No good English poets

[milo]

Eliot wasn't English, Thomas wasn't either
As for the Brownings - I shun to say neither
Robert was
Elizabeth wasn't
For ones left off - there are more than a dozen

Forgot that Eliot wasn't fully English.

According to Google Elizabeth is English, born in County Durham which would make her a Northerner.

But I suppose it detracts from the point if we are discussing their true nationalities. Even if we change it to British poets the statement doesn't hold.

yah - I am not sure why I wrote that.  It did remind me of P B Shelley who was also British and a fine poet and , even though well out of fashion, Hausmann was also a fine poet (imo, I recognize it is not hip to like him anymore yet still)

I would bet there are several dozen more that are fine writers.  Also, if just acting like expatriates are British - why not mention the distaste of Pound along with Eliot?

There are so many logic flaws in this it takes more work to point them out than to just dismiss the whole.