 | The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $8.94 Some nice long poetry about King Alfred's battle with invading Vikings. On a deeper level, it is about the battle between Christian virtue and nihilism. Very pertinent to our age.
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 | The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $3.49 Before everything else there was Gilgamesh.
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 | Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns: Late Middle English Stanzaic Poems (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Buy new: $80.00 / Used from: $7.24 To comprehend poetry in Middle English takes devotion, but the diligent reader will be bounteously rewarded.
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 | The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer
Buy new: $20.79 / Used from: $10.00 |
 | The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake by William Blake
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $10.00 |
 | Selected Poems by William Morris
Buy used from: $13.17 Like many of histories greatest artists, William Morris suffered from very poor criticism in his time. It is a shame he is not remebered by many as the magnificent poet that he was.
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 | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.91 Many High Schoolers and College Freshman have read this work with loathing. Damn philistines.
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 | Poems by C.S. Lewis
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $5.00 Wow, critics REALLY don't like the poetry of C.S. Lewis. I am only trying to honest to mysef though. I guess I just have bad tastes! Oh well.
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 | Narrative Poems by C.S. Lewis
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $4.50 |
 | The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.69 |
 | The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot (Oxford World's Classics Series) by Elias Lonnrot
Buy used from: $4.50 |
 | The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.43 Many people don't get all the way through this one. That's their loss, not mine.
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 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Broadview Literary Texts)
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $1.62 |
 | The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $16.98 Do you wan't to know a poet that critics hate more than C.S. Lewis? Look no farther than J.R.R. Tolkien. Honestly, most fans dislike his verse as well. I must just have really, really, bad tastes!
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 | Bilbo's Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $7.99 The simplest poetry can sometimes move us the most.
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 | The Riverside Chaucer (Oxford Paperbacks) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy used from: $4.99 |
 | The Earliest English Poems (Penguin Classics) by Various
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $2.64 |
 | Book of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $4.99 Peake is a somewhat forgotten literary master.
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 | The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Modern Library) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Buy used from: $16.95 |
 | The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $90.36 / Used from: $27.00 Of course.
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 | Complete Verse by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $0.49 A good place to start younger readers off on poetry.
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 | Vision of Piers Plowman (Everyman's Library) by William Langland
Buy new: $10.63 / Used from: $1.92 Middle English again. A great spiritual allegory.
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 | The Song of Hiawatha (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Poetic Edda
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $8.80 |
| Pearl
Buy new: $10.00 / Used from: $7.83 |
 | The Aeneid by Virgil
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.33 |
 | Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America) by Robert Frost
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $6.47 |
 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.14 |
 | The Complete Poetry of John Milton by John Milton
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $1.80 |
 | The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library) by John Keats
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $10.50 |
 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.56 |
 | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.33 |
 | Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams) by William Carlos Williams
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.98 |
 | The complete poetical works of William Cowper, esq., including the hymns and translations from Madame Guion, Milton, etc., and Adam; a sacred drama; from ... of the author, by the Rev. H. Stebbing. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $26.57 |
 | Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: $28.86 / Used from: $15.09 |
 | The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate, etc. Complete in one volume (as of 1855) by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $39.16 |
 | The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.50 |
 | Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by George Gordon Byron
Buy used from: $4.88 |
| The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
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 | The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Robert Browning
Buy used from: $3.00 |
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