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10 best books like Selected Poems (John Keats): The Necessary Shakespeare, Selected Poetry, Kid, Edmund Spenser's Poetry, What Is Amazing, Selected Poetry and Prose, Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti (Wordsworth Poetry Library), Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings, The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology, Tennyson: Selected Poems

The Necessary Shakespeare
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0321272501
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist...
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....
Kid
AuthorSimon Armitage
ISBN0571166075
'Without Photographs'

We literally stumble over the bits
and pieces, covered with ash
and tarpaulin, stashed into corners,
all that tackle under the old mill.
I don't know how we finally figure it out,
poking around in the half-dark,
coming across the neatly coiled...
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0393962997
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
What Is Amazing
AuthorHeather Christle
ISBN0819572772
Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the...
Selected Poetry and Prose
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a fiery political visionary committed to social change and progress. The generous selection in this...
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
AuthorChristina Rossetti
ISBN1853264296
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings
AuthorThomas de Quincey
ISBN0192836544
I sometimes seem to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. —Confessions

. . . I do not believe that any man, having once tasted the...
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
AuthorFaubion Bowers
ISBN0486292746
Haiku should be just
small stones dropping down a well
with a small splash
- James Kirkup (8)
Haiku or the complexity of subtlety
As a big fan of etymology, I was captivated by this book's introduction. It is a clear and detailed recount of the history of haiku. The present enthralling...
Tennyson: Selected Poems
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
ISBN0140445455
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the word and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot.
--From The Lady of Shalott

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems found inspiration in sources as diverse as Greek myths...
Selected Poetry
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0140424296
Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse...
The Possession
AuthorAnnie Ernaux
ISBN1583228551
الاحتلال

رواية فرنسية قصيرة لا تتجاوز الخمسين صفحة، قراءتي الأولى لآني إرنو، ورغم هذا القصر الشديد، ورغم الترجمة المتواضعة، إلا أنها رواية مكثفة،...
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
AuthorJames Meek
Adam Kellas, journalist, would-be thriller novelist, and failed lover lives in a world that is cracking apart. Divorced, unstable, and in the middle of life, Kellas is teetering toward self-destruction. He reluctantly accepts a London newspaper assignment to cover post-9/11 operations in the...
The Fever
AuthorWallace Shawn
Winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave, The Fever has been called “a starkly written, harrowing journey into [the] dark night of the soul that is as searing on the page as it is on the stage” (Booklist). While visiting a poverty-stricken country far...
The Road Goes Ever On
AuthorDonald Swann
ISBN0345247337
I think the "art song" settings of the poems don't fully do justice to the depth of emotion expressed in Tolkien's work, and so I prefer many of the more recent settings of many of these. That said, it is wonderful to know that Tolkien himself approved of Swann's melodies- it takes us one step closer to hearing...
The Time Machine/The Island of Doctor Moreau (World's Classics)
AuthorH.G. Wells
ISBN0192828258
The Time Machine (1895) and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) brought H.G. Wells instant fame and established him as one of the pre-eminent founders of modern science fiction. Even at their most bleakly pessimistic and ironic, these stories testify to the resources of human courage and ingenuity....
The Secret Life of a Snowflake: An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes
AuthorKenneth Libbrecht
ISBN0760336768
Before a snowflake melts on your tongue, it makes an epic journey. This is the beautiful, full-color story of that journey, step by step, from a single snowflake’s creation in the clouds, through its fall to earth, to its brief and sparkling appearance on a child’s mitten. Told by a scientist who...
Poem a Day, Vol. 1
AuthorNicholas Albery
ISBN1883642388
Once upon a time men and women of sense and sensibility knew by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. Poems are meant to be voiced and A Poem a Day includes 366 poems old and new...
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