/lit/ - Literature

>>4732959
John "Crazy Eye" Milton, as he was known at Cambridge.

>>4732959

>>4732959
Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Ugo Foscolo, Giovanni Pascoli.

Tu nella torre avita,
passero solitario,
tenti la tua tastiera,
come nel santuario
monaca prigioniera
l'organo, a fior di dita;

che pallida, fugace,
stupì tre note, chiuse
nell'organo, tre sole,
in un istante effuse,
tre come tre parole
ch'ella ha sepolte, in pace.

Da un ermo santuario
che sa di morto incenso
nelle grandi arche vuote,
di tra un silenzio immenso
mandi le tue tre note,
spirito solitario.

can we play a game?
>wrestling names for poets
>Langston Huge
We can play another game if you like.

Alexander Pope

JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON JOHN MILTON

>>4732970
he was blind

Dante Alighieri, Fernando Pessoa


honorable mention to William Henley because of Invictus

Nobody has stricken me the same way yet.

>>4732959

Walt Whitman
William Blake
Homer

I'm a poetry pleb. I wish I knew more poets so i could pick. Read Dante's Inferno and it was too complex for me as of yet.

>>4732959
Why is he derp?

>>4734154

Try Stanley Lombardo's translation of Inferno. It's easily the most accessible and informative translation. And it's facing-page, which is always a plus.

>>4732970
My favorite nickname of his was "The Lady of Christ's College"

>>4733595
Not until he was getting older. His days in college were filled with light.

Marianne Moore.

>>4732959
I just started reading the Selected Works of John Ashbery and I have fallen in love with some of his earlier worker. The poem the Painter is so damn beautiful.
I also just finished reading his translation of the Illuminations that feels so much more lighter than the translation published by New Directions although I don't know if the translations are close to the source.

Has anyone read Thomas Lovell Beddoes? He was a Romantic that seems to be forgotten. I first read on of his poems in a collection of the so called best poems of the English language by Harold Bloom that really surprised me.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-adam-the-carrion-crow/
Fun fact: His father was Coleridge's physician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lovell_Beddoes
He mostly wrote in fragments that he tried to assemble into plays according to all the biographies I read on him. There is also a small society centered around his work. There is a through link on this website that has a very good biography on him.
http://www.phantomwooer.org/
Fun fact #2: He killed himself

>>4732959
>Blake
>Milton
>Wordsworth
>Tennyson
>Coleridge
>Shelley
Come at me bro

>>4734837
Anyone heard of this guy?

Blake
Yeats
Laforgue
Baudelaire

Keats
Wallace Stevens
Robert Lowell

Shakespeare and no one else.

>>4734863
Wordsworth is shit.

>>4735296
bad taste

>>4735296
You're the only shit here my friend
He holds a special place in my heart because my mom quoted him on my parents' first date, and my dad finished the quote. My mom says that's why she fell for him.

Keats
Wilfred Owen
Baudelaire, Dante
Basho
Issa
Buson
Shiki
Goethe
Milton
Tristan Tzara
Ben Jonson
Lord Byron
Coleridge
Isaac Rosenberg
Akiko Yosano
Takuboku Ishikawa
Apollinaire
Rilke
Yeats

>>4735303

>tfw that will never happen to you

>>4735306
I know, right?
My dad's lucky as fuck too. He was already bald by then, and he was barely 30.
>tfw you didn't inherit the baldness

>>4735296
With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,
Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed;
Some lying fast at anchor in the road,
Some veering up and down, one knew not why.
A goodly vessel did I then espy
Come like a giant from a haven broad;
And lustily along the bay she strode,
Her tackling rich, and of apparel high.
The ship was nought to me, nor I to her,
Yet I pursued her with a lover's look;
This ship to all the rest did I prefer:
When will she turn, and whither? She will brook
No tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir:
On went she, and due north her journey took.

>>4735300
He's only famous for changing the way poetry was written away from the horribly cliche "poetic language" which was rampant throughout England at the time. He was on the right track, but his work is terrible. He's an idiot boy riding a poetic pony to no where.

>>4735303
Aww :3

>>4735309

>poem about a ship
>not beau navire

>>4735310
you have bad taste

>>4735309
If you're trying to convince me otherwise you'll have to post a good poem.

>>4735315
that is a god tier poem

if you can't figure out why you're a pleb

<spoiler>Joyce thought Wordworth was "a genius"</spoiler>

>>4734837
One more bump for this

John Milton
Edmund Spenser
William Blake
Philip Sidney
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lord Tennyson
Lord Byron
Percy Shelley
Geoffrey Chaucer

Not necessarily in that order, except Milton and Spenser are tied for number 1 with Sidney in number 3