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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1308

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Don Juan
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Dover Beach
Leslie Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Ramayana: A Retelling
Daljit Nagra

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

Black Swan
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Next to Normal
Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2008

Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
David Bowles

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lusiads
Luís de Camões

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1572

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Legend of Good Women
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

Easter 1916
Charles Townshend

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Father
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Island
Him Mark Lai

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Seeing Things
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Moving Day
Terence Young

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

The Special
David Stavanger

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1812

Helen in Egypt
H. D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Cassandra
Pierre De Ronsard

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1553

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Picture Bride
Cathy Song

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1983

The Romance of Tristan
Béroul

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1150

Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Golden Gate
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1581

Lo Terciario / The Tertiary
Raquel Salas Rivera

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

The Carrying
Ada Limón

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Study for the World's Body
David St. John

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Red Doc>
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2013

After Lunch with Frank O'Hara
Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

The Time of Voice
Robert Kelly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

Blood, Tin, Straw
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Allegiance
Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

Murder
David Halliday

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Sorrow
Claribel Alegría

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems
Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

Life Under Water
Maura Dooley

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1992

The Auroras of Autumn
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1950

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002