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Books like The plays of Oscar Wilde

Loved The plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde? 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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    Alfred Tennyson

    Andrew Lang · 1901 · Poetry

    In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the tex

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    Canti

    Giacomo Leopardi · 1900 · Poetry

    Canti is a collection of poems by Giacomo Leopardi, generally considered to be one of the most significant works of Italian poetry.

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    Piers Plowman

    William Langland · 1900 · Poetry

    A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.

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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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    Gitanjali (song offerings)

    Rabindranath Tagore · 1910 · Poetry

    Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.

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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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    The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling · 1892 · Poetry

    For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their

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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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