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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Captain's Verses: Love Poems
Pablo Neruda · 151 pages
The Selected Poems
Federico Garcia Lorca · 189 pages
"This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. Most of all, Lorca's poems are admired for their beauty. Un
Love & Misadventure
Lang Leav · 176 pages
The Raven and Other Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 73 pages
Welcome to the weird and intense world of Edgar Allan Poe. Inside you will find dark mid- nights, mysterious tappings, and countless dead souls. Terror lives here. So does unrest. From the immortal word of the raven to the mourn- ful tomb of Annabel Lee, Poe's work abounds with eerie thoughts and strange sensations. Read on, and you will enter the heart of your deepest fears. --back cover
Complete Poems, 1904-1962
E.E. Cummings · 335 pages
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
Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 104 pages
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 368 pages
This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast from his home for disappointing his father he manages to be the only mortal who can keep up with the half-God Archilles. Even though many will know the facts behind the story the telling is fresh and engaging.
A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud · 64 pages
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse · 235 pages
"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. Wh
Poems and Prose
Gerard Manley Hopkins · 258 pages
Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
Tyler Knott Gregson
"The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything. He fell in love. Three years and a
Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. Eliot · 88 pages
A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a chorus, an ancient Greek invention, to express certain concerns and observations, and the killers take their turn to justify their action. When I read this play as a grammar school student in England, I
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
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.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
William Shakespeare · 194 pages
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake · 142 pages
"This landmark edition of William Blake's most famous work is based on Blake's original printing. The book includes a facsimile remarkably faithful to the colors of the original and extensive plate-by-plate commentary by one of the world's foremost authorities on Blake." -- Back cover.