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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
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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Come hither
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
"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
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
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
Expansive, body-and-soul American free verse; the revolutionary collection Whitman revised all his life.
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Ariel
Fierce, exact late poems published after the poet's death; raw and technically brilliant.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Tender, violent poems of family, war and desire; a striking debut collection.
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Death of a Naturalist
Earthy, precise poems of rural Ireland and boyhood; the debut of a Nobel laureate.