Subject: Re: poets and poetry
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 15:10:04 EST
Jocelyn,
Though I have made a new millennium pledge not to once again rant _his_ name
on-list (since it is no longer _his_ century), I still must say it is great
to see you include the "German poet" on your list. (And Angie, I think,
chimed in late last month, oh a day or so after _his_ death-day: The lyre
is lifted from your hands; and death sings his dirge for you.)
--Bruce
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From: Bliss9842@aol.com <Bliss9842@aol.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: poets and poetry
>>Could anyone recommend essential poets and poetry for me? I really enjoy
>poetry but I just don't know where to look.<
>
>Christian,
>
>I have a few suggestions:
>The Longman Pocket Anthology is excellent; it has not only some established
>poets (From Shakespeare to Yeats to Whitman) but also many contemporary
poets
>(Adrienne Rich, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Gwendolyn Brooks among
others).
>Edited by R.S. Gwynn, it also provides a thorough introduction to the
>literary terms used in poetry. An excellent, essential book.
>
>I also recommend Eight American Poets, an anthology edited by Joel
Conarroe.
>The poets included are Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke,
Anne
>Sexton, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, John Berryman and James Merrill. It
>also includes about a 3 page biography about each poet, and selected
poetry.
>My favorite poet, e.e. cummings, has a volume entitled '100 Poems' which is
>excellent. Also, in 'A Perfect Day for Bananfish' Seymour talks about a
>German poet-Rainer Maria Rilke, who is also excellent. I hope my
suggestions
>have been helpful.
>
>-Jocelyn
>
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