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  • Songs of Kabir reviews

    Songs of Kabir Book Reviews

    Kabir

    Songs of Kabir is a 1915 book consisting of 100 poems of Kabir, the 15thcentury Indian poet and mystic, translated to English by Rabindranath Tagore. In this book Kabir has combine...

  • Sesenta Minutos de Amor y Sexo reviews

    Sesenta Minutos de Amor y Sexo Book Reviews

    Cristóbal Ortega Lara

    Poemas de amor, relatos de sexo. Las relaciones, nacen, se usan y desaparecen.

  • Fourth Grade Poetry Party reviews

    Fourth Grade Poetry Party Book Reviews

    Fourth Grade Students at Flint Hill School

    A collection of poems written by fourth grade students at Flint Hill School.

  • Letters From The Psych Ward reviews

    Letters From The Psych Ward Book Reviews

    Joseph E. A. Russo

    In this collage of poems, 16yearold student Jo Russo touches on many different topics and struggles he has been dealing with for the past year.

  • The Raven reviews

    The Raven Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Poet tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamen...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach&...

  • The Divine Comedy reviews

    The Divine Comedy Book Reviews

    Dante Alighieri

    The poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards G...

  • POEMAS DE AMOR reviews

    POEMAS DE AMOR Book Reviews

    Julio Federik

    Estos poemas de amor pertenecen a distintos momentos de la vida del autor. La mayoría tienen el formato del verso libre pero encontrarán también sonetos endecasílabos y alejandrino...

  • The Iliad reviews

    The Iliad Book Reviews

    Homer

    The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in&...

  • Love Composes - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Love Composes - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com 's extensive library of Love Poem online eCard...

  • Poems to Quote to your Lover reviews

    Poems to Quote to your Lover Book Reviews

    Rik Roots

    Welcome to this, my third collection of poems. In this collection, I am proud to present you with some love. These poems deal with loves and relationships in all their wonderful an...

  • Anxiety reviews

    Anxiety Book Reviews

    Sakari Lacross

    The second poetry collection within the  Mental Health  series. Filled with poems coming from a more anxious soul, pain is considered to still be there within the...

  • The Poems of Goethe reviews

    The Poems of Goethe Book Reviews

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated by the titlepage to the present volume; for, difficult as it must always be ...

  • Flower of My Life - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Flower of My Life - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com 's extensive library of Love Poem online eCard...

  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam reviews

    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Book Reviews

    Omar Khayyam

    This is probably the best known poem in the world and it has a fascinating history, combining medieval Persia (Iran) with India, Victorian Europe and America, and much mor...

  • The Waste Land reviews

    The Waste Land Book Reviews

    Thomas Stearns Eliot

    Poet's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of the contemporary social condition in British society. Poet employs many...

  • Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete reviews

    Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Book Reviews

    Emily Dickinson

    The complete three volumes of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Including Epigrams, Letters to Susan Gilbert, and her Black Cake Recipe.

  • I Got Drunk and then Poetry reviews

    I Got Drunk and then Poetry Book Reviews

    Mark Petersen

    These poems were composed while having drinks downtown, enjoying the collegetown local nightlife often with a typewriter and sometimes with an inkpen and a Moleskine notebook. I le...

  • Poetry reviews

    Poetry Book Reviews

    T. S. Eliot

    Poetry of Eliot collects all of his early work through “The Hollow Men.” Poems like “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock,” “Whispers of Immortality,” and “Gerontion” ponder aging and ...

  • Poetry reviews

    Poetry Book Reviews

    William Carlos Williams

    Poems is an anthology of William Carlos Williams’ poetry collections, combining The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), and Sour Grapes (1921). Williams is recognized as one of ...

  • Dirty Tears reviews

    Dirty Tears Book Reviews

    ruby karen

    It takes being consumed by your fire within, and submersion in your own darkness, before being able to rise and light the night. Dirty Tears documents the evolution of a dark, pers...

  • The Iliad reviews

    The Iliad Book Reviews

    Homer

    Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images ...

