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12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry

A touch of literary exploration. In the challenge proper, each well-known book title is followed by a book containing the source poem. The sources are detailed below.
1. The Lovely Bones – "I Knew a Woman" by Theodore Roethke
2. A Handful of Dust – "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
3. Things Fall Apart – "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats
4. Of Mice & Men – "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough" by Robert Burns
5. Far from the Madding Crowd – "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray
6. Remembrance of Things Past – "Sonnet 30″ by Shakespeare
7. Endless Night – "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls – "Meditation XVII" by John Donne
9. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – "The Lonely Hunter" by William Sharp
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – "Sympathy" by P.L. Dunbar
11. Tender is the Night – "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
12. A Passage to India – "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman
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The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
The Lovely Bones
1
Alice Sebold
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Theodore Roethke)
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
2
Theodore Roethke
A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh)
A Handful of Dust
3
Evelyn Waugh
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
4
T. S. Eliot
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
5
Chinua Achebe
The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats)
The Second Coming
6
W. B. Yeats
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
7
John Steinbeck
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (Robert Burns)
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
8
Robert Burns
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
Far From the Madding Crowd
9
Thomas Hardy
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems (Thomas Gray)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems
10
Thomas Gray
Remembrance of Things Past (Marcel Proust, Moncrieff, Kilmartin & Mayor Trans.)
Remembrance of Things Past
11
Marcel Proust, Moncrieff, Kilmartin & Mayor Trans.
William Shakespeare Sonnets (William Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare Sonnets
12
William Shakespeare
Endless Night (Agatha Christie)
Endless Night
13
Agatha Christie
Auguries of Innocence (William Blake)
Auguries of Innocence
14
William Blake
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
15
Ernest Hemingway
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
16
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
17
Carson McCullers
From the Hills of Dream, Threnodies Songs and Later Poems (William Sharp as Fiona MacLeod)
From the Hills of Dream, Threnodies Songs and Later Poems
18
William Sharp as Fiona MacLeod
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
19
Maya Angelou
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
20
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
21
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale
22
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
23
E.M. Forster
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
24
Walt Whitman
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