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Where do I start with poetry?

>> No.10789088

Roman Poets are fun and accessible: Martial, Catullus, Horace. Of course you should read the Greek tragedians first. Shakespeare, too, and once you get through all these big boys you can start going a little less mainstream.

>> No.10789148

>>10789074
the epics.

gilgamesh --> homer --> virgil --> dante --> milton

>> No.10789299

>>10789074
Don't listen to faggots telling you to go ancient. If you actually are trying to get interested in poetry read some notable shit in your native language. If English I'd recommend the romantics (Byron, Keats, Shelly) and of course Shakespeare as a start.

>> No.10789305

>>10789299
seconded

>> No.10789310

Start with the Moderns: Pound, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, Thomas, etc.

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10789384

Start with an anthology

>> No.10789506

>>10789299
This. Reading translated poetry is alright if you just want to know who these famous poets and writings are and classics which many others refer to, and who influenced who, but you won't really understand poetry unless you read the most accomplished poets in their original language, the easiest way to do this being to read the best poets of your language

>> No.10789973

>>10789074
bump?

>> No.10790108

Get an introductory textbook or something like it so you can learn what to look for as you read. Then pick up a historical anthology that will explain the trends that English poetry has moved through and the reasons behind those movements. Don’t bother yourself too much with poetry outside English. When you’re drawn to a particular poem, write it down and mark it up (scansion). Once you basically understand why contemporary poetry is the way it is, pick up a contemporary anthology. Pick up books by your favorite poets. Especially in contemporary poetry you’ll find intertextual elements within a volume of poetry that you won’t get from an anthology. Once you have a few favorite classic and contemporary poets, you’ll safely be able to claim that you’re “into poetry.”

>> No.10790126

Robert Lowell!

>> No.10790129

>>10790108
contemporary poetry irredeemable trash you should be flayed for directing an innocent anon towards that

>> No.10790139

poetry is

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>> No.10790155

>>10790129
>>10790139
t. brainlets who will never understand why this poem is good
https://preludemag.com/issues/2/had-everything-without-shadow-unset/

>> No.10790156

>>10789074
The Italian renaissance (Dante, Petrarch, Boccace, Il Tasso).
Then the Romans for reference.
The romantics (German and English) plus Leopardi
The French modernists (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé)

>> No.10790295

>>10790139
ironically, this is pretty good.

>> No.10791835

Yeats. Blake. Keats if you're especially bright and have practiced on lesser poets first - his concepts are difficult to appreciate greatly if unschooled, and it takes years of study to understand him fully. Even for beginners though, his verse is magnificent.

>> No.10791870

>>10790108
>Get an introductory textbook or something like it so you can learn what to look for as you read
What does /lit/ think is the best introduction?

>> No.10791914

>>10789384
can somebody recommend the best book from the first category? (START)

>> No.10792035

Rupi Kaur. She writes brave poetry for the contemporary mind.