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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

    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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    Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

    John Avery Lomax · 1910 · Poetry

    More than two hundred songs, some with music, whose lyrics depict life in the old West.

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    Gitanjali (song offerings)

    Rabindranath Tagore · 1910 · Poetry

    Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.

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    Alcools

    Guillaume Apollinaire · 1920 · Poetry

    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 · 1905 · Poetry

    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. A. Milne · 1924 · Poetry

    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

    Andrew Lang · 1901 · Poetry

    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

    Martin Heidegger · 1927 · Poetry

    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

    Giacomo Leopardi · 1900 · Poetry

    Canti is a collection of poems by Giacomo Leopardi, generally considered to be one of the most significant works of Italian poetry.

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