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10 best books like Great Sonnets (Paul Negri): The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I (1899), Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure, The 100 Best Poems of All Time, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems, World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others, Complete Poems and Translations, Selected Poems

The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorGeorge Herbert
ISBN1557252599
Metaphysical Poetry!

What’s that mean? Well, for the great poet T.S. Eliot, the term perfectly characterizes that moment in history when poetic writing became split into a Cartesian duality - ‘A disassociation of sensibility.’

And that, he says, happened back in the late...
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I (1899)
AuthorRobert Browning
Excerpt from Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, Vol. 1 of 2
After all, I need not give up the thought of doing that, too, in time; because even now, talking with whoever is worthy, I can give a reason for my faith in one and another excellence, the fresh strange music,...
Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure
AuthorThe American Poetry and Literacy Project
ISBN0486406466
Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.
You’ll...
The 100 Best Poems of All Time
AuthorLeslie Pockell
ISBN0446676810
Some great poetry; I tried to read one or two to start off each day. Two new favorites:

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise...
Selected Poems
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0140436995
Although I have read several of his novels, this is the first time I have read Thomas Hardy's poetry and, as it does in all of its collections, Dover has gathered a selection from throughout his writing career. What struck me throughout my reading was the almost ever-present sadness. There were some poems...
Selected Poems
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0140585400
Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres - fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays. Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms. His characteristic vision informed everything he...
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...
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
AuthorCandace Ward
ISBN0486295680
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself.
This volume contains a rich...
Complete Poems and Translations
AuthorChristopher Marlowe
ISBN0143104950
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
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,...
Psalms
AuthorKing David
Okay, so I'll be honest, I didn't actually read every single Psalm, but selected the ones that seemed most appealing. Psalms does bring back a strong childhood memory for me though. While I was going to church, the lady who taught us children separately from the adults part way through the church service,...
The Student's Catullus
AuthorCatullus
ISBN0806136359
Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has in our time become a standard author in the college Latin curriculum, ranking with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid.


In this third edition, thoroughly revised, Daniel H. Garrison...
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons
AuthorMarilyn Hacker
ISBN0393312259
Anyone who has ever been in love ought to read this book. Any woman who has ever been in love with another woman absolutely must read this book. Anyone who believes form in poetry trite will be changed by this book (and by Hacker's poetry in general).

I have heard Hacker read her work; each word is...
Favorite Poems
AuthorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN0486272737
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American poets of all time. It has been said that certain of his poems — the long narratives Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha most notably — were once read in every literate home in...
Poetry: An Introduction
AuthorMichael Meyer
ISBN0312450516
Adapted from Michael Meyer's best-selling Bedford Introduction to Literature, this anthology responds to the needs of all kinds of poetry courses. Instructors across the country report that especially at schools where there is a decreased emphasis on literature and the humanities, students do...
Selected Poetry
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0140585044
In the pantheon of English poets, Shelly has long occupied a lofty place, his poems as admired for their profound thought and subtle perceptions as for the music and fervor of their language. His life as well as his poetry embraced the passions, ideals and causes of Romanticism, whose emergence and early...
Great Love Poems
AuthorShane Weller
ISBN0486272842
One 65-minute cassette of the finest love poems in the English language — from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Works by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Andrew Marvell and many others, all beautifully and sensitively read by Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren and accompanied...
English Romantic Poetry
AuthorStanley Appelbaum
ISBN0486292827
Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles and moods, English poetry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experiance, as well as a preoccupation with such themes as nature, death and...
The Love Songs of Sappho: Translated with an Essay by Paul Roche
AuthorSappho
Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned...
Selected Poems
AuthorRobert Burns
ISBN0140423826
My review is on "Selected Poems" by Robert Burns (I noticed the description stated Frost but my ISBN matched their image of the book; my cover is different as it shows Robert Burns as painted by Alexander Nasmyth). I had picked up this book while visiting Scotland several years back and it was a good read...
Talking In The Dark : A Poetry Memoir
AuthorBilly Merrell
ISBN0439490367
PUSH continues to break new ground with this remarkable poetry memoir of growing up, coming out, and exploring love.This is a memoir that is lived in moments. The moments you know - when you see your parents' marriage dissolving, when you realize you're a boy who likes boys, when you speak the truth and...
The Screens
AuthorJean Genet
ISBN0802151582
Jean Genet was one of the world’s greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony,...
Abba Abba
AuthorAnthony Burgess
ISBN0749390387
This is Anthony Burgess's 22nd novel. A Clockwork Orange (1962) was his Ninth.

The theme of the book "ABBA ABBA" concerns itself with the last months in the life of John Keats. In Part One, the poet has various adventures such as meeting the Roman poet, who becomes an acquaintance, Giuseppe Gioacchino...
Songs of Innocence
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0486227642
William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous "Illuminated Books," of which the Songs of Innocence was the first and most popular. Unfortunately, Blake's vision is generally known to the...
A Cry Like a Bell
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0877881480
In this collection of poems of human struggle and God's grace, Madeleine L'Engle speaks across the centuries through the voices of biblical figures, like Rachel, Isaac, Mary, and Andrew.

Every one of us will find at least one character with whom we can identify--their dilemmas and struggles,...
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