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Is there some sort of a "beginner's guide to poems" book? If not, what poet would you recommend as the most accessible one? I know this will sound something like a boomer meme, but Dragon Quest XI (pic related) has awoken in me a love for poetry I never knew I had - every person in one region speaks in Haiku and while some are humorous, I (possibly amateurishly) consider some very beautiful.

>> No.11876650

Keats
Blake

>> No.11876959

>>11876650
Any particular collection by Keats? I've stumbled upon two "Collected Poems" tomes but as far as I see, there's no annotations and detailed descriptions

>> No.11877055

>>11876348
Lennard's poetry handbook is nice for beginners and it's easy to get online. It covers all the technical aspects and gives many examples. Browsing a poetry anthology like the norton one is nice too.

>> No.11877265

>>11876650
This, start with the biggies.

>>11876959
You don't need annotations for the first time you read a poem.

>> No.11877977

>>11877265
What are some other biggies? Up until now I've pretty much only read prose, save for Homer and Milton but those are epics, not poems..

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>>11876348
"The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" is a pretty good beginners poem. T.S. Eliot in general is a source of some good poetry even though he is shat on routinely on this board.

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>>11877055
yup. Lennards poetry handbook often references the 5th edition of the norton anthology. It's a bit dry but is a fantastic guide to the craft of poetry (the instagram poets NEED to read it). absolutely essential.

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>>11876650
>>11877055
>>11878047
>>11878066
I'll take your advice and start with Lennard's poetry handbook, seems pretty nice. I'll then move on to the mentioned "biggies". However, on my PC I have a few poem collections and I was wondering if you could shed some light on if those are worth a read/if better versions exist

>Coleridge, Poems and Prose (pic related)
>The Collected Poems of Hatsuo Basho (I'd really like to read some haiku)
>Lord Byron's Poems
>The Love Poems of Rumi (I'm really skeptical towards this one as it's authored by Deepak Chopra)
>Leaves of Grass (honestly, this seems abnormally large but I hear it mentioned on here a lot)

>> No.11878304

>>11876348
Get a Norton anthology.

>> No.11878308

>>11878290
I'm reading pic related on my iPad currently. It is a very good edition and they are a pretty quality publisher, currently reading their release of Kafka's complete short stories.

>> No.11878316

This is actually a nice thread

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What about guides for writing poems?

>> No.11878411

>>11877977
>but those are epics, not poems..

>> No.11878441

>>11878398
Ars poetica

>> No.11878612

>>11878411
Yes?

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inb4 someone complains about Bloom.
Its a comprehensive sampling, and introductions providing context are important.

>> No.11878674

>>11878642
What's the difference between this and his "Poets and Poems"?

>> No.11878700

>>11878674
That is critical analysis of poets and poems, the above gives context for the authors culture/time period/influence etc.

The Art of Reading Poetry is just his essay from the intro of the above too.