8 Top literature books like The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith

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The Complete English Poems

By: John Donne , A.J. Smith

4.15

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, …

"The day breaks not: it is my heart."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"The day breaks not: it is my heart."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

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1. The Complete English Poems

By: John Donne , A.J. Smith

4.15

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • 17th century
  • religion
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  • english literature
"The day breaks not: it is my heart."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

"And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night."

-John Donne, The Complete English Poems

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2. The Complete Poetry

By: George Herbert , John Drury , Victoria Moul

4.03

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and includin… read more

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"All worldly joys go less To the one joy of doing kindnesses."

-George Herbert, The Complete Poetry

"For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me."

-George Herbert, The Complete Poetry

"That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust."

-George Herbert, The Complete Poetry

"Lord restore thine image, hear my call: And though my hard heart scarce to thee can groan, Remember that thou once didst write in stone."

-George Herbert, The Complete Poetry

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3. Collected Poems

By: Dylan Thomas

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomascontains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented h… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
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4. 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
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5. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more

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6. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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7. Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more

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  • classics
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8. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

4.15

Format: 333 pages,

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsincludes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in hi… read more

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9. Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies

By: René Descartes , Bernard Williams , John Cottingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaim… read more

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  • classics
  • religion

10. The Prose Edda

By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more

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11. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

12. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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13. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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14. Invitation to a Beheading

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more

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15. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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16. The History of the Kings of Britain

By: Lewis Thorpe , Geoffrey of Monmouth

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britaintraces the story of the realm from its suppos… read more

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17. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

By: Samuel Johnson , None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas a… read more

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18. Pensées

By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer

3.95

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more

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  • classics
  • 17th century
"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

19. The Poetry of Robert Frost

By: Robert Frost , Edward Connery Lathem

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the ent… read more

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20. The Complete English Poems

By: George Herbert , None

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create so… read more

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21. 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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4.26

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3.80

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