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Anonymous Fri Jul 25 13:25:49 2014 No.5187744 [Reply] [Original]

Where's a good place to start with poetry?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 13:33:35 2014 No.5187785 somewhere near the end poetry a shit

Anonymous Fri Jul 25 13:40:13 2014 No.5187810

>>5187744

An introductory anthology. This way you learn the basic skills, terms, and concepts, and you get a wide variety of poetry you can use to gauge your taste. Some examples would be The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Cleanth Brooks Understanding Poetry, Helen Vendler's Poems Poets Poetry, How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch, etc, etc.
Always go one edition back for a cheaper copy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 13:41:51 2014 No.5187816 Frank Yang

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 13:43:52 2014 No.5187822 Start with the romantics

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 13:45:51 2014 No.5187832 Poe - The Conqueror Worm and I'd recommend The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, which is a short story and a wonderful satire of aesops fables with some good limericks

>>	Anon Fri Jul 25 14:11:46 2014 No.5187992 >>5187744 norton anthology

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 21:13:06 2014 No.5190016 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

SNOT !BML8daE2ok Fri Jul 25 21:16:58 2014 No.5190035

>>5187832
wait did you just un-ironically recommend Poe?

OP, start with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Preludes, The Hollow Men, and Gerontion by Eliot.

Then the collection "The Branch Will Not Break" by James Wright. Report back for further details.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 21:17:32 2014 No.5190037 >>5187744 Pindar.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 21:18:16 2014 No.5190040 Start with the Greeks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 21:20:23 2014 No.5190046 Leaves of grass by Walter White

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:20:05 2014 No.5190223 Is it too pretentious to start with Eliot? What does one read from him?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:22:06 2014 No.5190231 >>5190035 I recommended The Conqueror Worm. did you just un-ironically fail at reading comprehension?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:29:07 2014 No.5190267 >>5190223 You won't understand Eliot

Anonymous Fri Jul 25 23:17:51 2014 No.5190489

>>5190267

You will have to read like 1500 books and speak five languages to understand Eliot just off hand...

Read Shakespeare and Dante to catch a lot of Eliot's references and then just look up his stuff online, or through criticism.

Anyway start with Anthologies and pick up the selected poems of whoever you like best, though some essentials are Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Baudelaire, Dickinson, Whitman, Byron, and Blake.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 23:46:43 2014 No.5190573 Arthur Rimbaud - A Season in Hell latin translation

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