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10 best books like Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Edmund Spenser): The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, A Shropshire Lad, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, The Complete Poems and Major Prose, The Complete Works of François Rabelais, Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Collected Poems, Anna Akhmatova, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems, Collected Poems

The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0192840800
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier,...
A Shropshire Lad
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0486264688
Few volumes of poetry in the English language have enjoyed as much success with both literary connoisseurs and the general reader as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896. Scholars and critics have seen in these timeless poems an elegance of taste and perfection of form and feeling...
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674048679
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...
The Complete Poems and Major Prose
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0872206785
I won't write a long review for this work, as I've written individual reviews for most of the works contained in it (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus, Samson Agonistes, Doctrine of Divorce, Christian Doctrine, etc.).

I picked up this collection about 8 or 9 years ago with the intent...
The Complete Works of François Rabelais
AuthorFrançois Rabelais
ISBN0520064011
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own...
Collected Poems, 1920-1954
AuthorEugenio Montale
ISBN0374526257
Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet

Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled...
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...
Anna Akhmatova
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
ISBN0307264246
A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova...
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0486270521
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
Collected Poems
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0151185638
Librarian note: pages were hand counted from table of contents to last poem.

This selection from Cummings' first six books of poetry - Tulips and Chimneys (1923), XLI (1925), & (And) (1925), Is 5 (1926), W (Viva) (1931), No Thanks (1935) - also contains some additional poems and an introduction.

Later...
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette
AuthorWilliam Hill Brown
ISBN0140434682
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, The Power of Sympathy (1789) and The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy reflects eighteenth-century America's preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers...
The Oxford Book of English Verse
AuthorChristopher Ricks
ISBN0192141821
Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen...
The Major Works
AuthorAlexander Pope
Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological...
The Complete Poems
AuthorBen Jonson
ISBN0140422773
One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The Complete Poems contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published...
The Complete Poems
AuthorAndrew Marvell
ISBN0140424571
Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry,...
Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon
AuthorAlgernon Charles Swinburne
ISBN0140422501
This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates...
Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
AuthorAemilia Lanyer
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published...
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