  • IT MAKES ME SAD, SEEING YOU LIKE THAT reviews

    IT MAKES ME SAD, SEEING YOU LIKE THAT Book Reviews

    Onur Safak

    I’m very sad and I decided to write. You can read my poems and you can be also sad. Don’t forget to write! Hugs!

  • Del Amor y otras formas de Suicidio reviews

    Del Amor y otras formas de Suicidio Book Reviews

    Manolo Cruz

    Poesía incompleta, inconexa, sin premeditación. Porque amar es así, sin guion. Esta es mi primera obra puramente literaria. Es un cúmulo inconexo de sentimientos y sensaciones, alg...

  • Dark Moments reviews

    Dark Moments Book Reviews

    Anthony Martinez

    21 poems: A Happier Place, Mascara, Butterflies Bursting into Flames, Punching Bag, Hugging Teddy Bears, Taken, The Bottom of a Bottle, Thinning, Fester, A Prayer, Paper Boats, Reg...

  • The Faerie Queene reviews

    The Faerie Queene Book Reviews

    Edmund Spenser

    The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s magnum opus, composed for Queen Elizabeth I. The epic poem is incomplete, as only six of the intended twelve books were published before his d...

  • Les Fleurs du Mal reviews

    Les Fleurs du Mal Book Reviews

    Charles Baudelaire

    La lecture de poèmes ne vous est pas familière? Découvrez l’un des recueils de poésie les plus célèbres et succombez au charme intemporel de ses vers. Au fil des pages, on s’enivre...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighthcentury epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who journeys by ship for 10 years after the Trojan War...

  • Everything That You Are reviews

    Everything That You Are Book Reviews

    Jason Wallace Poetry

    The touch that makes me weak Soft skin on cheek Everything wonderful When you're in my arms So breathless I have to fight to speak I love everything that you are

  • En el punto final reviews

    En el punto final Book Reviews

    Aníbal Álvarez, Ana Deacracia, Acracia Márquez, Antonio Cabrita, Aurea Nobre, Carmen Azaustre, Clara Correia, Clemen Esteban, Estrella García, Isabel Calheiro, Joaquina Vázquez, José Luis Rúa, Manuela Lazo, M.ª Luisa Domínguez Borrallo, Pepa Martínez, Raúl Vela & Simone Sáez

    Desde hace algunos años, el día 2 de noviembre, día de los fieles difuntos, Poetas del Guadiana celebramos en el camposanto de Ayamonte una lectura poética donde el tema viene defi...

  • The Divine Comedy reviews

    The Divine Comedy Book Reviews

    Dante Alighieri

    The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. It is completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. The Book is divided into three parts: Inferno (Hell), Purga...

  • Leaves of Grass reviews

    Leaves of Grass Book Reviews

    Walt Whitman

    Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves o...

  • A Dream within a Dream reviews

    A Dream within a Dream Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe

    "A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the way one can...

  • Beautifully Broken reviews

    Beautifully Broken Book Reviews

    Adrian Breon

    Never give up. Never settle. Anything worth having is worth working for. You are loved beyond measure. Know your worth then add tax. Who knew that from concrete that a flower would...

  • The Aeneid reviews

    The Aeneid Book Reviews

    Virgil & John Dryden

    Virgil’s epic poem begins with Aeneas fleeing the ruins of Troy with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius, with a plan to make a home in Italy. Because of a prophecy fore...

  • Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com's extensive library of Love Poem online eCards...

  • Me, Rain and a Hired Taxi reviews

    Me, Rain and a Hired Taxi Book Reviews

    Davoud Safdarian

    Davoud Safdarian is coming from new generation of Persian poets; he was born in 1974 and current book is his second published book which is included only with couplets (dobayti) Me...

  • The Flowers of Evil reviews

    The Flowers of Evil Book Reviews

    Charles Baudelaire

    The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken port...

  • Collected Poems of William Wordsworth reviews

    Collected Poems of William Wordsworth Book Reviews

    William Wordsworth & Neil Azevedo

    William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their...

