Post great poets neglected on /lit/
He doesn't look so manley
Hart Crane
all the rest too
>>7672771
you and everyone else choking on bloom's cock shill hart crane
i mean he's not bad but he's by no means "neglected"
>>7672771
I was going to answer this but I remembered >>7673563 was right. Elsewhere Hart Crane is definitely neglected, but on /lit/ he's probably more popular than Spenser and non-Homer Pope!
Anyway:
Roethke
Bridges (relevant to Hopkins!)
Lawrence (everyone here knows his novels)
Kaufman (the greatest Beat after Burroughs)
and literally anybody alive (eg Ashbery, Merill, Prynne, Mehigan)
just a couple because poetry as a whole is neglected on /lit/, and while I believe there's value in reading non-English/translated poetry I can't blame people for neglecting it here.
>>7673598
>and literally anybody alive (eg Ashbery, Merill, Prynne, Mehigan)
>Merrill
whoops, originally I had 'contemporary' there in place of 'alive.'
Also does Ted Hughes count as neglected on here? I just got Birthday Letters and it's pretty good, but considering how small the poetry fanclub is on /lit/ maybe his small amount of renown here *is* relatively appropriate.
>>7673598
Is Ashberry neglected? Considering his difficulty, I think he's doing OK. I've only read Convex mirror.
>>7672723
southern fugitives
Robert Penn Warren
John Gould Fletcher
John Crowe Ransom
Walter Clyde Curry
Bukowski
>>7673613
Solid point, but when you consider the types of novelists /lit/ meme-ify, I do believe Ashbery should be a bit more popular here. Granted, he's difficult in a different way than, say, Gaddis, Gass, or Pynchon are, but still.
>>7672755
I second this.
thomas the transformer
Pretty much any pre-19th century poet aside form like Homer, Dante, Shakespeare or Milton
>>7672723
Robinson Jeffers, and not just here. I only came across him via Bukowski. Otherwsie I would never have heard of him and I read a fair bit of yank poetry.
A.E. Housman
Denjs Johnson (though he's neglected in general too)
>>7673598
I think I have seen Spenser mentioned once in my entire entire time on /lit/ before
Really the entire pre-Shakespearean realm of English is neglected on here aside from maybe Chaucer (who is still rarely mentioned) and Beowulf. Quite a lot of that timespan is poetry considering the 'novel' had not really been conceived yet.
>>7673694
I read something by this guy in a coffee-table book and liked it enough to write his name down. Never actually went back and read any more of his stuff, thanks for reminding me.
>>7674801
cheers m8 transtromer is the bomb.
everyone who bitched when he got the nobel and called it another example of swedish favoritism clearly hasn't read anything he wrote. i haven't found anyone who read him who thought he was bad. it didn't quite jive with some people but everyone i know appreciated his stuff. there's a elegant simplicity to it that's nevertheless insightful.
>>7672723
hopkins is a good poet and while not talked about often anymore everyone has read him
>>7672755
bad
>>7672771
everyone has read him
>>7673598
>Roethke
mediocre
>Bridges (relevant to Hopkins!)
and not as good
>Lawrence
not good as a poet
> Kaufman
nah, not talked about for a reason
> and literally anybody alive (eg Ashbery, Merill, Prynne, Mehigan)
sure
but Merrill died of Buttfuck disease like 2 decades ago
>>7673605
>Ted Hughes
overtalked about given his limited talent
>>7673613
no he's very well respected even to newcomers to living poets. I read him before I had even read earlier semi-famous poets like Jonson
>>7673619
sure
but Allen Tate was far and away the best fugitive poet
>>7673620
garbage meme
>>7673694
sure
>>7673626
> he's difficult in a different way than, say, Gaddis, Gass, or Pynchon
depends on his phase, he switched styles very often
"three poems" is denser than the rest
>>7673884
sure
>>7673980
no he's talked about enough
>>7674801
>Really the entire pre-Shakespearean realm of English is neglected on here
there's not as much that's even close to Chaucer or Shakes in the time between the two. but it's most good and worth reading. I like surrey a lot
>>7672723
RING A DING A SING A SONG
>>7672723
No one talks about Rilke. People should talk about Rilke. I like Rilke.
ee cummings, t b h f a m
>>7677007
Edgy
>>7677200
Is Kolsti actually good?
>>7673994
this
masefield and swinburne also
Patricia Lockwood that wrote a poem about Rape.
>>7679185
Is he bad?
>>7679197
There's worse.
>>7679204
Like Bukowski?
>>7679242
No.
Jeremy Prynne
Wilfred Owen
>>7673598
>but on /lit/ he's probably more popular than Spenser and non-Homer Pope!
>!
That's some good cringe.
Richard Brautigan.
>>7673694
When he's mentioned it's always positively, but it's true he's not brought up much.
>>7673626
I agree. He's really good but not idiosyncratic enough to make into a meme.
>>7679178
At Month's End manages to be really rhythmic without sounding like a nursery rhyme. I love that.
>>7679194
Actually not that great... There are much better poets who've written about Rape, like Ovid, Shakespeare, Pope and Yeats
>>7679806
You are mentally retarded.
Where to start with Auden?
>>7681811
Wrong.
