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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

10 best books like Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Edna St. Vincent Millay): Tennyson: Poems, Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories‏ (Anchor Literary Library), Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs, Auden: Poems, The Collected Poems, Poems of the Late T'ang, Shelley: Poems, Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem, Eliot: Poems, Poe: Poems

Tennyson: Poems
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
ISBN1400041872
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate reveries....
Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories‏ (Anchor Literary Library)
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0385191170
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)
All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Spring in Fialta --
Forgotten poet --
First...
Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
AuthorLeonard Cohen
ISBN1841597872
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable poems from many collections including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death...
Auden: Poems
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0679443673
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One...
The Collected Poems
AuthorSara Teasdale
ISBN1568493452
I love Sara Teasdale's poetry in small doses. If you read too much of it at once, though, it gets to be decidedly too much on the same theme.

This is the poem that introduced me to her work. I knew it by heart from that very first reading, and secretly (or not secretly, now), rather feel this way myself,...
Poems of the Late T'ang
AuthorA.C. Graham
ISBN1590172574
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
Shelley: Poems
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0679429093
Imagine this scene: Somewhere in the awesome surroundings of the French Alps, incessant summer rains covering the valleys with a moist, foggy veil. Inside a cottage, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Mary, are discussing life, principle and the mysterious fears of human nature, which...
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
AuthorHarold Schechter
ISBN0307700933
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder.

The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The...
Eliot: Poems
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375401857
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " he introduced an edgy, disenchanted, utterly contemporary version of French Symbolism to the English-speaking world. With his masterpiece...
Poe: Poems
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0679445056
Poe wrote few poems, few of which are any good. His technical expertise is excellent but nearly all of his poems lack substance; they are like brass clockworks, shiny, complex, dazzling to look at, difficult to craft, but ultimately lifeless. I suspect Poe knew this too and that he was simply attempting...
Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN0375405518
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a...
Selected Poems
AuthorClaude McKay
ISBN0486408760
In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay (1889–1948), reveals much about the wellspring of his poetry.
"I am a black man, born in Jamaica, B.W.I., and have been living in America for the last years. It was the first time I had ever come face to face with such manifest,...
Selected Poems and Letters
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0808577395
Bees and calvary.

I wanted to like this more than I did. The poems are short and sharp. The language plain -- understandable on the surface at least, by anyone who speaks English and can think. You don't even need access to a dictionary. And on top of that, she isn't squarely on the university list...
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
AuthorDaniel Mark Epstein
ISBN0805071814
This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music, and drama, and an inexorable desire to be loved. When she was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be loved...
New York Stories
AuthorDiana Secker Tesdell
ISBN0307594939
An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of Christmas Stories, Love Stories, and Stories of the Sea.

Writers have always been enthralled and inspired by New York City, and their vibrant and varied stories provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the city’s high life,...
Some Thing Black
AuthorJacques Roubaud
ISBN0916583481
In 1983 Jacques Roubaud s wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem ( Nothing ), then fell silent for thirty months. In subsequent years, Roubaud poet, novelist, mathematician composed a series of prose poems, a collection that...
God's Silence
AuthorFranz Wright
ISBN1400043514
In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back...
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...
Selected Poems, 1947–1995
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0060933763
Assembled by Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems 1947-1995 is the definitive collection of the best works of one of the most influential and revolutionary poets of the twentieth century.Allen Ginsberg, famous for helping catalyze the Beat Generation, wrote poetry for more than fifty years. His innovative...
Plath: Poems
AuthorSylvia Plath
ISBN0375404643
I'm not sure if I'm being morbid but it is almost impossible for me to read any of Sylvia Plath's work without thinking about her suicide. I guess it's because her poetry is already so dark, and knowing that she suffered from depression and ended her own life, adds another element to it.

With that...
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
AuthorJ.D. McClatchy
ISBN0375411704
From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter–a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.

The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H....
The Best of Dorothy Parker
AuthorDorothy Parker
ISBN0715627058
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend and a foe.
Four be the things I’d be better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never obtain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have...
Yann Andréa Steiner
AuthorMarguerite Duras
ISBN0976395088
“Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought—the force of a metaphysical...
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