Poetry meme (from Oracne, I now see)
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vaznettiAh... most of my poetry is still boxed in my parents basement, so this will be incomplete, and the titles may be misremembered. But these are the books I usually carry with me when I move.
Anna Akhmatova: A collection, bilingual, whose title I cannot remember.
W. H. Auden: Selected Poems and Complete Poems, because I am an Auden geek and really care about the differences between the original and later versions of his early poems.
Joseph Brodsky: To Ourania and Other Poems and something else.
e e cummings: VIVA and another selection--100 poems, maybe?
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and other poems
Robert Frost: Collected Poems
Seamus Heaney: The Spirit Level and his Beowulf as well. That's my third Beowulf translation, because I'm a geek who studied Old English in college, along with two other ex-girlfriends of one of my ex-boyfriends, which probably tells you more than you needed to know about my social circle in college.
Kenneth Rexroth: Collected Shorter Poems
Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World and Time's Power. My parents have a lot more Rich at home--her earlier collections and some essays, which I keep meaning to steal.
Muriel Rukeyser: Another collection whose title I can't remember--bought because of a reference in Rich.
Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems. I may have more than one copy of this, which is a bit odd given that I'm not all that fond of most of Thomas.
Walt Whitman: some collection--I never quite got into it.
There are no doubt others which I've forgotten: my poetry shelf is full.
As for the ancient poets, they tend to be for work, but I own multiple translations of the Odyssey and various collections of the lyric poets simply because I like them.
ETA: Cavafy, Collected Poems.
Anna Akhmatova: A collection, bilingual, whose title I cannot remember.
W. H. Auden: Selected Poems and Complete Poems, because I am an Auden geek and really care about the differences between the original and later versions of his early poems.
Joseph Brodsky: To Ourania and Other Poems and something else.
e e cummings: VIVA and another selection--100 poems, maybe?
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and other poems
Robert Frost: Collected Poems
Seamus Heaney: The Spirit Level and his Beowulf as well. That's my third Beowulf translation, because I'm a geek who studied Old English in college, along with two other ex-girlfriends of one of my ex-boyfriends, which probably tells you more than you needed to know about my social circle in college.
Kenneth Rexroth: Collected Shorter Poems
Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World and Time's Power. My parents have a lot more Rich at home--her earlier collections and some essays, which I keep meaning to steal.
Muriel Rukeyser: Another collection whose title I can't remember--bought because of a reference in Rich.
Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems. I may have more than one copy of this, which is a bit odd given that I'm not all that fond of most of Thomas.
Walt Whitman: some collection--I never quite got into it.
There are no doubt others which I've forgotten: my poetry shelf is full.
As for the ancient poets, they tend to be for work, but I own multiple translations of the Odyssey and various collections of the lyric poets simply because I like them.
ETA: Cavafy, Collected Poems.
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Date: 2003-10-17 01:38 pm (UTC)Not the Iliad?
I ask because I'm curious, and because I personally fall into the category of loving one and dislking the other -- in my case, love the Iliad, want to smack Odysseus around.
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Date: 2003-10-17 02:26 pm (UTC)I would once have said that I don't care for the Iliad as much, but that that's because I've never given it the kind of in-depth study that I've given the Odyssey, which I've read through twice in Greek and more times than I can count in English. Now that I've taught it this year I find that I do like it, and will probably start aquiring Iliad translations as well (and the second volume of the Greek). Especially because pages have started to fall out of my old Lattimore.
Not liking Odysseus... or at least, not finding him interesting. This I find strange.