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Poetry Nominations • January 2014
Happy New Year! Auld lang syne and all that. Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for January 2014!
The nominations will run for four days until 5 January. Then, a separate voting poll will begin where the month's selection will be decided. The category for this month is: Poetry In order for a work to be included in the poll it needs four nominations - the original nomination plus three supporting. Each participant has four nominations to use. You can nominate a new work for consideration or you can support (second, third or fourth) a work that has already been nominated by another person. To nominate a work just post a message with your nomination. If you are the first to nominate a work, it's always nice to provide an abstract to the work so others may consider their level of interest. What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask! The floor is now open! * Nominations are now closed. Final nominations: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The poems of Wallace Stevens - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Inferno by Dante - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The poems of John Keats - Fully nominated Spoiler:
High Windows by Philip Larkin - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Aimless Love by Billy Collins - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire - 2 Spoiler:
Poems and Songs by Robert Burns - 1 Spoiler:
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01-01-2014, 10:41 AM | #2 |
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heany died on August 30, 2013. I thought it would be interesting to read a collection of his poems. A biographical sketch of Heany at the Poetry Foundation. This interview of Seamus Heany from 2006 on the NPR program On Point was rebroadcast on September 2, 2013 any interested: Listening Back To Seamus Heaney Kindle Kobo |
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01-01-2014, 12:00 PM | #3 |
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Heaney sounds good to me. Seconded.
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I'm going to nominate Wallace Stevens. This is from The Poetry Foundation:
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I've been looking around and I see several possibilities. Poem Hunter has a selection of his poems in the public domain in PDF format. Or there's the collection of all his poems. Kindle Kobo and other ebookstores, but it's much more expensive than Amazon. The collection selected by his daughter, The Palm at the End of the Mind also is available in eformat and is slightly cheaper, but my own druthers would be to get the complete collection and read the poems from his first work, Harmonium. Most of the Harmonium poems are public domain and I think can be read online at Poem Hunter. There are also much cheaper used pbook options. I acknowledge that these are US-centric options and I have no idea what's available in other venues. |
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I'll third Opened Ground
and second Wallace Stevens. (Preferably via Poem Hunter as my library doesn't have him.) |
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01-01-2014, 05:40 PM | #6 |
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I have been very frustrated: really wanted to suggest Montale or Ungaretti, but I got so disheartened in reading the translations, that it just won't do. You will have to learn Italian :-)
So coming back to English, I will nominate another poet who also had to work to earn his keep, Philip Larkin. He is crude, but oh so effective! The Collected poems would be good, but to keep it manageable I'd suggest High Windows - a couple of the poems are available at the Poetry Foundation, otherwise it is available at Amazon uk, Amazon US, and couponable on Kobo. I will third Wallace Stevens. |
01-01-2014, 06:15 PM | #7 |
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I'll third second Larkin. I had a hardcover of High Windows ages and ages ago, I wonder if it's still kicking around here somewhere?
ETA: Paola, I was kinda hoping you'd nominate The Inferno. Last edited by issybird; 01-01-2014 at 06:34 PM. Reason: Fix nomination |
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I'll fourth Heaney.
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01-02-2014, 04:29 AM | #9 |
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How could I not comply I was so focused on modern authors that forgot the dad of my own language! So yes, let me formally nominate Dante's Inferno - that would be tough going for non Italians, but there is bound to be plenty of good translations. I will look more into that later (after looking at a couple of Montale's poems in Arrowsmith and Galassi's translations, reputed to be the best, my heart sank - we've got to accept that some poets are, sadly, untranslatable...)
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I second Dante's Inferno.
I nominate Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal) |
01-02-2014, 07:16 AM | #11 |
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Poems and Songs by Robert Burns.
Scotland's favorite son and national poet. This is a collection of 43 of his best poems and songs. For Auld Land Syne, my friends for Auld Lang Syne. Kindle Kobo Last edited by Hamlet53; 01-02-2014 at 07:20 AM. |
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01-02-2014, 07:22 AM | #13 |
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Fourth Wallace Stevens.
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01-02-2014, 07:44 AM | #14 |
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No disrespect intended for M. Baudelaire or Robbie, but after having goaded Paola, my last nomination has to go to fourthing Dante.
I don't think we have any rules about renominating here; the main club has a six-month rule. Paola, I'm very interested in your assessment of the Divine Comedy translations. Every now and then I check and they all seem flawed in some respect. The most recent translation (that I've read about), by Clive James (!), was well-reviewed in the NYT. I read Ciardi in college and I think that one is still held in good repute. ETA: I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of Montale or Ungaretti, which I shall have to remedy despite poor translations. Last edited by issybird; 01-02-2014 at 07:48 AM. |
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I'd like to nominate the poems of John Keats.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art La Belle Dame sans Merci Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale To Autumn Endymion: A Poetic Romance The Eve of St. Agnes Hyperion On First Looking into Chapman's Homer When I have fears that I may cease to be Also, not as a central list, but as additional possibilities if so inclined (though any of his poems could be read): (in spoiler tags because of length) Spoiler:
Keats, John: Complete Poetry, epub here at Mobileread |
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