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Include books by the same authorThe Road Not Taken and Other Poems
Robert Frost · 130 pages
"A deluxe edition of Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem alo
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.
Platero and I
Juan Ramon Jimenez · 218 pages
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.
Cane
Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd · 224 pages
Published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane was widely heralded as one of the first masterpieces of the Harlem Renaissance, and its author as “a bright morning star” of the movement. Toomer himself, however, was reluctant to embrace an explicitly racialized identity, preferring to define himself as simply an American writer. Inspired in part by Sherwood Anderson’s short story cycle Winesburg, Ohio , T
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange · 64 pages
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 327 pages
The Collected Poems
Theodore Roethke · 274 pages
The Selected Poems Of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje · 106 pages
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of hi
Maldoror and the Complete Works
Comte de Lautreamont · 352 pages
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 107 pages
Reflections by the Lebanese poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
Truyện Kiều : Nguyễn Du
Nguyen Du · 347 pages
Collected Poems
W.H. Auden · 976 pages
This is a reprint of the original 1976 edition, with corrections made by The Estate of W.H. Auden.
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin · 233 pages
The Russians, revering Alexander Pushkin as a national hero, see his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, as the pinnacle not only of his oeuvre, but of their entire literature. Its brilliant sonnets are traditionally memorized by youngsters, and even today nearly any Russian adult can quote many passages with fervor. No literary work plays a comparable role in the English-speaking world. The plot swir
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 288 pages
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud · 64 pages
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda · 68 pages
Synopsis: First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the ge
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 415 pages
**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting *Leaves of Grass*, revising it multiple times until his death. There have been held to be either six or nine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, the count varying depending on how they are distinguished.[2] This resulted in vastly
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
John Berger · 101 pages
In an extraordinary distillation of his gifts as a novelist, poet, art critic, and social historian, John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality.
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages