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The Whitsun Weddings

Published by Faber and Faber in 1964, Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings examines ordinary life in mid-twentieth-centu...

Lyric 20TH Century British English

9.46 Excellent

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In Memoriam A.H.H.

Published anonymously in 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H. grew out of the sudden death of his close frie...

British Victorian Landmark Elegy

9.42 Excellent

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Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems is the third and final poetry volume published during John Keats'...

Romantic 19TH Century British John Keats

9.37 Excellent

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Collected Poems of W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was an Anglo-American poet whose collected works document a career spanning from the late 1920s t...

Comprehensive Modernist British Collected

9.31 Excellent

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake, created between 1790 and 179...

Romantic British Prophetic William Blake

9.24 Excellent

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Men and Women

Men and Women is a collection of poetry published in 1855 by the English Victorian poet Robert Browning. The two-volume...

19TH Century British Victorian Dramatic Monologue

9.22 Excellent

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake’s *Songs of Innocence and of Experience* presents two distinct volumes of poetry published in 1794. The co...

Romantic Classic British Visionary

9.20 Excellent

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Lyrical Ballads

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, represents a foundational work of t...

Nature Romantic Classic British

9.20 Excellent

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Prufrock and Other Observations

T.S. Eliot’s 1917 collection, Prufrock and Other Observations, represents a pivotal moment in modernist literature. It e...

Classic Modernist Urban British

9.20 Excellent

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Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is a seminal modernist poetry collection examining profound questions about time, existence,...

Classic Modernist British Spiritual

9.20 Excellent

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Last Poems

W.B. Yeats’ *Last Poems*, released in 1939 after his death, represents his most intensely personal and reflective work....

Modernist Irish Posthumous Yeats

9.18 Excellent

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Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

"Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012" is a comprehensive collection of poetry by the British poet Geoffrey Hill, publish...

Contemporary Comprehensive British Collected

9.05 Excellent

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Mean Time

"Mean Time" is a 1993 poetry collection written by the British poet Carol Ann Duffy, who later served as the UK's Poet L...

British 1990S Whitbread Carol Ann Duffy

8.91 Great

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The World's Wife

The World's Wife is a poetry collection by British poet Carol Ann Duffy, published in 1999. The poems retell myths, fair...

British 1990S Feminist Dramatic Monologue

8.84 Great

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The Sad Gondola

Tomas Tranströmer’s *The Sad Gondola* (1996) is a poetry collection exploring themes of loss, memory, and displacement t...

Contemporary 1996 Swedish Late Work

8.55 Great

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Standing Female Nude

"Standing Female Nude" is a poetry collection published in 1985 by the British poet Carol Ann Duffy, serving as her debu...

British 1980S Feminist Debut

8.32 Great

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The Bees

The Bees is a 2011 poetry collection by Carol Ann Duffy, published during her tenure as the British Poet Laureate. The c...

Nature British 2010S Carol Ann Duffy

8.25 Great

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Memorial by Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald’s Memorial presents a unique poetic response to Homer’s *Iliad*. The collection meticulously translates and...

Contemporary Translation Collection British

8.10 Great

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Dart by Alice Oswald

Dart is a 2002 book-length poem by British poet Alice Oswald that traces the River Dart from its source on Dartmoor to t...

Nature Contemporary Collection British

7.82 Good

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The Lunatic

"The Lunatic" is a 2015 poetry collection by the Serbian-American poet and former United States Poet Laureate Charles Si...

American Contemporary 2015 Late Work

7.22 Good