No good English poets

[Magpie]

I think English poetry essentially died after Shakespeare. After him, we have an endless parade of charlatans like Browning, posers like Larkin, and effete pseudo-madmen like Shem. Broken here and there with true voices of genius in Henry Vaughan, Hopkins, and Dylan Thomas. 

It's quite a bold claim... Shem was never that interesting.

At first I thought you meant English language poets and then perhaps you meant 'English type poetry', if there is such a thing. Dylan Thomas confused it a bit further with him being Welsh, which would narrow your list even more.

So none of the Romantics or the war poets or Blake or Ted Hughes?

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