Does any poet convey the European spirit as well as Whitman conveys

Imagine how much more you'd enjoy life if you lived in New England during the 1800s. Fucking hell, they had it set.

>>9515144
does whitman speak for south americans?

does blake speak for slavs?

There isn't a pan-Europa spirit to be conveyed. A German, a Frenchman and an Englishman are different entities, and each of their respective nations have produced poets who expressed their heart.

It's "an American thinks his country is the same as the continent of Europe" episode

>>9515144
Shut up yankee.

>>9515213
>>9515225
It's only a matter of time until there will only be a "european" culture, France's vote sealed that. What's so bad about new cultures?

>>9515213
You could say the same for a resident of Lousiana vs. Maine, but we do alright

>>9515793
You could say it but you'd be wrong.

>>9515792
Will history be deleted?

>>9515187
>working in textile mill for 18 hours a day
>having it set

>>9515792
Man, I wish there would be an European culture. But the only culture we're going to get from now on is the shitty one from America. We Europeans will always have our ancestry but we will never create something of our own anymore as long as the US refuses to contain its poisons such as Hollywood, celebrity worship, shitty internet culture.

>>9515225
Europe is a subcontinent (a babydick cuck landmass), not a continent (a bull landmass).

>>9515144
this is genuinely spooky

>>9515144
Europe's 'spirit' perished oh, about 150 yrs ago for good. Two idiotic world wars that achieved nothing (for Europe) confirmed this. It's past's too heavy, it's fate is to remain a museum. Whoop-de-shit.

>>9515144
Allow me to interject, what you're actually referring to as European is in fact mediterranean and latin culture.

But the answer is Valery.

>>9516936
As prolific as Whitman, and certainly as imaginative, and though more polished, more urbane, more obviously restrained and spiritual..
I must confess I thought this an impossible test, but your contribution has me thinking. There may be no correct answer here, but this truly is a good one.

>>9515792
More like a common african culture of europe.

>>9515799
the North and South have never been the same; even the West is its own entity for that matter.

NEfags like OP are delusional

>>9516936

>But the answer is Valery.

Great taste. Not Goethe, though? ..Seriously?

>>9517415
The US is more culturally homogeneous than the UK, nevermind Europe.

>>9517472
FUCKING LOL

The UK is the dullest, uniform country I have ever visited. I don't know how you could live there and not want to kill yourself every day

>>9515211
Blake speaks for the soul

>>9517475
I think he means that taken as a whole the US has a more uniform culture than the UK does. While parts of the UK are extremely dull, other parts are mini-Baghdad. Although the US has Florida...

>>9516936
>in Europe
>not European

There's no such thing as "Mediterranean" culture. Nobody lives in the Mediterranean.

>>9515211
Blake appeals to Orthodoxy

>>9516214
>It's the US's fault that Europeans consume the worse parts of US culture

>>9517721
>implying the US culture has any better parts

>>9517792
>Posting this in a thread about Whitman