 | Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Buy used from: $1.00 The man's life blood
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 | Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America) by Robert Frost
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.99 One enduring image: the ladder pointed sky-ward as the light of life fades
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 | The Poetry of E.A. Robinson (Modern Library) by E.A. Robinson
Buy used from: $5.01 A wounded soul whose enigmatic words have great power to stir me within
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 | Poems, 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff by Charles Reznikoff
Buy used from: $13.49 My soul laments all the days that passed before I discovered the wisdom and wit of Mr. Reznikoff
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 | Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg
Buy new: $9.90 / Used from: $0.01 The poet of America's Heartland
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 | Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics) by John Keats
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.85 A huge and wonderful output at such a young age...what could have been?
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 | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Twentieth Century Classics) by Pablo Neruda
Buy used from: $2.39 One great poet translated by another
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 | Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $5.95 The master of the image that burns itself into your soul
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 | Gitanjali: A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate by Rabindranath Tagore
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.12 Pure and undistilled spiritual longing
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 | The Canongate Burns by Robert Burns
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $10.97 For me at least, Burns is the greatest poet of all time
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 | Five T'ang Poets by Wang Wei
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $7.97 Excellent translations of these poets (my favorite being Li Po)
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 | The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake by William Blake
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.98 I fear Blake was more nuts than he was "visionary"...still, it makes for good poetry
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 | The Portable Coleridge (Viking Portable Library) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Buy used from: $0.01 The greatest of the Romantics
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 | Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.50 All of Kerouac's works are filled with poetry...none more so than this book
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 | Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.89 Earthy, perceptive, and ancient stuff
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 | Edgar Allan Poe : Poetry and Tales (Library of America) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $37.50 / Used from: $6.20 One of the most talented poets North America has yet produced
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 | Iliad and Odyssey boxed set by Homer
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $19.58 Fagles' translations of these works has breathed new life into them
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 | The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton
Buy used from: $5.41 Visceral, gut-wrenching words and images
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 | The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $11.25 Responsible for a lot of misconceptions about the Christian worldview--but absolutely masterful writing
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 | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy used from: $1.99 A very difficult work that like the Divine Comedy, has caused some misconceptions...still, probably the greatest original English work
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 | The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is to Come (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 Once again...a great cause of misconceptions...but this one is a favorite of mine
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 | The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language by Eugene H. Peterson
Buy used from: $4.98 Peterson restores a lot of the poetry translated out of most versions of the Bible
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 | The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $14.77 Philanderer, Egotist, Traitor, Fool: throw your sticks and stones...Pound was a maddenly gifted poet
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 | Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $6.89 I know of no other poet with Chaucer's comic genius
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 | The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions Paperbook) by Thomas Merton
Buy used from: $18.00 The Greatest poet of the 20th century. Period.
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