If you liked
Books like The Rape of the Lock
Loved The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from poetry, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Waste Land
The fractured, allusive poem that became the emblem of modernism; difficult, dazzling, endlessly studied.
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Devotions
A career-spanning selection from a poet of attention and the natural world; the perfect place to begin.
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Gringo viejo
Un fulgurante éxito de ventas mexicano en Estados Unidos, Gringo viejo (1985) es una de las novelas más famosas de Carlos Fuentes, figura central de la narrativa y la ensayística mexicana. En Gringo v
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Letters to a young poet
Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123).
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M'Fingal
Of all the literary productions of that day, having for its theme the character and doings of the men and times of the Revolution, the remarkable epic entitled M'Fingal is confessedly most deserving o
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Elegiae
Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figur
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The complete poetical works
Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.
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The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog
Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.
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Leaves of Grass
Expansive, body-and-soul American free verse; the revolutionary collection Whitman revised all his life.
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Ariel
Fierce, exact late poems published after the poet's death; raw and technically brilliant.