6 must-read 20th century books like Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

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Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of hi…

If you liked the 20th century plot in Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman

1. Our Lady of the Flowers

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more

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  • literature
  • 20th century
"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

2. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • 20th century
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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3. The Collected Poems

By: Wallace Stevens

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthd… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • 20th century
"Consider the odd morphology of regret."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"The death of one god is the death of all."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."

-Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

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4. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • american
  • 20th century
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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5. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
Cover of No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, Stuart Gilbert, Lionel Abel

6. No Exit and Three Other Plays

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Stuart Gilbert , Lionel Abel

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays … read more

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7. Being and Nothingness

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre

3.99

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th ce… read more

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  • literature
  • 20th century
"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

Cover of Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

8. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Yoshihiro Tatsumi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the sou… read more

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  • literature
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9. The Malady of Death

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more

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  • literature
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10. View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

By: Wisława Szymborska , Stanisław Barańczak , Clare Cavanagh

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in wh… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
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11. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of hi… read more

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  • poetry
  • art
  • american
  • school
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • 20th century
Cover of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Nörr, Edmund Jephcott

12. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more

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13. A Sport and a Pastime

By: James Salter , Reynolds Price

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more

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  • literature
Cover of A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse

14. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
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15. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
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16. Du Fu - Selected Poems

By: Du Fu , Burton Watson

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nond… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry
  • american

18. The Selected Poems

By: Federico García Lorca , Donald M. Allen , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorcahas introduced generations of American readers to mesmer… read more

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19. Complete Poems, 1904-1962

By: E.E. Cummings

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read po… read more

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20. Love Is a Dog from Hell

By: Charles Bukowski

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more

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21. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more

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22. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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23. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • art
  • school
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

24. Complete Works

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Paul Schmidt

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for … read more

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25. Diving Into the Wreck

By: Adrienne Rich

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more

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26. Tender Buttons

By: Gertrude Stein

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more

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27. Transformations

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more

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28. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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29. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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30. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • school
  • the united states of america
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Cover of Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas by Roberto Bolaño

31. Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas

By: Roberto Bolaño

3.56

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Lat… read more

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  • literature
"Si el Paraíso, para ser Paraíso, propicia un vasto Infierno, el deber del poeta es convertir el Paraíso en Infierno"

-Roberto Bolaño, Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas

15 best-selling literature books like Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

Transform Your Habits

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

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Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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