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 Haiku BabyBest Price: $2.79 What a wonderful find! This short, simple book is absolutely charming in its presentation of... |  OmerosBest Price: $6.50 Exploring the relationships between natives, tourists, and nature, Walcott moves beyond just our... |  The Collected Poems of Frank O'HaraBest Price: $15.00 One test of a fine poet for other poets is that she or he makes you want to write your own poems... |  Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996Best Price: $7.75 Dazzling and intense works. Good overview of his output. Although this is not the Collected... |  The Riverside ChaucerBest Price: $53.00 A great collection of Chaucer. It's hard to find his other works combined with the Canterbury... |
 One Hundred and One Famous PoemsBest Price: $7.91 I've had many of these poems for many years. This was a nice addition to the family library. I... |  Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two VoicesBest Price: $4.15 This book is ok but not great. It's more of an idea starter, 'get you thinking', type of book. I... |  Writing Passion: A Catullus ReaderBest Price: $31.29 I have been learning Latin for a couple of years on my own with an aim to take the AP exam... |  The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationBest Price: $10.15 With the politicization of the schools and the increasing emphasis on race, gender and... |  Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.34 This collection is divided into three sections, "Songs for the Open Road", "Sea,... |
 The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays)Best Price: $11.24 I bought this book for my 9-year old who loves poetry. I'm basing my review merely on the... |  Premier Book of Major Poets: An AnthologyBest Price: $7.55 If you have ever wanted to own a compact collection of well-known poetry, this is the book to... |  A Free Life: A NovelBest Price: $8.49 Unfortunately this is my first experience with this writer. I found the story a collection of... |  The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing PoemsBest Price: $6.79 This product was very helpful. My professor actually required it for an intro to poetry writing... |  The Iliad (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $0.99 If you are in a hurry to complete your report, it will help you so. But don't forget to read... |
 The Poetry of Robert FrostBest Price: $10.49 Robert Frost's poetry has accompanied me on many a journey throughout my life. He has helped to... |  The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $10.55 This book covers every one of the many, many revisions of Leaves of Grass. Great for enjoymen... |  Ten Poems to Change Your LifeBest Price: $4.00 All of Housden's "Ten Poems" books tends to make you feel like you are listening to a... |  Ovid: Amores, Metamorphoses : SelectionsBest Price: $27.98 I have been taking an intensive second year latin course, and we have used quite a few book... |  The Canterbury Tales: (original-spelling edition) (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.19 As a reader of Middle English tales in the original spelling and structure, I found this edition... |
 The Lords and the New CreaturesBest Price: $4.80 I like the Doors but Jim Morrison's poetry in this books is medocre at best. Some of it is... |  The Odyssey (Signet Classics)Best Price: $2.30 THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E.,... |  Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $1.04 Oscar Wilde was one of the most brilliant men to ever live and his oeuvre definitely deserves a... |  Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1Best Price: $6.25 Jim Morrison's poetry appears often not very accesible..surely not at a first reading. But if we... |  Why Poetry Matters (Why X Matters)Best Price: $12.99 I've come to poetry kind of late in my life. I attended a poetry reading in 2006 that woke me up... |
 Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.25 This is one of the larger Icelandic sagas, and one of the best. It bears to keep in mind that... |  The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.95 . . . . it is instructive and corrective to have a glimpse of what was: a lyrical, medeivalist... |  A Family ChristmasBest Price: $3.99 I purchased it as a birthday gift for my mother, so haven't read it yet. She said it is... |  Angels, Thieves, and WinemakersBest Price: $6.72 "Joe Mills takes the chestnut of wine as a provider of truth and gives us something... |  Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.37 Long hailed as the Russian Shakespeare, Pushkin's novel in verse is a tantalizing combination of... |
 On Beyond Zebra! (Classic Seuss)Best Price: $5.35 This book introduced "paradigm shifting" into my intellectual vocabulary before I even... |  The Collected Poems of Wallace StevensBest Price: $10.12 They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them... |  Twelve Plays by ShakespeareBest Price: $11.46 This boxed set contains 12 separate paperback books (Dover Thrift Editions). They're fairly... |  Lysistrata (Hackett Classics Series)Best Price: $4.99 I thought that this would be a very dry and difficult read. It is actually very interesting, and... |  Selected PoemsBest Price: $18.39 Gracious, charming, witty, sassy, spontaneous, irreverent, joyful, campy, insouciant--Frank... |
 Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical VerseBest Price: $6.00 This is an excellent introduction to formal poetry; not just meter, but rhyme, sonics, and... |  A Child's Garden of VersesBest Price: $5.36 This is a lovely book with lovely old-fashioned illustrations. A terrific baby shower gift... |  Catullus: Expanded EditionBest Price: $29.00 Multa Bene this is an excellent book with all the information you need for the AP Catullus... |  Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)Best Price: $3.00 One of my Amazon friends recently reviewed a compilation of "Shakespeare's Sonnets,"... |  Autobiography of RedBest Price: $7.39 "Autobiography of Red" by Ann Carson is worth the read simply because of its unique... |
 Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later LifeBest Price: $5.80 This slim volume of prosaic poems (they are barely poems, more like very graceful essays) on... |  The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton (Modern Library)Best Price: $32.19 The obligatory remark encompassing modern appreciation for Milton was given to us from T.S.... |  Victims of a MapBest Price: $11.95 There can be no doubt that Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are among the leading poets... |  Collected Poems of Robert ServiceBest Price: $13.00 I am not much for poetry in general (having been forced to determine feet and meter and memorize... |  The Complete Poetry & Prose of William BlakeBest Price: $14.90 It's amazing how soothing just reading William Blake's poetry is on the troubled soul. I always... |
 The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Best Price: $14.93 Far more qualified minds than mine have commented on Tyler's translation and how it compares to... |  The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: PoemsBest Price: $13.92 Marie Howe's "Kingdom of Ordinary Time" suggests that poetry of ordinary experience... |  Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English VerseBest Price: $6.37 Hollander's book is a solid little primer on some of the major issues of poetry. Using the... |  Ariel: Perennial Classics Edition (Perennial Classics)Best Price: $4.48 There are two adjectives commonly applied to this book by people who haven't read it: it is... |  A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine ComedyBest Price: $11.49 A few years ago I read the prose translation of the Divine Comedy by John D. Sinclair. From the... |
 The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook)Best Price: $13.94 The Answer/La Respuesta by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, is the best answer I have ever read. In... |  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Literary Texts)Best Price: $11.02 The author of this little masterpiece is unknown. This story - or 'romance' if you like - was... |  Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and CraftBest Price: $8.36 "Real Sofistikashun: Essays On Poetry And Craft" by Tony Hogland (who is the author of... |  William Blake: The Complete Illuminated BooksBest Price: $26.74 William Blake - a genius before his time - created powerful words and images. Reading his... |  Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition)Best Price: $16.87 This text is a great one, as are all of the Norton anthologies that I have bought over the... |
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