  • Poems by Walt Whitman reviews

    Poems by Walt Whitman Book Reviews

    Walt Whitman & William Michael Rossetti

    The poems in this collection by American poet Walt Whitman were selected and edited by British critic William Michael Rossetti. The book was first published in London in 1868 and i...

  • Poems reviews

    Poems Book Reviews

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays an...

  • The Birth of All Things reviews

    The Birth of All Things Book Reviews

    Marcus Amaker

    “Once, in 2001, I heard a poet read a poem that turned to music in the air. Two decades later Marcus Amaker’s gorgeous new book is that moment on repeat, with each turned page. A m...

  • Tell Me Why reviews

    Tell Me Why Book Reviews

    Jason Wallace Poetry

    You meant more to me Than the ones before. Tell me why. You were no better than them, But I loved you more. Tell me why. I die day by day. Tell me why. I don’t mind That you’re now...

  • Hamlet reviews

    Hamlet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark , often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈhæmlɪt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in Den...

  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair reviews

    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Book Reviews

    Pablo Neruda

    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a collection of poems which was originally written in Spanish language by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. It was first published in 1924 and h...

  • Phantasmagoria and Other Poems reviews

    Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Book Reviews

    Lewis Carroll

    "Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled&#xa...

  • Poems reviews

    Poems Book Reviews

    Victor Hugo

    The poems of Victor Hugo captured the spirit of the Romantic era. They were largely devoted to 19th century causes. Many touched on religious themes. Initially they were royalist b...

  • The Aeneid of Virgil reviews

    The Aeneid of Virgil Book Reviews

    70 BC-19 BC Virgil

    The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of ...

  • The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow reviews

    The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Reviews

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    This complete set of verse from the quintessential American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow includes traditional favorites such as “A Psalm of Life,” as well as many other brillian...

  • Little Women reviews

    Little Women Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweetnatured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, th...

  • The Canterbury Tales reviews

    The Canterbury Tales Book Reviews

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twentyfour stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales are presented as a storytelling contest by a group of pilgrims o...

  • Someone Like You reviews

    Someone Like You Book Reviews

    Sakari Lacross

    A linear storyline of poetry, telling moments of desperation as one man rides a mental rollercoster dealing with a long distance relationship. Moments of anxious feelings to moment...

  • Everything I Wanted To Say reviews

    Everything I Wanted To Say Book Reviews

    Dionte Goodlett

    In his first poetry chapbook, Everything I Wanted To Say , Dionte Goodlett details growing through life and love.

  • Poetry reviews

    Poetry Book Reviews

    C. S. Lewis

    C. S. Lewis is perhaps best known for his series of children’s novels and his many Christian writings. But prior to his conversion to Christianity, he was a staunch agnostic, and h...

  • Six Centuries of English Poetry reviews

    Six Centuries of English Poetry Book Reviews

    James Baldwin

    An interesting read in part because it works in backwards chronological order, moving from the 19th century backwards, so one can watch the language growing more archaic. Though in...

  • Lyrical Ballads reviews

    Lyrical Ballads Book Reviews

    William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally ackn...

  • The Song of Hiawatha reviews

    The Song of Hiawatha Book Reviews

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    It is a powerful, emotional epic; a hero's life, his loves and suffering. The legends and traditions of the North American Indian swirl together through the tale like a mounta...

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri reviews

    The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Book Reviews

    Dante Alighieri & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    This volume, published in 1893, is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and philosopher of the fourteenth century. Thi...

  • Broken Hearts, Broken Promises reviews

    Broken Hearts, Broken Promises Book Reviews

    Russell Saiki

    A short collection of freeverse poetry detailing a shortlived span of continuous heartbreak.

  • Plenos Poderes reviews

    Plenos Poderes Book Reviews

    Pablo Neruda

    Plenos Poderes es una colección de admirables poemas inéditos escrito por el extraordinario poeta Pablo Neruda.

