9 must-read poetry books like Hymns to the Night by Novalis, Dick Higgins

Cover of Hymns to the Night by Novalis, Dick Higgins

Hymns to the Night

By: Novalis , Dick Higgins

4.05

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A…

"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"

-Novalis, Hymns to the Night

If you liked the poetry plot in Hymns to the Night by Novalis, Dick Higgins , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of A Season in Hell by Michel Butor, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Mapplethorpe, None

1. A Season in Hell

By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

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2. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Cover of Hymns to the Night by Novalis, Dick Higgins

3. Hymns to the Night

By: Novalis , Dick Higgins

4.05

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more

Similar categories in Novalis's Hymns to the Night book and Novalis's Hymns to the Night

  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • germany
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • romanticism
  • 18th century
"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"

-Novalis, Hymns to the Night

Cover of Inner Experience by Georges Bataille, Bruce Boone, Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

4. Inner Experience

By: Georges Bataille , Bruce Boone , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

5. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
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6. Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland

By: Friedrich Hölderlin

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Die schonste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Holderlins 'Hyperion' vielfach genannt worden, ein unub… read more

Similar categories in Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland book and Novalis's Hymns to the Night

  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • germany
  • philosophy
  • fiction
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7. Maria Stuart

By: Friedrich Schiller , Wilhelm Große

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Nach meiner Ansicht ist Maria Stuartdie pathetischste und am besten durchdachte von allen deutsche… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Die Räuber

By: Friedrich Schiller

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mit seinem 1781 erschienenen leidenschaftlichen Drama der Selbtstzerstorung einer Familie machte Sc… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction
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9. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
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10. Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Vita Nuova(1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

11. Undine

By: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , None , Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Most artistic of all the continental weird tales is the German classic Undine (1814), by Friedrich… read more

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  • german literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
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12. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
Cover of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Dows Herter Norton

13. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
Cover of Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia by None, Greg Rucka, J.G. Jones, Wade Von Grawbadger

14. Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia

By: None , Greg Rucka , J.G. Jones , Wade Von Grawbadger

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

WONDER WOMAN: THE HIKETEIA is a brilliantly orchestrated modern Greek tragedy of duty and vengeance… read more

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15. Duino Elegies

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more

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16. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • romanticism
  • 18th century
"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

17. Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheuswere "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up an… read more

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18. A Simple Heart

By: Gustave Flaubert , Arthur McDowall

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Simple Heart, also published as A Simple Soul. In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspire… read more

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19. On the Aesthetic Education of Man

By: Friedrich Schiller , Reginald Snell

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

"Essential reading." -- New Society. A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller's … read more

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20. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • germany
  • philosophy
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

21. 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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Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

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Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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4.05

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

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Heinrich von Kleist

3.31

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Joseph von Eichendorff , Konrad Nussbächer

3.31

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Andrew Miller , Heinrich von Kleist , Richard Stokes

3.54

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3.62

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