[Boards: 3 / a / aco / adv / an / asp / b / biz / c / cgl / ck / cm / co / d / diy / e / fa / fit / g / gd / gif / h / hc / his / hm / hr / i / ic / int / jp / k / lgbt / lit / m / mlp / mu / n / news / o / out / p / po / pol / qa / r / r9k / s / s4s / sci / soc / sp / t / tg / toy / trash / trv / tv / u / v / vg / vp / vr / w / wg / wsg / wsr / x / y ] [Home]
4chanarchives logo
Your top 3 poets?
Images are sometimes not shown due to bandwidth/network limitations. Refreshing the page usually helps.

You are currently reading a thread in /lit/ - Literature

Thread replies: 92
Thread images: 12
File: bo.jpg (17 KB, 480x360) Image search: [Google]
bo.jpg
17 KB, 480x360
Your top 3 poets?
>>
>having to choose 3

nty
>>
Shelley, Yeats, Pound

Honourary mention to Larkin
>>
Cummings, Yeats, Shakespear
>>
whitman, pound, eliot
>>
Chuangtsu, whitman, ryokan
>>
>>7851174
>庄子
>poet
>spelling it "chuangtsu"

pseud faggot detected

fuck off
>>
Stevens, Bishop, Eliot
>>
>>7851178

>arguing over semantics

sorry i'm not as intelligent as you oh wise one
>>
Eluard, Laforge, Rimbaud
>>
>>7851178
at least Im not pretentious
>>
>>7851191
*tips beret*

>>7851163
Shelley is overrated, the cantos are trash, Yeats is good tho

>>7851168
>Shakespear
Cummings is good but not first-rate
>>
>>7851204

Now you have to post yours'
>>
Keats, Pound, and Butler.
>>
>>7851204

Already did>>7851181
>>
My diary
My girlfriend's diary
Shakespeare
>>
Rilke
Dickinson
Eliot
>>
>>7851204
>>7851227
faggot
>>
>>7851227

Not bad familia, nice to put in a couple that others have not

>>7851239

Do you read German? What's Holderlin like? I know Heidegger mentions him a lot, along with Rilke of course
>>
>>7851145
Carson
Borges
Milton
>>
Sandburg, Warren, and Horace.
>>
Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Ginsberg
>>
walt whitman, tao qian, jorge luis borges
>>
>>7851275
Nice b8, will gladly take it
(You)
>>
Blake
Pessoa
Virgil
>>
>>7851145
J.H. Prynne, Lee Harwood, T.S. Eliot
>>
Eliot, Plath, Hardy
>>
lautreamont, rimbaud and banchs

nice to see that some people picked borges, to those I suggest to read la urna from banchs
>>
>>7851344
oh shit I forgot to include Hardy. Not really one of my top 3, but "He Never Expected Much" is my favorite poem of all time.
>>
>>7851145

T.S Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Yeats
>>
>>7851354
which were yours anon?
>>
Eliot
Rimbaud
Thomas
>>
>>7851204
>the cantos are trash
So what, no one reads them, and anyway he was a renowned poet before he even conceived of them. His Personae are exceptional.

You have Elliot as you #3. Do you realise Ezra Pound edited and structured The Wasteland and basically made it the poem we know today. Elliot's uncut version was 100% longer.

Pound

Elliot

Snyder
>>
>>7851145
Lautréamont
Chambrier
Crane
>>
Eliot
Yates
Bryant
>>
Dylan Thomas
Sharon Olds
Merwin
>>
ISIS
Osama Bin Laden
Donald Trump
>>
TS Eliot
Charles Baudelaire
Elizabeth Bishop
>>
File: ornettecoleman_wide.jpg (29 KB, 620x372) Image search: [Google]
ornettecoleman_wide.jpg
29 KB, 620x372
can anyone rec irish poetry? read some yeats today and was really into it. i'm really into james joyce and ts eliot, so modernist era would be cool?

i wish i could find ezra pound in print, can't stand reading lit off of a computer screen.
>>
>>7851192
>7851192
>>7851186
plebs

>>7851204
pleb

>>7851245
pleb
>>
>>7851145
Ryokan
Piet Hein
Oliverio Girondo
>>
Poe
Tennyson
Shakespeare
>>
Jesus
Satan
Tao Lin
>>
Parra
Borges
Benedetti
>>
Dante, Alighieri and Dante Alighieri
>>
>>7851488
Beckett
Seamus Heaney
James Stephens
A.E.
Patrick Kavanagh
Padraic Pearse

Some modernist in this list a lot of Celtic twilight too though. Also you can get everything worth reading by Pound on bookdepository[.]com
>>
Berryman
Rilke
Thomas

D. Young & Stevens get an honorary mention
>>
>>7851552
fucking dank, friend. i thought waiting for godot was overrated, but i've been meaning to give his other stuff, especially prose, a shot.
>>
Baudelaire
Shakespeare
Wittgenstein
>>
Whitman
Blake
Ginsberg
>>
Valéry
Rilke
Perse (Saint John)
>>
>>7851204

To be fair, the thread asked us about our favourite poets, not the ones we think are the best.
>>
>>7853500
I really like your choices
>>
File: images (7).jpg (3 KB, 160x160) Image search: [Google]
images (7).jpg
3 KB, 160x160
>>7851145
Pound
Crane
Whitman
>>
>>7851393
>His Personae are exceptional.
This. And 99% percent of people who say The Cantos is haven't even read it.
>>
Yeats
Browning
Creeley

Donne is working his way up there though
>>
Arany János
József Attila
>>
Me, myself and I.

