Genre :: Poetry (21 books)

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  #101

  Pale Fire

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (6 Reviews)

  185 Points

  "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane.Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John..."

  

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  #106

  Commedia

  by Dante Alighieri

  (6 Reviews)

  180 Points

  "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,/chè la diritta via era smarrita.Mildway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the..."

  

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  #137

  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  (8 Reviews)

  141 Points

  "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

  

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  #188

  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  (11 Reviews)

  102 Points

  "By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."

  

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  #223

  The Canterbury Tales

  by Geoffrey Chaucer

  (11 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "When the sweet showers of April have pierced/ The drought of March, and pierced it to the root,/ And every vein is bathed in that moisture/ Whose quickening force will engender the flower;/ And..."

  

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  #239

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

  by William Shakespeare

  (4 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "William Shakespeare's date of birth is not precisely known, but it probably preceded his baptism on April 26, 1564, in Stratfordon-Avon, by only a few days."

  

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  #247

  Paroles

  by Jacques Prévert

  (1 Review)

  85 Points

  

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  #249

  Alcools

  by Guillaume Apollinaire

  (1 Review)

  84 Points

  

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  #380

  Paradise Lost

  by John Milton

  (5 Reviews)

  54 Points

  

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  #387

  The Home and the World

  by Rabindranath Tagore

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  

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