Excluding Shakespeare, who is the greatest English-language

Beckett

Objectively Milton

>>7551242
dickens

Bukowski

>>7551249
This.
But I like Browning the most personally.

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James McIntyre

pic semi-related, not his but similar themes

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>>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

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>>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

>>7551271
>>7553758

You mean Robert Zimmerman?

I wouldn't put him in a poetry great list. Lyricists, sure. Poetry, no.

Nigger, Chaucer is the best, better than Shakespeare.

>>7554329
lol

>>7553660
>>7553749


Hyperion is the only english epic that could've surpassed Paradife Loft

>>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,

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William Butler Yeats, how is there even a thread on this?

>>7551537
sup harold bloom

>comte but no beaufort

french supremacist cheese wheel reported

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Lord Byron

>>7556657
Hello Reddit

>>7557749
i 2nd this

>>7553938
The best poets are already the best lyricists actually

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>>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.

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>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.

>>7558695
>>7558684
Don't overdue it though.