What is The Top Ten (in the post below)? Is it about some Greatest Books That Must Be Read? Or some How to Read syllabus? Some Golden Treasury?
No to all. I picked the books on this list for a pretty specific purpose, which I've hinted at in the title to this series (For newcomers, this Blogger account was formerly titled "The Art of Definition," and it was a collection of posts about my approach toward writing traditional metrical poetry.).
I suppose this list might be thought of as a set of cultural benchmarks, but, really, I want it to be something more. I'd rather think of it as a process of me suggesting things and you deciding to take me up on all, some, or none of them, and then us seeing what results.
I'm just an instigator, but I hope to be one in a good sense of the term.
Next time.
Note: I used Jack Kerouac's French first name in the list for a particular reason (other than me sounding pompous -- isn't "The Instauration" pompous enough?), one that I hope to get into soon. Also, the name I've used for Shakespeare's sonnets is, according to one source, the actual title of the first edition.
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