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Books like The Portable James Joyce
Loved The Portable James Joyce by James Joyce? 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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Tears and laughter
The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup of happiness and said, “Drink not from th
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Generation of vipers
"Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the
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Understanding poetry
Narrative and descriptive poems exemplifying the key elements are presented and analyzed.
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War in heaven
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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Ariel
Fierce, exact late poems published after the poet's death; raw and technically brilliant.
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Death of a Naturalist
Earthy, precise poems of rural Ireland and boyhood; the debut of a Nobel laureate.
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Flor nueva de romances viejos
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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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