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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai
If you forget Shakespeare then maybe 
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Shakespeare is imo as overestimated in English as Goethe is in German. Both languages have poets who were more competent in words and who brought both languages to higher peaks of melody and rythm, and had more interesting things to say. Rilke on my mind, or Auden, or Trakl, Yeats.
Goethe btw said in a letter to a friend that he did no consider himself to be a good poet, and that he would prefer to be remembered for his writings on natural observations. He was a universally interested "Naturkundler", a passion he followed with more interest than poetry. His skills as a poet I would say to be solid craftsmanship, at best. And Shakespeare - somehow it's always the same with him: first the turmoil, then the pathetic speeches, and in the end they are all dead.
Not to mention the originally Klingon monologues.
