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Books like Poems by John Keats

Loved Poems by John Keats by John Keats? 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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    Lyrical Ballads

    William Wordsworth · 1798 · Poetry

    Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of

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    The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog

    Sarah Catherine Martin · 1790 · Poetry

    Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.

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    The complete poetical works

    Robert Burns · 1786 · Poetry

    Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.

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    Biographia literaria

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 · Poetry

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initial

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    Elegiae

    Sextus Propertius · 1780 · Poetry

    Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figur

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    M'Fingal

    John Trumbull · 1775 · Poetry

    Of all the literary productions of that day, having for its theme the character and doings of the men and times of the Revolution, the remarkable epic entitled M'Fingal is confessedly most deserving o

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    Gringo viejo

    Carlos Fuentes · 1765 · Poetry

    Un fulgurante éxito de ventas mexicano en Estados Unidos, Gringo viejo (1985) es una de las novelas más famosas de Carlos Fuentes, figura central de la narrativa y la ensayística mexicana. En Gringo v

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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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