Who's the greatest American poet of the 20th century?

Pic related for me, but I really haven't read much poetry.

Charles Olson

Bukowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiLfQUBnyA

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Allen Ginsberg

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>>9470792
Tie between these two

>>9470757
Pound

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>>9470757

I'd have to say Ezra Pound.

Though Charles Olson, Ted Hughes, and Frank O'Hara are right behind him.

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Kenneth Patchen

Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Ezra Pound.
I'd like to include Charles Olson but I haven't read enough from him to confidently say

Oh and for an underrated pick, Ronald Johnson

>>9470820
Ted Hughes is English.

>>9470757
Pic related.

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>>9470830
Pound, Ezra. Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.

Robinson Jeffers

If you haven't heard of him, it's because (((they))) don't want us to read him anymore

Is Frost 20th century?

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>>9470830
Pound is pseudcore.Gained attention by developing a kooky meme personality but ultimately no discernable talent

Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
John Ashbery
Elizabeth Bishop
Hart Crane

>>9470831

I didn't really think that one through.

>>9470835
I read one poem of his and it blew my mind.

>>9470757

Ezra Pound.
Possibly also the greatest American intellectual of all times.

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>anti-semite
>intellectual

Ezra Pound
Louis Zukofsky
William Carlos Williams
Charles Olson
George Oppen
Lorine Niedecker
Robert Duncan
Charles Reznikoff
Ronald Johnson
EE Cummings
James Schuyler
James Merrill
John Ashbery
Ed Dorn
Jonathan Williams
Wallace Stevens
Susan Howe
Hannah Weiner
Frank Stanford
Jack Spicer
Frank O'Hara
Barbara Guest

1. Pound
2. Frost
3. Cummings

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Has anyone who is recommending Pound actually even read any of his poems?
I'm amazed his embarrassing LARPing of some faux retro European impresses anyone today

>>9470909
Pound quickly went from intellectual to crank. One of the most tragic aspects of his life is the brainpower wasted on pseudo economics and pseudo history.

>>9470935

Not a fan of Lowell?

>>9470839

That's not how you spell 'I've tried to read the Cantos but I can't understand shit so I'm going to say Pound sucks because I'm such a pleb reader I can't even take the time to go to the library and borrow secondary literature'

>>9470987
>secondary literature

And that there is just the entire point of Pound, he's just shit for flies.

There's a lot of good written "about" his work but its ultimately all orbiting a black hole. Its why he's so attractive to a certain class of critics, he's a fashionable blank slate for them to do as they like.

>>9470929

Not a frogposter, I seriously think he's the best the US has to offer in term of depth and wideness of thought.
And the racist meme about people born in the eighteen hundreds should really stop. You're always quick to finger-point a poet for being anti-semitic while in the rest of the US there were segregation laws for black people, and everyone seemed ok with it. Racism used to be normal.

>>9470996
>in term of depth and wideness of thought.

Like what?