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Goodreads: The Best Poetry Books

I don't believe the fine folks at Goodreads who voted for this list are the best judges of what constitutes a "best poetry book." Some think only of "famous poets," some have only read poetry once in high school and vote for it anyway. I did learn a few new names, though.
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
2
Walt Whitman
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel
3
Sylvia Plath
The Waste Land and Other Poems (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Poems
4
T.S. Eliot
Shakespeare's Sonnets (William Shakespeare)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
5
William Shakespeare
The Raven and Other Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Raven and Other Poems
6
Edgar Allan Poe
Howl (1955) - Allen Ginsberg
Howl (1955) - Allen Ginsberg
7
Twenty Love Poems
Twenty Love Poems
8
Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Duino Elegies
9
Rainer Maria Rilke
Complete Poems of John Keats (John Keats)
Complete Poems of John Keats
10
John Keats
Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and Experience
11
William Blake
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats)
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
12
W.B. Yeats
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
13
John Milton
Les Fleurs Du Mal (Charles Baudelaire)
Les Fleurs Du Mal
14
Charles Baudelaire
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
15
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath)
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
16
Sylvia Plath
100 Selected Poems
100 Selected Poems
17
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
18
Dante Alighieri
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
19
Shel Silverstein
The Essential Rumi (Rumi)
The Essential Rumi
20
Rumi
The Poetry of Robert Frost (Edward Connery Lathom)
The Poetry of Robert Frost
21
Edward Connery Lathom
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
The Prophet
22
Kahlil Gibran
T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets
23
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
24
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Illuminations (Arthur Rimbaud)
Illuminations
25
Arthur Rimbaud
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
26
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
27
Wallace Stevens
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas)
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
28
Dylan Thomas
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
29
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Langston Hughes)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
30
Langston Hughes
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (Anne Sexton)
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
31
Anne Sexton
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
32
Tr. Seamus Heaney
Lunch Poems (Frank O'Hara)
Lunch Poems
33
Frank O'Hara
100 Love Sonnets (Pablo Neruda)
100 Love Sonnets
34
Pablo Neruda
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
35
T.S. Eliot
Song of Myself (Walt Whitman)
Song of Myself
36
Walt Whitman
The Complete Poems (Elizabeth Bishop)
The Complete Poems
37
Elizabeth Bishop
Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Sonnets to Orpheus
38
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Cantos (Ezra Pound)
The Cantos
39
Ezra Pound
Crush (Richard Siken)
Crush
40
Richard Siken
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