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Best Poetry Books

Poetry concentrates language until it can carry more than ordinary prose. These are the collections worth returning to — poets who have something to say and a way of saying it that stays in the mind.

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The Waste Land T.S. Eliot · 1922 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →

Devotions Mary Oliver · 2017 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

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Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · 1855 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Ariel Sylvia Plath · 1965 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Night Sky with Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong · 2016 Recommended See details →

Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney · 1966 Recommended See details →

And Still I Rise Maya Angelou · 1978 Recommended See details →

A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 Recommended See details →

Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire · 1920 Recommended See details →

Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang · 1901 Recommended See details →

Beams Adam Fieled · 2005 Recommended See details →

Biographia literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 Recommended See details →

Borderlands Gloria Anzaldúa · 1987 Recommended See details →

Canti Giacomo Leopardi · 1900 Recommended See details →

Carmen 63 Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1861 Recommended See details →

Come hither Walter De la Mare · 1602 Recommended See details →

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads John Avery Lomax · 1910 Recommended See details →

Elegiae Sextus Propertius · 1780 Recommended See details →

Epigrammata Marcus Valerius Martialis · 1501 Recommended See details →

Flor nueva de romances viejos Ramón Menéndez Pidal · 1928 Recommended See details →

Generation of vipers Philip Wylie · 1942 Recommended See details →

Gitanjali (song offerings) Rabindranath Tagore · 1910 Recommended See details →

Gringo viejo Carlos Fuentes · 1765 Recommended See details →

John Donne Poetry John Donne · 1633 Recommended See details →

Letters to a young poet Rainer Maria Rilke · 1656 Recommended See details →

Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth · 1798 Recommended See details →

M'Fingal John Trumbull · 1775 Recommended See details →

Milton's Poems John Milton · 1605 Recommended See details →

Piers Plowman William Langland · 1900 Recommended See details →

Piers the Plowman William Langland · 1550 Recommended See details →

Poems by John Keats John Keats · 1800 Recommended See details →

Sein und Zeit Martin Heidegger · 1927 Recommended See details →

Silvae Publius Papinius Statius · 1472 Recommended See details →

Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters · 1914 Recommended See details →

Tears and laughter Kahlil Gibran · 1946 Recommended See details →

The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling · 1892 Recommended See details →

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog Sarah Catherine Martin · 1790 Recommended See details →

The Life and Death of Jason William Morris · 1867 Recommended See details →

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II Emily Dickinson · 1890 Recommended See details →

The Portable James Joyce James Joyce · 1947 Recommended See details →

The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope · 1714 Recommended See details →

The complete poetical works Robert Burns · 1786 Recommended See details →

The new Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1950, chosen and edited by Helen Gardner Helen Louise Gardner · 1971 Recommended See details →

The plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde · 1905 Recommended See details →

Understanding poetry Cleanth Brooks · 1938 Recommended See details →

War in heaven Charles Williams · 1930 Recommended See details →

When we were very young A. A. Milne · 1924 Recommended See details →

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