Well-Educated Mind Poetry Reading List discussion

After three tales, I cannot go on. I want to read poetry, but not this type. It wasn't poor poetry at all -- actually it was tolerable. A little vulgar here and there, but I get the context. I'm not adverse to it entirely, but it isn't what I need right now. So I'm going to move on and maybe I will come back to Canterbury, maybe.

I think it's good to take them slowly. Once you have the set-up to the Tales read, then linger and get to know the characters. You possibly are feeling a call to more lyric poetry rather than narrative?

I think my problem is that I was in a bad mood. LOL.

So, as I said in my comments to you regarding Donne, my reading has changed so much since 2020, and I've been rather bullying my way through my reading instead of enduring. I'm not reading deeply either.

Anyway, I found an excuse to pull out bc it wasn't keeping my attention and I found it a little vulgar. The oddest point is that I was looking forward to a story, as opposed to just topical poetry. Nonetheless, I put CT aside and maybe I will return to it later.