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Books like Milton's Poems

Loved Milton's Poems by John Milton? 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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    Come hither

    Walter De la Mare · 1602 · Poetry

    A distinguished poet's selection of poems along with his personal and informative notes to explain the theme or meaning and to add interest to the poems.

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    John Donne Poetry

    John Donne · 1633 · Poetry

    "This new Norton Critical Edition presents a comprehensive collection of Donne's poetry. The texts are divided into sections: "Satires," "Elegies," "Verse Letters to Several Personages," "Songs and So

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    Letters to a young poet

    Rainer Maria Rilke · 1656 · Poetry

    Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123).

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    Piers the Plowman

    William Langland · 1550 · Poetry

    This is one of the masterpieces of medieval literature. This new complete edition of the orginal text of the B-version answers every need of both the student and the interested lay reader. Marginal gl

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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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    Ariel

    Sylvia Plath · 1965 · Poetry

    Fierce, exact late poems published after the poet's death; raw and technically brilliant.

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    Night Sky with Exit Wounds

    Ocean Vuong · 2016 · Poetry

    Tender, violent poems of family, war and desire; a striking debut collection.

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    Death of a Naturalist

    Seamus Heaney · 1966 · Poetry

    Earthy, precise poems of rural Ireland and boyhood; the debut of a Nobel laureate.

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