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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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Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection by Claudia Rankine. The work explores systemic racism in America t...

American Hybrid Race Award

9.16 Excellent

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The Ring and the Book

The Ring and the Book is a long narrative poem by Robert Browning, published in four volumes in 1868 and 1869 and based...

Narrative British Victorian Dramatic Monologue

9.16 Excellent

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Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a 1970 poetry collection by British poet Ted Hughes. The book centers on th...

Dark British 1970S Mythic

9.16 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

9.14 Excellent

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Aurora Leigh

"Aurora Leigh" is a novel in verse written by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, first published in 1856. The narr...

British Victorian Feminist Novel In Verse

9.12 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

9.12 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

9.10 Excellent

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The White Book

The White Book is a 2016 literary work by South Korean author Han Kang that blends elements of prose, poetry, and essay....

Korean Hybrid Grief 2010S

8.82 Great

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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth is the 2011 debut chapbook by Somali-British poet Warsan Shire. The collection expl...

British 2010S Somali Chapbook

8.30 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