Poetry Collection Rankings
Fifty of the most celebrated and influential individual poetry collections.
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Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (1855)—
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (1922)—
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (1965)—
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg (1956)—
The Collected Poems - Wallace Stevens (1954)—
Poems - Emily Dickinson (1890)—
The Cantos - Ezra Pound (1917–1969)—
North - Seamus Heaney (1975)—
Opened Ground - Seamus Heaney (1998)—
Life Studies - Robert Lowell (1959)—
Crow - Ted Hughes (1970)—
Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes (1998)—
The Colossus - Sylvia Plath (1960)—
The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton (1981)—
Diving into the Wreck - Adrienne Rich (1973)—
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law - Adrienne Rich (1963)—
The Dream Songs - John Berryman (1969)—
Mercian Hymns - Geoffrey Hill (1971)—
Selected Poems - Pablo Neruda (1970)—
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda (1924)—
Canto General - Pablo Neruda (1950)—
The Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke (1923)—
Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Maria Rilke (1923)—
Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire (1913)—
Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire (1857)—
Illuminations - Arthur Rimbaud (1886)—
The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes (1926)—
Montage of a Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes (1951)—
Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks (1949)—
The Bean Eaters - Gwendolyn Brooks (1960)—
The Map of Love - Dylan Thomas (1939)—
Deaths and Entrances - Dylan Thomas (1946)—
The Movement of Mountains - Philip Levine (1963)—
What Work Is - Philip Levine (1991)—
Turtle Island - Gary Snyder (1974)—
Lunch Poems - Frank O'Hara (1964)—
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery (1975)—
The Tennis Court Oath - John Ashbery (1962)—
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1971)—
The Wild Iris - Louise Glück (1992)—
Meadowlands - Louise Glück (1996)—
Faithful and Virtuous Night - Louise Glück (2014)—
Transformations - Anne Sexton (1971)—
The Changing Light at Sandover - James Merrill (1982)—
Omeros - Derek Walcott (1990)—
Selected Poetry - Derek Walcott (1981)—
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (2012)—
Good Times - Lucille Clifton (1969)—
Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (2014)—
Don't Call Us Dead - Danez Smith (2017)—