/lit/ - Literature

>>8156459
are you kidding me
people here jack high romantics off and bathe in their semen and they typically crown Keats as the king of cum

>>7445077
as a matter of fact I haven't posted on /lit/ at all in the last two weeks

>>7294228
Everybody I know has heard of Wright.
"On this board" is basically worthless because look at the people that these posters think are underrated. EVERYONE is underrated on this board because nobody here knows shit about poetry.

>>7294643
p much

>>7294649
Read a fucking book

>>7294856
You better be memeing son

>>7294894
Both shit, Burnham isn't a poet and I personally don't consider Bukowski one either. Neither are anywhere near underrated though.

>>7297205
Stupid

>>7298214
>James Merrill
Stop getting your literature from /lit/. Merrill is highly regarded by everyone that reads and writes books.

>>7299268
>John Clare
Clare is the most read romantic poet outside of the high romantics.
>around here
see above

>>7299306
>joanna hands down...
Holy shit, really? Good fucking lord man. She's not even a poet. Neither is Dylan.
>Nabokov
>Fuck yeah
>proceeds to call someone else a pleb
I'm sincerely asking you to either stop posting or read more books, please

>>7214222
But the average sentence is only hard to understand if A) you don't read poetry, B) you're retarded or C) both

>>7087765
>Never took you for a fascist
Don't tell anyone, kek. Fascism is one of those things that's taboo here in America, moreso than communism. Everybody hates a fascist; Hitler kind of ruined it for us.

>>7087819
>which ones are worth reading in translation
Maybe the Chinese ancients if only to be familiar with their mode of thought. It's good reading for contrast with the Western tradition, and might even give you some ideas in your own writing.
Otherwise there's Dante, obviously, though his Italian is likely closer to Latin than it is modern Italian. Medieval poets, there's Anglo-Saxons that wrote some fine poems. Ahh between around 1100 and 1300 you'll find very little English poetry because of the Norman invasion and the dominance of Norman French and Latin in the English speaking area, so if you're interested at all in medieval poetry you'd have to read translation.
There's a handful of golden age Spanish poets one could read, like de Vega, but I can read Spanish and am not familiar with the translations so I couldn't tell you if it's really worth your time to read them. I'd probably say not.
Goethe is worth reading in English if you don't speak German, and maybe /maybe/ Rilke depending on how much you care.
And then there are Frenchies you might care about, but ultimately outside languages beyond Latin and Greek (if we ignore Germanic/Anglo-Saxon roots) have had little influence on the English tradition as a whole. Who's worth reading really depends on which poets you care for, because other than Greek and Latin other language poetry influence is mostly on a case-to-case basis.

>>6925648
Crane was very confident in his work and was narcissistic in regards to his writing. I would think so.

>>6868663 here
I didn't want to add anymore ratio because as you can see it's already p shitty, but I'm feeling nice so here, direct download you lazy faggot

Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd edition
http://bookzz.org/book/950100/fc49bb
The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry
http://bookzz.org/book/1008700/99c91b