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Books like Flor nueva de romances viejos

Loved Flor nueva de romances viejos by Ramón Menéndez Pidal? 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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