|
I have always loved reading and knew I wanted to study literature since I was a teenager. I loved the classics but could never get into poetry. Although I always excelled at reading in High School I just thought I never "got" poetry. It wasn't until I took an introductory poetry class in college that I really fell in love with it. I started reading lots of Blake, Tennyson, Burns, and Wordsworth. I spent basically my entire Junior year of college writing about Philip Larkin and since my college has the largest collection of W.B. Yeats work I ended up doing a lot of research papers about him. I haven't been reading a lot lately, mostly because I'm overseas and for some reason I don't like to read poetry on my e-reader, but when I get back I think I'm going to start collecting books. I was visiting my brother-in-law's home last summer and his family has a big ranch with this guesthouse filled with antiques, and I happened upon a collection of all of Shakespeare's works in these tiny books that were published in the mid 19th century and I've been hounding him about letting me buy them. I think the most important advice I ever got was from my intro poetry professor who suggested that I only read poetry in quiet, private places so that I am able to read it out loud. That single piece of advice made all the difference between enjoying poetry and just reading it because it was assigned.
|
#
¿
Feb 14, 2014 10:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 16, 2024 06:15 |
|