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<blockquote data-quote="Cassiel666" data-source="post: 401113" data-attributes="member: 5205">Hey ForceUser, I had Gunn as a professor at Berkeley before he retired.&nbsp; I'm surprised that at least a few of the people here have read more modern poets like Gunn and Creeley--Gunn is not Black Mountain but those who enjoy him or Creeley will probably also enjoy Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder and their compatriots.As far as RPG related I'm noticing some major oversights: Dante, for one, even if only the Inferno, is incredible (if your Italian is bad the *best* translation is Mandelbaum's.. it's a work of art in its own right).&nbsp; William Blake also fits the mood of fantasy, and any love elegist is great as far as bards are concerned: Sappho, Catullus, Propertius, Horus, Ovid, Tibellus (I'm over-emphasizing the classics but hey, may as well start at the beginning), Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc.&nbsp; There are also the epics, of course: Homer's poems and Gilgamesh, and for modern occult campaigns James Merrill's book &quot;The Changing Light at Sandover&quot; (3 connected poems published together).If you want to stretch your metaphysics I recommend Berssenbrugge and Rilke, and Eliot, but you won't get it out of Eliot unless you know what you're doing, so you should read the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita (at least) before you tackle him.&nbsp; There's more even to Prufrock than most people can tell you, but really it's just the beginning of Eliot (figuratively and literally).&nbsp; Big fans of Prufrock should also check out &quot;Inventions of the March Hare.&quot;Not to leave out the women: Sylvia Plath (at least the Ariel poems), Anne Sexton, Louise Gluck, H.D., Marianne Moore, Sulpicia, Sappho and Berssenbrugge and Levertov, whom I already mentioned.There are hundreds more of course--this is just off the top of my head.&nbsp; More likely than not, though taste depending, you'll enjoy the symbolists too (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Valery, Verlaine etc.).&nbsp; Jim Morrison was a big Rimbaud fan anyway.So what am I forgetting?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cassiel666, post: 401113, member: 5205"] Hey ForceUser, I had Gunn as a professor at Berkeley before he retired. I'm surprised that at least a few of the people here have read more modern poets like Gunn and Creeley--Gunn is not Black Mountain but those who enjoy him or Creeley will probably also enjoy Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder and their compatriots. As far as RPG related I'm noticing some major oversights: Dante, for one, even if only the Inferno, is incredible (if your Italian is bad the *best* translation is Mandelbaum's.. it's a work of art in its own right). William Blake also fits the mood of fantasy, and any love elegist is great as far as bards are concerned: Sappho, Catullus, Propertius, Horus, Ovid, Tibellus (I'm over-emphasizing the classics but hey, may as well start at the beginning), Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc. There are also the epics, of course: Homer's poems and Gilgamesh, and for modern occult campaigns James Merrill's book "The Changing Light at Sandover" (3 connected poems published together). If you want to stretch your metaphysics I recommend Berssenbrugge and Rilke, and Eliot, but you won't get it out of Eliot unless you know what you're doing, so you should read the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita (at least) before you tackle him. There's more even to Prufrock than most people can tell you, but really it's just the beginning of Eliot (figuratively and literally). Big fans of Prufrock should also check out "Inventions of the March Hare." Not to leave out the women: Sylvia Plath (at least the Ariel poems), Anne Sexton, Louise Gluck, H.D., Marianne Moore, Sulpicia, Sappho and Berssenbrugge and Levertov, whom I already mentioned. There are hundreds more of course--this is just off the top of my head. More likely than not, though taste depending, you'll enjoy the symbolists too (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Valery, Verlaine etc.). Jim Morrison was a big Rimbaud fan anyway. So what am I forgetting? [/QUOTE]

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