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Books like Epigrammata
Loved Epigrammata by Marcus Valerius Martialis? 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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Silvae
Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, sends thanks, admires a memorable scene. The verse is
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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.
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And Still I Rise
Defiant, joyful poems of survival and self-worth; among the most quoted verse of the century.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favour