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Books like Spoon River Anthology
Loved Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters? 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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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
More than two hundred songs, some with music, whose lyrics depict life in the old West.
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Gitanjali (song offerings)
Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.
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Alcools
A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien Bergere o tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bele ce matin Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquite grecque et romaine Ici meme les automobiles ont l'air d'etre an
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The plays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a wi
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When we were very young
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Alfred Tennyson
In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the tex
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Sein und Zeit
What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central
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Canti
Canti is a collection of poems by Giacomo Leopardi, generally considered to be one of the most significant works of Italian poetry.