Would you mind naming a few books of poetry or individual poems that have left an indelible impression on you?
Individual:John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale / Ode to PsycheWilliam Wordsworth, Ode on Intimations of ImmortalityRobert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningKathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Death Barged InGregory Orr, TraumaAleksandr Pushkin, ProphetAlfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of ShalottJon Anderson, Creative Writing 307Sylvia Plath, The Bee MeetingT.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Odysseus Elytis, The AutopsyWilliam Brewer, Voices as of Lions Coming DownBlas Falconer, To Press the Air, To Bless the SilhouettePercy Bysshe Shelley, Music, When Soft Voices Die
Collections:If I could choose only one poet to impart to you; one selection of works to press into your hands, it would be that of Anne Carson. She’s important.Louise Glück, Averno Jeannine Hall Gailey, Becoming the VillainessEavan Boland, New Collected PoemsSappho, If Not, WinterCharles Baudelaire, Complete PoemsMichael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected PoemsMahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and BeyondFederico García Lorca, The Selected Poems Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda
Epics:Homer, The IliadDante, The InfernoMilton, Paradise LostVirgil, The AeneidAnon, Beowulf
Although it doesn’t really qualify, I’m going to mention The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard as well.
Also, do yourself a favour and peruse @antigonick’s original (prose/)poetry tag here, @lifeinpoetry’s original poetry tag over here, and @mythofdevotion’s original prose/poetry tag snugly nestled right here.
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