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Books like Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Loved Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax? 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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Gitanjali (song offerings)
Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.
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Spoon River Anthology
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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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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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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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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Canti
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
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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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.