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Grab an anthology and read more from the authors you like. If you want singular poets to try out I recommend William Blake and W.B. Yeats.

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Check out Good Poems anthology by Garrison Keiller, maybe flip through Oxford Book of English verse, in particular Marlowe, Donne, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Tennyson. Leaves of Grass by Whitman. Anything by Dickinson. Get a hold of Eliot’s The Wasteland and Prufrock as soon as possible, maybe even The Bridge by Hart Crane or Howl by Ginsberg. It’s an exciting world starting out. I’m kinda jaded on poetry now but the early moments of discovery are some of my favorite memories.

Read a book like poetic designs by Stephen Adams or the ode less travelled by Frye since you probably got a shit poetical education if you got one at all.
Then read an anthology to find poets you like.

>>11824384
begin with the Hellenes

>>11824384
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

>>11824384
I have no idea, so bump I guess.
But here's a chart.

Anyone here read the Norton Poetry Anthology? Thinking of picking it up (I'm new to actually reading poetry but I know a surprising amount about poetic form).

Can a good anon post a mega.nz with some poetry anthologies. I remember searching for the Harold Bloom one and I couldn't find it. Or any good recommended anthology.

>>11824384
Get an anthology to fall in love with poetry, then get an "introduction to poetry" academic book to find out how little you know. It has been quite the experience for me. Don't give up anon it is a worthwhile interest; it just takes a bit of effort.

>>11824519
Yes I own the Norton anthology. It's a good anthology, but its possible you should look into hardcover. I've abused mine pretty bad, but also it being paperback means I have fewer qualms about righting directly in the book, which I like to do.

>>11824384
For some reason the only poem I really LOVE, is the Love Song by J Alfred Prufrock. That poem really just speaks to me in a way no other poem has