Good poets?
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So, I am relatively new to reading poetry, I write a ton... who would everyone recommend to read?
five, five, five against one...
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and my man.....Byron....ron ron ron......da doo ron ron...
and also.....Shakespeare...queer queer queer....
and ralph waldo emerson em 'er son....em 'er son....er son.....
and .......the doo ron ron....
both Brownings
both Rossettis
both fee fi fo fum.....
Chaucer....in a saucer.....
and because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me...
and Yeats......and all the twee tree peeeeeeots......
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.....
Kipling Kavanagh Plath......
Tom Thumb......
my bum....Bob
Dylan Thomas.....
and the Laureates...
feted...metred....beaten
em....Robbie Burns.....
Tennyson./.....my son my son my son.....
Lorca....drives me crazy.....
and.....
tennis girl guy......
song of solomon.....
and I
Isaiah.......
oh jus fukkin read anything....it'll do you the world of god
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(1) Richmond Lattimore's translations of Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey";
(2) Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf";
(3) Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales";
(4) Medieval poetry by that ubiquitous pre-feminist phenomenon "Anonymous";
(5) Sonnets by Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare;
(6) Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience";
(7) Anything by John Clare;
(8) Anything by Yeats;
(9) TS Eliot's " ... Prufrock" and "The Waste Land";
(10) Joyce's "Pomes Pennyeach";
(11) "The Great Hunger" by Patrick Kavanagh, plus his canal bank poems;
(12) Some Auden, Plath, Beckett, Miroslav Holub, Tony Harrison.
That's my choice.
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
Charles Bukoski
Ezra Pound
William Wordsworth
"Cause I can't wait to figure out what's wrong with me
So I can say this is the way I use to be" -- John Mayer
keats
emily dickinson
e.e. cummings
issa & basho
once you begin you'll know what to read