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28 Best Poetry Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Poetry books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best poetry books" into our search engine and study the top 4+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. 1
    Leaves of Grass

    Leaves of Grass

    Walt Whitman

  2. 2
    The Complete Poetry
  3. 3
    The Complete Sonnets and Poems
  4. 4
    100 Selected Poems

    100 Selected Poems

    E. E. Cummings

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    The Essential Rumi

    The Essential Rumi

    Jalal Al-Din Rumi

  6. 6
    Citizen
  7. 7
    The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
  8. 9
    Ariel

    Ariel

    Sylvia Plath

  9. 10
    The Collected Poems
  10. 11
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
  11. 12
    The Essential Neruda
  12. 15
    Robert Frost's Poems
  13. 16
    When My Brother Was an Aztec
  14. 17
    On Love and Barley
  15. 18
    The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
  16. 19
    Diving into the Wreck
  17. 21
    The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
  18. 22
    Neon Vernacular
  19. 23
    John Donne's Poetry
  20. 24
    Selected Poems

    Selected Poems

    Federico Garcia Lorca

  21. 25
    The Flowers of Evil
  22. 26
    Selected Poems
  23. 27
    Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
  24. 28
    Picture Bride

    Picture Bride

    Cathy Song

FAQ

  • How was this Poetry books list created?

    We searched for 'best Poetry books', found the top 5 articles, took every book mentioned in 2+ articles, and averaged their rankings.

  • How many Poetry books are in this list?

    There are 28 books in this list.

  • Why did you create this Poetry books list?

    We wanted to gather the most accurate list of Poetry books on the internet.

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