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10 best books like Collected Poems (Ted Hughes): Collected Poems, The Collected Poems, Dart, The Complete Poems, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, The Selected Poetry, Collected Poems, Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas, Life Studies and For the Union Dead

Collected Poems
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0679731970
Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.

This collection...
The Collected Poems
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0805005471
Introduction, by Nick Laird

--A Shropshire Lad

Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
Dart
AuthorAlice Oswald
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic...
The Complete Poems
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN1556592175
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love...
New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060514485
New and Collected Poems: 1931—2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into...
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374520259
This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing for...
The Selected Poetry
AuthorRobinson Jeffers
ISBN0804741085
In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and...
Collected Poems
AuthorJohn Betjeman
ISBN0719568501
betjeman's great poem, "slough" is surely the inspiration for one of the great songs of the 20th century, dontcha think? check the excerpts:

slough

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come,...
Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas
AuthorR.S. Thomas
ISBN0753811057
Is there a good way to write poetry? In the late Sixties, like many thousands of other unwashed urchins, I encountered RS Thomas at school in a slap-in-the-face poem that has puzzled me ever since.

You remember Davies? He died you know
With his face to the wall, as the manner is
Of the poor...
Life Studies and For the Union Dead
AuthorRobert Lowell
ISBN0374506280
This review is cross-posted from my blog, so forgive the rather overwhelming length.

I’ve been a bad, bad little aspiring poet. Naughtily, I’ve avoided reading a single collection of poetry—by a male writer—in all my years of writing, and, perhaps more criminally, done so even throughout...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Merrill
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on...
Poems and Translations
AuthorEzra Pound
ISBN1931082413
Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's modernist revolution. From the swirling center of poetic change he excited the powerful energies of Eliot, Joyce, and William Carlos Williams and championed the Imagism and Vorticism movements. This volume, the most comprehensive...
Collected Poems, 1937-1971
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374522812
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
Collected Poetry & Prose
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN1883011450
The Library of America is not a cheap publishing house, but their editions are worth every penny you pay for them.
Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you...
Keats's Poetry and Prose
AuthorJohn Keats
ISBN0393924912
For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers extensive apparatus to help readers fully...
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
AuthorJohn Clare
ISBN0374528691
Hail, humble Helpstone ...
Where dawning genius never met the day,
Where useless ignorance slumbers life away
Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries
Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.
--from "Helpstone"

"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology...
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0060907274
This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life --
I have many brothers --
We don't dare --
I love the dark hours --
You darkness, that I come from --
I have faith --
I am too alone --
You see,...
Configurations: Poetry
AuthorOctavio Paz
ISBN0811201503
Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn,...
Collected Poems
AuthorThom Gunn
ISBN0374524335
The first of the poems in Thom Gunn’s Collected to really knock me out appears half way through his second book, The Sense of Movement (1957). In the poem, “To Yvor Winters, 1955,” Gunn pays homage to his former teacher with a portrait of the Stanford professor that compares his training of Airedale...
District and Circle
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374530815
District and Circle inhabits the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Scenes from a childhood spent far from the horrors of World War II are colored...
Collected Poems 1956–1987
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN1598530283
With this volume The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of America’s preeminent living poet. Long associated with the New York School that came to the fore in the 1950s, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly original course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations...
The Collected Poetry
AuthorAimé Césaire
ISBN0520053206
I've come to a conclusion: surrealist poetry is not for me. Half-way through this large collection, I gave up. Cesaire's poetry is much too cerebral, so much so that I can't feel an iota of emotion. I'm busier trying to decipher the meaning behind his odd word choices dumped one after the other (ridiculously...
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