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>he's the greatest 20th century poet in any language
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>he's the greatest 20th century poet in any language
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Yeats?
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>>8253575
*Keats

ftfy
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>>8253578
Retard
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>>8253392
Eliot
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>>8253587
If only he lived to the 20th century.
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>>8253392
Gotta go with my boy Allen.
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>>8253594
/thread
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>>8253597
come on, this guy is third rate at best
gotta be my boy Rilke tbqh
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>>8253392
Eliot, Frost, or Plath
(Maybe Neruda, but I haven't read him yet)
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>>8253597
Yo W H A T
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>>8253677
I want to get into rilke, what's the preferred translation(s)?
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>>8254356
>plath
>neruda
No
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>>8254356
Currently reading Bell Jar, 60 pages in. Quite good, not great. I can tell she just wanted to be a poet.
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>>8254378
Plath is a great
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>>8254385
All i have read of her was awkward with the stupidest fucking rhymes. But she might be ok
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>>8253597
surely you mean "comedian," not "poet"? David Cross can't write poetry for shit.
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>>8254401
Are you talking about "Daddy," because it's a masterwork.
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>>8253392
Rilke or Pound are the only correct answers.
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>>8254385
No, she just died.
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>>8254385
She is great, but the thread said best.
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>>8254374
>poetry
>translations
lel
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>>8254385
Plath was a whiny, self-entitled woman-child.
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>>8254356
>Maybe Neruda, but I haven't read him yet
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