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Old 11-17-2005, 06:49 PM
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Default Re: Introduction To Poetry

The Wasteland is brilliant but unfriendly to almost all readers, assuming broad knowledge outside the poem, including several languages. Try some of Eliot's other poems, like The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, The Hollow Men, etc.

You might also give some names like Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin a try. Absolutely top quality stuff.

Check out www.plagiarist.com for the submitted poems of many great poets. You'll find Wallace, Eliot, and Larkin there, among many others, some with multiple poems, some with just a few.

Here's a link to one we mentioned on the board just yesterday, a favorite of Philip Larkin's:

This Be the Verse
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