good poetry?

I wouldn't bother with Poe if I were you.
Maybe go to other Renaissance poets like Donne, Jonson if you like that sort of thing.

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>>9627260
have you read Georg?

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hmmm

>>9627260

going from Goethe to free-verse Whitman sounds like the biggest let down of all time.

>>9627260
Yeats, Eliot, Blake, Coleridge, De la Mare, Frost, Milton, Donne

Spenser, Browning, Marvell, Blake

>>9627449
Not in that order, though

>>9627449

>trying to understand Coleridge without having read Wordsworth

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>english
>poetry

>>9627260
Robert Herrick
John Donne
W B Yeats
Ezra Pound (Personae)

You can skip most of Poe except The Raven and his short stories.

>>9627260
when you find yourself in need of a short break from that Paradise read some BYRON - top comfy lad, love me some giaur

>>9627469
Good point. In fact, all the romantics are worthy of attention except Byron

>>9627260
people here are just naming names which can be done by reading a list on wikipedia.

The English Rennaisance, as it is called, is the overall best era of poetry.
I recommend Donne and Chapman. They don't overuse Royal or Religious poetry.
The romantics were good but they all died young and so their poetry reflects that.
I started with Keats.

Robert Browning is the best Victorian.

The Modernists are not really settled in my opinion as far as who is the obvious great.
I recommend Conrad Aiken and Hart Crane if you like the others I wrote in this post.

For 19th century Americans, Whitman and Melville are my favorites but I got into poetry through Longfellow and Poe.

Get bloom's or Norton's anthology and find what you enjoy

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this thread makes me glad that this board doesn't talk about poetry

>>9628514
the only appropriate answer here. find something you like and then study from there. people can't feed you your own taste