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Books like Gringo viejo

Loved Gringo viejo by Carlos Fuentes? 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

    T.S. Eliot · 1922 · Poetry

    The fractured, allusive poem that became the emblem of modernism; difficult, dazzling, endlessly studied.

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    Devotions

    Mary Oliver · 2017 · Poetry

    A career-spanning selection from a poet of attention and the natural world; the perfect place to begin.

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    M'Fingal

    John Trumbull · 1775 · Poetry

    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

    Sextus Propertius · 1780 · Poetry

    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

    Robert Burns · 1786 · Poetry

    Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.

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    The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog

    Sarah Catherine Martin · 1790 · Poetry

    Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.

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    Lyrical Ballads

    William Wordsworth · 1798 · Poetry

    Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of

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    Poems by John Keats

    John Keats · 1800 · Poetry

    Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.

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    The Rape of the Lock

    Alexander Pope · 1714 · Poetry

    A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.

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    Biographia literaria

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 · Poetry

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initial

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