Best Paid Poetry Books of 2024

  • Songs of Kabir reviews

    Songs of Kabir Book Reviews

    Kabir

    Songs of Kabir is a 1915 book consisting of 100 poems of Kabir, the 15thcentury Indian poet and mystic, translated to English by Rabindranath Tagore. In this book Kabir has combine...

  • Sesenta Minutos de Amor y Sexo reviews

    Sesenta Minutos de Amor y Sexo Book Reviews

    Cristóbal Ortega Lara

    Poemas de amor, relatos de sexo. Las relaciones, nacen, se usan y desaparecen.

  • Fourth Grade Poetry Party reviews

    Fourth Grade Poetry Party Book Reviews

    Fourth Grade Students at Flint Hill School

    A collection of poems written by fourth grade students at Flint Hill School.

  • Letters From The Psych Ward reviews

    Letters From The Psych Ward Book Reviews

    Joseph E. A. Russo

    In this collage of poems, 16yearold student Jo Russo touches on many different topics and struggles he has been dealing with for the past year.

  • The Raven reviews

    The Raven Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Poet tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamen...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach&...

  • The Divine Comedy reviews

    The Divine Comedy Book Reviews

    Dante Alighieri

    The poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards G...

  • POEMAS DE AMOR reviews

    POEMAS DE AMOR Book Reviews

    Julio Federik

    Estos poemas de amor pertenecen a distintos momentos de la vida del autor. La mayoría tienen el formato del verso libre pero encontrarán también sonetos endecasílabos y alejandrino...

  • The Iliad reviews

    The Iliad Book Reviews

    Homer

    The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in&...

  • Love Composes - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Love Composes - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com 's extensive library of Love Poem online eCard...

  • Poems to Quote to your Lover reviews

    Poems to Quote to your Lover Book Reviews

    Rik Roots

    Welcome to this, my third collection of poems. In this collection, I am proud to present you with some love. These poems deal with loves and relationships in all their wonderful an...

  • Anxiety reviews

    Anxiety Book Reviews

    Sakari Lacross

    The second poetry collection within the  Mental Health  series. Filled with poems coming from a more anxious soul, pain is considered to still be there within the...

  • The Poems of Goethe reviews

    The Poems of Goethe Book Reviews

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated by the titlepage to the present volume; for, difficult as it must always be ...

  • Flower of My Life - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Flower of My Life - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com 's extensive library of Love Poem online eCard...

  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam reviews

    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Book Reviews

    Omar Khayyam

    This is probably the best known poem in the world and it has a fascinating history, combining medieval Persia (Iran) with India, Victorian Europe and America, and much mor...

  • The Waste Land reviews

    The Waste Land Book Reviews

    Thomas Stearns Eliot

    Poet's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of the contemporary social condition in British society. Poet employs many...

  • Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete reviews

    Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Book Reviews

    Emily Dickinson

    The complete three volumes of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Including Epigrams, Letters to Susan Gilbert, and her Black Cake Recipe.

  • I Got Drunk and then Poetry reviews

    I Got Drunk and then Poetry Book Reviews

    Mark Petersen

    These poems were composed while having drinks downtown, enjoying the collegetown local nightlife often with a typewriter and sometimes with an inkpen and a Moleskine notebook. I le...

  • Poetry reviews

    Poetry Book Reviews

    T. S. Eliot

    Poetry of Eliot collects all of his early work through “The Hollow Men.” Poems like “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock,” “Whispers of Immortality,” and “Gerontion” ponder aging and ...

  • Poetry reviews

    Poetry Book Reviews

    William Carlos Williams

    Poems is an anthology of William Carlos Williams’ poetry collections, combining The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), and Sour Grapes (1921). Williams is recognized as one of ...

  • Dirty Tears reviews

    Dirty Tears Book Reviews

    ruby karen

    It takes being consumed by your fire within, and submersion in your own darkness, before being able to rise and light the night. Dirty Tears documents the evolution of a dark, pers...

  • The Iliad reviews

    The Iliad Book Reviews

    Homer

    Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images ...

