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10 best books like Selected Poems (D.H. Lawrence): The War Poems, The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert, The Collected Poems, The Metaphysical Poets, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Great Sonnets, Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Collected Poems

The War Poems
AuthorSiegfried Sassoon
ISBN0571202659
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
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 Collected Poems
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0805005471
Introduction, by Nick Laird

--A Shropshire Lad

Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
The Metaphysical Poets
AuthorHelen Gardner
In this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'....
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0060540419
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language



A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers...
Great Sonnets
AuthorPaul Negri
ISBN0486280527
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge,...
Collected Poems
AuthorJohn Betjeman
ISBN0719568501
betjeman's great poem, "slough" is surely the inspiration for one of the great songs of the 20th century, dontcha think? check the excerpts:

slough

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come,...
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
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
ISBN0486272826
Do I like Tennyson? I wasn't sure. Like many, perhaps, I had an image in my mind of a brooding, bearded patriarch:



and a hazy memory of poems read at school such as "Locksley Hall", but no lines actually sprang to mind. So in a way I went into reading him "blind". I was surprised.

Poem...
Collected Poems
AuthorRobert Hayden
ISBN0871401592
Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World...
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...
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...
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,...
Selected Poems and Letters
AuthorJohn Keats
ISBN0395051401
his poetry is of course among the best written so i won't dwell there. i read this in college for a class where we focused on the form and style of particular poets. we read keats, stevens, and and gerard manly hopkins. part of the reading were journal entries and letters of these poets. better than reading...
Selected Poems
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0801837545
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed...
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...
White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward
AuthorBrandon Boyd
ISBN0974512001
Having been a fan of Incubus since about the age of 13, I was excited to finally read the books written by frontman Brandon Boyd. This book was pretty much what I expected. There's a lot of incredible artwork that Boyd himself created, and some ramblings on everything from philosophy, to science and childhood...
Ted Hughes: Poems Selected by Simon Armitage
AuthorTed Hughes
ISBN0571246982
I'm itching to christen Thom Gunn the "Poet of the Hug." His poems, like hugs, are dependable and steady, marked by cool consistency and mellow humanistic sympathies. He has a few poems about hugs, too---most notably, the aptly titled "The Hug," which wistfully describes a platonic embrace shared...
Anthropology and Modern Life
AuthorFranz Boas
ISBN0486252450
Franz Boaz was a German Jewish scholar who came to North America in the 1890s to study Native American tribes and ended up staying in the USA. He became the father of anthropology and taught many of the leading names in the early days of the field such as Ruth Benedict, Ruth Bendt and Margaret Mead. However,...
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
AuthorInga Clendinnen
ISBN0521527317
s/t: Maya & Spaniard in Yucatan 1517-1570
In what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world, Inga Clendinnen explores the intensifying...
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