If you liked the poetry plot in Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
By: Mamadou Kouyaté , Djibril Tamsir Niane
3.63
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
This epic - part history, part legend - is a great adventure story. Other tellings can be found und… read more
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- literature
- classics
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"The lion has walked."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"He was great among kings, he was peerless among men."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"How few things good fortune prizes!' Yes, the day you are fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we ar…"-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
2. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- school
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
3. Dr. Faustus
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.80
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- school
"Hell is just a frame of mind."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Be silent then, for danger is in words."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
4. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- school
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
5. The Home and the World
By: Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice
3.83
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakeni… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
"Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"জীবনটাকে কেঁদে ভাসিয়ে দেওয়ার চেয়ে হেসে উড়িয়ে দেওয়াই ভালো।"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold. While we are on fire let us seethe and boil."-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
6. Amoretti (British Poets)
By: Edmund Spenser , Teresa Page
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
EDMUND AMORETTI The Amoretti by Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99), published in 1595, is one of the grea… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- classics
7. The Faerie Queene
By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- 16th century
- classics
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- poetry
- classics
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- british literature
- literature
- 16th century
9. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
By: Eliza Fowler Haywood
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more
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- romance
- classics
- school
10. Love's Labour's Lost
By: William Shakespeare , Henry R. Woudhuysen
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To begin the introduction, the editor discusses the link between Love's Labour's Lostand the writin… read more
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- romance
- classics
- literature
11. Revelations of Divine Love
By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more
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- classics
12. 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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- poetry
- classics
- school
13. The Faerie Queene, Book One
By: Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of S… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- school
14. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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15. Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Short Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Helen Oyeyemi , Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great master… read more
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- classics
16. Volpone
By: Ben Jonson
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more
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- classics
- school
17. Mother Courage and Her Children
By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more
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- classics
- school
18. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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- literature
- classics
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
19. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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20. The Book of Margery Kempe
By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more
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21. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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22. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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23. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more
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24. The Recognition of Śakuntalā
By: Kālidāsa , W.J. Johnson
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work… read more
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25. Hero and Leander
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's unfinished masterpiece, as completed by George Chapman (1598). Includes an introduction a… read more
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26. The Spanish Tragedy
By: Thomas Kyd , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more
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27. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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29. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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30. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Complete Poems
By: Thomas Wyatt , None
3.85
Format: 208 pages,
As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wro… read more
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31. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- school
"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
