contemporary poetry is utter dogshit written by ugly foids, soy numales and niggers
earlier poetry is more valuable, you can check out a variety of poets and see which you prefer, then look at other poets of the same era/style
a few worth looking at, mostly less obvious ones:
-
Park Barnitz (based suicidal misanthrope)
- romantics like shelley and keats. shelley is too didactic most of the time, but has his
moments
-
philip larkin
- philip sidney and petrarch from the sonnet tradition. petrarch wrote in italian but there's a few decent translations, I'm fond of Auslander's:
Those cherished hills which hold my spirit still Where the heart lingers, though I tear my feet Fiercely away, confront my dull retreat, While I bear Love's dar...
www.best-poems.net
- ghazalists like
mir, and some roman poets like catullus can resemble them
- kalidasa, maybe tagore
- r.h. morrison (obscure aussie poet)
- christian poetry like milton's paradise lost + george herbert + gascoyne's miserere
- edward thomas + francis ledwidge + patrick kavanaugh + a.e. (george russell), 'oldfashioned' 20th c poets
- early christian poets like ephraim and aurelius prudentius
- puritan poets like
edward taylor
- emily dickinson and nora may french if you need foid poets
had most of these listed in a text file, fortunately
tbh I feel most poetry is a bit tiresome and insubstantial, nowadays I can't be bothered with most of it. still find ghazals cool tho, their format is better than most. it's the freeform, refined poetry that contemporary poetry pretends to be