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I've been reading Henry Longfellow

Where do I really get started with poetry though? I want to learn about form, style, and to know what I'm looking at

>> No.17206703

>>17206698
based and dubupilled

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>>17206698
I have pic related, its fantastic, a bit expensive though.
You could either get an older edition for $5, an electronic version, or different book like Poetic Meter and Form by Fussell

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>>17206698
Pure Dahyun recommends you start with pic related.

>> No.17206772

>>17206769
intro essay is fire

>> No.17207561

>>17206698
Dante Alighieri

>> No.17207611

>>17206698
If you like Henry Longfellow I would recommend checking out Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walt Whitman is a bit of a hit or a miss for a lot of folk, so I don't want to recommend him just yet because his work can overwhelm a lot of new comers to poetry.
>>17206769
Unironically, this. The introductory essay is absolutely amazing and will show you why poetry, and reading poetry, are important.

My list, and I recommend reading all of these poems aloud, goes:
>Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>The West Wind by Percy Shelley
>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot
>The Raven by Edgard Allen Poe
>A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
>My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
>The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes
>Digging by Seamus Heaney
>The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
>The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer