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97 essential works

Cover of The Iliad by Homer

750 BCE · Ancient Greece

Cover of The Odyssey by Homer

700 BCE · Ancient Greece

Cover of Poems and Fragments by Sappho

Poems and Fragments

c. 610–570 BCE · Ancient Greece / Lesbos

Cover of The Aeneid by Virgil

29–19 BCE · Roman Empire

Cover of Metamorphoses by Ovid

8 CE · Roman Empire

Cover of Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi by Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī)

Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi

Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī)

1248 · Persia / present-day Afghanistan and Turkey

Cover of The Masnavi (Spiritual Couplets) by Rumi

The Masnavi (Spiritual Couplets)

Cover of Divan-e Hafez by Hafez (Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī)

Hafez (Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī)

1315 · Persia / Shiraz

Cover of Collected Poems by Li Bai (Li Po)

Collected Poems

c. 701–762 CE · Tang Dynasty China

Cover of Collected Poems by Du Fu

Collected Poems

c. 712–770 CE · Tang Dynasty China

Cover of The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi) by Matsuo Basho

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi)

Cover of Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

Canzoniere (Songbook)

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

Cover of Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali (Song Offerings)

Rabindranath Tagore

1910 · India / Bengal

Cover of The Year of My Life (Oraga Haru) by Kobayashi Issa

The Year of My Life (Oraga Haru)

Cover of The August Sleepwalker by Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai)

The August Sleepwalker

Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai)

Cover of Old Playhouse and Other Poems by Kamala Das

Old Playhouse and Other Poems

1973 · India / Kerala

Cover of Labyrinths with Path of Thunder by Christopher Okigbo

Labyrinths with Path of Thunder

Christopher Okigbo

1971 · Nigeria

Cover of Idanre and Other Poems by Wole Soyinka

Idanre and Other Poems

1967 · Nigeria

Cover of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Cover of Paradise Lost by John Milton

1667 · England

Cover of Sonnets by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

1609 · England

Cover of Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

1794 · England

Cover of The Prelude by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

1799 · England

Cover of Selected Poems by John Keats

1820 · England

Cover of Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1820 · England

Cover of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1850 · England

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)

Charles Baudelaire

Cover of Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

1918 · England

Cover of A Season in Hell / Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell / Illuminations

Cover of Ossi di Seppia (Cuttlefish Bones) by Eugenio Montale

Ossi di Seppia (Cuttlefish Bones)

Eugenio Montale

Cover of Fernando Pessoa by A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

Fernando Pessoa

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

1934 · Portugal

Cover of Collected Poems by Constantine Cavafy (Konstantinos P. Kavafis)

Collected Poems

Constantine Cavafy (Konstantinos P. Kavafis)

1896 · Alexandria, Egypt / Greece

Cover of Duino Elegies / Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies / Sonnets to Orpheus

Rainer Maria Rilke

1923 · Austria/Germany

Cover of Poppy and Memory (Mohn und Gedächtnis) by Paul Celan

Poppy and Memory (Mohn und Gedächtnis)

1952 · Romania/Germany/France

Cover of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

1855 · United States

Cover of The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems

Emily Dickinson

1858 · United States

Cover of North of Boston by Robert Frost

North of Boston

1914 · United States

Cover of The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land and Other Poems

1922 · United States/England

Cover of Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

1943 · United States/England

Cover of The Cantos by Ezra Pound

1917 · United States

Cover of Harmonium by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

1923 · United States

Cover of Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

1923 · United States

Cover of Trilogy by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

1944 · United States/England

Cover of Complete Poems by Marianne Moore

1967 · United States

Cover of The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes

1926 · United States

Cover of Another Time by W.H. Auden

1940 · England/United States

Cover of Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

1969 · United States/Brazil

Cover of Life Studies by Robert Lowell

1959 · United States

Cover of Ariel by Sylvia Plath

1965 · United States/England

Cover of Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Howl and Other Poems

1956 · United States

Cover of Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks

1949 · United States

Cover of The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin

The Whitsun Weddings

1964 · England

Cover of The Dream Songs by John Berryman

The Dream Songs

1969 · United States

Cover of Live or Die by Anne Sexton

1966 · United States

Cover of Requiem by Anna Akhmatova

Cover of Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

Cover of After Russia (Posle Rossii) by Marina Tsvetaeva

After Russia (Posle Rossii)

Marina Tsvetaeva

1928 · Russia/France

Cover of A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky

A Part of Speech

1977 · Russia/United States

Cover of New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 by Czesław Miłosz

New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001

Czesław Miłosz

2001 · Poland/United States

Cover of View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wisława Szymborska

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Wisława Szymborska

Cover of Mr Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert

Cover of The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Tomas Tranströmer

Cover of Trilce by César Vallejo

Cover of Poemas Humanos / Human Poems by César Vallejo

Poemas Humanos / Human Poems

1939 · Peru/Spain/France

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Cover of Canto General by Pablo Neruda

Cover of Sunstone (Piedra de Sol) by Octavio Paz

Sunstone (Piedra de Sol)

Cover of Selected Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish

Selected Poetry

Mahmoud Darwish

1960 · Palestine

Cover of North by Seamus Heaney

1975 · Ireland

Cover of Omeros by Derek Walcott

1990 · Saint Lucia / Caribbean

Cover of The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

1992 · United States

Cover of Averno by Louise Glück

2006 · United States

Cover of Collected Poems by Ted Hughes

Collected Poems

2003 · England

Cover of Crow by Ted Hughes

1970 · England

Cover of The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson

The Maximus Poems

1960 · United States

Cover of The Collected Poems by Frank O'Hara

The Collected Poems

1971 · United States

Cover of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

1975 · United States

Cover of Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill

1971 · England

Cover of Devotions by Mary Oliver

2017 · United States

Cover of Erosion by Jorie Graham

1983 · United States

Cover of Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red

Cover of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson (translation)

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Anne Carson (translation)

2002 · Canada/Ancient Greece

Cover of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

2014 · United States

Cover of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

2015 · United States

Cover of The Tradition by Jericho Brown

2019 · United States

Cover of The Carrying by Ada Limón

2018 · United States (Latina) (English)

Cover of What the Living Do by Marie Howe

What the Living Do

1997 · United States

Cover of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Postcolonial Love Poem

2020 · United States (Mojave/Native American) (English)

Cover of Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa

Neon Vernacular

Yusef Komunyakaa

1993 · United States

Cover of Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney

Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996

1998 · Ireland

Cover of Collected Poems by W.B. Yeats

Collected Poems

1950 · Ireland

Cover of Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein

1914 · United States/France

Cover of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton

2012 · United States

Cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Cover of Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead

Cover of Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey

Cover of The Nightfields by Joanna Klink

The Nightfields