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Loved M'Fingal by John Trumbull? 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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    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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    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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    The complete poetical works

    Robert Burns · 1786 · Poetry

    Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.

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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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    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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    Poems by John Keats

    John Keats · 1800 · Poetry

    Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.

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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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    The Rape of the Lock

    Alexander Pope · 1714 · Poetry

    A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.

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