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The Well-Educated Mind Updated: The Poets and Their Poems

These are books discussed in Chapter 9 of "The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)" by Susan Wise Bauer. Chapter 9 is titled "History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems."
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (N.K. Sandars Translator)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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N.K. Sandars Translator
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
2
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
3
Homer
Greek Lyrics (Richard Lattimore)
Greek Lyrics
4
Richard Lattimore
Odes: With the Latin Text (Horace)
Odes: With the Latin Text
5
Horace
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
6
Tr. Seamus Heaney
The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation (Dante Alighieri, Tr. Robert Pinsky)
The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation
7
Dante Alighieri, Tr. Robert Pinsky
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage (Translator))
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
8
Simon Armitage (Translator)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
9
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Complete Sonnets and Poems (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
10
William Shakespeare
The Complete English Poems (John Donne)
The Complete English Poems
11
John Donne
Psalms (The Bible: Authorized King James Version)
Psalms
12
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
13
John Milton
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
14
William Blake
The Major Works (William Wordsworth)
The Major Works
15
William Wordsworth
The Complete Poems (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Complete Poems
16
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Complete Poems (John Keats)
The Complete Poems
17
John Keats
Poems and Other Writings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Poems and Other Writings
18
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Major Works (Alfred Tennyson)
The Major Works
19
Alfred Tennyson
Leaves of Grass: The "Death-Bed" Edition (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass: The "Death-Bed" Edition
20
Walt Whitman
Final Harvest (Emily Dickinson)
Final Harvest
21
Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems (Christina Rossetti)
The Complete Poems
22
Christina Rossetti
Poems and Prose (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Poems and Prose
23
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Collected Poems (W.B. Yeats)
The Collected Poems
24
W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poetry (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The Collected Poetry
25
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Poetry of Robert Frost (Robert Frost)
The Poetry of Robert Frost
26
Robert Frost
Selected Poems (Carl Sandburg)
Selected Poems
27
Carl Sandburg
Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
Selected Poems
28
William Carlos Williams
Selected Poems (Ezra Pound)
Selected Poems
29
Ezra Pound
The Waste Land and Other Writings (T. S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Writings
30
T. S. Eliot
The Collected Poems (Langston Hughes)
The Collected Poems
31
Langston Hughes
Collected Poems (W.H. Auden)
Collected Poems
32
W.H. Auden
The Complete Poems (Philip Larkin)
The Complete Poems
33
Philip Larkin
Howl and Other Poems (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl and Other Poems
34
Allen Ginsberg
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Allen Ginsberg)
Collected Poems 1947-1997
35
Allen Ginsberg
Poetry and Prose (Adrienne Rich)
Poetry and Prose
36
Adrienne Rich
Plath: Poems (Sylvia Plath)
Plath: Poems
37
Sylvia Plath
The Collected Poems (Sylvia Plath)
The Collected Poems
38
Sylvia Plath
Collected Poems (Mark Strand)
Collected Poems
39
Mark Strand
New and Selected Poems: Volume One (Mary Oliver)
New and Selected Poems: Volume One
40
Mary Oliver
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