I'm interested in getting into poetry. What is:
>best poetry for beginners to get into poetry
>what are your favorite poets and their pieces
Incidentally I've taken a particular interest in Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron and most importantly Percy Shelly. What are the works I should look into for these 3?
>>8038652
>Best poetry for beginners
I usually recommend John Donne, but Whitman also has some nice poems with O captain my Captain, and When Lilac Last in my dooryad bloomed.
>My favourites
I like the Kerouac
>>8038652
>getting into poetry
Shakespeare's sonnets got me into poetry. Before that I only read poetry for English class and not because I wanted to.
>favourite poets
Still Shakespeare's sonnets. First love = best love.
Currently reading Don Juan for the first time and loving it. You mentioned an interest in Byron, so you should definitely read it.
>>8038652
John Donne, Charles Bukowski, Adonis, Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, Alexandr Blok
What does /lit/ think of the picks?
>>8039662
a bunch of literal nobodies
Is wordsworth and keats a good intro guys?
Gerard manley hopkins was too hard for me, grammar wise, had to use dictionary way too much.
Sir Phillip Sidney put it on my radar
Plath got me into it
Eliot made me try harder
here ye go, lad
Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Dante, Spenser, Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Giacomo Leopardi, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Emily Dickinson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Pablo Neruda.
>>8039675
>Not knowing Donne
>>8039679
>grammar wise, had to use dictionary way too much
wut
>>8039825
er vocabulary hes hard to understand very esoteric and high level
i got into poetry via pretentious singer-songwriters i.e. Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen
then i kinda went like Bukowski --> Ginsberg and Rimbaud --> other Modernists, esp Edna Millay + Eliot --> Dylan Thomas --> to currently reading Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney
favorite still has to be Thomas and Eliot
Notorious BIG for me is the best."If i had to choose the coast, i'd gonna choose the east. I lived out there, so dont go there"
