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Shelley's Poetry and Prose
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.10 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
4.15 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
4.42 average rating, · 3k ratings
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm
4.05 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo
4.17 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Seven Nights
Jorge Luis Borges
4.30 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
C.S. Lewis
4.25 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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My Emily Dickinson
Susan Howe
4.23 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Less Than One: Selected Essays
Joseph Brodsky
4.34 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Why Poetry
Matthew Zapruder
4.17 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
Eliot Weinberger
4.26 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Helen Vendler
4.31 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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The Albertine Workout
Anne Carson
4.25 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
Jane Hirshfield
4.34 average rating, · 1k ratings
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The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil
4.24 average rating, · 908 ratings
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Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
Louise Glück
4.12 average rating, · 819 ratings
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
Northrop Frye
4.34 average rating, · 777 ratings
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Charles Bukowski
Barry Miles
4.04 average rating, · 739 ratings
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
Dean Young
4.13 average rating, · 664 ratings
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Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry
Ada Limon
4.55 average rating, · 590 ratings
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Nonrequired Reading
Wisława Szymborska
4.13 average rating, · 647 ratings
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Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
4.05 average rating, · 569 ratings
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