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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