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Books like Alcools

Loved Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from poetry, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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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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    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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    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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    Flor nueva de romances viejos

    Ramón Menéndez Pidal · 1928 · Poetry

    Flor nueva de romances viejos es fruto de toda una vida de trabajo de Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968). Entre las muchas deudas que la ciencia y la cultura españolas tienen contraídas con Menéndez Pid

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    Spoon River Anthology

    Edgar Lee Masters · 1914 · Poetry

    In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly f

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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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    War in heaven

    Charles Williams · 1930 · Poetry

    Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one t

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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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