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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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The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs is a collection of 385 poems by American poet John Berryman, published in 1969 by Farrar, Straus and Gir...

20TH Century Confessional Canonical National Book Award

9.3 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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Station Island

Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” explores themes of memory and loss through evocative imagery rooted in the landscape of...

20TH Century Spiritual 1984 Irish

9.2 Excellent

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The Heights of Macchu Picchu

The Heights of Macchu Picchu is a book-length poem sequence written by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 194...

Epic 20TH Century Political Chilean

9.2 Excellent

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The Complete Poems 1927-1979

The Complete Poems 1927-1979 is a posthumous poetry collection by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, published in 1983....

American 20TH Century Canonical Collected

9.2 Excellent

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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks is a poetry collection published in 2005 by the Library of America. Edited by Elizabeth A...

American 20TH Century Gwendolyn Brooks Selected Poems

9.2 Excellent

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Dictee

Dictee is a 1982 experimental novel and poetry collection by Korean-American artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Th...

20TH Century Experimental Korean American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

9.2 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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My Sister Life

Boris Pasternak’s *My Sister Life* is a significant poetry collection from 1922. The work showcases his distinctive lyri...

Russian 20TH Century Lyrical 1922

9.0 Excellent

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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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Rosary

Anna Akhmatova’s Rosary is a poetry collection published in 1914 that established her significant place within Russian l...

Russian 20TH Century Lyrical 1914

8.6 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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Anno Domini MCMXXI

Anna Akhmatova’s Anno Domini MCMXXI is a significant poetry collection published in 1922. It offers a poignant explorati...

Russian 20TH Century 1921 Akhmatova

8.5 Great