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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Staff Pick A luminary of American poetry, Emily Dickinson is canonized for good reason. Her poems are vital, wildly eccentric, and filled with her rich and complex imagination. Absolutely essential.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Lyrical Ballads (07 Edition) by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaves of Grass (83 Edition) by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Heifetz Hart Publisher Comments Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the "Purananuru," This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser Publisher Comments ‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’ The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton Publisher Comments 'Gordon Teskey\"s freshly edited text of Milton\"s masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton\"s... (read more) List Price $23.45 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Riverside Editions #34: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments An anthology of Walt Whitman's poetry and some of his prose works, includes introductions and prefaces to some of the poems.... (read more) List Price $16.85 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems, Poets, Poetry: an Introduction and Anthology (3RD 10 Edition) by Helen Vendler Publisher Comments Many students today are puzzled by the meaning and purpose of poetry. Poems, Poets, Poetry demystifies the form and introduces students to its artistry and pleasures, using methods that Helen Vendler has successfully used herself over her long... (read more) List Price $78.10 Your price: $56.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Inanna by Diane Wolkstein Publisher Comments A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 (79 Edition) by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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An Introduction to Poetry by X J Kennedy Publisher Comments Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 13th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry. The authors of this bestselling book are the ... (read more) List Price $89.33 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Milton (Viking Portable Library) by John Milton Publisher Comments The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Mahabharata (09 Edition) by John D. Smith Publisher Comments A new selection from the national epic of India Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the saga is a... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Gates : Entering the Mind of Poetry (97 Edition) by Jane Hirshfield Publisher Comments Poetry and the Mind of Concentration Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections--language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800 (08 Edition) by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language of Life : Festival of Poets (95 Edition) by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a series... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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William Wordsworth : Major Works Including , Prelude (84 Edition) by William Wordsworth Publisher Comments William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mahabharata : an English Version Based on Selected Verses (Rev 98 Edition) by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan Publisher Comments Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Byron's Poetry and Prose ((2ND)09 Edition) by George Gordon Byron Publisher Comments "Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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