551254
"I love lapping up the dirty water on the floor of public restrooms"
>James McIntyre from Kent
t. mecha
Bob dylan
>>7551242
Milton
Chaucer is also good
Objectively, My nigga Byron.
>>7551255
probably has GOAT prose, specially in his later books. Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend are legit masterpieces, even Nabokov was a fan
>>7551284
Not even the best romantic.
Pound
>>7551301
Fite me
>>7551242
William Blake up in this BITCH
Pound is another favorite though
>>7551242
Objectively
1)Shakespeare
2)Chaucer
3)Milton
4)Spenser
Not one fucking mention of Keats
I am very disappoint lit
>>7551539
I was going to post Keats or Yeats.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
>>7551242
>buffalo cheese
A whole new world just opened up in front of me.
T.S. Eliot
>>7551248
infinitely this
>>7551881
You've never heard of mozzarella? If you want exotic try donkey cheese, or dolphin cheese or even human cheese.
>>7551539
Milton wins cause he didn't die when he was 25. If Keats lived even a few years longer (say to 30 or so) he would probably have been uncontested #2, and a few more years probably would've saw him as undisputed #1 even over le shakes
>>7551539
>muh nightingale
>>7551242
Yeats. No contest.
>>7551271
He deserves a place in the greats but idk about the greatest
Nigger, Chaucer is the best, better than Shakespeare.
>>7554329
lol
>>7551242
>Hard: Swiss
>Semi-hard: Gouda
really
Whoever says Chaucer is pretending. Ted Hughes isn't bad. Milton too.
>>7556657
>Whoever says Chaucer is pretending
lel oh lel
confirmed for not reading Chaucer
also,
William Butler Yeats, how is there even a thread on this?
>>7551537
sup harold bloom
>comte but no beaufort
french supremacist cheese wheel reported
Lord Byron
>>7556657
Hello Reddit
>>7557749
i 2nd this
>>7553938
The best poets are already the best lyricists actually
>>7557879
Neutral Milk Hotel
> I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIST
>memeing
>on a dead board
>>7551881
Mozzarella belongs on every pizza, how have you not heard of that?
>>7551242
Ezra Pound
>>7551249
Not even one of the most technically proficient poets, he's a non-poet's poet. Not even top 10. He's so unimportant to the art of poetry that it hurts.
My vote is Whitman.
>>7558575
How can you be so wrong on the first part and so right on the second
>>7558575
No. It's either Milton, Whitman, or Blake.
>>7558588
I don't see any right parts in that. Milton can be criticised for a lot of things but effortless technical proficiency was something he had plenty of.
>english
>poetry
>>7558609
The right part was Whitman.
>ctrl+f "donne"
>0 of 0
What have you guys got against John Donne ?
>>7558674
Nothing. Donne is great but he's not the greatest.
>>7554329
>being this much of a Gregory Berrycone
>>7558674
i fucking love donne but greatest is a high bar.
>>7558684
This wasn't ever funny before, but I chuckled this time.
