Comments on: Top 10 Must Read Poetry Collections http://blog.poemofquotes.com/top-10-must-read-poetry-collections/ Poetry and other writings. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary R. Hess http://blog.poemofquotes.com/top-10-must-read-poetry-collections/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Gary R. Hess Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:19:13 +0000 http://blog.poemofquotes.com/?p=119#comment-275 I've all of them but Aeneid and Dark Night of the Soul which I've read parts of. Aeneid is a bit different than The Illiad. The poem connects the story to the ancestors of Julius Caesar which gave Octavian a legitimate argument for calling himself a god. The story tells how Aeneas' traveled to Italy and tied Rome to Troy--something the Iliad didn't do. I’ve all of them but Aeneid and Dark Night of the Soul which I’ve read parts of. Aeneid is a bit different than The Illiad. The poem connects the story to the ancestors of Julius Caesar which gave Octavian a legitimate argument for calling himself a god. The story tells how Aeneas’ traveled to Italy and tied Rome to Troy–something the Iliad didn’t do.

]]> By: Descartes http://blog.poemofquotes.com/top-10-must-read-poetry-collections/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Descartes Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:51:08 +0000 http://blog.poemofquotes.com/?p=119#comment-274 A good list, but not a very easy one. Have you read all of these? I have started most of them at one point or another, but found myself quickly lost. Leaves of Grass had a couple of well known poems, but the rest of just baffling. The Aeneid? All the fun stuff happened in The Illiad, didn't it? My own favorite poems collection would have to be Houseman's A Shropshire Lad-but then, it is short and the poems are easy to read. A good list, but not a very easy one. Have you read all of these? I have started most of them at one point or another, but found myself quickly lost. Leaves of Grass had a couple of well known poems, but the rest of just baffling. The Aeneid? All the fun stuff happened in The Illiad, didn’t it?

My own favorite poems collection would have to be Houseman’s A Shropshire Lad-but then, it is short and the poems are easy to read.

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