Fiction
Poetry to Start With
Approachable, rewarding collections for readers who think poetry isn't for them.
14 books · ranked
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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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Leaves of Grass
Expansive, body-and-soul American free verse; the revolutionary collection Whitman revised all his life.
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Ariel
Fierce, exact late poems published after the poet's death; raw and technically brilliant.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Tender, violent poems of family, war and desire; a striking debut collection.
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Death of a Naturalist
Earthy, precise poems of rural Ireland and boyhood; the debut of a Nobel laureate.
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And Still I Rise
Defiant, joyful poems of survival and self-worth; among the most quoted verse of the century.
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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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Alcools
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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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Beams
Beams, an e-text in four parts (Beams, Apparition Poems, Madame Psychosis, Virtual Pinball), is an exercise in conglomerating several different schools and strains of poetry: the Modern, the post-mode
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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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Borderlands
"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps o
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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.