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Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1316

Paradise Regained
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1671

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1000

The Last Ride Together
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Nibelungenlied
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1200

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1397

To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

The Iliad
Homer, Transl. Robert Fagles

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1400

Pyramus and Thisbe
Ovid

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Howl
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1832

The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1307

The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1712

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1855

The Lady Of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

Paradiso
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1320

The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Metamorphoses
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

The Battle of Maldon
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1726

Eloisa to Abelard
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1717

Traveling through the Dark
William Stafford

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1594

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1170

To His Excellency General Washington
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

Christabel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Song of Myself
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1856

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1836

Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1897

In Memoriam
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

Hero and Leander
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1598

Fra Lippo Lippi
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

Adonais
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1821

The Song of Roland
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1095

She Was a Phantom of Delight
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Light Shining Out of Darkness
William Cowper

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

The Battle of Blenheim
Robert Southey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Parzival
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1215

The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1911

The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1841

The Book of Thel
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Lais of Marie de France
Marie De France

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1100

The Poem of the Cid (The Song of the Cid)
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Theogony
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

We Are Seven
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Romance of the Rose
Guillaume De Lorris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1230

Yvain, or the Knight With the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1176

Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Jason and the Golden Fleece
Apollonius of Rhodes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Still I Rise
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Works and Days
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Odyssey
Homer, Transl. Emily Wilson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Mac Flecknoe
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1682

My Father's Song
Simon J. Ortiz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Channel Firing
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

A Prayer for My Daughter
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

The Cinnamon Peeler
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Prayer to the Masks
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

In My Craft or Sullen Art
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

Advice to My Son
Peter Meinke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

The Tradition
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

In Praise of Darkness
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951