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10 best books like The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Paul Laurence Dunbar): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, Poems of Christina Rossetti, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Selected Poems, A Street in Bronzeville, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, Insomnia Diary

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings
AuthorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
No American writer of the 19th century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over 25 years. Poems and Other Writings offers a full-scale literary...
Poems of Christina Rossetti
AuthorChristina Rossetti
ISBN0517118513
A remarkable collection of artistic poetry in a Victorian worldview filled with wistful hopes, evocative imageries, and deep emotions.

Rossetti, a talented poetess, tackled recurring themes such as piety, love, sentimentalism, feminism, and somehow, like Emily Dickinson, had a penchant...
Selected Poems
AuthorRita Dove
ISBN0679750800
Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people.  Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner,...
Selected Poems
AuthorLangston Hughes
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America.  The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of...
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555972667
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
AuthorPerry Miller
ISBN0674613066
The biographical summary of Miller is interesting. A man who got his PhD in an era where 1 year of undergrad work, followed by three years of grad work after a hiatus traveling the world, could quite directly land tenure at Harvard. One thinks of Miller as a tweedy Harvard professor in the "consensus" era...
Selected Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156003961
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate...
A Street in Bronzeville
AuthorGwendolyn Brooks
In 1968, Gwendolyn Brooks was named Poet Laureate of Illinois and held that position until her death in 2000. Prior to being commended for her achievements, Brooks became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer for her poetry collection Annie Allen in 1950. A student of Langston Hughes...
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0374525064
The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole...
Insomnia Diary
AuthorBob Hicok
ISBN0822958422
One of the best books of poetry I've read. Hicok can hit hard, but he doesn't lose himself in savagery--there's room in his attitude for sensitivity and bemusement. Often, when he does work with a bitter pen, he aims it at his own self, but even there he flavors his vinegar with compassion. Most importantly,...
Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393961478

The editors have also taken into account the many essays on Rich and reviews of her work that have been published since 1975. Some earlier biographical selections have been replaced with works that focus on the quality of Rich's writing and her place in twentieth-century American literature--not...
Selected Poems
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0679733019
I have never been the one to rate the books objectively. I don't understand how objectivity works when it comes to rating poems.

So, the other day I got this book from a Used Book Store ( for 2 dollars . I dug Strand out from a pile of other books which he was buried under ).
Found a couple of my favorite...
Greek Lyrics
AuthorRichmond Lattimore
ISBN0226469441
"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the thrilling...
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,...
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
AuthorDavid Levering Lewis
ISBN0140170367
What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America’s Future
AuthorMichael Levi
ISBN0199986169
The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to...
Hip Logic
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0142001392
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
Hopkins: Poems
AuthorGerard Manley Hopkins
ISBN0679444696
The poet feels nature, life, so deeply he is overwhelmed. He sometimes invents words and grammar to express his ecstasy. I just love Hopkins for this, for his passion.

Two of my favorite poems:


Pied Beauty

Glory be to G-d for dappled things-
For skies of couple-colour...
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...
Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement
AuthorNikki Giovanni
"Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-American poetry. This book, electrifying generations with its revolutionary phrases and inspiring them with such Nikki Giovanni masterpieces as the lyrical "Nikki-Rosa" and the intimate...
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...
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years
AuthorPhilip Rowland
ISBN0393348873
Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking world. This collection tells the story for...
The Garies and Their Friends
AuthorFrank J. Webb
ISBN1426446241
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
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