10 best-selling poetry books like The Seafarer Poem by Unknown

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The Seafarer Poem

By: Unknown

3.66

Format: None pages, None

The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The po…

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1. Ozymandias

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley , Theo Gayer-Anderson

4.29

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. Shelley. "I met … read more

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  • poetry
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and…"

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Cover of Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Robert Graves, Thomas Malory, Keith Baines

2. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines

3.92

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more

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"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

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3. Aurora Leigh

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.74

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

This verse-novel tells the story of a female writer, balancing work and love. It is and based on El… read more

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"Italy/Is one thing, England one."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"Good aims not always make good books."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"The world of books is still the world."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

"Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest..."

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

4. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Cover of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, Michael North

5. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Miller's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny

6. The Miller's Prologue and Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , James Winny

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more

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Cover of The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter G. Beidler

7. The Wife of Bath

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more

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  • poetry
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8. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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9. The Eternal Husband

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Eternal Husband (Russian: Vechnyi muzh, Vechny muzh) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoy… read more

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10. Cathay (1915)

By: Ezra Pound , Ernest Fenollosa , Li Bai

3.65

Format: 432 pages,

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11. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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12. Desiree's Baby

By: Kate Chopin , None

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Audiobook

Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more

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13. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

14. The Lady of Shalott

By: Alfred Tennyson , Charles Keeping

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poem… read more

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15. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more

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16. Ode to the West Wind

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.47

Format: None pages,

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17. The Wife's Lament

By: Richard Hamer

3.49

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

The Wife's Lament is an Old English poem of 53 lines found in the Exeter Book and generally treated… read more

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18. The Seafarer Poem

By: Unknown

3.66

Format: None pages, None

The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The po… read more

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19. The Battle of Maldon

By: Anonymous

3.72

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

Text and translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. read more

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Cover of The Wanderer: A Poem (Classic Reprint) by Lewis S. Hough

20. The Wanderer: A Poem (Classic Reprint)

By: Lewis S. Hough

3.26

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from The Wanderer: A Poem And dreary too, as is old ocean's wave. Friends, home and countr… read more

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Cover of Chaucer: The Knight's Tale (Macmillan Master Guides, 8) by Anne Samson

21. Chaucer: The Knight's Tale (Macmillan Master Guides, 8)

By: Anne Samson

3.74

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

None read more

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10 must-read poetry books like The Wanderer: A Poem (Classic Reprint) by Lewis S. Hough

Transform Your Habits

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Nun's Priest's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer , Christopher Tolkien , Nevill Coghill

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Beowulf

Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

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