Imagine you're going to jail and you can bring 5 books but

>>7869583
Would you include epics?

>>7869613
Yeah anything in verse. Prose poetry works too

>>7869583
Definitely the book of psalms so I can fit in with the idiot bible thumping prisoners and prevent them from shanking me.

Cantos by Ezra Pound
Kubla Khan by Coleridge
Paradise Loft by Milton
Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire
Leaves of Glass by Walt Whitman

The Canterbury Tales
The Upanishads
The Book of Job
Songs of Innocence and Experience
The Metamorphoses

>>7869583
The Cantos
The Bridge
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Duino Elegies

>>7869623
-The Complete Works of Shakespeare
-Beowulf in original Old English (gotta assimilate into that codex bruv)
-KJV (gotta dissasimilate out of that codex bruv)
-"Is Homer poetry and why don't I give a fuck..." original poem
-unnecessary slot, pick at random

>>7869583
A book of bob dylan lyrics

Dante
Juvenal
Odyssey
The Decameron
and if the complete works of Shakespeare count. That

Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Aeneid
Complete Shakespeare
Complete Keats

>>7869665
Cheers, not read duino Elegies.

>>7869710
Decameron ain't in verse, fool!

>>7869715
This, but the Illiad instead of Roman fanfiction

>>7869646
whitman is shite

>>7869998
t. undergrad

I don't have to pretend OP

>>7869583
Paris Spleen
The Illiad
Paradise Lost
Kubla Khan
Self Portrait in a convex mirror