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Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:29:03 2019 No.12591914 [Reply] [Original]

Where does one start with poetry?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 16:30:08 2019 No.12591923 File: 5 KB, 300x168, 278427C9-F3B0-40C9-9C84-60361E9E7917.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12591914 Start and end with Mary Oliver

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 17:39:02 2019 No.12592261 Post some here i'll jam with you i'm learning and have zero grammar skills.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:16:21 2019 No.12592486 >>12591914 Accessible, autistic, adolescent. Get a feel for it with the junk food version, then move up

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:17:49 2019 No.12592496 >>12591914 Start with the Greek you fucking idiot

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:18:24 2019 No.12592501 Start with the modernists

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 18:29:21 2019 No.12592560 >>12592496 Who is the Greek?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:39:48 2019 No.12593558 Borges

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:41:39 2019 No.12593563 >>12592560 Cavafis

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:42:37 2019 No.12593567 The Romantics probably William Blake

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 21:45:00 2019 No.12593578 Start with what you enjoy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 22:29:53 2019 No.12593818 I always recommend "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. Excellent collection.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 13 22:36:37 2019 No.12593852 Romantics (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats) -> Victorians (Tennyson, Browning) -> Modernists