by Sylvia Plath (1965)
The electrifying collection of poems written in the frantic final months of Sylvia Plath's life, containing legendary masterpieces including "Lady Lazarus", "Daddy", and "Edge", defining mid-century confessional verse.
Walt Whitman
First published in 1855, Leaves of Grass announced the arrival of America’s most distinct, boisterous poetic voice. Celebrating the divine beauty of the human body, democracy, brotherhood, and the open road, Walt Whitman broke with traditional rhyme schemes to pioneer modern free verse.
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to covertly writing some of the most startling, unconventional, and visionary verses in English literature. Her slant rhymes, idiosyncratic punctuation, and acute meditations on death, ecstasy, and nature transformed poetry.
Dong Daxi bian
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale
A poetic philosophical masterpiece in which the prophet Zarathustra descends from his mountain cave to preach the death of God, the arrival of the Übermensch, and the eternal return of all things.