6 Top poetry books like Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition) by Ki no Tsurayuki

Cover of Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition) by Ki no Tsurayuki

Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition)

By: Ki no Tsurayuki

4.19

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

This is the first complete translation of the tenth-century work Kokinshu, one of the three most im…

If you liked the poetry plot in Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition) by Ki no Tsurayuki , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson

1. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

2. Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

By: Donald Keene , Yoshida Kenkō , 兼好法師

3.86

Format: 416 pages,

Written sometime between 1330 and 1332, the Essays in Idleness,with their timeless relevance and ch… read more

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3. The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

By: Jane Hirshfield , Izumi Shikibu , Mariko Aratani , Ono no Komachi

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

These translated poems were written by two ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and… read more

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4. Night of the Milky Way Railway

By: Kenji Miyazawa , Bryn Barnard , None

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way.… read more

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Cover of Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk, Andrew Delbanco

5. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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6. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
"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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7. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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8. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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9. Saigyo

By: Saigyō

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are alm… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition) by Ki no Tsurayuki

10. Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition)

By: Ki no Tsurayuki

4.19

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

This is the first complete translation of the tenth-century work Kokinshu, one of the three most im… read more

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5 best-selling fiction books like Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (C & T Asian Languages Series.) (English and Japanese Edition) by Ki no Tsurayuki

Transform Your Habits

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

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4.00

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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3.55

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Paradise Lost

John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

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The Iliad

Homer

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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3.77

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

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King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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