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10 best books like Poetry of the Thirties (Robin Skelton): Selected Poems, 1966-1987, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, Selected Poems, Selected Poetry, Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi, Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, Selected Stories

Selected Poems, 1966-1987
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374258686
Heaney’s poetry is more a voice than a style.
It seems to have been written to be listened to rather than to be thoroughly dissected and scrutinized.

The evocative tinge of children’s ideals and the brutality of a land divided by history and religion pulsate underneath the serene,...
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,...
Selected Poems
AuthorGabriela Mistral
ISBN0826328180
The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant...
Selected Poetry
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN0192834940
Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one....
Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi
AuthorMahmood Jamal
ISBN0140424733
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are...
Selected Poems
AuthorLouis MacNeice
ISBN0571233813
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription...
Collected Poems
AuthorPatrick Kavanagh
ISBN0393006948
I was introduced to Kavanagh’s work through several quotations in Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Those lines convinced me I had to seek out Kavanagh’s poetry.

Patrick Kavanagh wrote of Irish farm life, which he knew so well, without romantic sentimentality....
Selected Poems
AuthorCharles Baudelaire
ISBN0140446249
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories...
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0140434127
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the...
Selected Stories
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
ISBN0192839861
'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one...
The Faber Book of Beasts
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0571195474
The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or...
Selected Poems
AuthorJohn Clare
Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows...
Metaphysical Poetry
AuthorColin Burrow
A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics.

Spanning the Elizabethan...
The Mersey Sound
AuthorAdrian Henri
ISBN0141189266
'I wanted your soft verges
But you gave me the hard shoulder'

The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with its irreverent, wry, freewheeling verses of young love, petrol-pump attendants, CND leaflets...
Selected Poems
AuthorSimon Armitage
ISBN0571210767
There are lots of reasons for liking a poet. If you have so many they cancel each other out the instant you try and get them down on paper, it's a good sign you've struck gold. That, at least, is how I feel about the poems of Simon Armitage.

Elsewhere Armitage says that he's interested in poems that...
Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition
AuthorDylan Thomas
ISBN0811215423
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952 the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, shortly after his death. This book was then and remained, for all practical...
The Faerie Queene, Book Two
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0872208478
From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance, whose challenges frequently take the form of temptations....
Selected Poems
AuthorConstantinos P. Cavafy
ISBN0141185619
The spellbinding verse of one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the twentieth century

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined...
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...
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot 1909-1935
AuthorT.S. Eliot
This was a nice tactile experience. The book was published in 1932 and had apparently had a replacement binding sometime in the Nixon administration. It felt sleek in my hand.

I bought it for fifty cents as our local library continues its purge, freeing the stacks for a conference area for Rotarians...
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