18 books like Ariel

What to read after Ariel — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Drum-taps Walt Whitman · 1865 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1922 · ★ 3.9 Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed novella "May Day" contrasts drunken debutantes with a mob of war veterans battling socialists in the streets, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", filmed with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda… Shares: Textual Criticism, American literature

North of Boston Robert Frost · 1910 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I… Shares: American poetry, American literature, Poetry

Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1847 · ★ 3.5 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Interspersed are passages from the author's "Essays" and "Journal". Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Day of doom Michael Wigglesworth · 1666 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Demanding "The Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment" is a religious poem by clergyman Michael Wigglesworth that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662 by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson. The poem describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men, going into detail as to the… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Tales of a wayside inn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1863 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. Shares: American poetry, Poetry

The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Poetry and prose written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow List of Poems: The song of Hiawatha Evangeline The courtship of Miles Standish The village blacksmith A Psalm of life The rainy day The light of stars God's acre The reaper and the flowers The wreck of the Hesperus The arrow and the song Footsteps of angels Endymion The arsenal at Springfield In the churchyard at Cambridge The belfry of… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares: Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written–poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition. Shares: Poetry

The legend of good women Geoffrey Chaucer · 1889 · ★ 3.0 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become a… Shares: Textual Criticism, Poetry

Vepʻxistqaosani Shota Rustaveli · 1888 · ★ 4.0 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This epic by the Georgian poet Rust'haveli has been the book of a nation for 700 years. It was expected that the text, based on a Persian original and reflecting Georgia's position as a crossroads between east and west, would be memorized by all female members of the country's aristocracy. Shares: Textual Criticism, Poetry

Canto a Mi Mismo Walt Whitman · 1904 · ★ 3.9 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation's most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem… Shares: Textual Criticism, Poetry

Poems Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · 1836 · ★ 4.1 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. A particular instance of poetry is a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer · 1478 · ★ 3.5 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Demanding A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde,… Shares: Textual Criticism, Poetry

Richard III William Shakespeare · 1597 · ★ 3.9 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Demanding "containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence, the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes, his tyrannicall usurpation, with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death" (Subtitle of the 1597 edition.) Shares: Textual Criticism, Open_syllabus_project

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to… Shares: Poetry

Agamemnon Aeschylus · 1816 · ★ 3.8 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The Classical Department produced the play Agamemon, performed in the stadium on June 16 and 19, 1906 Shares: Textual Criticism, Open_syllabus_project

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