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Goodreads: The Best Poetry Books - Page 2

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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Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
41
Ovid
Complete Poetry and Prose
Complete Poetry and Prose
42
Collected Poems of W.H. Auden (W.H. Auden)
Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
43
W.H. Auden
Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
44
Homer
The Portable Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker)
The Portable Dorothy Parker
45
Dorothy Parker
Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
46
Selected Poems and Fragments (Friedrich Holderlin)
Selected Poems and Fragments
47
Friedrich Holderlin
Poems, New and Collected (Wisława Szymborska)
Poems, New and Collected
48
Wisława Szymborska
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
49
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
50
Lord Byron: Selected Poems (Lord Byron)
Lord Byron: Selected Poems
51
Lord Byron
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
52
Virgil
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
53
Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
54
Homer
Collected Poems by Edna St.Vincent Millay (Edna St.Vincent Millay)
Collected Poems by Edna St.Vincent Millay
55
Edna St.Vincent Millay
Autumn Sonata (Georg Trakl)
Autumn Sonata
56
Georg Trakl
A Coney Island of the Mind (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
A Coney Island of the Mind
57
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (Stavans)
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
58
Stavans
Transformations (Anne Sexton)
Transformations
59
Anne Sexton
Poems of Friedrich Holderlin (Friedrich Holderlin)
Poems of Friedrich Holderlin
60
Friedrich Holderlin
New and Selected Poems: Volume One (Mary Oliver)
New and Selected Poems: Volume One
61
Mary Oliver
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poemes to God (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poemes to God
62
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Maya Angelou)
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
63
Maya Angelou
The Dream Songs (John Berryman)
The Dream Songs
64
John Berryman
William Wordsworth: Collected Poems (William Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth: Collected Poems
65
William Wordsworth
Sonnets From the Portuguese (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Sonnets From the Portuguese
66
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Schiller's Poems (Schiller)
Schiller's Poems
67
Schiller
The Complete Poems of Cavafy (Constantine P. Cavafy)
The Complete Poems of Cavafy
68
Constantine P. Cavafy
Hymns and Fragments
Hymns and Fragments
69
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca (Federico García Lorca)
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca
70
Federico García Lorca
Arthur Rimbaud - Complete Works (Arthur Rimbaud)
Arthur Rimbaud - Complete Works
71
Arthur Rimbaud
The Fact of a Doorframe
The Fact of a Doorframe
72
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Theodore Roethke)
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
73
Theodore Roethke
Death of a Naturalist (Seamus Heaney)
Death of a Naturalist
74
Seamus Heaney
If Not, Winter (Sappho)
If Not, Winter
75
Sappho
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage (Translator))
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
76
Simon Armitage (Translator)
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
77
Anna Akhmatova
Hymns to the Night
Hymns to the Night
78
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Hart Crane)
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
79
Hart Crane
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan
80
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