Reddit reviews The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno
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I'd give any of these to someone interested in poetry and wanting to get a good start.
Jill Alexander Essbaum: Harlot
Brian McGackin: Broetry
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Other Poems (start with "Prufrock")
Sylvia Plath: Ariel (note: this is the "restored" edition--yes it is superior)
Anne Sexton: Transformations
Dante: The Divine Comedy (Durling & Martinez translation)
Anon: Beowulf (Heaney or Sullivan/Murphy translation)
Homer: Odyssey (Fagles translation)
Kim Addonizio: Tell Me
David Mason: Ludlow
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Collected Sonnets
Shakespeare: Collected Sonnets
Moira Egan and Clarinda Harriss (ed.): Hot Sonnets
Sounds Good, 101 Poems to be Heard
I'll go ahead and add the publisher's page for my book (which I absolutely would include as a good "beginning" book) but it won't be out until late January.
ENJOY!
*edit: I absolutely WOULD include my book as a beginner book--sorry for any confusion!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Divine-Comedy-Dante-Alighieri/dp/0195087445
This is the edition that I've read and I found the annotations extremely helpful. I'm certainly not a Dante scholar tho so if anyone has better recommendations I'd be curious as well
I love this edition because it contains the Italian and Durling's prose translation is really excellent. As for the notes, they're among the most thorough I've seen.