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I want to start getting into poetry i have already read pic rel. does anyone have any tips to go from here?

>> No.20282734

Start with Sappho and work forward.

>> No.20282748

Get an anthology of English poetry, that is the best way forward. Ideally one with a long range from the earliest English poetry which goes all the way up to contemporary verse, like the Norton anthology.

The value in that is finding which periods and styles you prefer, once you find out which styles, authors and periods you find best, you’ll know what to do from there.

>> No.20282909

>>20282748
Based gyp.

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>>20282748

>> No.20283839

>>20282748
>>20283825
Forgot text. This is a good list, its from ABC of Reading, I haven't seen a better one for that purpose.

Although you will be missing a LOT of great poets OP, the list if just tracing the changes of english poetry, which i now recognize isn't what you asked for kek.

You should start back with the Greeks unironically, Homer to Sappho, and then the tragedies, from there you can either go chronologically forwards and do the sparse amount of the latins that's good, or just jump to english with Shakespeare and beyond. I personally like Keats a lot, and I always recommend him to beginners.

>> No.20283847

>>20283825
>>20283839
You and OP are monoglots. Embarrassing.

>> No.20283884

>>20282596
I think the natural progression would be to take some serious time out and read Hegels Science of Logic. You really can’t go wrong there.

>> No.20283950

Look into Rainer Maria Rilke, Alexander Pope, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spencer...

>> No.20284174

get a norton anthology of poetry, they arent that much used and they give you a lot of different poems with some analysis so you can figure out exactly which typo you like

>> No.20284187

>>20282596
Start with Palgrave's Golden Treasury.

>> No.20284368

>>20282596
learn latin and start with Catullus

>> No.20284425

>>20283825
I know this isn't a "best poets" list but still, no Milton?

>> No.20284433

what about Chaucer, why is none talking about him, or assessing Pound's recommendation?

>> No.20284631

>>20284425
Pound hated Milton for being "too Latinate" (autistic and shit take in my opinion)

>> No.20284674

>>20284433
there's a chaucer rec at the top of the thread

>> No.20284741

>>20282596
If you have a solid foundation in the Greeks (philosophy and tragedy), I’d start with the Metaphysicals.

>> No.20284807

>>20284631
oh yeah that explains it, I didn't see the post attributing it to pound