Re: Introduction To Poetry
Its really a personal choice, and your question is akin to asking whether one genre of music is better than another. My favorite author is Eliot, and half the time nobody knows whether to consider him English or American.
One of my favorite "old English" poets is John Donne. Try to find a book that has collections of his poems as well as his essays. You can't go wrong with the guy that wrote the phrases, "for whom the bell tolls," and "no man is an island, entire of itself." In any case, Donne will have a completely different flavor from Eliot, who will have a completely different flavor from Whitman. Its hard to argue that one is objectively better than the others.
I haven't read much Spanish poetry.
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