I don’t know. There were books in the shelf. No one said which were good or which were bad. I will confess I’d read almost anything but certainly I wasn’t forced to read anything I didn’t want to, until I was in secondary school and even then it wasn’t forced since I had already read it. This time from the public library.
It was later when I learnt this or that was rated as Literature and this other was not. By then, it was too late. I liked what I liked. Whether it is literature or not. I guess the biggest influence was that shelf (Oh, it was quite small and there were more psychology books than anything).
Funny there were only three poets.