/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11912132]

Okay /lit/ I wanna get into poetry, what is an essential poetry book.

[Anonymous No.11912197]

some gay old shit. a big fucking tome of keats, that's the best poetry

[Anonymous No.11912257]

Oxford book of english verse.

Also learn french.

[Anonymous No.11912275]

The Iliad and The Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation if you can't speak ancient Greek).

[Anonymous No.11912288]

>>11912132

[Anonymous No.11912298]

>>11912132
the complete works of juan ramón jiménez in the spanish original

[Anonymous No.11912351]

>>11912132
Kanye West
Cedrick Lamar
Tupac
The list just goes on

[Anonymous No.11912409]

>>11912288
Thank you, I've needed a poetry chart for a while now.

[Anonymous No.11912743]

>>11912132

Want a list of poetry books you'll never actually read? Here's a list of poetry books you'll never actually read.

Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Robert Browning - Dramatic Lyrics
Emily Dickinson - Three Series, Complete
Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues
Rainer Maria Wilke - Duino Elegies
Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
Sylvia Plath - Ariel
Charles Bukowski - Love is a Dog from Hell
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Aurora Leigh
Lord Byron - Don Juan
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market and Other Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The House of Life
Derek Walcott - Omeros

[Anonymous No.11912820]

>>11912743
Good list

>>11912275
When people say "poetry" they usually mean lyric, not epic poetry. Everyone has read Homer or has already been told to read him, so recommending him again is retarded. And so is recommending that translation.

>>11912288
Seems good at first but those theoretical books aren't very useful. They won't guide you in any real analysis (except for possibly the glossary and encyclopedia, but those aren't made to be read front to back to learn shit and methods), they are mostly texts that come from poets (so quite poetic) and one idiosyncratic theoretician. You need serious theoretical intro there. Poets writing about poetry can be very interesting and enlightening but can't be a proper foundation.

[Anonymous No.11912822]

I'm just starting to get into poetry as well. You might try out anthologies about certain topics. For example I have this book about german love poetry from medieval to modern, it's a gread read.
Greek and roman poetry is a good point to start out as well even though it's not always easy to understand if you're not that familiar with mythology.

[Anonymous No.11914192]

Whitman, Coleridge, and Bryon have some pretty nice poems. Goethe and Schiller are more than worth looking into if you speak German. Same case with Baudelaire and Rimbaud if you can read French.
Japanese and Persian poetry are godly. If you're gonna learn a language just for the sake of reading their poems, let it be either one of these two.

[Anonymous No.11914244]

>>11914192

Kennst du das Land? wo die Citronen blühn,
Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn,
Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,
Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht,
Kennst du es wohl?
Dahin! Dahin
Möcht' ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn.

Kennst du das Haus? Auf Säulen ruht sein Dach,
Es glänzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach,
Und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an:
Was hat man Dir, du armes Kind, gethan?
Kennst du es wohl?
Dahin! Dahin
Möcht' ich mit dir, o mein Beschützer, ziehn.

Kennst du den Berg und seinen Wolkensteg?
Das Maulthier sucht im Nebel seinen Weg;
In Höhlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut;
Es stürzt der Fels und über ihn die Flut.
Kennst du ihn wohl?
Dahin! Dahin
Geht unser Weg! o Vater, laß uns ziehn!

[Anonymous No.11915314]

>>11914244
Thanks for remininding me why I like Hölderlin better.