8 best-selling poetry books like Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Prometheus Unbound

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.00

Format: None pages,

One of the most ambitious dramatic poems ever written, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound te…

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Cover of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Cynthia Marshall

1. Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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  • classics
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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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2. Manfred

By: Lord Byron

3.79

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Manfred contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in Englan… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
  • romanticism
  • plays
  • drama
"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derive…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

"There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasure, some of study, Some worn with t…"

-Lord Byron, Manfred

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3. The Major Works

By: William Wordsworth , Stephen Gill

4.04

Format: 784 pages, Paperback

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. Th… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • romanticism
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting..."

-William Wordsworth, The Major Works

"I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

-William Wordsworth, The Major Works

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares he…"

-William Wordsworth, The Major Works

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4. The Last Man

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Prometheus Unbound

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.00

Format: None pages,

One of the most ambitious dramatic poems ever written, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound te… read more

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  • romanticism
  • plays
  • mythology
  • drama
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

6. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems

By: John Keats

4.06

Format: 285 pages,

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
  • romanticism
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8. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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Cover of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, None, James Scully, C. John Herington

9. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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  • classics
  • mythology
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  • plays

10. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

By: Aeschylus , Philip Vellacott

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

The first of the great Greek Tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven su… read more

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11. Lyrical Ballads

By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more

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12. The Complete Poems

By: John Keats

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 … read more

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13. Lamia

By: John Keats

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

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14. The Prelude

By: William Wordsworth

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It… read more

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15. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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16. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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17. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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18. The Flies / Les Mouches

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

2.57

Format: None pages,

The Flies (French: Les Mouches) is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1943. It is an adaptation… read more

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19. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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20. 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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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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21. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

By: Anne Carson

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and … read more

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"Oh my darlings, they tell you you’re born with a precious pearl. Truth is, it’s a disaster to be a girl."

-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

"Aristotle thought earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in subterranean caves. We’re more scientific now, we know it’s just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it’s still legal."

-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

"In ancient Greek you use the verb ἁρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the v…"

-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

11 must-read fiction books like Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Transform Your Habits

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Manfred

Lord Byron

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Major Works

William Wordsworth , Stephen Gill

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.02

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9 Top fiction books like Paradise Lost by John Milton, John Leonard

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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