swap_horiz The North Ship 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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High Windows

High Windows is a 1974 poetry collection by the British author Philip Larkin, published by Faber and Faber. The volume i...

Lyric British Late 20TH Century Philip Larkin

9.0 Excellent

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Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas was first published by New Directions and J. M. Dent in 1952, compiling works that Thoma...

Lyric 20TH Century Welsh Collected

9.0 Excellent

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Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes’s *Birthday Letters* is a celebrated poetry collection exploring themes of family, loss, and memory. Publishe...

20TH Century British 1998 Elegiac

8.9 Great

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Collected Poems 1934-1952

Collected Poems 1934-1952 is a selection of Dylan Thomas's poetry published by J. M. Dent in 1952, gathering work from t...

Lyric 20TH Century Welsh Canonical

8.9 Great

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Lustra

Lustra (1916) is a poetry collection by Ezra Pound, collecting Imagist and early modernist poems written between 1912 an...

Lyric Modernist 20TH Century Imagist

8.8 Great

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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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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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Sea Grapes

Sea Grapes is a 1976 poetry collection by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott. Its poems examine Caribbean landscape, coloni...

Nature Lyric 20TH Century Caribbean

8.7 Great

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The Annals of Chile

"The Annals of Chile" is a 1994 poetry collection by Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The volume won the T.S. Eliot Prize and th...

Lyric 20TH Century Irish Elegy

8.7 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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18 Poems

18 Poems is the first poetry collection by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, published in 1934 when he was in his early twent...

Lyric 20TH Century Welsh Debut

8.0 Great

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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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Color

Color is the 1925 debut poetry collection of American poet Countee Cullen and an important work of the Harlem Renaissanc...

Lyric 20TH Century Harlem Renaissance Debut

7.8 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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Let Us Compare Mythologies

Published in 1956, Let Us Compare Mythologies is the debut poetry collection by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Coh...

Lyric Canadian 20TH Century Debut

7.4 Good

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Golden State

Golden State is the 1973 debut poetry collection by American poet Frank Bidart. The book established several features as...

Lyric 20TH Century Confessional Debut

7.1 Good