More than Hearts and Flowers: Poetry for the non-fuzzy.
Discover powerful poetry beyond romance with this curated list featuring Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, and Edgar Allan Poe. Explore fierce verse, dark themes, and literary classics for non-fuzzy poetry lovers.
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Beowulf
by Seamus Heaney
Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
The first of the 3 canticles in "La divina commedia "(The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures -- each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
Brings together a collection of all Plath's mature poetry, published and unpublished, together with a large selection of her juvenile works
