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Books like Carmen 63

Loved Carmen 63 by Gaius Valerius Catullus? 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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    The Life and Death of Jason

    William Morris · 1867 · Poetry

    JASON, the son of Aeson, king of Iolchos, having come to man's estate, demanded of Pelias his father's kingdom, which he held wrongfully. But Pelias answered, that if he would bring from Colchis the g

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    Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman · 1855 · Poetry

    Expansive, body-and-soul American free verse; the revolutionary collection Whitman revised all his life.

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    A Child's Garden of Verses

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 · Poetry

    Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favour

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    The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

    Emily Dickinson · 1890 · Poetry

    Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in t

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    The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling · 1892 · Poetry

    For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their

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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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    Piers Plowman

    William Langland · 1900 · Poetry

    A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.

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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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