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1	Canterbury Tales more books like this by Geoffrey Chaucer The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Beowulf: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney Composed toward the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. In his new translation--a national bestseller that is the winner of the Whitbread Award--Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Child's Garden of Verses more books like this by Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this classic collection of poetry for children in 1885. It continues to be beloved as a charming evocation of childhood, and is considered to be Stevenson's best poetry, as well as one of his most enduring books. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Paradise Lost more books like this by John Milton Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton's poetic vision. In the early parts of "Paradise Lost", he manages to convey ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Goodbye to all that more books like this by Robert Graves Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I. see all copies from $2.18! new only from $15.36! \| first editions
6	Memoirs of Cleopatra more books like this by Margaret George A novel about Cleopatra which portrays her as brilliant, beautiful, ambitious, seductive, and murderous. see all copies from $2.03! new only from $10.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by Robert Bolt (Preface by) Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Beowulf more books like this by Professor Burton Raffel (Translator) The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats more books like this by Professor T S Eliot This playful collection is the source of the fantastically successful Broadway musical, "Cats". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	When We Were Very Young more books like this by A. A. Milne A collection of poetry that includes the very first in-print appearance of Winnie-the-Pooh. Selections include "Buckingham Palace," "Teddy Bear," and "Vespers." Illustrated with b&w drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner more books like this by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is Coleridge's brilliant and hypnotic ballad about the sailor who, "cruelly and in contempt of the laws of hospitality, killed a Seabird," and the dire consequences of this event. His other great works include "Kubla Khan," Christabel," and "Dejection: An Ode." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Now We Are Six more books like this by A.A. Milne A collection of poetry illustrated with b&w drawings. Selections include "Furry Bear", "King Hilary and the Beggarman", and "Cradle Song". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Norton Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Margaret Ferguson (Editor) Beginning with Anglo-Saxon verse in translation and continuing to the present day, "The Norton Anthology of Poetry" includes over 1800 poems by over 300 poets, with 650 poems and 120 poets new to this edition. Many classic poets--from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Larkin--have been reselected. In addition, selections by women, by Postcolonial and ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Owl and the Pussycat more books like this by Edward Lear A picture book version of the classic poem, this time set on a Caribbean island. Detailed and colorful illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson more books like this by Emily Dickinson Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" His question was answered only after Dickinson's death in 1886: she is now considered one of America's greatest ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.68! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats: Volume 1: The Poems more books like this by William Butler Yeats, Richard J Finneran (Editor) The authorized canon of one of the world's most beloved poets, this is a collection of every poem William Butler Yeats approved for publication during his lifetime. see all copies from $6.99! new only from $12.42! \| SVS
17 view cover	Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry more books like this by Laurence Perrine see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	Idylls of the King more books like this by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Based on Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", the "Idylls" (written between 1833 and 1869) tell the classic story of Arthur's struggle to maintain order and preserve his kingdom in the face of monumental upheavals, including civil war, his wife's adultery with his best friend, and betrayals by his once-close associates. Arthur's last soliloquy before he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Four Quartets more books like this by Professor T S Eliot Eliot's last major poems (1943), and what he felt were his finest, are collected as the "Four Quartets (1943). Dealing with his beliefs about religion, time, and eternity, and the spiritual insights to be found in sudden moments of revelation, they are among his most lyrical and personal poems. Each poem is divided into "movements," the way a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Faerie queene. more books like this by Edmund Spenser This edition of Spenser's famous allegory is graced by footnotes that illuminate the historical context and sources from which the poet drew. see all copies from $3.06! new only from $8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Lays of Beleriand more books like this by J R R Tolkien This is another collection of Tolkien's previously unpublished tales that depict events leading up to and during those described in "The Silmarillion". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Knots more books like this by R D Laing, M.D. This collection of poetry from the work of psychiatrist R. D. Laing reflects the complexities of the inner consciousness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Waste Land and Other Poems more books like this by Professor T S Eliot Eliot's major work, "The Wasteland", was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained more books like this by J Milton Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton's poetic vision. In the early parts of "Paradise Lost", he manages to convey ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.84! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Birthday letters more books like this by Ted Hughes This sequence of poems, written over the course of the 35 years since her suicide, elucidate Ted Hughes's relationship with his wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. Addressed directly to her, they form a chronological narrative that attempts to understand Plath's life and tragic death. The Los Angeles Times chose this as one of the best books of poetry of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS

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