/lit/ - Literature

This list needs to be retired. The tiers are meaningless. Musical lyrics and poetry hardly overlap; lyrical poetry is long dead.

Pick up a decent anthology and you are set.

fernando pessoa
george trakl
holderlin
ranier maria rilke (dem duino elegies....hnnng)
w.b yeats
edgar allen poe (lol at him being novice, try reading conqueror worm..)
w.h auden
jorie graham (absolutely amazing, read the geese)
and my contemporary favourite = Michael Symmons Robert

>>4692952
Any particular collections of Pessoa you'd recommend?

>>4692969
a little larger than the entire universe

also read the book of disquiet

namasté

>>4692992
Got The Book of Disquiet, yeah

>>4692999
These odes are pretty neato aswell

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/15984

>>4692952
You don't shit about philosophy, nor do you know shit about Holderlin nor Trakl, faggot. But good list, you poseur.

keats

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

Read it now
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

Paul Celan.

Heidegger who was obsessed with poetry and poetic language in his later period was very interested in him and Adorno who questioned the possibility of poetry in a barbaric world relented in his negative pronouncements of the future of poetry after he read Celan.

>>4693515
Prufrock opened my eyes up to the power of poetry. I read it over and over again, analyzed every line, recited lines of it to myself.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/237054

>>4693534
I almost know it by heart, sometimes I mumble parts of it when I feel like it.

>>4692903

Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey
Virgil, The Aeneid
Ovid, The Metamorphosis
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare, Sonnets, Plays
Milton, Paradise Lost

>>4692903
Aight, who's the joker who put Tupac in there?

neruda, mayakovsky

>>4692903
mfw no Hugo, no Goethe, no Pushkin, no Baudelaire...

Who are /lit/'s god tier poets?

>yfw no Wasteland

>>4694014
Tupac

>>4693497
you've said this before

but ok yeah sure

>>4692903
God I love Lawrence, I would recommend downloading the Poetry Foundation app, lots of great poetry in there with a unique and cool way of searching out poetry.

I would also look into the poetry of Gerard Hopkins, Tennyson, Rilke, and H.D.

Don't forget the Romantics, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley.

For contemporary stuff, Billy Collins I think is great. Also look into Philip Larkin.

Much of poetry, and all of art to be true, is best absorbed in memory through its period. The context of its age held in giving justice to the author, Howl from Ginsberg is a good example of a poets major work deeply intertwined with its time.

Oh, and read the trench poets! Wilfred Owen is the best. Also Edward Thomas, he was good friends with Frost, but died in the great war.

>>4692945
Rec a decent anthology please.

>>4695829


Norton has a few that are very comprehensive but pricey. If you want some smaller anthologies on a budget check these out.

Giant Book of Poetry
Best Poems of the English Language
Confucius to Cummings
The Rattle Bag


Best Poems is from Harold Bloom but that is hardly a bad thing. It's just a wide selection of poetry with some decent essays and a 30 page primer on poetry.

HELLO IS JAMES WRIGHT GOOD?????

>Why no TS Eliot

>>4692903
read Camões (lyrical poetry)
and then Herberto Helder

No living poets?

Mark Strand?

Lynn McMahon?

>>4698039
Prufrock is on the chart.

Baudelaire, Whitman, Wordsworth, Sappho, Cummings, Billy Collins, Basho.

>>4692903

>>4692903


Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Petrarca, Shakespeare, Shelley, Goethe, Eliot, Baudelaire.

>>4692903
fixed

>>4700964
Ha, cummings below Sexton, Ginsberg and Eliot.

>>4692903
I don't want to endorse stupid-ass tier lists, but as far as 'essential' goes... Philip Larkin is a very good poet when you're new to poetry (simple but powerful language), and Wallace Stevens is amazing but can be hard to grasp.