18 books like Poet in New York

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Poema de mio Cid Anonymous · 1868 · ★ 3.5 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Challenging El *Poema de mio Cid*, o *Cantar de mio Cid,* es un cantar de gesta anónimo que relata hazañas heroicas inspiradas libremente en los últimos años de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar el Campeador. La versión conservada fue compuesta, según la mayoría de la crítica actual, alrededor del año 1200. Se trata de la primera obra poética extensa de la literatura española y el… Shares Spanish Manuscripts, Spanish poetry, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Libro de buen amor Juan Ruiz · 1900 · ★ 3.4 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 275 p. ; 16 cm Shares Spanish Manuscripts, Spanish poetry, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares Description and travel, Travel

Don Juan Lord Byron · 1819 · ★ 3.6 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in… Shares English poetry, Poetry

Poems George Meredith · 1851 · 623p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Shares English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Poetical works of Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges · 1898 · ★ 3.7 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Each section preceded by a bibliographical note. Second edition. Prometheus the firegiver, a mask in the Greek manner.--Demeter, a mask.--Eros and psyche.--The growth of love.--Shorter poems, --New poems, --Later poems.--Poems in classical prosody.--October, and other poems.--New verse.--Two pieces written after the war.--Index of titles and first lines. Shares English poetry, Poetry

Poems by John Keats John Keats · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Description and travel

Childe Harold's pilgrimage Lord Byron · 1812 · ★ 3.7 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the… Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Description and travel, Travel

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares Description and travel, Travel

Moments of vision Thomas Hardy · 1889 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging ix, 443 p. ; 23 cm Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry

Songs of innocence and of experience William Blake · 1794 · ★ 4.1 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray · 1751 · 25p · ≈ 50m · Challenging Shares English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Poems Geoffrey Chaucer · 1800 · ★ 3.5 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Demanding The object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces - The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen to do so in a way that will render their "popular perusal" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and… Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry

The Big Catch Anastasia Suen · 2009 Robot and Rico are off to the beach! While Rico is busy fishing, Robot is bored. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with a bigger surprise. Shares Bilingual, Spanish language materials

Departmental ditties and other verses Rudyard Kipling · 1800 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Os Lusíadas Luís de Camões · 1572 · ★ 4.0 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Challenging *Os Lusíadas*, usually translated as *The Lusiads*, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís de Camões and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's *Aeneid*. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). The ten cantos of the… Shares Spanish poetry, Description and travel, Travel, Poetry

Peacock pie, a book of rhymes Walter De la Mare · 1913 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Peacock Pie presents an extensive selection of de la Mare's best poetry, in thematically themes sections such as are "Up and Down," "Boys and Girls," "Three Queer Tales," "Places and People," "Beasts," "Witches and Fairies," "Earth and Air," and "Songs." Shares English poetry, Poetry

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