I am a pleb and can only read English what poetry should I be

>>10028843
Eliot, frost, crane, DH Lawrence.

>>10028849
Also hardy and Donne

>>10028843
william blake's songs of experience for some grade a pessimistic lyric poetry

>>10028849
>>10028854
>>10028858
Thanks guys. Anyone know about prose poems?

>pessimistic stuff
You can always go for the obvious, Poe and Dickinson

>>10029690
Ciardi's translation of Dante's Inferno

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Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

>>10028849
Lawrence is severely underappreciated. Ship of Death is fantastic.

>>10029789
I fucking hate that poem

>>10029827
Fuck you t. knave

I'm personally a fan of Emily Brontë's style.

Read Kipling.

>>10029838
I'm more patriciian than you'll be for years

The City of Dreadful Night - James Thomson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Conrad Aiken

>>10028843

Joe Bolton