  • IT MAKES ME SAD, SEEING YOU LIKE THAT reviews

    IT MAKES ME SAD, SEEING YOU LIKE THAT Book Reviews

    Onur Safak

    I’m very sad and I decided to write. You can read my poems and you can be also sad. Don’t forget to write! Hugs!

  • Del Amor y otras formas de Suicidio reviews

    Del Amor y otras formas de Suicidio Book Reviews

    Manolo Cruz

    Poesía incompleta, inconexa, sin premeditación. Porque amar es así, sin guion. Esta es mi primera obra puramente literaria. Es un cúmulo inconexo de sentimientos y sensaciones, alg...

  • Dark Moments reviews

    Dark Moments Book Reviews

    Anthony Martinez

    21 poems: A Happier Place, Mascara, Butterflies Bursting into Flames, Punching Bag, Hugging Teddy Bears, Taken, The Bottom of a Bottle, Thinning, Fester, A Prayer, Paper Boats, Reg...

  • The Faerie Queene reviews

    The Faerie Queene Book Reviews

    Edmund Spenser

    The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s magnum opus, composed for Queen Elizabeth I. The epic poem is incomplete, as only six of the intended twelve books were published before his d...

  • Les Fleurs du Mal reviews

    Les Fleurs du Mal Book Reviews

    Charles Baudelaire

    La lecture de poèmes ne vous est pas familière? Découvrez l’un des recueils de poésie les plus célèbres et succombez au charme intemporel de ses vers. Au fil des pages, on s’enivre...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighthcentury epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who journeys by ship for 10 years after the Trojan War...

  • Everything That You Are reviews

    Everything That You Are Book Reviews

    Jason Wallace Poetry

    The touch that makes me weak Soft skin on cheek Everything wonderful When you're in my arms So breathless I have to fight to speak I love everything that you are

  • En el punto final reviews

    En el punto final Book Reviews

    Aníbal Álvarez, Ana Deacracia, Acracia Márquez, Antonio Cabrita, Aurea Nobre, Carmen Azaustre, Clara Correia, Clemen Esteban, Estrella García, Isabel Calheiro, Joaquina Vázquez, José Luis Rúa, Manuela Lazo, M.ª Luisa Domínguez Borrallo, Pepa Martínez, Raúl Vela & Simone Sáez

    Desde hace algunos años, el día 2 de noviembre, día de los fieles difuntos, Poetas del Guadiana celebramos en el camposanto de Ayamonte una lectura poética donde el tema viene defi...

  • The Divine Comedy reviews

    The Divine Comedy Book Reviews

    Dante Alighieri

    The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. It is completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. The Book is divided into three parts: Inferno (Hell), Purga...

  • Leaves of Grass reviews

    Leaves of Grass Book Reviews

    Walt Whitman

    Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves o...

  • A Dream within a Dream reviews

    A Dream within a Dream Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe

    "A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the way one can...

  • Beautifully Broken reviews

    Beautifully Broken Book Reviews

    Adrian Breon

    Never give up. Never settle. Anything worth having is worth working for. You are loved beyond measure. Know your worth then add tax. Who knew that from concrete that a flower would...

  • The Aeneid reviews

    The Aeneid Book Reviews

    Virgil & John Dryden

    Virgil’s epic poem begins with Aeneas fleeing the ruins of Troy with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius, with a plan to make a home in Italy. Because of a prophecy fore...

  • Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com's extensive library of Love Poem online eCards...

  • Me, Rain and a Hired Taxi reviews

    Me, Rain and a Hired Taxi Book Reviews

    Davoud Safdarian

    Davoud Safdarian is coming from new generation of Persian poets; he was born in 1974 and current book is his second published book which is included only with couplets (dobayti) Me...

  • The Flowers of Evil reviews

    The Flowers of Evil Book Reviews

    Charles Baudelaire

    The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken port...

  • Collected Poems of William Wordsworth reviews

    Collected Poems of William Wordsworth Book Reviews

    William Wordsworth & Neil Azevedo

    William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their...

