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Books like Biographia literaria

Loved Biographia literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge? 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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    Poems by John Keats

    John Keats · 1800 · Poetry

    Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.

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    Lyrical Ballads

    William Wordsworth · 1798 · Poetry

    Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of

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    The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog

    Sarah Catherine Martin · 1790 · Poetry

    Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.

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    The complete poetical works

    Robert Burns · 1786 · Poetry

    Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.

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    Elegiae

    Sextus Propertius · 1780 · Poetry

    Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figur

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    Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman · 1855 · Poetry

    Expansive, body-and-soul American free verse; the revolutionary collection Whitman revised all his life.

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    M'Fingal

    John Trumbull · 1775 · Poetry

    Of all the literary productions of that day, having for its theme the character and doings of the men and times of the Revolution, the remarkable epic entitled M'Fingal is confessedly most deserving o

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    Carmen 63

    Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1861 · Poetry

    "Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with

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