swap_horiz The Golden Gate Alternatives

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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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Poem Without a Hero

This collection presents Anna Akhmatova's "Poem Without a Hero," a significant work of Russian poetry from the 20th cent...

Russian 20TH Century Historical 1960

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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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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View with a Grain of Sand

Wisława Szymborska's *View with a Grain of Sand* is a selected poetry collection offering insights into the Polish poet’...

Polish 20TH Century 1996 Selected

9.1 Excellent

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Autobiography of Red

"Autobiography of Red" is a verse novel by Canadian poet Anne Carson, published in 1998. The narrative reimagines the an...

Canadian 20TH Century Mythological Carson

9.1 Excellent

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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