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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 Shares Poetry with this book.

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

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

The dispensary Sir Samuel Garth · 1699 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A satire on the opponents of the dispensary organized by the Royal College of Physicians. Shares Poetry as Topic, Medicine in Literature, Poetry

Poems Robert Frost · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The long awaited comprehensive and authoritative edition. The Poetry of Robert Frost brings together for the first time the full contents of all eleven of Frost's individual books of verse, from A Boy's Will through In the Clearing. More than 350 poems comprise this new volume, scrupulously prepared under the editorship of Edward Connery Lathem, a Frost scholar, Librarian of Dartmouth College,… Shares Poetry as Topic, American poetry, Poetry

The dispensary Garth, Samuel Sir · 1699 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Medicine in Literature, Poetry with this book.

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 · Challenging Shares American poetry, Poetry with this book.

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

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

Hudibras Samuel Butler · 1662 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Challenging The celebrated mock-epic satirizing the English republicans, with Zachary Grey's notes, which kept Butler's world of outmoded learning accessible to later generations. Shares Poetry as Topic, Modern Literature, Poetry

Ariel Sylvia Plath · 1965 · ★ 4.2 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death." Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by… Shares American poetry, Poetry

Why War Is Never a Good Idea Alice Walker · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Light Simple, rhythmic text explores the wanton destructiveness of War, which has grown old but not wise, as it demolishes nice people and beautiful things with no consideration for the consequence 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… Shares American poetry, Poetry

North of Boston Robert Frost · 1910 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Moderate 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, Poetry

The botanic garden Erasmus Darwin · 1700 · ★ 3.9 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Challenging One of the first popular science books, the intent of The Botanic Garden is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's sexualized language, which anthropomorphizes plants, Darwin makes botany interesting and relevant to his readers, but his reliance on conventional images of women when describing plants and flowers reinforces traditional… Shares Poetry as Topic, Poetry

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill · 1896 · ★ 3.6 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Poetry with this book.

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