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The Divine Comedy: Hell (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.54 The greatest strength of Dorothy Sayers's translation of The Divine Comedy is its notes. Sayers...	The Tain Best Price: $11.20 A few weeks ago, I compared (on Amazon under both versions) the new Oxford UP translation from...	What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems Best Price: $7.98 for the past year or so i have been making an attempt to become a fan of poetry. there have been...	Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.60 4 1/2 stars, really, but we can't do that. This is the original 1855 version. Whitman added to...	The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.57 . . . . it is instructive and corrective to have a glimpse of what was: a lyrical, medeivalist...



The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $12.09 While the publisher claims this is the first modernized text of Spenser's poem, Robert Kellogg...	The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.50 An enthralling German epic that is a fascinating exploration of familiar characters, but are...	Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) Best Price: $3.95 buy this now. it's the essential frank o'hara. great choice to keep around for lulls in the day,...	The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide Best Price: $6.97 I actually learned from this book -- in particular, gained an understanding of relative stress...	The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou Best Price: $13.16 I bought one for me and one as a gift, but the pages were uneven and the binding fragile with a...



Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition) Best Price: $13.00 This a great collection of poems from the past! If you enjoy whimsy, this is for you!	Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions Best Price: $10.00 I've been a journal writer and spiritual practitioner for years. Many of my spiritual teachers...	Kabir: Ecstatic Poems Best Price: $6.00 "We are all struggling; none of us has gone far." Perhaps not, but the world...	The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems Best Price: $7.83 This product was very helpful. My professor actually required it for an intro to poetry writing...	Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI Best Price: $31.92 The structure of the book has been well thought out,with short sections of the text above the...

Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 Best Price: $12.30 This is simply astonishing poetry;Hass is,without question,the finest poet writing today in the...	Literature - Reading, Fiction, Poetry and Drama Best Price: $59.00 DiYanni gives excellent explanation and great examples of poems, plays, and short stories in his...	Basho: The Complete Haiku Best Price: $15.05 It is a beautiful book. Jane Reichhold deserves thanks from all the readers and admirers of...	The Poetry of Robert Frost Best Price: $7.66 Robert Frost's poetry has accompanied me on many a journey throughout my life. He has helped to...	Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.21 "Clasping my arms like a climbing plant the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and...

Omeros Best Price: $8.15 Exploring the relationships between natives, tourists, and nature, Walcott moves beyond just our...	180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day Best Price: $8.72 Billy Collins may be the finest poet of our time. His works reflect that. They are treasures...	The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.90 When I was hiking in northern Spain, I kept seeing references to the Cid. This made me want to...	Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.50 Amazon seems to be including all the reviews of different editions and translations of Chaucer's...	Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry Where has this book been all my life? Perrine's Sound and Sense is not just about poetry, it's...

Goethe's Faust Best Price: $2.50 This is a classic, and you have to appreciate the classics in their own right. Be patient...	Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry Best Price: $7.99 One of the most honest and needed collections around. This anthology is wonderfully edited with...	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems Best Price: $0.01 This collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work is a fantastic snapshot of the great romantic...	Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 I wanted to read Beowulf before seeing the movie, so I decided to listen to this audio edition...	Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words Best Price: $7.93 I am completely crazy about this book and I don't normally read poetry books or books about...

Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $17.23 This is an excellent edition of "Paradise Lost" to own. The binding and dustjacket are...	Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? Best Price: $12.24 Years ago, a friend from Palestine recommended the works of Mahmoud Darwish. The local...	Hip-Hop Poetry and The Classics Best Price: $15.63 This book was introduced to me in an English Department meeting held by our county. It was...	The Iliad (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.94 This is a good introduction to the Iliad. Short of reading the original Greek Richard...	The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Best Price: $7.66 Who couldn't love Rilke's writing? It's about life and the perplexities in it. It's about the...

Sappho: A New Translation Best Price: $7.86 I hate to say it, but this book made me somewhat regret studying Ancient Greek. I was given a...	Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century Best Price: $17.15 Mike Dumanis is a nice guy who did a terrible job on this anthology. It should have been called...	Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse Best Price: $6.99 Hollander's book is a solid little primer on some of the major issues of poetry. Using the...	The Crucible (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection) Best Price: $17.13 I love this book. It is accurate and an easy read. I finished it in about a day. In addition to...	Works and Days and Theogony Best Price: $8.00 Hesiod's Theogony was the best known poem in antiquity and the single greatest summary of the...

Ten Poems to Change Your Life Best Price: $7.00 All of Housden's "Ten Poems" books tends to make you feel like you are listening to a...	The Student's Catullus (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) Best Price: $11.76 The third edition to Garrison's Catullus is an improvement from the last edition. A minor...	The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $17.03 Far more qualified minds than mine have commented on Tyler's translation and how it compares to...	Final Harvest: Poems Best Price: $6.00 This is the best collection/selection of Emily Dickinson's poems I have ever found. They're...	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Best Price: $8.09 The world of Arthurian Knights is long lost to us. They are lost to us as commonly read...

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.41 Coming to this, I was already familiar with Pushkin -- both from his short story "Queen of...	Selected Poems of Langston Hughes Best Price: $5.41 Langston Hughes' poems makes my knees knock. There is a little thrill with each poem, like I'm...	Contemporary American Poetry Best Price: $58.73 One can always quibble about who should have been included in an anthology of American poetry,...	New and Selected Poems: Volume One Best Price: $8.00 These poems will transport you into a world of peace and tranquility. You will reach into your...	Catullus: Expanded Edition Best Price: $31.50 Multa Bene this is an excellent book with all the information you need for the AP Catullus...

John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) Best Price: $14.06 Since my youth I have admired the poetry of John Donne. Not for its overwhelmingly religious and...	The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems Best Price: $6.95 Billy Collins has such a quirky sense of humor and he's a master of rhythm. I teach creative...	The Family Of Man Best Price: $12.88 Best photography book about we human beings covering pictures about love,...	Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.88 Beowulf is the most important traditional epic in the Old English language and, I would argue,...

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