Pulitzer Winners: Poetry
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Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.
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popular poetry books (showing 1-50 of 23,636)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 1670 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 192,975 ratings — published 1974
A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 941 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,504 ratings — published 1981
Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
by Walt Whitman (shelved 848 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,782 ratings — published 1854
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by Emily Dickinson (shelved 603 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,316 ratings — published 1960
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets)
by Allen Ginsberg (shelved 603 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,447 ratings — published 1956
Ariel (Paperback)
by Sylvia Plath (shelved 548 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,964 ratings — published 1961
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Paperback)
by Anonymous (shelved 518 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.40 — 14,985 ratings — published 1000
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer (shelved 497 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.65 — 99,622 ratings — published -750
Falling Up (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 470 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,329 ratings — published 1963
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 395 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,817 ratings — published 1922
The Iliad (Paperback)
by Homer (shelved 377 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,846 ratings — published -750
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by John Milton (shelved 376 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,528 ratings — published 1667
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Paperback)
by Pablo Neruda (shelved 327 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,085 ratings — published 1924
The Collected Poems (Harper Colophon Books)
by Sylvia Plath (shelved 319 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,493 ratings — published 1981
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (Owl Book)
by Robert Frost (shelved 303 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,729 ratings — published 1969
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton (Paperback)
by Anne Sexton (shelved 300 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,904 ratings — published 1982
Songs of Innocence And of Experience (Paperback)
by William Blake (shelved 294 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,956 ratings — published 1967
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by Billy Collins (shelved 293 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,142 ratings — published 2001
Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
by Dante Alighieri (shelved 292 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,666 ratings — published 1308
100 Selected Poems by e. e. Cummings (Paperback)
by e.e. cummings (shelved 291 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,622 ratings — published 1959
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (Paperback)
by William Butler Yeats (shelved 288 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,351 ratings — published 1989
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by Geoffrey Chaucer (shelved 281 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.45 — 20,054 ratings — published 1400
Les Fleurs Du Mal (Paperback)
by Charles Baudelaire (shelved 274 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,899 ratings — published 1857
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Edition)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 266 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,450 ratings — published 1922
The Prophet (Paperback)
by Kahlil Gibrán (shelved 265 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,260 ratings — published 1923
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Bishop (shelved 261 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,584 ratings — published 1979
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Paperback)
by Rainer Maria Rilke (shelved 260 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,706 ratings — published 1910
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Illustrated Edition (Hardcover)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 256 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,726 ratings — published 1939
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 225 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.38 — 103,077 ratings — published 1964
Collected Poems 1934-1952 (Paperback)
by Dylan Thomas (shelved 220 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,046 ratings — published 1952
Four Quartets (Paperback)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 217 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,491 ratings — published 1943
Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 216 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,847 ratings — published 1600
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Hardcover)
by e.e. cummings (shelved 198 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,694 ratings — published 1992
Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (shelved 198 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,251 ratings — published 1995
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (Paperback)
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (shelved 197 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,466 ratings — published 1958
The Aeneid (Paperback)
by Publius Vergilius Maro (shelved 195 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,394 ratings — published 1
100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series)
by Pablo Neruda (shelved 193 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,911 ratings — published 1960
Sonnets (New Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 193 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1609
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Paperback)
by Wallace Stevens (shelved 186 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,360 ratings — published 1954
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso (Everyman's Library, #183)
by Dante Alighieri (shelved 183 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,824 ratings — published 1321
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by Rainer Maria Rilke (shelved 180 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,522 ratings — published 1924
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover)
by Edgar Allan Poe (shelved 176 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,154 ratings — published 1938
Love That Dog (Paperback)
by Sharon Creech (shelved 173 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,917 ratings — published 2001
Nine Horses: Poems (Paperback)
by Billy Collins (shelved 170 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,216 ratings — published 2002
Selected Poems (Paperback)
by William Carlos Williams (shelved 167 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,023 ratings — published 1969
New and Selected Poems: Volume One (Hardcover)
by Mary Oliver (shelved 166 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.54 — 752 ratings — published 1992
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977 (Paperback)
by Charles Bukowski (shelved 166 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,887 ratings — published 1977
Wild Iris (Paperback)
by Louise Glück (shelved 165 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 887 ratings — published 1992
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by Anne Carson (shelved 158 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,002 ratings — published 1998
The Dream Songs (Paperback)
by John Berryman (shelved 155 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.45 — 929 ratings — published 1969
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"XVI
Each intheh most hidden sack kept
the lost jewels of memory,
intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses,
the fragment of public or private happiness.
A few,the wolves, collected thighs,
other men loved the dawn scratching
mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers.
For me happiness was to share singing,
praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes.
I ask forgiveness for my bad ways:
my life had no use on earth."
— Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day)
Each intheh most hidden sack kept
the lost jewels of memory,
intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses,
the fragment of public or private happiness.
A few,the wolves, collected thighs,
other men loved the dawn scratching
mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers.
For me happiness was to share singing,
praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes.
I ask forgiveness for my bad ways:
my life had no use on earth."
— Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day)
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"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world,
which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle
and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
From Dover Beach"
— Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach and Other Poems)
To one another! for the world,
which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle
and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
From Dover Beach"
— Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach and Other Poems)












