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Hello friends.
I have always liked to read a good book; since I was a kid.
I have read and re-read almost all the 'classics' of literature as well as a substantial amount of philosophy.
I have, however, never read any poetry other than the 4 or 5 they made us analyze in high school. I've been wondering if maybe it's about time I try and get into some poetry. Where should I start (probably the Greeks again, but what specifically) and are there any specific collections I should look out for?

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Start with the fragments of Heraclitus.

End with Mundus Millennialis by REI.

Pick up something like pic related. Should be a good overview. Then if you like one of the poets you can read who he/she was influenced by, if they were from a movement or school, who they influenced, who their friends were.

It takes all that scibbly scratchy just to say that? I was hoping it was something more elaborate and depraved.

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>Mundus Millennialis by REI

Is that a perfume?

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It doesn't say that.

what does it say then?

I don't know, but
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looks like
>内側の無料兼
and none of those characters are there.

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You asked.

i asked for what it said, not speculation.

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I didn't speculate, I said I don't know and explained how I knew what it didn't say without knowing what it does say, because you seemed to think I was withholding it from you for some reason.

You've read almost "all" the classics and 90% of the shit before Don Quixote was poetry, which you haven't read?

Probably the Bible or the Iliad. or are you looking for a different kind of poetry than epic?

Like another user said, just get an anthology.

Also this "read almost all the classics" but not including Homer, Shakespeare, Dante or Milton? ok pal

By almost all the classics I meant almost all the classics that wouldn't be described as poetry, except for certain epics which I have read.

I should've made it clear that I'm looking for more 'typical' (not sure how to describe it exactly) poetry rather than epics like The Odyssey or the Bible, so I'm sorry about that.

If I do just get an anthology do you folk have any recommendations for specific ones or should I just get any that comes my way?

>more 'typical' (not sure how to describe it exactly) poetry

I think you mean lyric and shorter narrative verse.

>If I do just get an anthology do you folk have any recommendations for specific ones or should I just get any that comes my way?

The Norton Anthology is the biggest and standard. The Oxford Anthology should probably be good too. Penguin also do anthologies of particular eras and movements which I have a few of.

If you were classifying it against epic you would call it lyric poetry.
The oxford book of english verse?
Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyyam is very nice+widely available+culturally popular+quotable as fuck. 1st edition is best edition, you could just read it online as it's composed of about 100 four line stanzas.

Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat is one of my favourite books of all time.

Nakadashi means creampie.

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from now on don't come to Veeky Forums for poetry, it'll hurt your understanding far more than it'll help if you consider that 99% of the people here know as little as you, they just pretend otherwise or are deluded enough to believe otherwise.