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10 best books like The Prelude (William Wordsworth): Leaves of Grass, Caleb Williams, The Waste Land, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Rape of the Lock, The Collected Poems, Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism, Don Juan, Native Guard, The Collected Poems

Leaves of Grass
AuthorWalt Whitman
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."

As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
Caleb Williams
AuthorWilliam Godwin
ISBN0141441232
When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though...
The Waste Land
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0393974995
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0486281221
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
The Rape of the Lock
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN1557429162
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.

I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
The Collected Poems
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679726691
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.

the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).

stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism
AuthorWilliam Blake
ISBN0393090833
This generous selection from Blake's poems, prose, notebooks, marginalia, and letters is accompanied by many of Blake's illuminations for his own works, some in full color. The spelling and punctuation have been modified for greater intelligibility to modern readers.

Almost all of Blake's...
Don Juan
AuthorLord Byron
ISBN0140424520
Probably few subjects fitted Byron's particular talents better than Don Juan.

In this rambling, exuberant, conversational poem, the travels of Don Juan are used as a vehicle for some of the most lively and acute commentaries on human societies and behaviour in the language. The manner is...
Native Guard
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN0618872655
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and...
The Collected Poems
AuthorTheodore Roethke
ISBN0385086016
There a several poems by Roethke that I quite like. Once in a while I think he is brilliant. But I've decided I can't read collections of his work. There is too much I don't care for, and too much repetition -- primarily repetition of a mood of self-absorption that gets old fast. Lust, guilt, poor you, whatever....
Complete Poems
AuthorMarianne Moore
ISBN0140188517
How many of you have even heard of Marianne Moore?

I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry.

Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard...
American Primitive
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0316650048
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.

"American Primitive enchants me with the purity...
Shelley's Poetry and Prose
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0393977528

"Criticism" reflects the recent renaissance in Shelley studies, the greatest renaissance since 1870-92. All twenty-three essays are new to the Second Edition; among them are the work of Harold Bloom, Stuart Curran, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Michael Ferber, James Chandler, and Susan J. Wolfson.

A...
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
AuthorFrank O'Hara
ISBN0520201663
Frank O’Hara

Why I Am Not a Painter

I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up....
Poetry, Drama and Prose
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0393974979
This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism. "Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas...
Poems and Prose
AuthorGerard Manley Hopkins
ISBN0140420150
Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus and the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging...
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