Recommend me a book of Poems. Srsly.

[Hard2Fit]

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.

 

[milosz]

John Berryman The Dream Songs

 

[DocHolliday]

If you want entertaining and accessible, try ol' Robbie Burns.

 

[audiophilia]

Leaves of Grass

 

[jsqfunk]

Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

 

[Jerome]

Fantastic poetry by Clark Ashton Smith:

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Oblivion-...7316040&sr=1-1

 

[Jokerman]

Arthur Rimbaud's Complete Works.

 

[Working Stiff]

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.

 

[G. Mann]

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

 

[toothsomesound]

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.

 

[Huntsman]

Auden.

 

[why]

Originally Posted by G. Mann

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.

 

[Sherlockian]

+1 on T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland.

Anything by Seamus Heaney. Mid Term Break, in particular, brings me to tears.

 

[mccvi]

william bronk - living instead.

 

[Amar ezzahi]

Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil.