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Finished the chapter "The art of reading poetry" -
It was interesting to see from how many different angels critics assess the poetry. And I liked examples. But gosh gosh, I am glad I am not a poetry critic.

I am ready to enjoy now. For me - poetry is beauty, it's the way hear opens up and emotions spill. And hard to judge someone's ability to feel. Isn't it?!

Let's the journey begin now!

"Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(From the poem "The Rhodora")

"The marvelous comes to us, when it comes, in very different forms: ideally in another person, but sometimes by an otherness in the self."

Just opened The Best Poems of the English Language and I'm already hooked after reading Introduction.

From 1343 to 1899!

From Chaucer onward, 108 poets across more than five centuries of English poetry. Most are completely new to me, which makes this even more exciting. Here's to discovering new voices, one poem at a time.

Wallace Stevens said that poetry was one of the enlargements of life. Can't agree more!

Testing Bloom's notion that The Waste Land owes Much (more than Eliot would admit until the 50s) to Whitman's When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Marianne Moore

Wallace Stevens

Thomas Hardy

Dante and Christina Rosetti

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Robert Browning