Poetry has become a major interest of mine recently. I would mostly read novels but the way in which I read novels would be to glean insight into philisophical or cultural or historical ideas. Moving down the path of the history of literature inevitably forces one to engage with poetry. So I have read the Iliad and the Odyssey, but those should only count so much because they are translated from ancientgreek and so their poetic power is lost on me. It might seem strange to start