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Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
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Include books by the same authorThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot · 79 pages
Arguably the single most important poem of the Twentieth Century, paving the way for experimental verse for the next hundred years.
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
Alice Oswald · 84 pages
"[An] original new poem which is also a translation of Homer's Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist"--Jacket.
In Parenthesis
David Jones · 232 pages
"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient my
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
Christopher Logue · 240 pages
Keats: Poems Published in 1820
John Keats · 227 pages
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
Dante Alighieri · 258 pages
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 336 pages
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his ban
Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 223 pages
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft m
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
Candace Ward · 64 pages
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu · 123 pages
These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.
The Aeneid
Virgil
Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling alliances spread the histories of heroes and their willingness to believe in their own resources and the miraculous help of the gods.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images
The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath · 351 pages
"Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work."