Was he the last Romantic poet?
Hopefully.
ted hughes seems like a romantic
Romanticism will never die.
Depends what you mean by "Romantic". Germany had poets contemporary with Yeats that one could say was following and developing from that literary lineage.
>>8058382
Romanticism will come back, it always does.New Age is pseudo-intellectual romanticism
i'm pretty new to poetry but i picked up The Tower recently. reading through it, i have to say it has some of the most beautiful language i've ever read, but honestly i don't understand half of it.
>>8059961
That's because Yeats is intellectual elitist
>muh Golden Dawn
>>8059974
yeats can be difficult but is always intelligible. he is the best english language writer.
>>8060001
>yeats is the best english language writer...
Puhleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase, bitch.
>>8059935
romantic poetry is mediocre
>>8060001
>he is the best english language writer.
sheesh
>>8060001
Looks like you have an unpopular opinion, anon. Take it to reddit.
>>8057704
Sometimes my poo seems like chocolate but I'm not going to eat it again.
>>8060341
But he's not even top five.
>>8057692
that isn't larkin though ?
>>8060499
yikes
>>8060495
Your irrational hipsterdom is showing.
>>8060341
After Shakespeare, yes.
I don't know why people are under the impression that Romanticism ever ended. After all, when you peel back the cold academic film, Eliot is a High Romantic. Pound is a Romantic in the deepest sense; it's just that his individualistic, insurgent Romantc tendency got redirected into politics. Frost is obviously Romantic, Stevens shamelessly so. 20th century (and I suppose 21st century so far) poetry is just Romanticism trying to get away from itself and inevitably finding itself again. There have been in reality only two significant ways of doing poetry: Classicism and Romanticism. All the rest is one of those two fundamental types masquerading as something else--sometimes as eachother.
>>8060704
>>8060077
My black person.
>>8060704
1. yeats
2. shakespeare
3. joyce
>>8060952
Where would Yeats be without our buddy from Stratford?
>>8060704
Joyce is above Shakespeare.
>>8060796
You forgot the most Romantic of them all, Hart Crane.
>>8059923
Why would romanticism come back? It is an art form which was influenced by industrialization, a feeling of wonder and smallness, fear of man's hubris, etc. those days are gone. We have moved from skepticism of technology to a total pessimism. Romanticism catches us threatened by technology a la Coalbrookdale by Night, but we've been past that phase for ages, we are in the maelstrom now.
>>8062406
I figured that went without saying. But yes, of course, Crane too.
>>8062419
Dark satanic mills? More shiny clear glass plate office high-rises.
