/lit/ - Literature

>>17545688
No. It’s probably Pound.

>>17545693
But he was a nazi

>>17545693
Pound was a hack.

>>17545832
Yes.

>>17545688
Hey, I have that edition too.

>>17545886
Then he was bad

Stevens, Crane, Dickinson

>>17547544
Shite, decent, home

John Greenleaf Whittier

>>17545693
Pound was the first arthoe

>>17548255
>decent
He was spectacular

>>17545688
Obviously you haven’t read John brown’s body

>>17545693
holy shit you are a retard

>>17545693
didn't ezra pound disavow the US and move to Europe out of pure hatred for it? you can't really claim him as "American"

>>17550057
he spent most of his time mentoring and helping publish american poets, so no, not really...

>>17545688
He is the best America has to offer in anything

>>17550057
What was his reason for hating America?

>>17550065
>>17550109
I must've partially confused him with someone else, I know he got put on trial for "treason" for antisemitism and anti-American broadcasts during WW2.

>>17545688
>>17545693
>>17548411
>>17549207
Moged by Stevens.
>>17547544
Good taste, Crane and Ashbery are the American poets that come closest to dethroning Stevens, though they don't manage to. Dickinson is probably in the top three female poets of all time, not sure if I'd say she's better than Elizabeth Barrett Browning but she's great.

>>17545688
No. Whitman is very insightful, but his poetry is very lackluster from a rhythmic and formalistic point of view. If you want to read the best of American poetry, try reading some Poe.

>>17548411
Nice: very underrated!

>>17547026
>

>>17550328
very cringe post

>>17550148
based

>>17545688
He's good, but I like E. E. Cummings more

>>17545850
without him Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway, and Frost wouldn't have written a single word midwit

>>17545832
His political views are garbage but he is still one of America's best poets.

>>17545832
yes
>>17545850
no

>>17551003
he was substantially correct on everything in particolar on economy, and the recent events only cement his role and his deserved reputation as a fucking genius.

>he was substantially correct on everything in particolar on economy, and the recent events only cement his role and his deserved reputation as a fucking genius.

>>17545850
kys pleb

>>1755 1095
>cooooooooommies can't even give (You)'s
here you don't get one either
it belongs to the people after all.

>>17551095
he's a piece of shit but he was right about finance capitalism

>>17551189
he was not a piece of shit and everyone who has read him knows it.
You are simply incapable of accepting someone not marching in perfect lockstep with your ideology having any merit as a human being, are you.

>>17550955
Cringe

>>17545693
Wow. I really triggered some people with this one huh? Lmao.

>>17550109
He didn’t hate America. He hated the way America was. It was cultural, political. For example, see his poem Usura which is a polemic against usury and debt finance.

>>17550175
Stevens is an antipoet

>>17551826
yup no basedboy was ready for Pound, kek

>>17551826
>best 20th century poet: nazi
>best 20th century political theorist: nazi
>best 20th century philosopher: nazi
Truth is painful to gaze into

>>17545693
Pound was great but Whitman was better

>>17545688