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hellhoundharry's review against another edition
3.0
Me and poetry have an interesting history. When I was a teenager I was taught in school that poems have to rhyme and that was it. I wasn't taught about "free verse" poetry, I could only find those in song lyrics, if they can be called so. Walt Whitman who?
So my teenage self who wrote angsty teen-poems wrote them mostly in rhyme. I tried to write freeverse poems, because when I had discovered that, I also discovered that rhyme and metered poems are "old" and "dusty", something old dudes or college professors like.
But writing freeverse wasn't challenging enough for me. It felt more like I was just gushing out my feelings on paper, while whenever I was writing rhymed and metered poetry, not only could I still talk about my feelings, I could also give it a rhytm. Like a song...
Anyway, I have fallen in and out of love of poetry more than I can remember. I have tried to read some contemporary poets but usually I don't feel like they have anything to say to me. Like I might understand their angst if I went to bed with them and got my answers? Maybe?
So the last year or so I have gone back to reading older poets: Lord Byron and Edgar Allan Poes poetry have been fascinating to me. So naturally I picked up this book of English Romantic Verse.
What did I think about it? It's a mixed bag, as with most anthologies. Some of these poems went right through the heart, while others just left me confused.
So my teenage self who wrote angsty teen-poems wrote them mostly in rhyme. I tried to write freeverse poems, because when I had discovered that, I also discovered that rhyme and metered poems are "old" and "dusty", something old dudes or college professors like.
But writing freeverse wasn't challenging enough for me. It felt more like I was just gushing out my feelings on paper, while whenever I was writing rhymed and metered poetry, not only could I still talk about my feelings, I could also give it a rhytm. Like a song...
Anyway, I have fallen in and out of love of poetry more than I can remember. I have tried to read some contemporary poets but usually I don't feel like they have anything to say to me. Like I might understand their angst if I went to bed with them and got my answers? Maybe?
So the last year or so I have gone back to reading older poets: Lord Byron and Edgar Allan Poes poetry have been fascinating to me. So naturally I picked up this book of English Romantic Verse.
What did I think about it? It's a mixed bag, as with most anthologies. Some of these poems went right through the heart, while others just left me confused.
littlepanda's review against another edition
3.0
The title is pretty much self explanatory. It was a good collection of romamtic poets although the author did not choose to put their most famous poems. What was a good idea was to put poets that we usually do not know a lot of as John Clare.
oliviareadsbooks's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.5
emilyswift's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
_lexie_'s review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
3.5