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Zod wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:

jdcha...@gmail.com wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:
jdcha...@gmail.com wrote:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/4/12/paglia-praises-her-43-favorite-poems/
This looks more interesting the more I read about it, have you read the book yet, Jordy?

no, haven't read it, but Paglia is a fascinating, controversial, provocative character... she's been described as "Ayn Rand on mushrooms"... don't agree with some of her views, but she is certainly entertaining and thought provoking...
The book seems to be online in PDF form. Here are the poets covered:

https://booksvooks.com/fullbook/break-blow-burn-camille-paglia-reads-forty-three-of-the-worlds-best-poems-pdf.html?page=3

ONE - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
FOUR - JOHN DONNE
SEVEN - GEORGE HERBERT
TEN - ANDREW MARVELL
ELEVEN - WILLIAM BLAKE
THIRTEEN - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
FIFTEEN - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
SIXTEEN - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
SEVENTEEN - WALT WHITMAN
EIGHTEEN - EMILY DICKINSON
TWENTY-ONE - WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
TWENTY-THREE - WALLACE STEVENS
TWENTY-FIVE - WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
TWENTY-SEVEN - JEAN TOOMER
TWENTY-EIGHT - LANGSTON HUGHES
TWENTY-NINE - THEODORE ROETHKE
THIRTY-TWO - ROBERT LOWELL
THIRTY-THREE - SYLVIA PLATH
THIRTY-FOUR - FRANK OrCOHARA
THIRTY-FIVE - PAUL BLACKBURN
THIRTY-SIX - MAY SWENSON
THIRTY-SEVEN - GARY SNYDER
THIRTY-EIGHT - NORMAN H. RUSSELL
THIRTY-NINE - CHUCK WACHTEL
FORTY - ROCHELLE KRAUT
FORTY-ONE - WANDA COLEMAN
FORTY-TWO - RALPH POMEROY
FORTY-THREE - JONI MITCHELL

Here's Camille Paglia on Joni Mitchell, from Break, Blow, Burn:


https://booksvooks.com/fullbook/break-blow-burn-camille-paglia-reads-forty-three-of-the-worlds-best-poems-pdf.html?page=47


"Joni MitchellrCOs rCLWoodstockrCY is a rare exception. This is an important modern poem"possibly the most popular and influential poem composed in English since Sylvia PlathrCOs rCLDaddy.rCY

Quite good...

Again, agreed.

EfyA


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