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Chart thread. I wanna start with poetry, which one do I go for?

>> No.17184284

>>17183325
None of those (why is Tupac on there?). Get “the Best Poems of the English Language” by Harold Bloom. It’s a large volume of poetry with a great selection as well as Bloom’s essay “The Art of Reading Poetry” and pretty thorough introductions to all the poets and a lot of the individual poems. This is if you are actually interested in getting into poetry seriously.

>> No.17184907

>>17183325
start and end with leaves of grass

>> No.17184917

>>17184284
>None of those
>Crow by Ted Hughes is on the list
Do you know nothing about poetry?

>> No.17185017
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17185017

>>17183325
Read Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

>> No.17185836

>>17183325
>2pac
kill yourself

>> No.17186849

>>17185017
Based. My favourite poet.

And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you’ll park and capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.

>> No.17186901

>>17183325

That chart sucks dick.

>> No.17186954

>>17183325
Never read poetry before, but I'm interested in the poetry of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarme. What do you recommend?

>> No.17186955
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17186955

>>17183325
The Romantics

>> No.17186957
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17186957

This is the only 'chart' you need.

>> No.17187096

>>17186957
this but unironically

>> No.17187682

>>17186955
Are the Penguin editions good?

>> No.17189082

>>17187682
They are alright, but some are missing pretty important sections from the Romantic poet's longer work. I'd recommend Oxford World Classics in this instance. They are pretty good at compiling the large amounts of work that they all did. For example, the Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oxford World Classics not only has all of his poetry, but it includes his entire Biographia Literaria (quite possibly the single greatest piece of literary criticism ever written in English)