No good English poets

[milo]

Really?  Are you just trying to stir the pot to see what comes out?  Otherwise, can anyone have so much hubris as to dismiss all English poets after Shakespeare?

It's good to stir the pot sometimes though. This site used to be full of discussions going back and forth like this.

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Tennyson was the best of the craftsmen, but a thoroughgoing racist and his poetry falls short as a consequence. Was Hitler a fine artist?

This is a whole other question for another thread. Does someone's character and misdemeanours detract from their work as an artist?

I think it important that we keep them entirely separate.  Most great artists are terrible people in equal ratio.  Perhaps that is the price they pay.

Hitler may have been the exception in that his attempts at poetry were juvenile at best yet he was still a solidly unsavory person.  Well, he did some unsavory things - rumour has it he was actually quite likable to the right crowd.