Placebo Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Hey there. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some really great poetry? Romantic Realism, beautiful, etc. And before anyone mentions him, I have read some Berton Braley already, who I think is wonderful. Any help would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Here's a thread where folks posted their favorite poems, and here's a similar one. Also, here's a topic titled "Ten simple poems". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Placebo Posted October 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Ah, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I have a thing for poetesses right now, in a major way. When I heard mention of Emily Dickinson in a large lecture series (66cds) I was listening to while performing my nightly janitorial duties at the hospital that I work at, I immediately became fixated and then soon thereafter, obsessed. Any word she's written I am interested in, I am also a proud member of EDIS (Emily Dickinson International Society) and subscribe to The Emily Dickinson Journal, which is absolutely STELLAR! I have many issues to read still (I tranferred them onto my Kindle 2 and heavily annotate, highlight them). So Emily Dickinson. Sara Teasdale is another poetess I fell for fast. Every collection of hers I have read, and found some of them are very very personal to me. Wonderful, versification, very lyrical, and easy to understand. Currently I am obsessed with Sylvia Plath. Read all her poetry, her journal, and going to read her letters, and early writings soon. Ted Hughes, his Birthday Letters collection is the best that I have read of his, for it deal with Sylvia Plath, his wife, but I cannot seem to understand much of his other poetry. I read some of his translation of Ovid, but I prefer the Rolfe Humphries translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Are they related to O'ism in any way? I haven't exactly read them with those lenses on specifically. I read with my naked eye. I love what I see. Read biographies on each of them, too. What's interesting is they were all from Massachuesetts. But there are so many many interesting things about them, that I could take this thread, and weave in a beautiful tapestry of just these three! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 What's interesting is they were all from Massachuesetts. To correct myself, since I was thinking about what I said last night while performing my janitorial duties at the hospital, I was thinking of Anne Sexton, she was the yet another poetess from MA, not my dear Teasdale. Whoops! How could I mix them up! Virgina Woolf is from there too (of which I have read several works of hers recently The Waves being my favorite), as well as other famous writers and poets. I think that I will be putting Anne Sexton on this list, though I am reading about her first, then her poetry. I'm drawn to suicide in literature, either by characters, or the writers who commit it themselves. That's how I came upon Plath and Woolf and now Sexton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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