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Books like Piers Plowman
Loved Piers Plowman by William Langland? 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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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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Alfred Tennyson
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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The plays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a wi
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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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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
More than two hundred songs, some with music, whose lyrics depict life in the old West.
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Gitanjali (song offerings)
Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.
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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as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886.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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Spoon River Anthology
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