I burn all my work so no you cannot enjoy it too.
>>
File: 1433196115925.jpg (139 KB, 1080x720) Image search: [Google]
1433196115925.jpg
139 KB, 1080x720
Milton
Keats
Baudelaire
>>
File: lovely.jpg (41 KB, 600x400) Image search: [Google]
lovely.jpg
41 KB, 600x400
Mira Gonzalez is all I need
>>
Triple H: Housman, Holderlin, and Heaney
>>
Eliot, Pound, Wordsworth

I'm a prose pleb, only reason I have any appreciation for Eliot and Pound is because I studied them in school, (love the Cantos)
>>
Shakespeare
Dante
Piero Scaruffi
>>
>>7851145
>Rimbaud
>Baudelaire
>Pound

Hell, I think my son will be named "Ezra".
>>
Hölderlin, Celan, Stevens
>>
Lately I've been quite obsessed with:

Auden
Day Lewis
Hughes
>>
Tennyson
Arnold
Browning

I'm a big fan of the Victorians, if that wasn't obvious
>>
Pound, Rimbaud, Shelley
>>
File: 09923423423.png (394 KB, 841x574) Image search: [Google]
09923423423.png
394 KB, 841x574
Hopkins, Hardy, Shakespeare
>>
Dylan Thomas
Shelley
Swinburne
>>
>>7851145
Lautreamont
Rimbaud
Pizarnik
>>
Based on my enjoyment of them:

Poe
Kipling
Robert Burns
>>
Tomas Tranströmer, Bei Dao and Rilke

and yes 莊子 didn't write poems.
>>
File: hm.png (310 KB, 681x549) Image search: [Google]
hm.png
310 KB, 681x549
>>7854074
Housman first. Hm, I feel aroused.
>>
>pound
>>
>>7855519
Pound is great, anon.
>>
Lorca
Quevedo
Juan Ramón
>>
Donne, Milton and Shakespeare. In that order
>>
Currently, they are Eliot, Yeats, and Shakespeare, with Whitman and Pound as honorable mentions. Denizens of /lit/, which one poet would you recommend me to make me less of a pleb?
>>
C. P. Cavafy
Seamus Heaney
T. S. Eliot
>>
>>7855826
Hart Crane and Rainer Rilke.
>>
>>7851186
>transliteration
>semantics
>>
Coleridge
Pound
no idea for third. I've been really enjoying Gascoigne lately.

first for Coleridge really? baka
>>
Stevens
Dickinson
Rilke
>>
File: 129.jpg (72 KB, 531x471) Image search: [Google]
129.jpg
72 KB, 531x471
>>7854062
>>
Homer
Virgil
Dante
>>
Frost
Homer
Dante

Honourary mentions are Blake, Yeats, and Eliot.
>>
File: justdoit.jpg (26 KB, 502x247) Image search: [Google]
justdoit.jpg
26 KB, 502x247
>>7851145
If he's offering you some punch, don't drink it.
>>
>>7854493
Good taste.
>>
File: 1311947915015.jpg (27 KB, 285x298) Image search: [Google]
1311947915015.jpg
27 KB, 285x298
>>7851191
>>7851392
>>7854089
>>7854493
>he likes Rimjob
>>
Catullus
Bukowski
Piet Paaltjens
>>
E. Brontë
Sexton
Tennyson
Thread replies: 92
Thread images: 12

banner
banner
[Boards: 3 / a / aco / adv / an / asp / b / biz / c / cgl / ck / cm / co / d / diy / e / fa / fit / g / gd / gif / h / hc / his / hm / hr / i / ic / int / jp / k / lgbt / lit / m / mlp / mu / n / news / o / out / p / po / pol / qa / r / r9k / s / s4s / sci / soc / sp / t / tg / toy / trash / trv / tv / u / v / vg / vp / vr / w / wg / wsg / wsr / x / y] [Home]

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties. Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Comments are owned by the Poster.
If a post contains personal/copyrighted/illegal content you can contact me at [email protected] with that post and thread number and it will be removed as soon as possible.
DMCA Content Takedown via dmca.com
All images are hosted on imgur.com, send takedown notices to them.
This is a 4chan archive - all of the content originated from them. If you need IP information for a Poster - you need to contact them. This website shows only archived content.