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Recommend me a book of Poems. Srsly.

post #1 of 53
2/27/10 at 7:44pm
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I've just started reading "Robert Frost's Poems" and "Dylan Thomas Selected Poems 1934-1952". Give me something to read when I'm done. (Fwiw, I hated poetry when I was in school so I'm a complete noob.) Thx.
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post #2 of 53
2/27/10 at 8:04pm
John Berryman The Dream Songs
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post #3 of 53
2/27/10 at 8:12pm
If you want entertaining and accessible, try ol' Robbie Burns.
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post #4 of 53
2/27/10 at 8:19pm
Leaves of Grass
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post #5 of 53
2/27/10 at 8:47pm
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
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post #6 of 53
2/27/10 at 9:09pm
Fantastic poetry by Clark Ashton Smith:

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Oblivion-...7316040&sr=1-1
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post #7 of 53
2/27/10 at 9:10pm
Arthur Rimbaud's Complete Works.
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post #8 of 53
2/27/10 at 9:21pm
Keats is good and not difficult. I really like The Fall of Hyperion, and the Odes (Ode to Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on Indolence, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn) are rightly celebrated.

Coleridge, when he was good, was very good (Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Kahn, Christabel, Youth and Age, Frost at Midnight).

TS Elliot is also good; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land are his two obvious ones and both worth reading.
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post #9 of 53
2/27/10 at 9:38pm
I would suggest snagging a copy of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. It could keep you busy for quite a while.

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a must.

Cheers,
G
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post #10 of 53
2/27/10 at 11:28pm
Bukowski's Love Is A Dog From Hell. Collected Works of Octavio Paz or Lorca. Pretty much any ee cummings. Any collection of Yeats. Any Tagore. If you're looking for accessible, cummings, Pound, and Eliot will not be where you want to look first. Well Eliot isn't too bad.
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post #11 of 53
2/28/10 at 12:21am
Auden.
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post #12 of 53
2/28/10 at 12:34am
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Originally Posted by G. Mann View Post
I would suggest snagging a copy of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. It could keep you busy for quite a while.

Definitely the best thing to do. A lot of poetry requires a bit of education in literature and prosody before it becomes lucid, and re-reading sonnet sequences and endless cantos is kind of like trying to learn German by reading Die Verwanderlung.
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post #13 of 53
2/28/10 at 1:13am
+1 on T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland.

Anything by Seamus Heaney. Mid Term Break, in particular, brings me to tears.
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post #14 of 53
2/28/10 at 1:16am
william bronk - living instead.
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post #15 of 53
3/1/10 at 4:37am
Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil.
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