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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorNow We Are Six
A.A. Milne · 103 pages
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
Collected Poems
Dylan Thomas · 199 pages
Presents poems compiled by the author as representations of his best work, including the poems "In The Beginning" and "Vision and Prayer."
Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Celebration of Love
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 63 pages
"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January of 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. For the next twenty months, he and the world-renowned poet Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four sonnet
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters · 306 pages
In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would becom
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
Pablo Neruda · 197 pages
This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history's greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world's leading Neruda scholars. A definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth of Neruda's various styles, themes, and periods, The Essential Neruda breathes new life and under
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen · 194 pages
Introduced by a discussion of Owen's poetry and early life, this edition includes youthful and minor verses and the war poems based on manuscripts in the British Museum.
The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll · 83 pages
A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.
The Gypsy Ballads of Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca · 64 pages
Dickinson: Poems
Emily Dickinson · 395 pages
In selecting these poems for commentary the author chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, from her first person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath. Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often ant
Howl
Allen Ginsberg · 194 pages
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.
The Erotic Poems
Ovid · 449 pages
Poems include elegies to Ovid's mistress, advice on courtship, suggestions on how to break off a relationship, and a discussion of the art of cosmetics.
A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman · 95 pages
First published in 1896, this is Housman's first and most widely known collection of poems. Dismal and fatalistic, Housman speaks of the cruelty of life. In contrast to the dreary subject matter, the poetry itself is brisk and lively. Considered by many to be among the finest works of modern British poetry.