Poetry
Even if we despised rhyme and metre as Tolstoy did, and held that nothing has been said in verse that could not be better said in prose, we should still have to admit that many things are said more permanently in verse.
(from the introduction by Robert Lynd to A. Methuen’s An Anthology of Modern Verse, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1949.)
Here's a short list of English poems (in no particular order) which I particularly like.
Each poet's biography is also worth looking up: this is often fascinating, and much will be discovered and learned.
Note: An analysis of this poem (and other ones) can be found in X. J. Kennedy's An Introduction to Poetry (7th ed.), Harper Collins (1990).
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