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recently i bought keats and shelley because i wanted to get into poetry (to help with my own writing) but they’re quite thick books.

do you prefer reading poetry books back to back as if you were reading a narrative, or some other way like going by theme/what you feel like that day?

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i’m reading jude the obscure by thomas hardy and i worry my current story im writing will straight up seem like plagiarism. my character is a lower class male, mothers dead, lives with someone who doesn’t like him, aspires to escape, and loves reading classical literature as escapism. i just feel like im copying thomas hardy now even tho ive never read him and i really want my book to be literary without seeming like it’s a weird fanfic au of a victorian author that’s set in the modern day.

anyone else experienced this?

basically i (17f) really want to be a writer when i’m older (and i’ve written quite a lot in my spare time, so id say im like intermediate?), and im especially interested in the human experience/human nature. if there’s any recommendations you have for those kinds of writers that are poetic and/or lyrical as they describe pretty universal human feelings that would be great! can be a poet or a prose author, maybe even poetry would be better! thank you :)

ideally it would be authors/poets along the lines of donna tartt, maya angelou, oscar wilde etc, but i’m open to anything that might improve my writing :)

basically i (17f) really want to be a writer when i’m older, and im especially interested in the human experience/human nature. f there’s any recommendations you have for those kinds of writers that are poetic and/or lyrical as they describe pretty universal human feelings that would be great! can be a poet or a prose author, maybe even poetry would be better! thank you :)

ideally it would be authors/poets along the lines of donna tartt, maya angelou, oscar wilde etc, but i’m open to anything that might improve my writing :)