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Books like Sein und Zeit

Loved Sein und Zeit by Martin Heidegger? 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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    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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    When we were very young

    A. A. Milne · 1924 · Poetry

    A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

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    Alcools

    Guillaume Apollinaire · 1920 · Poetry

    A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien Bergere o tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bele ce matin Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquite grecque et romaine Ici meme les automobiles ont l'air d'etre an

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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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    Understanding poetry

    Cleanth Brooks · 1938 · Poetry

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

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    Spoon River Anthology

    Edgar Lee Masters · 1914 · Poetry

    In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly f

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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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    Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

    John Avery Lomax · 1910 · Poetry

    More than two hundred songs, some with music, whose lyrics depict life in the old West.

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