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Books like Tears and laughter

Loved Tears and laughter by Kahlil Gibran? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from poetry, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    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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    The Portable James Joyce

    James Joyce · 1947 · Poetry

    Contains: Dubliners Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Exiles -- Collected Poems -- From Ulysses -- From Finnegans Wake.

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    Generation of vipers

    Philip Wylie · 1942 · Poetry

    "Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the

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    Understanding poetry

    Cleanth Brooks · 1938 · Poetry

    Narrative and descriptive poems exemplifying the key elements are presented and analyzed.

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    War in heaven

    Charles Williams · 1930 · Poetry

    Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one t

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    Flor nueva de romances viejos

    Ramón Menéndez Pidal · 1928 · Poetry

    Flor nueva de romances viejos es fruto de toda una vida de trabajo de Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968). Entre las muchas deudas que la ciencia y la cultura españolas tienen contraídas con Menéndez Pid

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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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    Sein und Zeit

    Martin Heidegger · 1927 · Poetry

    What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central

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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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