[stylist] poetry book recommendations

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi all,

Most of you seem to like poetry and are poets. I want to learn more about this. I did not have much instruction in poetry in school. We covered a few types but not many; we learned about rhyme schemes like how you assign a letter to each line to see the pattern. I wrote some poetry in elementary and middle school but none in high school. I have written a little on my own not for a grade though. I did not know some poem forms existed until I was on this list, such as the sestina. I also heard about the haibun, tanka, and tankabun here. 
I learned a little about forms as well in my intro creative writing class in college. But our focus was more on short stories.

So I want to read and learn more. Which books can you recommend for poetry with classic poets and well known poems? I prefer braille because as I’ve said before, listening to a poem does not let me see the shape, the stanzas, line breaks, punctuation, etc. I was hoping there was  a collection of well known poems by several poets. Is that called an anthology?
I’m thinking classic poets; they are deceased but well known poets. People like Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickenson, and Longfellow. Not sure his first name. If a collection exists, I can read several types of poems by classic poets rather than getting several books by one poet.

Also, if there is a book that explains poetry and gives examples that would be nice as well. 

Thanks.

Ashley