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Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:57:46 2020 No.16702045 [Reply] [Original]

Can anyone give me a reading list to become a great Poet?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:01:05 2020 No.16702060 >>16702045 If you want to be a great poet just make a twitter account and post about racism

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:04:52 2020 No.16702075 you don't become a great poet, you are a great poet. any attempts to become one are doomed to failure. just give up now

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:39:28 2020 No.16702225

>>16702045
Start with an anthology of you native languages poetry and read up until the present. Then start reading world poetry. When you find a poet you like, read a lot of their work slowly and carefully to learn from the techniques they use. Make sure to read the classics/romantics/symbolists/modernists/contemporary

For theory consult:
>Ezra Pound - ABCs of Reading
>TS Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent
>Wordsworth - Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
>Graves - White Goddess
>Bloom - Western Canon (as reference)
>Princeton Guide to Multicultural Poetry

Being a great poet takes dedication, an ego, and humility. Many people here think poetry must rhyme and be in perfect meter which is ultimately their undoing. Those things are essential knowledge but not essential tools.

>>16702075
Even if that is true, prodigies need to start somewhere. Rimbaud had a massive classical education.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 17:36:49 2020 No.16703425 >>16702225 best antro for english

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 17:39:59 2020 No.16703440 >>16702045 Anyone has good theory on French poetry?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 17:50:54 2020 No.16703485 File: 905 KB, 1280x720, pag.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16702045 Yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 18:42:43 2020 No.16703743 >>16703465 >penguin editions

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 18:45:46 2020 No.16703764 >>16702045 OPs pic perfectly describes Norm Macdonald

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 19:53:31 2020 No.16704048 >>16703425 I personally started with William Harmon's Top 500 (English) Poems. Although im sure a concise Norton anthology or similar would be good

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