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The Waste Land and Other Poems

'The Waste Land and Other Poems' is a literary collection by American-British poet T.S. Eliot, featuring works published...

Modernist 20TH Century Landmark British American

9.6 Brilliant

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The Collected Poems of Federico García Lorca

The Collected Poems of Federico García Lorca is a bilingual edition that presents Spanish originals alongside English tr...

Spanish 20TH Century Surrealist Selected

9.6 Brilliant

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The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings is a poetry collection by Philip Larkin, published in 1964 by Faber and Faber. It includes some of...

Lyric 20TH Century British English

9.5 Brilliant

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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot’s *The Waste Land* is a pivotal 1922 poetry collection exploring themes of disillusionment and spiritual deca...

Classic Collection Modernist 20TH Century

9.4 Excellent

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Omeros

Omeros is an epic poem written by Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, published in 1990. Structured in seven books and divided...

Epic 20TH Century Caribbean Canonical

9.4 Excellent

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Opened Ground

Opened Ground is a 1998 anthology of selected poems and prose by the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney. This...

Classic 20TH Century Irish Selected Poems

9.4 Excellent

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Romancero Gitano

Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection published in 1928 by the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. T...

Spanish Avant Garde 20TH Century Gypsy

9.3 Excellent

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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is a book-length poem by Martinican author Aimé Césaire, first published in 1939...

20TH Century Surrealist Martinican Negritude

9.3 Excellent

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The End and the Beginning

Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning” is a poetry collection published in 1993. It reflects on themes of post...

Polish Philosophical 20TH Century 1993

9.1 Excellent

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Sun Stone

"Sun Stone" ("Piedra de sol") is a long poem by the Mexican writer Octavio Paz, published in 1957. The poem is composed...

20TH Century Mexican Aztec Long Poem

9.1 Excellent

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The Collected Poems 1957-1987

The Collected Poems 1957-1987 is an English-language edition of Mexican poet Octavio Paz's work from those three decades...

Translation 20TH Century Mexican Canonical

8.9 Great

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Parts of a World

Parts of a World is a 1942 poetry collection by the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Published by Alfred A. Knop...

Lyric Philosophical Modernist 20TH Century

8.6 Great

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Treatise on Poetry

"Treatise on Poetry" is a long philosophical verse essay written in 1957 by Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłos...

Polish Epic Philosophical 20TH Century

8.6 Great

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Transport to Summer

Transport to Summer is a poetry collection by the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, published in 1947. The book g...

Lyric Philosophical Modernist 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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A Scattering of Salts

A Scattering of Salts is a poetry collection published in 1995 by the American poet James Merrill. It serves as Merrill'...

Lyric American 20TH Century Late Career

8.4 Great

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El otro, el mismo

El otro, el mismo is a 1964 poetry collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published by Emecé. It gathers...

Lyric Philosophical 20TH Century Argentine

8.3 Great

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Elogio de la sombra

Elogio de la sombra is a 1969 poetry collection by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, published by Editorial Emecé. The...

Lyric 20TH Century Argentine Late Career

8.2 Great

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Facing the River

Published in 1995, this late-career poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz reflects on memory, aging, and the Lithuanian la...

Lyric Polish 20TH Century Late Career

8.2 Great

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Steeple Bush

Steeple Bush is a collection of poetry published in 1947 by American poet Robert Frost. Released during the later phase...

Lyric 20TH Century Pastoral Late Career

7.4 Good

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A Far Rockaway of the Heart

A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a 1997 poetry collection by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions describes it as a seque...

American 20TH Century Beat Late Career

6.7 Fair