No good English poets

[busker]

Also - would you include Joyce as a poet?  I find him insufferable but he spews just the kind of inscrutable high brow crap you would pretend to like

I’ll come to Joyce, but as I was walking the dog yesterday and listening to a business biography, it struck me that all culture is worthless.
Because think of it - we have created transfomer models that can think. And Shakespeare didn’t know that smallpox was caused by a virus. Or what a virus was.
Why should the eminences of the immediate past be seen any differently than our Neanderthal ancestors?