If you liked
Books like Leaves of Grass
Loved Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman? 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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Carmen 63
"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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The Life and Death of Jason
JASON, the son of Aeson, king of Iolchos, having come to man's estate, demanded of Pelias his father's kingdom, which he held wrongfully. But Pelias answered, that if he would bring from Colchis the g
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favour
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in t
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The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling
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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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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Canti
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
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.