/lit/ - Literature

>>16325669
Why, songs of innocence and of experience, of course.

>>16325669
I like the poetry from Tolkien's books. also whats her youtube channel?

>>16325669
Flowers of Evil, unsurprisingly.

Ovids Amores

>>16325669
Homer - Iliad
Pindar - Olympian Odes
Virgil - Aeneid
Dante - Divine Comedy
John Milton - Paradise Lost
John Donne - Holy Sonnets
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Novalis - Blüthenstaube, Hymnen an die Nacht
Friedrich Hölderlin - lyric poems
Goethe - Faust, West–östlicher Divan
Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Rilke - Das Stunden-Buch
Williams - Paterson

The Waste Land and Other Poems. I'm loving Michael Robartes and the Dancer by William Butler Yeats very much these days.

>>16325748
>>16325929
Solid picks. A bit common, but both of the greatest works of poetry.

>>16325921
paperback dreams

>>16325669
Fervor de Buenos Aires

All other opinions are objectively wrong, English is a shitty language to write poetry and sounds like business linguo in all contexts.

collected Rimbaud or e e cummings

e e cummings is so much better a poet than his flashy image poems from your cirriculum will lead you to believe

>>16325993
Borges is such a mediocre poet. Great short fiction author, but as a poet he's just boring and obtuse. He wrote nothing more than a handful of very good poems. Not a poet worth bothering with.

Spanish is my native language, so I know what's up.

>>16325993
Borges is one of our worst poets, read more you hack

Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing

>>16325669
i'm not a woman so i don't have one

>>16325982
>paperback dreams
thanks

>>16326020
>Spanish is my native language
why would i take a spic's word for it?

>>16325921
>tfw seriously considering attempting to finish my own version the fall of Gil-Galad

>>16326058
We have more great poets than english. I'm also a native english speaker, so...

Lunch Poems

>>16326000
I've never really got around to giving cummings another shot. My introduction to him was the experimental stuff like grasshopper and I never got around to giving his other work a proper look in.

Heraldos Negros by Cesar Vallejo of course

Emily Brontë Complete Poems

I love her austere gothic style

Illiad - Homer
Spring and All - WCW
Threadsuns - Paul Celan
The Opening of the Field - Robert Duncan
Les Fleurs du Mal - Charles Baudelaire
Supplications - John Wieners

>>16325669
The ones I return to the most are:

Crow: The Life and Song of Crow by Ted Hughes
The Changing Light At Sandover by James Merrill
Self Portrait in A Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
The Marriage Between Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats
In Memoriam A.H.H by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Wasteland by T.S Eliot
Beginning with O by Olga Broumas
The Tower by William Butler Yeats

There are more, but these are the ones I return to the most often and have memorized the most lines of verse

>>16325669
Psalms KJV
Job JPS
Archilochus
Pindar Odes
Marvell Complete
Palgrave's Golden Treasury
1805 Prelude
Leaves of Grass
Dickinson Complete
Yeats's Tower
Stevens' Palm (Holly Stevens, Ed.)
Ashbery's The Double Dream of Spring, Notes from the Air
Ammons' Sphere, and Garbage

>>16326873
I read In Memoriam between xmas and new year's every year

>>16326000
Checked. Yeah, eec is about due for a /lit/ revival. He's underrated.

---

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish to be close to me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

― e e cummings

---

>>16325669
This I return to constantly (and have more-or-less by heart) and it never fails to ring true.

>>16327119
Another perpetual re-read.

>>16327119
Look at that, we're samesies!! Haha. Do you like Birthday Letters too?

>>16327197
Birthday Letters is not bad. That and the Ovid translations are 100x better than the stuff he did in the 80s. (He wrote large parts of them earlier though I think, and only published when he knew he wasn't going to be around much longer.)

>>16325669
Leaves of Grass

metamorphoses

>>16325993

>criticize English poetry
>pick one of Borges worst work

I'm and Argie, and love Georgie, but you make me sick. Go back pls.

>>16325669
right now its Paradise Lost but only because of the content, not the fucking poetic form which is cancer to read
never read an actual poetry collection desu

>>16326058
cringe

>>16328675
Why don't you like the poetic form? Blank verse fixes the annoyances of classic epic poetry

>>16327817
Yeah, his 80's stuff isn't that great. I still enjoy a poem here and there by him, but largely and overall, they're pretty lackluster. I also read that, because he was so fascinated by the occult and astrology, he would pick the dates for the release of his poetry collections very carefully.

>>16329196
I really don't know to be honest and I actually don't mind the "annoyances" of classic epic poetry to be all that annoying; I just found myself unable to really understand wtf he was talking about most of the time and I know its petty but I wasn't finding hardly any "hard hitting" or memorable lines in his text a la "the wrongs you do to me are wrongs done to the gods" which found early on in book 1 of the Iliad

>>16325669
itt: people who don't actually read poetry

>>16330748
What's your favorite poetry book?

>>16326020
>He wrote nothing more than a handful of very good poems.
So like every poet ever, then? lmao

>>16325669
Who iz woman?

>>16330924
Very good doesn't mean great. It's just those few poems that make poets like William Blake. Borges had a few good ones, but if he hadn't made himself such a reputation as a fiction writer, no one would ever bother reading his poetry.

>>16330964
Kat, Paperback Dreams. Her videos are cool and comfy, even if you don't plan to read the books she talks about.

Please respect her.

>>16325669
Jerusalem Delivered
Orlando Furioso

>>16325979
11th grade reading list/10

>>16325669
poetry? grow some balls and read fiction

>>16332141
>reading anything in high school
I know I was deliberately disengaged but still, really?

>>16332167
Poetry is superior to fiction.

>>16332225
we found out who has no bolls

The Cantos of Ezra Pound

A Shropshire Lad

Song of Hiawatha

>>16332225
Novelists are failed poets, and fwiw, philosophers are failed novelists

>>16332167
I hadn't read such a vulgar, uneducated statement in a while. What a fucking tasteless midwit.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

>>16325669
please don't post women here, thank you

>>16332600
Why not?

>>16332500
What about philosophers who wrote novels?

>>16332803
Albert Camus comes to mind, who makes me want to spew blood. In general, philosophers write novels with the intention of making a specific point, which is a trademark of many terrible books

I am open to recommendations of novelists who wrote philosophy, because otomh I can't think of any

>>16332600
Emily Dickinson alone BTFO most of the dudes in the canon. And this is before even bringing up Elizabeth Barrett Browning, HD, Anne Sexton, and many others.

>>16332600
>>16332873

A-and Marilynne Robinson (not OP, but her works have always stood out to me as exceptional)

>>16332902
I must confess, but I have only heard of her through other people and I have not checked out any of her poetry. Any collections you'd recommend?

>>16332920
This is embarassing, but I'm not the replier who brought her up. But I did read through a seemingly generic collection of her poems and it rocked, some of the only poetry that I could actually get through and appreciate