Lyric Poems
10 best books like Lyric Poems (John Keats): The Origins of Totalitarianism, Washington Square, Soul of the Sword, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, From the Earth to the Moon, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race, Geography III, Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston, Songs of Innocence
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0451528719 |
The plot of Washington Square has the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-hearted young woman, the only child of a rich widower, is pursued by a charming but unscrupulous man who seeks the wealth she will presumably inherit. On this premise, Henry James constructed one of...
| Author | Julie Kagawa |
| ISBN | 1488038864 |
One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had one task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono.
Now he has broken free.
Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0486223051 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151686564 |
T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...
From the Earth to the Moon
| Author | Jules Verne |
| ISBN | 1598184547 |
Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had...
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
| Author | Lara Prior-Palmer |
| ISBN | 1948226197 |
For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who traveled to Mongolia to compete in the world’s longest, toughest horse race, and emerged as its youngest and first-ever female winner.
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered...
| Author | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ISBN | 0374514402 |
Second read. I haven’t the faintest recollection of writing the below review in 2014. .
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0451527879 |
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part...
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486227642 |
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...
| Author | Colette |
| ISBN | 2253011711 |
Lorsque débute leur vie commune, Alain et Camille sont deux amis d'enfance que tout en apparence rapproche mais que leurs secrètes rêveries divisent. " Mon mariage, reconnaît Alain, contente tout le monde et Camille, et il y a des moments où à me contente aussi, mais... " Ce qu'Alain aime en Camille,...
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486246361 |
One of Blake's most inspired creations, "The Tyger" mingles the lyric and mystical in an exquisite union. Now you can experience the beauty of this and other poems the way Blake intended them — with his own hand-colored illustrations giving them visual form.
This facsimile edition of one of Blake's...
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| ISBN | 0486270734 |
Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote between 1798 and 1806, the period most fully represented in this...
| Author | Christopher Fry |
| ISBN | 0822214318 |
Definitely in the running for my favorite play of the 20th century (the other top contender being Arcadia. A verse drama set in the late Middle Ages, it abounds with beautiful language, interesting characters, wit, romance, and wisdom. Some of the speeches are extraordinarily beautiful, such as the...
