In English, I'm sure you know the big names in poetry. I'd recommend Byron, Dylan Thomas, Poe, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Whitman, and a whole bunch of others. I'm tempted to recommend Frost in a fit of sadistic glee, but I won't.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Poetry: care to recommend me some?
- 23/03/2010 06:57:49 PM
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester?
- 23/03/2010 07:04:39 PM
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Re: Rebekah is not prepubescent. Ergo, no. *NM*
- 23/03/2010 08:06:33 PM
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Hey. Rochester is actually quite good *NM*
- 23/03/2010 08:17:50 PM
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And amazingly explicit. *NM*
- 23/03/2010 08:35:13 PM
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Yes
- 23/03/2010 08:37:55 PM
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That has to be the best (if, admittedly, only) poem on premature ejaculation I've ever read.
- 23/03/2010 08:52:12 PM
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Apparently it was quite fashionable to write them during the Restoration
- 23/03/2010 08:56:31 PM
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My favourite poet in English is a relatively unknown fellow called James Elroy Flecker.
- 23/03/2010 07:11:03 PM
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What languages do you speak?
- 23/03/2010 08:51:18 PM
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Some Spanish and German
- 23/03/2010 08:57:59 PM
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Read Heine if you read German
- 23/03/2010 09:01:54 PM
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Pablo Neruda? *NM*
- 23/03/2010 09:11:26 PM
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This is why I will never recommend А́нна Ахма́това/ Anna Akhmatova to anyone who
- 24/03/2010 04:16:07 PM
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Emily Dickinson? *NM*
- 23/03/2010 10:37:19 PM
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I loathe her *NM*
- 24/03/2010 04:41:57 AM
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.
- 24/03/2010 04:13:54 PM
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it is a good one
- 24/03/2010 08:22:46 PM
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I read a couple of Edward Thomas poems recently that I really liked
- 26/03/2010 03:14:31 PM
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coming in late, but haven't seen anyone mention langston hughes? *NM*
- 30/03/2010 04:14:52 PM
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