Dunno about the list, but I'm taking your notes...
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> As an experiment, and wondering what I would come up with, I've drawn
> up my own list of :
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> 10 Best Poetry Books
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> The Cantos by Ezra Pound (New Directions 1972)
> Ezra Pound Collected Poems (American Library ed, has everything but the
> Cantos)
> Complete Poems and Plays 1909 -1950 by T. S. Eliot
> The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats (ed. Alt and Alspach)
> The Poetry of Robert Frost (ed. Lathem 1975)
> The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1981)
> The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1909-1962
> H. D. Collected Poems 1912-1944
> Robert Graves New Collected Poems 1977
> Philip Larkin Collected Poems (ed. Thwaite 1989)
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> Notes:
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> 1) Since this posting has notes it gets to be taken seriously.
> 2) The list covers English language poetry since 1900 and excludes
> anthologies, which are worth while but deserve their own list
> (provided on request.)
> 3) The Williams is two volumes but may be counted as one since it's my
> list.
> 4) Yes I know there's poetry after Larkin but it's a bunch of junk.
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