  • Poems by Walt Whitman reviews

    Poems by Walt Whitman Book Reviews

    Walt Whitman & William Michael Rossetti

    The poems in this collection by American poet Walt Whitman were selected and edited by British critic William Michael Rossetti. The book was first published in London in 1868 and i...

  • Poems reviews

    Poems Book Reviews

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays an...

  • The Birth of All Things reviews

    The Birth of All Things Book Reviews

    Marcus Amaker

    “Once, in 2001, I heard a poet read a poem that turned to music in the air. Two decades later Marcus Amaker’s gorgeous new book is that moment on repeat, with each turned page. A m...

  • Tell Me Why reviews

    Tell Me Why Book Reviews

    Jason Wallace Poetry

    You meant more to me Than the ones before. Tell me why. You were no better than them, But I loved you more. Tell me why. I die day by day. Tell me why. I don’t mind That you’re now...

  • Hamlet reviews

    Hamlet Book Reviews

    William Shakespeare

    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark , often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈhæmlɪt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in Den...

  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair reviews

    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Book Reviews

    Pablo Neruda

    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a collection of poems which was originally written in Spanish language by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. It was first published in 1924 and h...

  • Phantasmagoria and Other Poems reviews

    Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Book Reviews

    Lewis Carroll

    "Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled&#xa...

  • Poems reviews

    Poems Book Reviews

    Victor Hugo

    The poems of Victor Hugo captured the spirit of the Romantic era. They were largely devoted to 19th century causes. Many touched on religious themes. Initially they were royalist b...

  • The Aeneid of Virgil reviews

    The Aeneid of Virgil Book Reviews

    70 BC-19 BC Virgil

    The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of ...

  • The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow reviews

    The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Reviews

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    This complete set of verse from the quintessential American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow includes traditional favorites such as “A Psalm of Life,” as well as many other brillian...

  • Little Women reviews

    Little Women Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweetnatured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, th...

  • The Canterbury Tales reviews

    The Canterbury Tales Book Reviews

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twentyfour stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales are presented as a storytelling contest by a group of pilgrims o...

  • Someone Like You reviews

    Someone Like You Book Reviews

    Sakari Lacross

    A linear storyline of poetry, telling moments of desperation as one man rides a mental rollercoster dealing with a long distance relationship. Moments of anxious feelings to moment...

  • Everything I Wanted To Say reviews

    Everything I Wanted To Say Book Reviews

    Dionte Goodlett

    In his first poetry chapbook, Everything I Wanted To Say , Dionte Goodlett details growing through life and love.

  • Poetry reviews

    Poetry Book Reviews

    C. S. Lewis

    C. S. Lewis is perhaps best known for his series of children’s novels and his many Christian writings. But prior to his conversion to Christianity, he was a staunch agnostic, and h...

  • Six Centuries of English Poetry reviews

    Six Centuries of English Poetry Book Reviews

    James Baldwin

    An interesting read in part because it works in backwards chronological order, moving from the 19th century backwards, so one can watch the language growing more archaic. Though in...

  • Lyrical Ballads reviews

    Lyrical Ballads Book Reviews

    William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally ackn...

  • The Song of Hiawatha reviews

    The Song of Hiawatha Book Reviews

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    It is a powerful, emotional epic; a hero's life, his loves and suffering. The legends and traditions of the North American Indian swirl together through the tale like a mounta...

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri reviews

    The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Book Reviews

    Dante Alighieri & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    This volume, published in 1893, is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and philosopher of the fourteenth century. Thi...

  • Broken Hearts, Broken Promises reviews

    Broken Hearts, Broken Promises Book Reviews

    Russell Saiki

    A short collection of freeverse poetry detailing a shortlived span of continuous heartbreak.

  • Plenos Poderes reviews

    Plenos Poderes Book Reviews

    Pablo Neruda

    Plenos Poderes es una colección de admirables poemas inéditos escrito por el extraordinario poeta Pablo Neruda.