How to read

This might seem like a silly question to some of you (idk lol), but as I'm thinking to get more into reading and appreciating literature, I'm wondering if my enjoyment of it will be enhanced by looking into and being aware of the context of and literary mechanisms being utilized or championed/pioneered in a work (like digression for example), OR if I should get into works of wildly different styles of prose without that context and experience the differences for myself and form my own interpretations of their differences, at least initially.

The latter method has appeal in the sense of discovering something for oneself as very fresh and in an uninfluenced way as opposed to looking into it beforehand and knowing what to look for. At the same time, I think "knowing" some (or a lot) of what to look for would make it enjoyable for me to think about layers of the work I otherwise might not have thought about. What are your thoughts?