The Norton anthology of poetry
by Arthur M. Eastman, E, Alexander W. Allison, Herbert Barrows, Caesar R. Blake, Arthur J. Carr · first published 1970
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I'd second the other commenter's suggestion of an anthology. For a comprehensive anthology with a terrific reference section where you can learn the "technical details" of poetry, I'd recommend The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
on “Demystifying Poetic Meter” ↗Start with The Norton Anthology of Poetry [1], keep going till you're balls deep in Cunt Norton [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Norton_Anthology_of_Poetry [2] https://pen.org/cunt-norton/
on “Ask HN: What are the most used textbooks for an undergrad humanities curriculum?” ↗…inflection matters." For children's poetry to get started, Belloc's 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts' or the Looking Glass Book of Verse are high quality collections. Then it's worth getting something like a Norton Anthology of Poetry as a way of reading very widely very quickly to find out what appeals to you right now, and explore that further. Many people recommend the Oxford Book of English Verse. I don't, because I think Quiller-Couch…
on “Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?” ↗…five times a week. TV doesn't do him justice -- he's much more interesting in person. He always knows exactly what to say in any given situation. One is a genius of memory. He memorized the entire Norton Anthology of Poetry when he was a child. (I'm not even kidding.) In college we all played a game where we would give him the first line of a poem. He would then supply the title of the poem, the author, the year it was…
on “Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore” ↗I remember having to suppress a giggle in high school when I ran into "The Vine"[0] in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. It was nice to know people were still the same 400 years earlier. [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50721/the-vine
on “The salacious Middle Ages” ↗