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Why you need to read more bad poets
The duality of badness – of art and character – is at the heart of our purpose at The Bad Poet Society. But why should you invest your time in reading bad poetry or great poetry written by bad poets?
Poets have always been people that your mother pointed out as cautionary tales
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Gertrude Stein: Poet, Modernist… Fascist?
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3 features of bad poetry
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.
Is there any other way?
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
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Samuel taylor coleridge: the lyrical addict
If you haven’t suffered, aren’t suffering and aren’t insufferable, then you’re probably not a good poet.
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Andrew Marvell: lover or predator?
If you haven’t suffered, aren’t suffering and aren’t insufferable, then you’re probably not a good poet.
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Swinburne: Can Art Ever Outweigh Wickedness?
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William McGonagall, the World’s Worst Poet?
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William Golding: the beast beneath the skin
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