http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 01:03:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-38171 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:49:02 +0000 Anonymous 38171@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ i didn't realize so many suggestions had come in... while the forum was having problems, i couldn't see which threads had been added to.<br /> <br /> thanks!! http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-38163 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:42:34 +0000 Saturn 38163@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Goethe, Faust, first part. Can't recommend it enough.</blockquote><br /> <br /> I'd recommend that two, though Part Two is very interesting as well, though very metaphysical and allegoric. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-38120 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:52:14 +0000 Fryphile 38120@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ E.E. Cummings, Carl Sandburg, Anne Sexton, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/">Donald Rumsfeld</a> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-38117 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:38:28 +0000 AxmxZ 38117@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Goethe, Faust, first part. Can't recommend it enough. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-38115 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:22:15 +0000 Anonymous 38115@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I've always enjoyed William Carlos Williams http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-38103 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:53:42 +0000 Anonymous 38103@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I'm not a big fan of poetry but I strongly admire Tony Harrison's 2 part sonnet &quot;Them and Uz&quot;, in which he defends his regional accent against teachers, critics and all other pretentious types. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-37156 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:13:35 +0000 Fourth Feline 37156@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ For me it's A.E.HOUSEMAN. (1859 - 1936 )<br /> <br /> A couple of excerpts that touched and moved me:<br /> <br /> <em>THE REMORSEFUL DAY</em><br /> <br /> Ensanguining the skies<br /> How heavily it dies<br /> Into the west away;<br /> Past touch and sight and sound<br /> Not further to be found,<br /> How hopeless under ground<br /> Falls the remorseful day.<br /> <br /> And <br /> <br /> <em> BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS</em><br /> <br /> Into my heart an air that kills<br /> From yon far country blows:<br /> What are those blue remembered hills,<br /> What spires, what farms are those?<br /> This is the land of lost content,<br /> I see it shining plain.<br /> The happy highways where I went<br /> And cannot come again. <br /> <br /> N.B. <br /> (The first one was used in the last episode of 'Inspector Morse' - and the second at the end of the film 'Walkabout ' ). <br /> <br /> F.F. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-35158 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:11:32 +0000 Saturn 35158@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ If you can find good translations of the following:<br /> <br /> ^Catullus as already mentioned above.<br /> <br /> Ovid's Love poems or, if you're really into Greek and Roman Mythology The Metamorphosis.<br /> <br /> Petrarch's Canzoniere.<br /> <br /> Dante's<em> la vita nuova </em>and The Divine Comedy<br /> <br /> Goethe <br /> <br /> And in English:<br /> <br /> Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is always worth a read [even better of you have the patience to read it in the original middle-English]<br /> <br /> Spenser's Fairie Queene http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-35144 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:42:23 +0000 Anonymous 35144@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Steve Turner http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-35138 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:03:41 +0000 ratoutofhell 35138@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I always think you can't go far wrong with a good translation of Catullus. The wedding hymns can go on a bit but the short poems are superb. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-suggestions#post-35043 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:19:38 +0000 Anonymous 35043@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ i am not a poet but i like reading poetry. i'm not very familiar with different writers, though, and i'm looking for more stuff to read.<br /> <br /> anybody got suggestions or favorites?<br /> <br /> so far i like t.s.eliot, tennyson's memorium, william blake, wallace stevens, william carlos williams, rilke, and i LOVE LOVE walt whitman. but really, i could be into anything.... any time period, any place, no restrictions.<br /> <br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_confused.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-?&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt;