Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
by fallinghawks on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:26PM
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I'm not Russian and I like Lermontov :)
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
by realitygrill on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:17PM
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Same, but I'm more partial to Pushkin :)
This was a scene from the movie "Бакенбарды" ("Backenbardy", literary "sideburns") where Pushkin cultists encounter Lermontov fanboys.
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
by macho_pikachu on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:51PM
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What Auden couldn't find
On hornbooks or in verses
Is whether it is our condition
Only stirring with the curses
Among English poems, I rather like this one by Laurie Lee:
And of course W.H. Auden: