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Books like Elegiae
Loved Elegiae by Sextus Propertius? 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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The complete poetical works
Poetry written by the Scottish author Robert Burns.
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M'Fingal
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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The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog
Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.
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Gringo viejo
Un fulgurante éxito de ventas mexicano en Estados Unidos, Gringo viejo (1985) es una de las novelas más famosas de Carlos Fuentes, figura central de la narrativa y la ensayística mexicana. En Gringo v
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Lyrical Ballads
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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Poems by John Keats
Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.
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Biographia literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initial
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The Rape of the Lock
A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.