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The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

10 best books like The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Gerard Manley Hopkins): The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, Selected Poems, 1966-1987, The Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection), The Complete Poems, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, The Pisan Cantos, Selected Poems, The Metaphysical Poets, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN0375757341

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her,"...
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 Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection)
AuthorWilliam Wordsworth
ISBN1853264016
William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to...
The Complete Poems
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0333949293
Neutral Tones


We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod,
—They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles solved years...
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...
The Pisan Cantos
AuthorEzra Pound
Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America on Radio Rome. Imprisoned for some weeks in a wire cage open to the elements, Pound suffered a nervous...
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,...
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'....
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374520259
This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing for...
Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN1853264202
There are some truly outstanding poems in this collection. The most well known among them would be 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', although Christabel is one of my personal favourites.

There are varying themes within this volume, ranging from love and loss and bereavement, to praise for...
The Poems of Marianne Moore
AuthorMarianne Moore
ISBN0670031984
More than thirty years after her death, Marianne Moore continues to be one of America's most beloved poets. However, her Collected Poems (1951) omits twenty years of later beauties. And her inaccurately titled Complete Poems (1967) is likewise incomplete, leaving out nearly half of her body of verse...
The Complete English Poems
AuthorGeorge Herbert
ISBN0140424555
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery...
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...
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
AuthorPaul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN0813914388
Major Field Prep: 22/133
This 1994 collected edition of Dunbar's poetry reprints the 1913 Completed Works and adds an addition 60 or so poems that were not included in that posthumous volume. Dunbar's poetry takes on a wide variety of styles, genres, and forms and the most distinct difference in...
The Half-Finished Heaven
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN1555973515
From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators,...
Complete Poems
AuthorChristina Rossetti
ISBN0140423664
Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and sonnets, and the vast body of her devotional poetry....
Poems of Arab Andalusia
AuthorCola Franzen
ISBN0872862429
These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring...
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0060907274
This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life --
I have many brothers --
We don't dare --
I love the dark hours --
You darkness, that I come from --
I have faith --
I am too alone --
You see,...
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,...
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson on all his books, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of the twelve children of George Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1816 Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School, which he disliked so intensely that from 1820...
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
AuthorRobert Penn Warren
ISBN0807123331
A central figure in twentieth-century American literature, Robert Penn Warren was appointed by the Library of Congress as the first Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985. Warren wrote enduring fiction as well as influential works of literary criticism and theory. Yet, as this variorum edition...
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