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Anonymous Sun May 20 17:11:53 2012 No.2652963 [Reply] [Original]

Is there an essential poetry list?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:15:52 2012 No.2652982 a.a milne

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:16:52 2012 No.2652992 Shakespeare That's it.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:17:51 2012 No.2652995 There is, it seems a little lacking though... http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading#Poets_and_Poetry_Collections Anything in particular you're looking for OP? >>2652982 Mah nigga

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:19:51 2012 No.2653001 >>2652995 I really like Keats/a lot of the romantic-era stuff and I also like Eliot, even if he is a bit esoteric for me sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:19:51 2012 No.2653002 it's all shit except Homer. Maybe Virgil is OK too. Maybe.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:22:54 2012 No.2653017 >>2653001 Have you read Yeats? He seems like a good cross between the romantics and the modernists.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 20 17:24:54 2012 No.2653022 >>2653017 I actually have some of his works on my Nook, I'll have to take a look. Thanks for the suggestion!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:08:51 2012 No.2654619 File: 12 KB, 220x322, 220px-Une_saison_en_enfer_-_01..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A Season in Hell Wyatt Mason translator

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:18:52 2012 No.2654621 Shelley Whitman

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:28:51 2012 No.2654628 >enter thread >ctrl+f >"t s eliot" >0 results smh

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:30:52 2012 No.2654631 >>2654628 There's been like 7 posts, bro. Settle down.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:33:51 2012 No.2654639 T.S. Eliot. For awesome, or at least for thoroughness.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:37:51 2012 No.2654645 >>2654628 are you black, or do white people write smh now? i dunno if abbreviated slang has changed, i'm living overseas anyway, i also vote eliot, and add a larkin

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 07:42:53 2012 No.2654653 File: 299 KB, 717x1067, haeckel..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hart Crane - White Buildings Hart Crane - The Bridge Frank Stanford - The Light the Dead See

>>	Balmain !/0IwdqVeUw Mon May 21 07:43:51 2012 No.2654654 Blake, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. /thread

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 08:04:51 2012 No.2654680 >>2652963 the essential poetry list is more a basic poetry list. /lit/ isn't well read enough in poetry to compile a decent list yet. There are so many good poets that isn't there at all.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 08:42:51 2012 No.2654745 >>2654654 these are solid poets I'd also add W.B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, and John Ashberry I also like Baudelaire and Rimbaud

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 20:04:53 2012 No.2656029 John Calvin Rezmerski

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 20:06:52 2012 No.2656034 >>2654653 >Hart Crane mah_nigga.jpg.exe

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 20:13:52 2012 No.2656046 >>2653002 virgil isn't even as good as some modern poets. stfu

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 20:16:53 2012 No.2656056 Hughes and before, Quevedo and after.