swap_horiz Birthday Letters Alternatives

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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 Shield of Achilles

The Shield of Achilles is a 1955 poetry collection by the British-American poet W.H. Auden, which won the National Book...

20TH Century British Political National Book Award

9.1 Excellent

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The Less Deceived

"The Less Deceived" is a collection of poetry by the English writer Philip Larkin, published in 1955 by the Marvell Pres...

Lyric 20TH Century British Pessimist

9.1 Excellent

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Mercian Hymns

"Mercian Hymns" is a sequence of 30 prose poems published by the British poet Geoffrey Hill in 1971. The collection blen...

20TH Century Historical British Prose Poetry

9.1 Excellent

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Tales from Ovid

Tales from Ovid is a 1997 poetry collection by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, consisting of free-verse adaptations of...

Translation 20TH Century Mythological British

8.8 Great

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Lupercal

Ted Hughes’s *Lupercal*, published in 1960, explores themes of nature, mythology, and human instinct through strikingly...

20TH Century British Animal 1960

8.7 Great

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Musée des Beaux Arts and Other Poems

W.H. Auden’s *Musée des Beaux Arts and Other Poems* explores themes of loss, faith, and artistic interpretation through...

Modernist 20TH Century British Ekphrastic

8.7 Great

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For the Time Being

For the Time Being is a 1944 book by W. H. Auden comprising a long poem framed as a Christmas oratorio, written in the y...

20TH Century British Spiritual Oratorio

8.7 Great

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The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy

"The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy" is a 1983 poem by British author Geoffrey Hill, notable as a book-length m...

20TH Century Historical British Long Poem

8.6 Great

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Nones

Nones is a 1951 poetry collection written by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden. The collection is recognized for intro...

Lyric 20TH Century Meditative British

8.5 Great

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Remains of Elmet

Ted Hughes’s Remains of Elmet is a poetry collection examining the dramatic landscapes and historical echoes of the West...

20TH Century British Landscape 1979

8.3 Great

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Moortown Diary

Moortown Diary is a 1979 collection of poetry by the British poet Ted Hughes, documenting his daily experiences working...

Nature 20TH Century Pastoral British

8.3 Great

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Wodwo

Ted Hughes’ “Wodwo,” released in 1967, presents a complex and intensely personal body of work. The collection includes p...

20TH Century Mythological British 1967

8.2 Great

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Cave Birds

Ted Hughes’s “Cave Birds,” published in 1978, presents a series of dark and evocative poems centered around mythical bir...

20TH Century Mythological British 1978

8.1 Great

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River

*River* is a poetry collection by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, first published in 1983. The work represents a culmi...

Nature 20TH Century British 1983

7.9 Good

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The Panther and the Lash

The Panther and the Lash is a 1967 poetry collection by the American writer Langston Hughes, published posthumously by A...

20TH Century Political Protest Civil Rights

7.9 Good

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Wolfwatching

Wolfwatching is a 1989 poetry collection by British poet Ted Hughes, who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom f...

Nature Lyric 20TH Century British

7.9 Good

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Gaudete

Gaudete is a 1977 book-length prose-poem sequence written by the British poet Ted Hughes. The narrative follows an Engli...

Narrative 20TH Century Mythological British

7.7 Good

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About the House

W.H. Auden's 1965 poetry collection About the House uses the literal rooms and spaces of a dwelling as an extended metap...

Lyric 20TH Century British Domestic

7.7 Good

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The North Ship

The North Ship is Philip Larkin's first poetry collection, published in 1945 by the Fortune Press. The poems show a styl...

Lyric 20TH Century British Debut

6.6 Fair