Who are the /lit approved poets?

Allen Ginsberg

>>7608255
Homer (^:

>>7608255
Ginsberg, Steve Rogenbuck, primarily all of Alt-Lit

>>7608255
Milton, Shakespeare, and the Greeks.

>>7608255
Chaucer
Milton
Byron
Shelly
Eliot
Ezra Pound
Frost
Blake

>>7608261
>>7608284
Fuck off beat degenerates

William Carlos Williams
Allen Curnow
Ezra Pound
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hilda Doolittle
Hart Crane

I stuck
my tongue into his
Shitty asshole
HOWL

>>7608255
Idk about /lit/ as a collective but I'm a big fan of Wallace Stevens. Seems like nobody talks about him here, for w/e reason.

>>7608396
/lit/ doesn't talk about poetry much. But yeah, Stevens is brilliant and I discovered him through /lit/, plus I think Harold Bloom approves of him, so I'd say he's about as /lit/ as a poet can be without being Pound or a classical author.

I wonder how /lit/ Larkin is? In the 'for' column he's great, often very depressing, has neet-friendly themes and afaik was politically right-wing. But on the other hand his poems aren't at all difficult to understand and he was a post-WW2 Britbong.

>>7608396
Really enjoying Stevens at the moment, you might like A.R Ammons as well.

>>7608396
Stevens is always talked about here when it's appropriate, you pretentious faggot

What are some of Yeats' best poems?

>>7608295
These are some good ones.

>>7609085
The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium

>>7608255
In English? All of them from Chaucer to Eliot.

>>7608255
Here is Bloom's list of Poems/Poets, looks pretty thorough (only english poets though)

http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2010/07/03/harold-blooms-recommended-poems/

Whitman
Stevens
Hart Crane
Yeats
Dickinson
Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Blake
the other Romantics are vaguely /lit/


>>7608509
Bloom doesn't like Larkin; Larkin is shit

Ashbery
Yeats
Keats
Auden
Eliot
Chaucer
Dante
Antiphon
Ovid
the Greeks
Shakespeare
Milton
Dylan Thomas
Whitman
Rimbaud

many more

>>7610968
Antiphon was a typo

>>7609085
Lapis Lazuli

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Swinburne

>>7608295
>Eliot
>Pound
>Blake
shit list tbqh

Swinburne
Housman
Emerson
Donne
Crane
Milton

Just adding a few more Victorians besides Swinburne,

Tennyson
Browning
Arnold
Thomson
Rosetti
Hopkins

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>Rimbaud

my niggas

>>7611528
So you know french? Is it worth reading some bum's translation of a poem?

Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Oscar Wilde

the best:

dickinson
stevens
rilke
shakespeare

>>7611528
>You'll never Rim Rimbaud
Why even live...

Rimbaud
Apollinaire
Boris Vian

>>7611534
I'm French, I think you should read poetry in the original language, translations have no point I think, you're not reading the author's poem if it's translated.

>>7611755
Just because you're not reading the author's poem doesn't necessarily mean there's no point

>>7611764
Not always but it's another poem.

Why has no one in this thread even mentioned keats

>>7609164

you mad third world pleb?

>>7608261

The beats are trash, fuck off!

>>7611394
>Housman

Mon negre.

>>7608255
Baudelaire is definitely the best intro to French poetry, but Verlaine is another good choice for melancholy. Rimbaud is a little haughty, but if you can find a critical edition that isn't all "le Jim Morrison comparison, so deep" it provides a lot of valuable context.

>>7613070
Beat poetry is great- if you're 16 and smoke weed.

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>>7608255
/lit/ doesn't know anything about poetry so it's not like it matters

fuckin Bukowski come on

>>7613165
Nice flowers
Not every man has gentians in his house
in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas.

Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark
darkening the daytime torch-like with the smoking blueness
of Pluto’s gloom,
ribbed and torch-like, with their blaze of darkness spread
blue
down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of
white day
torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto’s dark-
blue daze,
black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,
giving off darkness, blue darkness, as Demeter’s pale lamps
give off light,
lead me then, lead me the way.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower
down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on
blueness,
even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted
September
to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark
and Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense
gloom,
among the splendour of torches of darkness, shedding
darkness on the lost bride and her groom.

>>7613089
Betetr than slam poetry, man.

anyone got a flowchart for poetry?