At least, I have no knowledge/recollection of reading any poets. Even Shakespeare I’ve only read some of his plays but never any of his poetry. Not him, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, etc. I’ve all heard of these people but never read any of their works. But I’ve gotten a curiosity to start reading some but don’t know where I should start or who I should start with.
by Mad_Season_1994
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Philip Larkin
Good and easy.
Shakespeare’s sonnets aren’t very accessible if you’ve never read poetry before so I’d hold out.
I suggest Housman’s A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, Rupert Brooke’s 1914 and Other Poems, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge.