![]() | Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $2.67 Best known for his novels, Hardy was also an important and influential poet.
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![]() | Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ezra Pound
Buy used from: $0.47 Imagism's influence on modern and contemporary poetry is immeasurable. This anthology features works by Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Hilda Doolittle.
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![]() | The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics) by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.28 Eliot is arguably the greatest twentieth-century poet, and the Waste Land is a seminal modernist text. This edition contains notes that will help readers understand some extremely difficult poems.
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![]() | Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) by William Butler Yeats
Buy new: $18.53 / Used from: $14.23 Every student of modern poetry needs to be aquainted with this great Irish poet. The Norton Critical Edition contains helpful notes and a selection of Yeats criticism.
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![]() | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.79 Stevens is a masterful poet. Although he borrows heavily from Imagism, Phenomenology, and late nineteenth-century style Decadence, Stevens's poems are remarkably original.
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![]() | W.H. Auden: Selected Poems by W. H. Auden
Buy used from: $0.19 Auden is one of the most difficult poets on this list. However, with a little time and effort, his poems can be quite rewarding.
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![]() | Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems by Nikki Giovanni
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $0.01 An anthology of poems from various Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Countee Cullen. Edited by the great Nikki Giovanni.
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![]() | Trilogy by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.15 Hilda Doolittle's World War II epic. Relies heavily on Biblical and alchemical imagery. Don't worry, this edition contains many helpful notes!
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