Elegy written in a country churchyard
by Thomas Gray · first published 1751
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on “Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?” ↗Thomas Grey ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," with its lyric celebration of ordinary life, is arguably the greatest English poem). TS Elliot, on his good days (Prufrock counts as a good day, as do the Landscape poems. He oversteps in "The Waste…
on “Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?” ↗I would guess that an AI's ability to write poetry passable as human-authored is inversely correlated with length. So good haikus - certainly; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - never (before AGI).
on “Robots are writing poetry, and many people can’t tell the difference” ↗…Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Gray https://www.bartleby.com/101/453.html (Ironically time itself has pushed Hampden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampden out of the list of names that one may reasonably expect English…
on “Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister” ↗