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Anonymous Mon Sep 11 15:50:35 2017 No.10010635 [View]
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>>10010477
I'd say start with The Oxford Book of English Verse (pic related), for a look at poetry from the British Isles.

Specific recommendations (my tastes are quite traditional):

Spenser (epic: The Faerie Queen)
Shakespeare (plays, sonnets)
Milton (various lyrics; epic: Paradise Lost)
Gray (principally his Elegy)
Young (Night Thoughts -- not in Oxford Book)
2nd Gen. Romantics: Byron, Shelley, Keats (my favourite lyric poet, 1819 odes)

If you don't mind reading some translations from Greek and Latin:
Golding - Metamorphoses
Chapman - Iliad, Odyssey

I'm not partial to much of the American poetry I've read, but I agree with you about Frost.

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