6 Best poetry books like The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

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The Snow Man

By: Wallace Stevens

3.58

Format: None pages, None

The poem The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens.

If you liked the poetry plot in The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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2. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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3. The Flea

By: John Donne

3.57

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

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4. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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5. Phaedo

By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more

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6. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • poetry
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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7. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

Cover of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

8. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more

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9. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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10. Sonnet 18

By: William Shakespeare

3.41

Format: 549 pages,

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11. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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12. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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13. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

By: Susan Jeffers , Robert Frost

3.36

Format: None pages,

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14. Ulysses

By: Alfred Tennyson

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to h… read more

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15. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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16. To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more

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17. To His Coy Mistress

By: Andrew Marvell

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell. read more

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18. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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19. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

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20. The Rocking Horse Winner

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Unknown Binding

The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. The story describes a young middle-cl… read more

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21. The Birthmark

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

The main character is a great scientist and lover of nature with a beautiful wife whom he loves dea… read more

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22. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

23. Whoso List to Hunt

By: Thomas Wyatt

4.30

Format: 373 pages,

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24. There Will Come Soft Rains

By: Ray Bradbury

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950. The story concerns a household in Allendale, California,… read more

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25. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

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26. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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27. Mother Tongue

By: Amy Tan

4.26

Format: None pages, None

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28. Those Winter Sundays

By: Robert Hayden

3.78

Format: None pages, None

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29. Sweat

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.77

Format: 9 pages, None

The short story Sweat by American author Zora Neale Hurston was first published in 1926 in Fire!!, … read more

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30. Life After High School

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.75

Format: None pages, None

The short story, "Life After High School" by Joyce Carol Oates, is set in the small town of South L… read more

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31. The Snow Man

By: Wallace Stevens

3.58

Format: None pages, None

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